The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-25
he politicians are wayering a little in


their Endorsement of President Cleve
lands war message. They have back
ed away before the fear that it ma!
help Mr.. Cleveland, or Mr.. Cleveland
party politically. No such thing viii
be tolerated by the people. Politica
issues and political advantages ma!
be considered Of prime and foremOs
Importance by the politicians, but The
people are getting into a temper where
they do not care the snap of the fingers
for the politicians issues, unless they
are the issues of the people too.
The people Of this country indorse
the language of Secretary Olney when
he wrote TO Salisbury:
THE United States is today practically
sovereign on this continent and its fat il
| law. All the advantages of its superiority
are at once irnperilled if the principle be
admitted that European powers may con-
! vert states into colonies OF their own.
| The principles could be easily awaited Of
and any power doing SO would imme-
| Giately secure a base of military opera
| tions against US, and IT is not inconceiv-
able that the struggle now going on for
| the acquisition of Africa might be trans
| ferred TO South America. The weaker
colonies would soon be absorbed and
| South America would be partitioned be-
tween European powers. The consequence
to the United States would be disastrous.
Loss of prestige would be the least of
them. Our own real rivals in peace, as
well as enemies in war, would be located
at our very doors. We must be armed
TO the teeth, convert the flower of our
male population into soldiers and sailors,
and thus annihilate a large share of the
productive energy of the nation
They indOrse every word Of this
They are not going to withdraw one
shade Of emphasis from their indorse-
ment because Mr.. Olney is a Democrat,
and the Republican politician who
seeks success by decrying those senti-
ments on that account will be retired
summarily.
President Cleveland will appoint a
commission of three men who will re-
port the condition Of the Venezuelan
boundary dispute and make certain
recommendations. They will find only
one thing-that Great Britain has been
the big, bumptious bully in the Ven
ezuelan matter as she has been in
everything else. She must back down
or fight. This country cannot back
down. 1t is in the power of the
ruling administration, for partisan or
other purposes, to sneak out of a fight,
but the people will crush them for
their cOwardice the next whack they
get at them and an administration will
be put in who will fight and not delay
about it.
This nation is either right or wrong
in the matter of the Monroe doctrine.
We must either protect ourselves and
neighboIs of our kind of government
on this continent, or we must become
a servile colony of Great britain in
all except name.
The Monroe doctrine is either right,
or America should have avoided the
war of 17T6 and remained the unrepre-
sentative territory of Great Britain.
''The United States is practically
sovereign on this continent and its fiat
is law" These words were penned by
Mr.. Olney in sober wisdom. He meant
them. He did not do it for partisan
effect. Men do not cast firebrands
into arsenals for the sake of killing a
rat somewhere in the wall 1t was
said in broad, patriotic, comprehen-
sive spirit, and the politician who
hangs back and refuses to indorse it
because his Endorsement may be taken
as a breach of partisan discipline will
be seen by the people later.