People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-01
SIGNS OF SURRENDER
MIR. CLEVELAND READY TO
BACK DOWN AGAIN.
CORINTO CASE REPEATED.
No Vigorous American Policy
T.
-! Nora Claim Trap and Spain
Follows 1t With a Snub. n.

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have been expected there is mod
Grafton OF the Administrations pur.
pose to inaugurate vigorous Amer
lean policy on the Venezuelan
boundary dispute with Great Britain.
1t is realized at last that the ugly
Corinto incident established a prec-
edent which will prove most awk.
ward shoSld any attempt be made to
object to the use of British troops
for the collection of the smart money
which Great Britain demands for
arrest Of her policemen on the dis
puted border of British Guiana. .gsa
In the Njcaraguau case claim
for $4,000 was made for injuries
sustained by British subjects, and
the demand was accompanied by an
absolute refusal to arbitrate. This
was followed by the armed ocoupa
ton OF the principal port Of entry in
Nicaragua and the seizure of the
Custom House. The United States
stood aloot when that outrage was
committed, and the Cleveland Ad-
ministration argued that it had no
right to iaterfere in a dispute be-
tween two independent nations.
a PARALLEL CASE.
Now the boundary question in
Venezuela is complicsted by She in
stitution of demand for damages
growing out Of a collision between
British officials and those Of VenezQ.
ella. To carry out the parallel, the
insistence upon cash PREPARATION is
accompanied by humiliating condi-
tons, which Venezuela cannot with
out complete qualification submit to.
Inevitably Venezuela Territory will
be occupied by British soldiers as
Corinto was, and once in possession
Great Brtain's policy of spoilation
will be ag Bin established. Tne only
hope Venezuela has is the interven-
ton Of the United States, and here
the Corinto precedent will come into
play. How the Ad ninistra4ion will
attempt to enforce the Monroe Doc
trine in Venezuela after having been
blind to the Significance of the oecu-
patton Of Cjrinto, except by the
acknowledgement that the seizure of
the Nicarsguan port should not have
been permitted, cannot be seen.
MOVING WITH CONFIDENCE.
The British Foreign Office is evi
IDENTIFY moving with extreme cont.
denoe in the belief that the United
States will act in re gard to Venezu-
ella precisely as it did toward Mica
ragua. AS to the exercise of the
friendly Offices of the United S ,ates
in obtaining arbitration On the bound
airy question, the British authorities
will listen to uch representations and
continue TO hold on to what they
nave taken already. They only will
agree to submit to an international
court those vague disputes outside
the Scbombargk line.
Such controversy can be entend
cd by the arts OF diplomacy almost
indefinitely, but the pretended injury
to British subjects undoubtedly will
form the basis of active operations
whenever Great Britain feels that
the proper time has come to make a
warlike demonstration.
MIR. CLEVELAND WORRIED.
1t is current gossip in the National
capital that President Cleveland is
much disturbed by the announce
ment of the intention on the part of
the United States to taks decided
stand with regard to Venezuelan
affairs. He is said to believe that
the time has not arrived for a radi-
cal departure from his policy of non
interference. He does not believe
it wise to embroil the United States
in serious foreign complications, at
least for the present, and his sense
of self Importance, it is said, has been
hart by the credit which Secretary
Olney has received for the new de.
psrtare.
FRAP SET BY SPAIN.
AS if the Venezuelan difficulty
were not sufficient, the Administra-
ton has ranaiuad q cathaoLr IN ifo OF