Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-21
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Kansas City Star; II there Is any back
ing down on the Venezuelan question 1t will
not be on this side Of the Atlantic,
Kansas City Journal: England Is as sur
prised and grieved to find that Uncle Sam
still has a backbone as America is sur
prised and delighted.
Washington Post: 50 the challenge issues.
W. have struck Great Britain's shield until
II rings again, and our gage lies there for
him to lift who will. There is a new exhila-
ration in the air. A rich 0lympian ichor fills
the nations veins.
Milwaukee Wisconsin,: Great Britain
Must Back Down. say the headline writer's.
But the United States Is at present under a
democratic administration Mlddle-aged
men remember the democratic shibboleth,
"Fffty-four-forty or fight" We didn't get
$40, nor did we fght.
Globe-Democrat: England's swagger was
conspicuously absent when Russia in 1870
tore up the treaty Of Paris of 1856. dictated
by England. and moved her fleet into the
Black. sea. If Russia had been a, weak ma
ton like Venezuela or Nicaragua British
vengeance would have been swift and re-
l%entless.
Louisville Courier -Journal: The Monroe
| doctrine will be maintained, and the United
States and Albion will not drench each other
in blood over a dispute regarding a strip of
foreign real estate of but little consequence
to either nation. Go on with your Christ
mas shopping undisturbed by the fear that
you are liable soon to be drafted for a soier.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: British opinion is
profoundly stirred, but the British cabinet
will not commit the mistake of entering on
a war with the United States whose horrors,
with the vast developments in the ma
chinery Of modern warfare, would dwarf
those of the wars of Napoleon, and whose re-
suit would assuredly be the loss of Canada
to the British crown.
Indtop,nols Naws. lat n ha understood
that our interest in the Venezuelan dispute
Is not due at all to any love or regard for
the Venezuelans. The fact is that, speak
ing bluntly, we desplse them. We are in
terested in their behalf, not for their sakes.
but for our own. Any enlargement OF Brit
lsh power on this continent we believe to be
detrimental to our interests; that Is the
whole thing.
Chicago Times-Herald: The Monroe doc
trine is no more novel than others Great
Britain has found this country able to insert
In the international code, and after the mas
terly calculation of 1t by Secretary Olney,
who rests the doctrine broadly where 1t be-
longs, on the base of a nations right to pro-
tect and perpetuate itself-Great Britain will
yet In practice, and ultimately by avowal, ad-
nit that this novel principle" has also been
inserted in the international code.
Chicago Tribune: Undoubtedly the British
government does not relish the Monroe doc
trine. But it must take its medicine whether
it likes the dose or not. 1t is not a question
of British preferences, but of those of the
inhabitants of this hemisphere who do not
desire any more European intermeddling with
their affairs. So the more these truculent
English papers have to say now in denuncia-
ton Of the Monroe doctrine the harder will it
be for them to take the back track, as they
will have to a little later on.
Buffalo Express: The English diplomats
and the English papers may buster, as they
orn ,n,y Ipi,u nunr fha Nnnn1na1o 1isntitn |
but those Americans who take this buster
have a poor conception of %interna-
tional politics. Let war-talk be laughed
down. The United States, even II 1t had
not a ship or gun to back its position. could
we'll afford to stand boldly and immovably
for its rights, conscious that Great Britain
would in the end come around rather than
imperil her commercial interests.