The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-04-10
An American Consul in Ger
many Reports Scheme
ON PAnT OF AGRARIANS
To Shut Out American Rolled Cats.
The Unite States
viii he Looked to for Material support
in he Venezuela boundary Dispute
With Great Britain - PreSi-
dent Cleveland Very
Indignant.

WASHINGTON, April S.-United States
Consul Theodore NJ, Stephan, at An
naberg, Germany, reports that the
agrarian press of that country, III the
prosecution of its war upon American
products, is now raising the cry, BE
ware of American cracked oats" This
product Of American industry has re-
Gently been introduced into Germany
with marked success, but the agrari-
ans are determined not to allow any
American agricultural product to en-
ter into competition with their own
and if they cannot exclude it on hy-
genie grounds they will demand of
their government prohibitive tariff.
1--WE may. there fore, feel justified in
expecting on their part" says Consul
Stephan, IAN attempt to have the Gus
toms duty on this trans-oceanic prod
uct advanced high enough to keep it
out. In the meantime however, the
people will buy and eat for once a
cheap but good food.
Notwithstanding the generally ex.
pressed opinion by state department
officials and British officials that moth
ing but peaceful outcome will de-
Velop from the Venezuelan boundary
dispute, which has been so many wears
pending, those familiar with the tenn
per and feeling of the Venezuelan
government and people on the subject,
emphatically and unequivocally de-
clare that Venezuela will go to war if
Great Britain retains its present atti-
tude and refuses to submit to arbitra-
t;on the right to the territory which
Venezuela claims has been usurped by
British Guinea.
This statement is made without re-
serve and in the face OF the over
whelming disparity of force between
the two contestants and the apparent
hopelessness of Venezuela entering
upon such Z struggle unaidcd. There
is no question that Venezuela, in the
event OF troub between herself and
Great Britain would look to the Uni
ted States for moral, financial and ma.
terial support.
When the report of a speech made
in Methodist conference at Salem,
Mass, by Rev. DR.. Lansing, and sub
sec ,ently published interview with
the same gentleman accusing the pres
ident of intemperance was shown to
President Cleveland last evening, he
said with considerable warmth: This
is simply an outrage. Though it is not
the first time a thing of this kind has
been attempted, cannot avoid feel
ing of Indignation that any man who
makes any claim to decency. and es-
pecialiy one who assumes the role of a
Christian min ster should permit him
self to become disseminator of
wholesale lies and catumnies not less
stupid than they are cruel and wicked.
II easily recall other occasions when
those more or less entitled to be called
ministers of the gospel have been in
strumental in putting into circulation
the most scandalous falsehoods con-
cerning my conduct and character.
The elements or factors of the most
approved outfit for placing false and
DdIeldCeu dCCuSdJlOH DelOTe Jne DeO-
pie appear to be, first, some one with
baseness and motive enough to invent
It; second, a minister with more guilt
bility and love of noteriety than piety,
greedily willing to listen to it and CAB
bic it; and third, newspaper anxious
ly willing to publish ii. For the sake
of the Christian religion, am thank
full that these scandal-mongering min
isters are few in number"
Commissioner Senner on Saturday
telegraphed Commissioner Stump that
the board of special inquiry at Ellis
Island had unanimously sustained the
former decision excluding the Holland
diamond cutters who came over on the
Majestic and Westmoreland. Appeals
have been taken to Washington, pend
ing the hearing of which the diamond
cutters will not be deported.