Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-27
Snec,al to The Register.

Special to the Register.
Washington, September 26.-It has
been known to a few high officials and
diplomats outside of the immediate cir
Gle Of the President and his Cabinet for
the past week or ten days that the rela-
tions between The United States and
England over the observance Of the
Monroe doctrine are reaching an ex-
ceedingly acute stage, so serious in fact
as to warrant the utmost concern as to
the ultimate outcome. The information
in detail comes to your correspondent
to-day, although efforts at the utmost
secrecy have been made, and comes
from such a source rs to warrant the
greatest credibility being placed in it.
The hurrying Of work upon the Amer
lean war ships now nearing completion,
the increased activity in navy yards,
/ gun shops. and among manufacturers
I having armor plate contracts has tend
/ ed TO cause comment and inquiry in the
( last few weeks and different reasons
/ have been assigned from time to time
I for The unusual and steadily maintained
| hustle evidenced in all branches OF gov
/ ernment works
The real explanation is given in the
words OF q high official in fact, one Of
/ the executives Of the government, from
7 whom quote literally:
"We eXpeC. to have trouble with Eng
/ land within the next ninety days and
are trying TO get into some kind of
/ shape to- meet it." These are the words
+ he used, and, although in this time of
/ profound peace, they have a ring of
/ sensationaNsm. the facts Of the situa-
/ ton. when fully known, give them
| deepest significance
/ TIE REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
/ in South America is to be the cause of
| trouble, if any comes, between England
/ and the United States As everybody
I knows, the only thing that has kept
/ England from gObbling q big slice OF
/ Venezuela i'm the boundary line dispute
| has been the position of the United
/ States upon the Monroe doctrine. Up
TO this tins the position of this coun-
( try has been of rather a sentimental
I nature. It might be said that the Non
| roe doctrine was q theory which this
country had advanced and England
taciJly admitted. tt has been thought
/ that If it should ever come to the clash
/ OF arms our government would abandon
I the theory rather than plunge the coun-
try into war.
Ihlngs are now approaching that
I stage, however. where the doctrine is
/ applied to Venezuela will no LONGER be
merely theory, but this country will
have o. deeper and more personal inter,
/ est in protecting Venezuela from for
/ elgn encro ment We Will have the
/ excuse. -Ncuse should be necessary
/ to resort to force, of defending our own
/ property rights as we'll as supporting
/ the Monroe doctrine. The situation
4 when developed will appeal to the
I American pocket as we'll as to Ameri-
/ can patriotism. and that win be q pretty
/ strong combination to resist.
An American syndicate. which in
/ clUdes politicians as well as fnaDciers
among the former q Republican Senator
/ Oh national prominence, has been grant
/ cd valuable land concession within the
/ territory now claimed by Great Britain
/ and disputed by Venezuela Within
the next month two ship loads of ma
| chinery and railway supplies will be
4 forwarded from New York and the syn,
/ dicate will begin its operations under
/ the concession granted by Venezuela.
+ IL is expected that if England ever In,
tends to make good her claim to that
/ territory she viii do so against the
/ American syndicate. The Venezuelan
/ government has promised to support
/ the syndicate by force of arms. If
| England attempts to eject the Yankee
/ cOncessi0ners she viii be committing an
I act of aggression toward American citi,
/ zens rs well as offending our ideas as
TO THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
! A dispatch has already been forward,
/ ed to Ambassador Bayard at London
| directing him to inform the British
/ government that the United States ex-
/ poets England to submit the Venezue-
! Ian boundary dispute to arbitration To
/ determine the rights of the parties Mt
| issue i'm that dispute. and failing such
/ action. the United States Will make no
| its mind as to the facts in the case
/ and viii act upon them in accordance
with the principles of the Monroe doe
/ trine.
! This is the substance of the dispatch.
! and q second reading Of it will show it
I to be pregnant with vigor and menace.
/ Tt means business. Tn other words. the
/ time having arrived when the United
! States expects TO have financial and
/ ComerCial interests at stake in the dis
puted territory. we demand that Eng
/ land shall stop her bullying of a de-
| fenseless country, submit her cause. if
she thinks it a Just one, to a court Of ma,
I tiCnal arbitration. or else not disturb
/ American interests when set uD on
! Venezuelan land.
Tt can be stated positively that the
most cordial understanding exists be-
! tween the United States government
and Venezuela upOn the matter. and it
/ can be further declared that the senti-
mont of the leaders in the next Con-
/ eress upon the matter has been tested
and found favorable The present ad-
ministrati0n is not 1T all averse TO
/ making the stand Il is said that the
President feels that this thing Of Eng
1isb aggression upon Central and South
! American territory has got TO come to
a head sometime, and that ne is willing
! -o have II do 81 during his administra-
ton if he can have good excuse for TAX
! inc bold stand This is thought to
ne the 0rportunitv for which he longs.
Tr can also he stated that resolutions
are already drafted to be introduced in
! 20 Congress IS soon rs the matter
! reaches crisis, Strengthening the