The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
THE VENEZUELAN NATTER.

Withdrawing any jot or title of the
Monroe doctrine is not honorable. Mr..
Cleveland and MI. Gresham must assert
that principle, IL it involves us in war with
the whole of Europe.-St. Louis Republic.
1t is nothing more nor less than "a bare
faced attempt by a European power to OPP
press an Independent American State and to
seize and colonize its territory. What in
terest this country has, or should have,
in It is scarcely a matter OF douot--New
York Tribune.
Under the Monroe doctrine our govern
ment cannot abandon V~enezuela's cause, and
already the subject has been before the
Presidents Cabinet There is nothing for
the United States to do but to compel Great
Britain to take and keep her hands on
that country.-Chicago Record.
The Nicaraguan incident sinks into in
Significance in comparison with the Vene-
zuelan situation. Will the goddess Fortuna
afford again to President Cleveland the
opportunity to bring a united country to his
back? The tickle divinity has more than
once proved herself his patron saint.-Cin-
einnati Commercial Gazette.
The President may in this case act for
the American side in a controversy with
England. If he does all the country will
be rejoiced. He has not inspired the peo-
pie with that confidence which VIII be
satisfied with secret work. The public de-
mand is for a foreign policy publicly an
nounced.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
When it comes to Venezuela, the spolia-
ton is more apparent and more aggravated.
1t is an attempt to add sixty thousand
square miles of Venezuela to British
GUAM territory and to control the naviga-
ton of the Orinoco river. The United
States cannot look complacently at such
an absorption or venezuelan err1Iory.-Cnl-
cago Tribune.
It once we are brought face to face with
United Europe-Russia and Italy alone ex-
cepted-upon the. maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine. Three great naval powers de-
fly us to interfere. France and England,
indeed, have both a double interest here,
for the former is collecting a bill from
Hayti under rif1ed guns.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
If England is permitted to control the
destiny of SO large a portion of >the ter
ritory claimed by one of the republics
whose independence we have acknowledged,
and that, too, in spite of our request for a
satisfactory settlement by arbitration, the
That it will not be treated by, this country
as obsolete is certain.-Plttsburg CONNER
call Gazette.
Once admit the right of England to grab
the Orinoco valley and the Monroe doctrine
falls. No President would dare permit
such a thing, not even President Cleve-
land. who has. a love for royalty, even
though it be of the meek and lowly order
not long ago SO much in evidence in Ha-
wall. Nor will any foreign nation dare
attempt to overthrow that doctrine if
there is firmness at Washington.-Philadel-
phia Inquirer
Suppose that next step is taken, and an
act of war is committed by England upon
Venezuelan territory, what is the United
States going to do about it? There is no
doubt what it would be required to do by its
diplomatic and patriotic traditions. Unless
the famous Monroe doctrine is to be re-
pudiated once for all, the United States
would have no alternative but to protest
against the action Of Great Britain, and,
if need be. to aid Venezuela in resisting
it.=PhiladeIphia North American.