The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-22
LONDON LIMOGES LAYING LOW.
THE ENGLISH MASSES NOT IN A WAR
FURY AGAINST Us.


believed to BE Opposed TO Resort
10 Arms-The WOrISingmen's Clubs
Not Hostile to the United states.
London. Dec. 21.-No one in the thick Of
events here and in position to judge of
uublic feeling can honestly affirm that
The country is in the state of excitement
over the difficulties that have arisen in
connection with the Anglo-Venezuelan
DISPUTE that some of the newspapers rep
resent. Whatever partial efferverescence
existed over President Cleveland's mes
sage is now evaporating, and If no new
surprise is sprung upon the British peo-
pie. the whole matter will soon become a
mere newspaper war.
Official and diplomatic circles have new
er shared in the extreme alarmist views
that have found expression in the press,
and the placidity prevailing at the for
eign office may be judged from the fact
that Prime Minister Salisbury has seen no
cause TO summon a meeting of the cabi-
net TO consider the situation. 1t is ex-
pected that no cabinet meeting will be held
until the views of the American govern
ment, embodied in a dispatch that Mr..
Olney, the American Secretary of State,
is understood to be about to send in re-
ply to Lord Salisbury's note, has reached
the foreign office. Upon making inquiries
as to when this reply was likely to be
received, the representative of the United
Press learned that it was expected to
reach here early in January. 1t depends
upon the nature and tone of Mr.. Olney' s
communication whether the situation viii
become really critical.
In the meantime the policy of the for
eign Office is to Lay low and say moth
ing English iingoism, Drawing in re-
American On nm
but it does not represent genuine public
sentiment nor can newspaper opinion be
taken as an absolutely sure guide to the
national feeling The ignorance of the
English masses in regard to the real is
sues between the governments must ere
long operate 10 restrain Lord Salisbury
from following an active policy of sheer
defiance of America. The Monroe doctrine
breaks upon the bulk of the populace like
the enigma of the Sphinx. The locality of
the dispute is to them a geographical mys-
terry. Even the Westminster Gazette,
which is an organ of the educated classes,
thinks it necessary to inform its readers
that neither British Guiana nor Demarara
is an island, as is generally supposed in
England. Before the government dares to
commit the country, the people will want
TO know what the trouble is about.
The queen is showing the keenest anxiety
in the difficulty. Lord Salisbury was clos
eted yesterday at the foreign Office. not
seeing even the diplomats In the evening
he sent a long dispatch to her majesty at
osborne house. on the Isle of Wight,
where she is at present sojourning. The
queens remembrance Of the fact that the
last official act of the Prince Consort was
the preparing of a memorandum counsell-
ing peaceful settlement of the Trent af-
fair viii incline her to interfere to prevent
a rupture between the two countries.
Continuing to conate opinions outside
OF the leading party organs and the Carl
ton, Constitutional and National Liberal
Clubs. the representative of the United
Press has essayed to ascertain the feel
ing in the workingmen's political clubs,
fa,
organizing popular demonstrations. These
clubs, though numbering their members
by the tens of thousands. remain con-
cealed from public view until there are pc
RODS of agitation, when party wire-pulers
finding it advisable to fOment excitement,
supply funds TO call out the masses.
FUNDS alone, however, would not evoke
professions in Hyde park, nor enthusias-
tic crowds in the great halls. The work.
ingmen's clubs can only be manipulated
on the lines of their own tendencies. Sc
Letting four of the most notable of these
clubs inquiry revealed the fact that there
was entire absence of excitement and
only a mild interest in the situation.
While keenly alive to home politics, the
average intelligence of the wOrkingmen
VINO are members of these clubs does not
extend TO Great Britain's foreign rela-
tOns. The Monroe doctrine, especially,
is a hieroglyphic to them, but they are
sympathizers with America, and their
belief in the justice of the American gov
ernment is profound. To sum up the re-
suit of the conversations had with sew
eral Of the best informed members of the
clubs it may be said that the opinion is
that the men must learn more about the
causes of the quarrel before there viii
be the smallest chance of their responding
10 party appeals for demonstration for
or against the government
The recognition of the primary neces-
slty of the spread of information on the
subject has led the London weekly pap
efs which have a purely popular circula-
uon 10 attempt in their issues of to-day
10 enlghten their readers. one of these
papers having a weekly issue Of 10000
copies precedes its article with the admls-
sion that many Englishmen will learn for
the first time through President Cleve-
lands message that Great Britain has a
boundary dispute with Venezuela, which
IL then proceeds to explain. The article
concludes with an attack on Mr.. Cleve-
lands action as calculated 10 bring the
punclple of arbitration into contempt. An
other of these papers, which has an enor-
nous circle Of readers in the operative
and manufacturing centers, likewise ex-
pounds the Monroe doctrine and then up
holds President Cleveland as being in
tne right in insisting upon arbitration. 1t,
+oMSESI' eehoulGes lne arrogant pre-
tensions of the United States that in nc
part Of America shall any one set foot
except with the permission of the curious
tdhg Of corrupt politicians in washing
ION. The paper adds: Grant Ireland
nome rule, and we shall hear little OF
Inc Monroe doctrine"
another radical worlIingmen's paper
Aolds that it is impossible for the public
20 support a war on the question of the
boundary of British Guiana or of teach
ing Uncle Sam better manners. 1t recalls
now Lord Palmerston played the "Civis
homanus sum doctrine for all IT was
worth to get well with the crowd when
ms name was ill-smeling at court and
among his colleagues. Mr.. Cleveland, il
says is using the Monroe doctrine in a
similar manner as the last dodge of q
peaten party to raise smoke and drown
stencil.
he most notable feature Of the articles
IN those and other papers Of the same
V,ass-conservatiVe, liberal and radical
atiAe-ls the consensus Of opinion that
treat Britain cannot submit to the hu-
Alnatlon Of accepting President CleVe-
iands demands
ne Spectator under the caption Of "the
aeath warrant of Armenia" says that
resident Cleveland's message is a full
Acuse FOR All those persons who are de-
@ipus OF silently deseFting an unhappy
pple. II adds that il is impossible for
'iIrat Britain, which IS so menaced from
america 20 risk the outbreak OF "A Euro
dn war, in which. owing 10 American
.tlllyi she might be- powerless 10 IN
tlrir. The M0alems. it declares. can
'" carry out their plans N there ara
christians left in Armenia there VIII
no Armenian question.
'. service papers 40 not discuss fhe
Na LlNh from "a service point OF view