The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-21
MORE TALK ABOUT WAR
ILL EUROPE ESPECULATING WILDLI
 IS TO THE OUTCOME.

Again Bear Arms if Necessary.
 Washington, Dec. 2O,-The state and navy departments have just receiYed the latest issue of one of the most im- portant London marine journals. He Shipping World, in which several rases are devoted to adverse criticism of the
 English politicians who have denied to Venezuela the justice of arbitratlng
 the boundary dispute. An appeal is made to the government to consent to
 an honorable settlement of the contro-
 versy with the interest of British pol-
 ticians made subsarvlent 10 those of
 British traders. The disastrous effects
 upon British commercial prosperity of
 a possible war With the United States
 are strongly emphasized.
 "We have reached a crisis in our quar-
 rel with the little republic of Vene-
 zuela," says this influential journal.
 'The collision between the outposts on the Yuruan river has served to bring
 to head controversy over bounderies which has lasted for a hundred years. Lord Salisbury has demanded apology and reparation, which will probably be made, not, perhaps, with heartiness and sincerity, but because President Crespo has neither army nor navy worth talking about, and must needs yield
 to superior force. The larger question of determining the boundaries between British Guiana and Venezuela will re-
 main; and while We hope and believe
 that it will be settled amicably, the controversy undoubtedly contains the clements of a possible war with the United States.
 'The merits of the case have been practically abandoned on both sides of the Atlantic. The press of England
 are we'll nigh unanimous in supporting the contentious of Downing street, and even the Times refers to the scene on the Yuruan as British soil, while
 the press of the United States are | equally unanimous in supporting the
 case of the republic. The man who invented the cry My country, right or wrong, did a poor turn for humanity; but that mad principle is already su- preme in this dispute. Day after day we read of the line of demarcation.
 This shows that few of those who dis | Cuss the question have taken the trOu- | ble to inform themselves concerning it..
 The official maps serve to show that | there are many lines. And the presi- dent of Venezuela is in this peculiar po- sition: When he retires at night, he
 does not know what the boundaries
 of his country may be when he wakes
 up in the morning"
 i The editor of the Shipping World pro- 1 ceeds to recount the successive en- crOaChments. which he calls stealing D and concludes as follows:
 I've believe that this question will be settled without bloodshed; but we re- peat that it contains elements that may
 lead to war with the United States.
 That at all events, every iingo will ad-
 init, will be no child's play The pol l icy foreshadowed by Washington, and
 formulated by James Monroe, makes against the interposition of foreign pow
 CTS in the affairs of the Spansh-Am-
 erican republics"
 The United States profess to be- l lieve in this doctrine in a still wider sense. To what extent they believe in | it we cannot say; nor are European i powers compelled to accept the Ameri-
 can version of the policy in govern
 ment which should prevail in South
 America. But from very shame con-
 gress will be obliged to stand by its resolution; and Senator Morgan chair i ! lations in the senate, must maintain a show of consistency. A few weeks go 1 he said that the United States should not permit this aggression. He stat i ed it as his belief that it is the pur- 1 pose of Downing street to push for ward our frontier sufficiently far into i the interior to encompass the rich gold l fields of that section. And against this 1 policy he would put the Monroe doc 1 Urine into operation. We have heard
 a great deal-tOo much for our taste
 about this Monroe doctrine It is some
 thing like the funds of a man whom
 we once saw playing cards for a stake, 1 his part of which was supposed to be
 in a five-dollar bill in his pocket When | it was his turn to put up" his money. i he referred to the invisible note. And 1 when he had lost all of the reputcd
 value of the note, he walked away. | "The Monroe doctrine is referred to,
 but We never see it in operation. We care nothing in this crisis about po- | litical pretensions, even those of the | first magnitude, involved in the Ameri- | can policy: but We care everything for l the principle of arbitration as sub
 stitute for war in the settlement of | international disputes. We have es- capped a conflict of arms until now. | because Venezuela is too small to fight. | If our cause is a fair one, We have
 nothing to fear from arbitration. If
 We have behaved in a grasping and
 an arbitrary way, and have presumed i upon our strength to set justice aside,
 We ought to be stopped in our un- righteous career.
 We scarce know where to turn. in 1 parliament or out of it, except to the ranks of a gallant band of Quakers in | the country for a man who is pre- | pared to fight for peace. And we can
 not help singing, "Oh! for one solid hour of John Bright"
 ! Nothing has occurred in official cir l Cles since the presidents message and ! the Venezuelan correspondence went | to congress on Tuesday to indicate that ! 4 1, ,1-s,