The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-19
SOME EUROPEAN COMMENTS
On President Cleveland'S Message Re-
garding Venezuela.
Mr.. BAYARD WILDLY APPLAUDED
At the Annual Banquet of the Actors Be-
nevolent Fund Meantime English News
papers Make Savage Comments on
the Presidents Attitude.

LONDON Dec. 19-The officials of the
British foreign Office declined to express
any opinion on the Venezuelan question,
and the same attitude of reserve is main
tained at the United States embassy here
United States Ambassador Bayard arrived
Mt the embassy at an early hour looking
worried He declined to see any one say
ing that the matter was much too grave to
discuss.
All the English newspapers continue
their bitter assaults on the message most of
them insisting that it is an election dodge.
The St James Gazette heads its article
War or Wire PullingY" and says; Pres
ldent Cleveland's language in the mouth
Df European diplomat would mean the
instant mobilization of armies 1t is rather
too late or too soon to say hands off to
the empire which includes not only Brit
ish Guiana and Jamaica, but Canada. The
pretensions of President Cleveland and
Mr. Olney are so exaggerated and the Ian
guage so offensive that one could not be
surprised If there was a similar explosion
of violence here But Lord Salisbury has
kept his temper in this unpleasant CORE
spondence, and the nation will do likewise
until the time comes when we shall do
well to be angry, and that time may come
We are all anxious to give the American
government the opportunity of forcing it. F"
The Globe remarks: "No self respecting
nation would for moment entertain such
pretensions, and no one doubts that Presi-
dent Clevelands heroics are due to the ne
Cessities of politics. His Saczville action
shows the length to which he is prepared
to go in the sacred cause of spread eagle
ism. 1t would not be wise for American
craftsmanship TO confide too much in the
amiable sentiment that blood is thicker
than water, or to imagine that England
can be intimidated President Cleveland
also must reckon with France if he insists
upon carrying out his modern construc-
tion of the Monroe doctrine its entirety"
The Pail Mall Gazette ridicules the
whole matter, saying: ut flashed across
us at first that President Cleveland was
mad and, second, that he was hypnotized
by Mr., Olney, who in turn was hypnotized
by Mr.. Lodge But we conclude that it is
only an election address"
The annual banquet of the Actors Be
nevolent fund at the Hotel Metropole last
night was the occasion of notable public
demonstration of good feeling toward the
United States ambassador, Hon. Thomas
f. Bayard When Sir Francis Jeune pro-
posed the toa.t to the Actors Benevolent
fund he said in the course of his speech
that he hoped the only rivalry between
England and America would be histri-
onic rivalry, and that there would never
be serious differences between the two ma
tions, which were, after all, brothers This
sentiment was greeted with loud and pro-
longed cheers by all the company, which
was renewed when Sir Francis added that
Mr.. Bayard was a worthy representative
of great country.
Sir Edwin Arnold said he laughed at the
idea of any differences between England
and America, and Mr.. Comyns- Carr
toasted the friends across the sea.
Mr. Bayard, upon rising to respond, was
greeted with perfect tumult of applause,
and his toast was drunk with three cheers.
Mr.. Bayard was perceptibly and deeply
moved He said in part:
Tonight we are on common ground,
and there is no sea between us. There are
some things it is impossible to divide, By
way of illustration he repeated the Bible
story of the judgment of Solomon over the
dispute of two women, both Of whom
claimed to be the mother of the same
child
"Gentlemen, it could not be. We cannot
be divided. They are children of the brain
and of the heart and of a common ancestry.
do not think that they will ever be per
mitted to die. l will answer for my kin
dred and your kindred beyond the sea"
These inferential references to current
affairs were greeted with repeated cheers,
and Mr.. Bayard resumed his scat amid
scene of unusual enthusiasm