Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-04
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

In the meantime it will be just as well
 for Venezuela to carefully edit her en-
 thusiasm and not allow it to become bois- terous.-Washington Post, Ind
 It is fortunate for the good name of the
 Turks that the outrages committed on a
 defenseless woman in Kentucky-burn-
 ing her to death in her own house-were
 not committed in Armenia.-New Or
 leans Picayune.
 If the Texas is no more effective in her trips for business purposes than she is in her attempts to determine her speed and engine power, the chances are that Eng
 fish plans for American battleships will
 not be called for again in hurry.-New
 York Tribune, Rep.
 The idea that war between Great Britain and this country would lead to the flooding of our market with Ameri- can securities now in British ownership ignores the motives which govern Eng fish investors. The latter are concerned more for income than for patriotism- San Francisco Bulletin.
 In the year 1865 the navy of the United States consisted of 1S0 fighting ships, in- cluding number of monitors, the most formidable battleships in existence. It was said at that time that the American navy was stronger than the navies of any three European powers combined Our fleets then were the creation of four years and the application of some strik-
 
 can be repeated if necessary and on much greater scale.-St, Louis Globe Democrat, Rep.
 If President Cleveland is capable of appreciating the gravity of the situation so far as the Venezuelans are concerned, he must dread the possible consequences
 of his encouragement to these infiamma- ble, ignorant, unreasoning people. In view of the present state of feeling here
 the president should tell them fiatly that the United States has no intention of going to war over their boundary line He should admonish them strongly to cool down and cease their ridiculous war nonsense. So much is their due. So much is our duty.-New York World, Dem.
 Col. and Hon. Robert Green Ingersoll is reported as saying that the course of the administration in regard to the Ven- ezuelan matter is "almost insane" Col onel Ingersoll has one of the finest collec- tions of absence of cranial hair known to scientists and we had long supposed that there was considerable cerebral material concealed somewhere under it. The fact is we believe that a candle from the col onePs Christmas tree dropped on top of his head Tuesday night and he has been trif1e peevish since. But he will come to time. He isn't good Christian in be- lief but he means to be good American and he will be before the plaster on his top piece dries.-New York Sun, Dem. What would be gained by Uncle Sam if he were to succeed in assembling an international conference, which should, as is proposed. accept and declare the Monroe doctrine to be "a principle of in- ternational law?" Nothing. None of the
 nations now opposed to his construction 1 of that doctrine would change ground in order to please us. There might be an | argument made in favor of assembling delegates from the countries opposed to our construction of the Monroe doothine, | ly objectionable. We stand where we have stood for more than seventy years, and should not now surrender one jot or little of our vantage ground.-Rlchmond Dispatch. Dem.