Show SALISBURYS REPLY Monday morning the Tribune commenting com-menting on the news from London as < o what the answer of the British cabinet cabi-net would be to the overtures of the iWolcott commission said that that hews was to be taken with many grains pf allowance as it came from gold sources wholly At the close of this same article It said The ministers may not desire to take the responsibility of offering to open the Indian mints and may want authority au-thority from parliament to do so but the answer while It may ask for a de i lay until parliament opens is not goIng go-Ing to be unfavorableV I The reply of the British government to the overtures of the Wolcott commission com-mission has come And what does Lord Salisbury say He says that the government of Great Britain is not able to roopen the Indian mints at present that he regrets its Inability to accede to the proposal of the American com missioners and that under all the circumstances I I cir-cumstances the British government does not see the desirability of an international I ternational monetary conference but will be pleased to consider any other I practical suggestions from the United States Such is the reply of Great Britain to the overtures of the Wolcott commission commis-sion There is no suggestion in it of waiting until parliament opens to obtain ob-tain authority to reopen the Indian mints nor is any delay asked for The I reply can hardly be called favorable oven by our contemporary This reply makes the question of holding another International monetary mone-tary conference a closed incident to waste any more time upon negotiations for such a conference would be worse I than folly Lord Salisburys remark i I that the British government will lie j I pleased to consider any other practical j i r 1 i suggestion from the United States is a I bit of diplomatic language signifying I nothing That Great Britain will consent to do I nothing for silver which means that I Germany will take the same position > lIs a matter of regret but mat coun I trys reply brings the people of the I I United States face to face with the I fact which has always stood out clear I to those who have not been blind wilfully wil-fully or otherwise that if this country I desire free coinage of silver its only way to bring it about is to bring it about by Its own independent action there Is no other way The Wolcott commissions mission and Salisburys reply to its overtures have accomplished accom-plished this one good made it plain beyond controversy that there is no hope for international bimetallism Th siB s-iB something If the people of the United States I want free coinage they know how to I get establish it themselves I |