Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-15
OPPOSE AMERICAN POLICY OF PROTECTION
Await the Next Revenue Bill with Not a
Little Apprehension.
MONROE DOCTRINE WORRIES THE GERMANS
Cologne Gazette Fires a Thunderous Charge
Against American Intervention.
DECLARES IT WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED
Precedent Set by the Venezuelan Az
fair is for England and Not for
Europc, and Germany
Does Not Agree.

Does Not Agree.
e. opyright 1896. by Press Publishing Company.)
LONDON, Nov. 1i.-(Ncw York World Ca
blegram- Special Telegram) English
press, and | think the English public gem
orally, has very speedily lost all interest in
the presidential election In the United States,
except that. free silver being defeated, a
fear Of MCKineyism swallows up all the
pleasures over the monetary victory. A pc
culiar but, perhaps, significant fact, how
ever, is that the Times yesterday and today
., has thrown open its crowded columns to long
communications upon the international bi-
metallic agreement question. The financial
and other weeklies continue today their
warnings OF before the election against in
vestment in American securities, except that
Editor Lloyd cables to the Statist, after
giving his observations on the result of the
electlon
"The general feeling Is that the tariff bill
will be moderate, taking all factors into con-
sideration and remembering that much has
yet to be settled. l nevertheless believe that
a slow but ste dy improvement will occur.
Hence judcous investments are likely to be
necessary"
The stock market demand for American
securities this week proved a mere furry,
and obviously was the work of spectators
alone. The general public seems to have
failed utterly to respond
The Venezuela settlement also receives
scant editorial reference in the press but
there is gratlfed comment in political and
other circles of note. The foreign press,
particularly the German section, seems to
look on 1t with decided disfavor The Co
logne Gazette, perhaps the leading paper In
the German empire, and semi-oiIlcial or
gan OF the government, said in long article
yesterday:
GERMANY WILL NEVER SUBMIT.
ITO us Germans II may be Indifferent Il
England, in a moment OF weakness to a
certain extent gives away her position
Nevertheless, in the United States public
opinion will In future try to demand the
intervention OF the federal government
whenever a dispute arises between Euro
pean power and a South American republic
This concerns not only the territorial
powers. but every European state which
may be Obliged to enforce claim for in
demnlty in the same way England acted
toward Nicaragua year ago.
I'VE wish to take the first opportunity o
declaring that the precedent in question is al
most an English, and in no way a European
precedent, and that Germany at least will
never tolerate the intervention of a foreign
state in the protection OF her interests in
South and Central America. We are con
vnced that those states of Central ant
Wb
founded than Venezuela will defend them
selves against any deduction that might b,
drawn from the Anglo Venezuelan precedent
placing them under the guardianship OF the
United States today as proteges, tomorrow
as subordinates."
more vital fact to the United States is
the perfectly complacent attitude OF the
Times AMI other London papers today over
the cabled reports of the prospects OF the
United States acquiring CuDa by purchase
or concession. As | have frequently pointed
out in this correspondence, all the signs
go to show that Great Britain. by its gov.
ernment or public opinion, would be graft,
fed rather than otherwise by this result
Certainly there is no truth in the reports
that Spain would have any real or financial
support here in an effort to prevent it.
URUAN INDEMNITY PAID.
Information reached me today from a
diplomatic source that Only yesterday did
the Venezuelan government pay the in
demnity demanded in Lord Salisbury's ultl-
matum for the Uruan incident, the proxi-
mate cause of the diplomatic rupture be.
tween Great Britain and Venezuela The
Indemnity. as cabled to the World exclu-
sively long ago, was f15OOO $75, ,OOO). A
draft for that amount was handed to Sir
Julian Pauncefote at Washington yesterday
on behalf of the Venezuelan minister Pay
ment was therefore several months over
due, but the British government made II
an absolute condition precedent to complet-
Ing the arrangements for the arbitration
proceedings. BALLARD SMITH