Show LONDON PRESS COMMENTS Applaud the Cabinet For Dashing the Hopes of Bimetallists London Oct 22The morning papers appear without the reply of the government govern-ment to the proposals of tile American bimetallic special commission They contain only a summary of the reply cabled from Washington The Standard editorially takes the government to task for this doubtless unintentional discourtesy to the Eng lish community which will tend to damage dam-age the mysterious but as as well as its credit in good mane a What makes it still more vexatious continued thaI Standard Is the satisfactory nature of the reply Had Sir Michael Hicks Beach promptly announced the governments govern-ments decision the agitation would have been ended with no memorial from the city having been required I appears that the government while polite to the silver delegates have In no way committed themselves The Daily News makes a similar protest pro-test against the governments discourtesy discour-tesy and then applauds the cabinet for dashing the hopes of the blmetallists to the ground i Giving Sir Michael HicksBeach the 1 credit fora bold and determined stand after condemning Mr Balfour on his most humiliating plight in remaining I re-maining the official head of the treasury treas-ury which is the central stronghold of the financial doctrines he most abhors the Daily News proceeds to ask What does Lord Savsbury mean by stating that England is interested in securing a stable par exchange for gold and silver ver We await the publication of all the papers with the greatest interest as there is much that is unexplained ended and the time for shillyshallying Jg |