The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-24

rather than have 1t run away with us There Is mo present need of working up an imaginary ease and Haunting an offensive and short-sighted patriotism in the face of a nation, which Is a solid friend beneath the surface-blood is thicker than water The world has no AEglo-SaXon blood to spare, Nor is there occasion for criticLsing those who do not enthuse to the unnecessary mu~ sic set up in some careless and thought less quarters,
 We are not yet discussing what might happsn, but what has already happen ed, and that upon its own merits, and aside from what through misunder- standing of the case it Is assumed had happened, It may or may not be wise under the extraordinary circumstances that we have now invaded the premises and in view of good offices to all true Anglo-SaXons, for Lord Salisbury to offer further memoranda on the case, in advance of any act upon the part of the commission, ard so both close his argument and be readily to prosecute its enforcement when the proper time ttLLlNtSs llN lut lllSetlllllllC pltl ON II rights in the premises have certainly not been created by MT. Cleveland's message, nor under the definition of the Monroe doctrine can We see how report of this one-sided commission, even if adverse to Great Britain.s pre- | tentions, can breathe into set of self assumed rights the breath of life unto the justification of sacrificing untold Anglo-SaXon treasures and still more valuable Anglo-SaXon life blood and prospects in fraternal strife.
 Finally, it is not question of fear, thing foreign to our blood upon both sides of the water, that will delay this conflict It has now been made, and will be kept possible, so long as the uni | formed and mistrformed multitude is supported in its ill-advised attitude by the press. Nevertheless it has also been made and may be kept possible, and thus at stand-off, so long as the sober minded among our people insist that the arguments upon the other side be accorded a fair hearing and be de- feated only with their own weapons.
 But it is a question of cost and of l VI illIt eIu lCSsiblS OL ptL lOt-S VI 1 prestige to our race-for God can still raise up yet other sons of Abraham out ot the stones in the wilderness, if we belle our Saxon traditions,
 With England we are happily inter- n?2 rried as much as Abraham's family was with that of Laban. All the re- sources of our country owe fair quota of their development to the generous output of British capital they yield mutual advantage to all concerned, and neither one side nor the other can afford to risk their wanton destruction or collapse. It is not a question of who would suffer most materially or gain most eventually, seeing that both would | oe punished to the full But it is a l queStior of moral loss which would in | evitably fall with stunning weight upon the party that instigated so unjustifia- ble conflict without any snow of found ed right or application to even it's own definition of policy.
 It has besn said that the most Eng l land could do would be to blockade our I coasts and destroy some of it's princi- pal cities, and that the worst we could
 
 erything on this side Of the globe IF each side accomplisiles it's task it would be an expensive and unwarrantable price to pay for so small a bunch of fire-Caracas which, as it is, may ex- plode in the very magazine itself before even our commissioners begin their task.
 Such war to-day would cry to Heav- en for signal vengeance and would reap it iE the whirl-wind. The black swirl of it's cyclone would fall upon both par ties, as the equal responsible reprasen- tatives of an Israel, that could be so far forgetful of their natural missions for the betterment of man, as to join in fraternal strife oyer a strip of deadly southern wilderness, while thousand and one more momentous questions de- mand all their energies in every part Of the globe. c, A. l.. TOTTEN.
 Dec, 21, 1895,