Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-29
BRITAIN DEFIANT.
Which 10 Why Thurston Favors
the Davis Resolution.
Def FOUND IN sAL1sBURYs NOTE,

Where He Declares That the Monroe Doc
trine II HOT International LAw-Turpss
Wants . Shot 1t Turkey That WIN n
Heard Arousd the world-Fisht for thu
Stanford Mulions Bagun-Populists Frus.
trats Rspablican Plans.
WAsHINar0y, Jan. 28-Foreign affair
and finance occupied the attention of the
senate yesterday. Thurston Of Nebraska
vigorously upheld q broad application Of
the Monroe doctrine. and was ct times
warmly applauded for the patriotic ring Of
his sentiments In the course Of his speech
he said: "Were there nothing at stake but
. mere adjustment Of q boundary line be-
tween Venezuela and British Guiana ]
should hesitate long and seriously before
voting to commit this government to any
Interference. It is difficult to believe and
impossible to demonstrate that our honor
Is involved. our prestige threatened, or our
tranquility disturbed by any disposition
which can possibly be made of o distant
strip OF South American marsh and noun
tain. But the present question rises high
above any Venezuelan dispute. The Brit
ish minister, the accredited mouthpiece of
the strongest empire of Christendom, has
seen fit to officially declare, and so advise
this government, that the Monroe doc.
trine has no place in the law Of nations,
and is not accepted or recognized by any
European power.
Must Pick Up John Bulls Glove.
"The challenge thus broadly thrown
down by Great Britain must be taken I'D
by this republic or the Monroe doctrine is
q thing Of tho past. Mr.. President, the
British position bluntly, almost insolent-
ly, stated by Lord Salisbury, has been re-
asserted from this floor clothed in such
splendid rhetoric and presented with such
fervid eloquence rs even to win American
applause. I unhesitatingly assume that
the applause was for the matchless ability
Of the orator and not for the sentiment Of
his address. I cannot believe that the
views Of the senator from Colorado will
commend themselves to the deliberate
judgment Of the American people. They
may be satisfactory to tho money chang
ers England can crack the whip for
them; but, thank God, the money chang
ers are not the custodians Of the nations
Takes . Whack 1t Wall Street.
"Thcy may be approved by Wall street,
Tor Wall street represents that powerful
foreign syndicate which seeks to dominate
the financial and industrial policy of this
country; but Wall street can not dictate
to the senate Of the United States. II our
people ever become SO senile and degraded
as to be willing to list the honor of the
nation on the stock exchange, to go up
and down with the market, it will DO
time to turn tho pictured face of WASH
ington to the wall, aud to cast the sword
Of Grant into the Sea-"
Talks CT TurList TurpItudc.
Turpie Of Indiana touched on tho Turk.
Ism atrocities in brief but very energet-
ic speech in which he declared that the
resolution just passed by congress should
be followed by a blow-a shot which
should crash through the sultan's seraglio
sweeping back Mohammedanism and
Christianity. Voorhees, spoke
In advocacy Of the demonstration of sill
yer and sharply arraigned those RESPONSE
BILE for the elimination of silver from the
coinage. Gray Of Delaware urged the
advantage Of gold standard His speech
was notable in its presentation Of the fluc-
tuation of prices, arguing that they result
from invention and natural causes and
not from silver demonstration.