The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-12-26
OUR berlin CABLE LETTER.
CLEVELAND'S MONROE DOCTRINE
MESSAGE SURPRISED GER
MANS NOT A LITTLE.
SALISBURYS attitude APPROVED
1t is Believed in the Event of War Eng
land Would Endeavor to Enlist All
Europe On Her Side-Other For
eign Notes.

Berlin, Dec. 21.-(Copyrighted, 1895,
by the Associated Press. )-President
Cleveland's message to congress on the
boundary dispute between Great Britain
and Venezuela dropped like a thunder
bolt upon Germany and Immediately
overshadowed all questions of domestic
politics and the Armenian imbroglio. The
almost general condemnation of the ac-
ton of President Cleveland upon the
part of the German press is due less to
love for England than to the conviction
that the interests of Germany are threat
ened. In political and even in govern
ment circles the attitude of the MARQUIS
of Salisbury is receiving unanimous ap-
proval, evidently with the hope of i'm
pressing Americans with the fact that
Germany is backing England up in this
dispute, and thus to induce President
Cleveland to abandon the position he has
taken before serious trouble supervenes.
Nobody, however. now expects that hos
tilities between the two countries will
break out, and the financial aspect of the
affair is taken much more seriously here
If the dispute between Great Britain and
the United States were to grow very
acute it is thought here the former coun-
| try will endeayor to obtain pronounce
ment upon the part of the European gov
! ernments against President Cleveland's
| Interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, for
| the success of Mr., Cleveland, it is thought
! 10 va h.
| future relations of the European powers
! and the turbulent South American states.
! The latest news from America, how
! ev@, is regarded MS promising the re-
| fusal of the business men to endorse
President Cleveland's attitude, and all
eyes are directed toward the development
of the financial crisis. The reichstag
having adjourned until January 8, no
public expression OF official opinion is pos
! sible just now.
/ Next to President Clevelands actioH
Emperor Williams visit to Prince Bis
marck at FREDERICKSBURG has been the
topic of the week. Instead ,sf being, as
at first intimated, purely visit of courte-
sy, his najesty's call upon the eX-chan-
cellOr appears to have been of prime DO
litical Importance, for the news leaked
out early in the week that the emperor
sought the advice of Prince Bismarck OF
ln n,, h1sE1rn anu ooclallst, questlons.
Inc German press at hrst refused t.
nGlleve TINS. but 1t is now generally ad
mltted 10 be perfectly correct. The mat
ter reached the ears of the public by the
indiscreet conversation of a high cour
official TO whom the emperor personals
connded 'the information, and FRINGE Bis
Hlarek own organ, the Hamburge
Ndcnrlchteh, confirmed the statement.
1911 ~ Reported that iflhce bismarck al
.lseu tne emperor 70 lntrodnce INTO I'M
Gelchs.agi S9'soon as feasible, new anti
Socianst olli, modelled on the Dill OF 1873
M 1uI containing more stringent provisions
me eT-chancellor IL Is also understood
couhseie "a the acceptance OF the reslgna
tioI OF Won boettlcner, the secretary o.
S,aIe Ior the interior, ana baron Won
b1eperstelh, secretary OF state for toreigr
aIal@' ,.- ~
Inc hamburger Nachrlcn1en counsel