Show BAYARDS ATTITUDE IT SEEMS that the only fault that can properly be found with secre tary bayr rd is that he is too eminently conservative and thus fails to keep pace with the sentiment of the country on great occasions particularly when action would be fraught with grave consequences he prefers to I 1 make haste slowly this method of procedure especially at a time like the present makes his countrymen impatient they want things dose done at once or an announcement that they are not to be done this Is s beyond question the more Aae american rican dispose tion of the two but it is not a settled fact that precipitancy as a rule rale even in the face of repeated wrongs is a safer or wiser plan than a careful survey of the field mr bayard is of course eburne aware alcare that his inaction and alleged irresolution are causing marked discontent and that this increases by not being regarded in fact he has recently spoken ken on the subject and given some expression of his feelings 1 I would like the gentlemen who have been criticising criticizing critic ising everything done by the state depart ment 11 he says to show one instance in which I 1 have broken broke uthe the law or permitted it to be violated I 1 do not know such an instance there has been a great deal of misrepresentation and in time my countrymen will see that the state department has done everything that could be done I 1 have yet to learn that any american has been injured or their rights as defined by law and treaty taken away out our policy has been fixed and steady in the preservation of Amerl american oali rights these statements are sufficiently dignified and defensive to th characterize the high source from whence they came but they will awake no friendly echo of response among the masses of the people the majority of whom we take ik it will be disposed to say that the latter portion of his language is unsupported by the facts in the case and that these must have been as well known at the state department Depa Ament as elsewhere according to a strict construct loA of the international code the conclusion seems irresistible that gert ger banys recent if not her former actions at samoa constitute a distinct and unequivocal bex the arrogant assumption of authority the unjustifiable alliance wibb wi the rebel king tamaese Tama Tam sese mese the unprovoked hostilities toward mma makaa fie fals mowers followers ahe the deposition pd fand banishment banish banishment meni of all these tase with the united states interest in and on ibe dhe islands fully equal to ato germanas germanys Germ anys acx with a pledge on our part existing that no interference from wiy any power should be allo allowed surety az 16 aitto clent provocation and me burning aning of americal Amer icam houses the insult onerea to and destruction athe of the stars and stripes the numerous outrages upon our individual citizens the unwarranted search of an american vessel and finally the taking control of the islands mid d everything on them if not in themselves i a declaration bf wa war t are at least a bid of de defiance deflage whose meaning need not be misunderstood by anyone in contradistinction with the he head of the cabinets policy stands the action of secretary whitney of the navy department this officer hs hag gone to the extreme limit of his authority and seems to regret that he is held in check the feet fact that 0 his method strikes the popular chord and abid secretary bayard has to defend himself tells the whole story atoil |