Show SLURRING MINISTER PhELPS I The SY James Gazette bus been making mak-ing slurs on Minister Phelps and says concerning him that when Phelps prides himself on being of a land where nothing is won except by hard work ho probably forgets little tales of political and commercial immorality that do now Ii and then cross tho sea It might also be suggested that the Gazette forgets tales which come across tho sea from England to Amnrica There has been enough and more than enough political and commercial immorality in America and likewise it has been the same in England Whatever Americas faults in the matter of political corruption corrup-tion she has never found it necessary to pass any law limiting I the amount which a candidate may spend upon the campaign cam-paign and even so exemplary a man as Macaulay tells of so many thousand pounds that he spent to secure his return to Parliament The New York Herald to which the cable concerning the Gazettes Ga-zettes slurs upon Minister Phelps was sent says that the Gazette has a mind to throw the Emma mine at Mr Phelps The affair of the Emma mine and the part which Minister Schenck took in it were not creditable to this country but the Gazette should remember that there were some Englishmen engaged in promoting pro-moting that same scheme Baron Grants connection with that scheme was profitable profit-able but not honorable to him When Englishmen are reminded of Baron Grants connection with the Emma mine they are apt to reply thatGrant is considered con-sidered a money man in London but nothing more and that it is not fair to judge all Englishmen by Baron Grant I And this is very true hut neither is it I fair to judge America and her peoplo by some sharpers who have placed worthless I stock and bonds upon the London market Utah has had some experience with j English capitalists and Utahs experience has not been such as to make her look 1 upon English speculators as being perfectly per-fectly pure and without guile It is not so very long since there was in Utah a most accomplished and suave Englishman English-man an Englishman whose accomplish monts and suavity were only surpassed by his craftiness and rascality And this same Englishman has sat in Parliament and sat there as a Conservative and it is to tho Conservative party that the Gazette Gaz-ette belongs If people have forgotten the name of this t same Englishman we will repeat it for them his name is H A Monroe EutlerJohnstone And yet because this rascal robbed rich men and poor men in Utah are Americans Amer-icans to jump at the conclusion that all Englishmen are thieves and robbers rob-bers Certainly they will not while if they were to so declare their opinion they would show themselves to be very silly indeed And so the St James Gazette has shown itself to be in showing Minister Phelps and inferring that all American transactions whether political commercial commer-cial are corrupt Such shows indicate far more of bigotry than of honesty |