The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-09
PATRIOTIC REVIVAL.

President Cleveland's message
to congress on the Venezuela
question has served to arouse all
the patriotic instincts of true
Americans. 1t has also served
to force the the wearers of foreign
livery to come out in their true
colors and show themselves hos
tile to democratic institutions.
The principal anti-Alnerican
spirit i'll America is found in the
vicinity of wealthy New York,
and cultured Boston. The su-
perfcial and the natural do not
we'll mix. The college professors
of the east have drowned their
natural sentiments with flood
of artificial attainments. They
have lost the free, inperious i'm
pulses that make a man a man,
and to their cultured minds the
terms, national dignity and ma
tional honor, savors much of the
barbaric.
This peace-at-any-price class,
however, forms but a tiny por-
ton of the population of the
United States. Its feeble protest
but more clearly shows the full
ness and intensity of the Ameri-
can feeling that pervades this
nation. Party and sectional lines
are obliterated i'll the general
manifestation of approval ac-
corded the plain, simple, and yet
magnificent message of Presi-
dent Cleveland. That message
has been criticised by some Amer
lean truckers to the Lion, as 60
ing further than the Monroe doc
trine and setting up new and
more arbitrary propositions. This
is doubtless true, but the Ameri-
can people are willing to call it
the Cleveland or Olney doctrine
and adopt and cherish it just as
ardently as they did the origi-
nal message that warned Europe
against American aggressions.
Among the discordant notes
heard in the patriotic chorus that
Is yelling up all over the coun-
try, one voice is noted whose tone
might be considered surprising.
The president of a secfet organi-
zation that has always claimed
to be intensely patriotic and or
ganized solely for the protection
of American institutions, seeks
to discredit Cleveland's motives,
by ridiculous assertion to the
effect that the "war scare" is the
result of concocted scheme be
tween Cleveland, the money pow
er and the Catholic priesthood.
He expresses, by implication,
tender solicitude for England
and her interests, and annouces
his holy horror of all things
Irish. Such a criticism, while
probly SO intended, will not les
sen Cleveland's influence, nor
weaken his power to enforce the
American doctrine he so vigor-
ously sets up. 1t will, however,
instill into the public mind dis
trust of the organization of which
this man Traynor is at the head
and a belief, whether right or
wrong, that the chief mission of
the society is the development
of English sentiments in Amer
lea. In this general denunciation
of the Irish he will not strike a
popular chord. American SYM
pathy for Ireland as nation is
proverbial. The religious ques-
tion does not enter the minds of
American people regarding these
political matters and no unfound-
ed, sensational charges will wean
them from their present syinpa-
thies.
This patriotic outburst is
healthy nsits effect and also is
an evidence of national health.
There will probably be no war.
This country will not recede one
iota from the position it has taken
in the adoption of Cleve1and's
recommendations by congress.
England, however, will tempor-
lze and finally, as gracefully as
she can, surrender the points of
controversy. England dare not
fight the United States. The
sentiment developed by Cleve-
lands message shows that the
people of this nation are willing
and almost anxious for conflict
with the bully Of nations.