Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-23

ance between England and Spain in
! the event of President Clevelands ac-
| ton involving hostllities. The Impair
cal urges upon the government the
l necessity of friendship with England in
| order TO counteract the Monroe doctrine.
A DREARY VIEW.
Berlin. December 22.-The Vossische
Zeitung describes the Venezuelan incl
dent as President Cleveland's Sedan
and asks what would happen in the
event of the whole of Europe with the
possible exception of Russia, being
compelled in its own interest, to take
sides with England In a war against
the United States.
DROPS INTO POETRY.
London. December 2S.-All of the pa
pers continue to publish full articles
ana kilograms on the Venezuelan ques-
ton.
Sir Lewis Morris sends half a column
poem to the News entitled Armenia,
America, 1895"
The poem pictures desolate Armenia
turning to England for help and then
proceeds:
Now at the moment when our Eng
lands arm
Should save the innocent from deadly
harm,
To cripple her for some mean, sordid
aim;
Some lust for gold or place,
Sr"7 ''were the very irony of shame,
The debt of deep disgrace"
And then proceeds to reproach the
great home of freedom in the west. for
staying England's arm. He then con-
tinues:
FORBID it, Heaven. 'Tis crime. 'Tis
worse than crime
To dream. This villainy, the despot's
cloak
OF base intrigue, suits not thy limbs
sublime;
August republic?"
The poem concludes in a similar
strain. Sir Lewis Morris, it will be re-
membered, was the subject of a rumor
several months ago to the effect that
he had been appointed poet laureate.
THE CZAR INTERESTED.
The Vienna correspondent Of the
Daily News learns from St Petersburg
that the Russian Minister in the United
States has been instructed to report all
details of the American-Anglo dispute
to his government The Car would
like to see the question arbitrated,"
says the Daily News correspondent.
The Standards Vienna dispatch says:
Shortly before the closing of the
bourse, Baron Albert Rothschid gave
orders to buy fifty thousand shares of
various kinds. This partly restored
confidence.
The daily papers this morning in
their editorials generally comment up
on the financial side of the panic and
express confidence that in the long run
the common sense which Mr. Gladstone
advises will prevail and extricate the
public from the difficulty caused by
President Cleveland's precipitation.
The Standard, Conservative, while ad
mitting this, thinks that whatever rem
edies Congress adopts, America must
for some time to come, in an economic
sense, go from bad to worse.
ad what they thing OF 70
GOOD ADVICE.
The Sunday Observer, Unionist pub
lication. says in an editorial: THE pas
s.onate affection of the Americans for
| the Monroe doctrine may be unintelli-
! gib,e her but it exists. and if cur rulers
are wise they Will neglect no means
short of national humiliation to avoid
ruffling the pride and feelings of the
Americans. Sooner or later public
opinion in America will awake to the
| fact that England neither desires to
take liberties with the United States,
nor will she brook insult from any
power whatever"
WILL. FIGHT IF NECESSARY.
Edward Dicey. C. b., who was former
" an editor Of the Observer, and also
of the Daily News. and has been a
! writer of some authority on political
questions. has a long letter in the Sun
| dav Observer which is likely to carry
considerable weight He says:
"Englishmen would male any con-
cession short of the national honor
sooner than 90 TO war with America.
The only weak point in our case is the
refusal to submit the dispute to impair
tial arbitration. If our contention is
as strong and just as we imagine, we
have nothing to fear from an independ-
ent and fair inquiry. Arbitration on
President Cleveland's lines is utter in
admissible. but the refusal 10 admit the
principle of arbitration lays us open to
jmputation that we have doubts Of the
Justice of our contention. Even now,
without loss of dignity, England might
consent to submit the frontier dispute
IN some independent authority. such
as the King of Italy or the President OF
| Switzerland. But II necessary, We
must fight sooner than tolerate Presi-