The Portland daily press., 1895-12-19

LONDON. December 1S.-The Sheffield
Telegraph, the organ of the steel plate
man nufacturing district, says: "Mr.
Cleveland's language is admirably calou-
lated to induce ENGLAND to bid the Yam
KEGS to do their worst. Certainly we will
not be turned from the plain path by
threats. %
The Pail Mall Gazette does not regard
Mr. Cleveland's message to Congress as
serious communication, but only as
an election address which ought to bring
to him the solid vote of the concession
mongers who already see themselves
washing out tons of gold on the Essequ-
lboo river. The Gazette advises Mr.. Cleve-
land to go before the country immediate
ly before the people of America have time
to study the Olney doctrine, and not give
them day to ask what they would think
II England appointed a commission to
determine the frontier OF the United
States and Mexico.
The Westminster Gazette speaks of the
horror of fratricide within the Anglo
Saxon race and says: "We do not believe
that war is possible"
The St. James Gazette says: "The
claims set up by Mr.. Cleveland and Mr..
Olney are SO exaggerated and their Ian
guage is SO offensive that is should cause
no surprise If there should be q similar
What Diplomats Think.
London, December IS AT the foreign
office today, tha French, German, italian
and Spanish ambassadors, and the Aus
trian and Dutch charge d'affairs were
present. but United States Ambassador
Bayard was absent.
1t Is understood that the British gov
ernment has not been. informed officially
OF President Cleveland's message in re-
gard to the proposed commission in con-
nection with the Venezuelan boundary
dispute, and Great Britian will follow
the usual diplomatic course until overt
action by the United States. The House of
Representatives In voting an appropri-
alton for the expenses of the combustion
may hasten q crisis, but it is not ex-
pected there will be serious developments
until tine commission shall have arrived
in Venezuela. Their presence on the
Guiana border will constitute a grave
menace and the necessary instructions
will be forwarded to the authorities to
maintain the interests Of Great Britain in
Guinana.
How London Took 1t.
London, December l8.-The first an
nouncement in London of the communi-
cation of President Cleveland 8 to Con-
gress was made in the Unitsd Press de-
spatch to the Central News, the leading
features of which the Central News i'm
whence they at onoe transmitted it to
Lord Salisbury at the Hatfield house,
over the Premier's private wires.
This was the first intimation that Lord
Salisbury had OF President Cleveland's S
serious view of the Venezuelan situation.
The Premier and. secretary are greatly
concerned over the critical turn the affair
had taken and acEod fOp fY1rf bo,r ,for
nation.
The French View,
Paris. December 49, -Luoien Milleyeroir.
formerly member Of the Chamber of
Deputies, has an article in La Patrie in
" 6ich he says. President Cleveland's S
message infiiots a harder blow on British
pride than it has received in half CEN
tury. 1t will diminish Enlgand's 8 prestige
in all parts of the world. England must
undertake an untra-formidable adventure
or bow to Americas naughty ultima
tum. Since Napoleon threatened to invade
England no chief of state has dared to
use toward the British foreign office such
firm language as that of Mr.. OlevelRnd's.
England Is in dilemma. Submission
is equivalent to humiliation, resistance
Is equivalent to war. There will be an
implacable duel with all energy and
moral material forces which America has
at its disposal including the Irish, whom
England's iniquitous rule as exiled to
the New World. Europe will not inter
vene. 1t would not dare to brave the
American coalition reused to anger by
an attack upon its dearest interest. The
time is past when British diplomacy
bribed halt the world and intimidated
the remainder. 1t is only audacious now
with weaklings like the Matabeles. It
will now know how to be prudent. Eng
land cannot count on any support.
The Journal Des Debats says that MIR.
Cleveland's language is somewhat i'm
measured and undoubtedly places the
United States in thu alternative of fight
ing England however monstrous that
might be, or beating an inglorious retreat
after years Of bravery The paper con-
tests the right of the United States to
intervene in the Venezuelan dispute.
The Monroe doctrine, it says, cannot be
considered by the rest of the world as an
international act possessing any value as
law of nations It is surprised at the
proposal to send a commission to ex-
anime the disputed boundary in the
foreign country. The Debats further says
that, Notwithstanding the unfavorable
character of American political customs,
1t refuses to believe Mr.. Cleveland would
| risk the fortune and honor of Americans
for more political motives.