The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-22
rnE NEW Mosnon DOCTRINE.

ent Complication.
10 the Editor of the JOURNAL AND CoURIER:
The world is fun of rumors more dis
heartenlng to peace than ever. and We
seat ourselves in deep concern to voice
our own counsel against the sentiment
run wild and now making so desperate
ly to war. We have sLready said can
didly, with sound argument and proof,
that we could take no patriotic interest
Whatsoever in the original Venezuelan
message, preferring to argue with the
great statesmen who formulated the
Monroe doctrine against the very issues
which havenow been raised, as we fore
saw, by certain premature passages in
that message.
Subsequent events have simply grown
big and ever bigger out of this contro-
versy, as in the case of all similar wran-
giles, and the outcome no one can now
predict. Wherever the blame shall ulti-
mately rest, if circumstances over which
the sane seem to have lost control, shall
plunge US into war with England, there
we may be sure providence will visit
It, even to the founding it, as if 1T We're
q rebuilding of Jericho. in the first born
or those who shall have made necessary
what that message only, made remotely
possible.
No one can hold Mr.. Cleveland respon-
sible for the present situation, but we
do hold those who, without preparation
as a fact, or the rernotest justification
as an argument, have so extended it by
a lingo resolution, not contemplated by
the fathers, nor warranted by the stu
alton, as to constitute of it deliberate
challenge we'll nigh ITO eminent war.
So long as things promised to work
smoothly, and for the more solid Anglo
Saxon peace and prospects, We depre-
Gated any movement, ON the part of
Great Britainis Flying Squadron which
would altar the situation. But how on
earth shallwe justify even more reckless
acts upon the part of those who misrep
resent the traditional policy of America
or how expect Great Britain to be mod
crate any longer in the support of rights
she believes she has inherited, and
which even our own commisison has not
yet condemned.
I'M the face of these new and distinct
ny aggressi We pronunciamentos. no one
need be surp rised if the Flying Squadron
moves even further west than the Ber-
go, diplomacy to the contrary notwith-
standing Mr.. Cleveland's message dis
tfnctly stated that amy adjustment of
the boundary which Venezuela may
deem for her own advantage and enter
into of her own free will, cannot, of
course, be objected to by the United
States" But this Davis resolution re-
moves any possibility of adjustment
short of a recognition of our own inter-
Wention and soma torial agreement Let
the senate go to Jericho and tarry until
its beard be grown. Where be the wise
men Of a century ago? The dead know
nothing at all; the living less. This
resolution is far reaching enough and
reckless, to array against its arrogance
the public sentiment Of the whole world
Not a South American state can view its
purport with complacency. Surely no
European one that has possessions in
the west cam agree to it, European IN
tervention in it's widest nightmare
never dared to advocate a principle SO
sweeping. 1t is distinctly perilous and
contrary to every tradition we have in
herited and while in the name of the
elders we repudiate it, we also pro-
nounce it Kismet. The very fates have
woven about us this situation, which
seems swift to realize the third and
very worst rate ON george w asii'iise oii
Famous VISION at Vaiiey forse
IS Idle to say Nhat TINS country -
not drifting into an ATTITUDE Which
makes an lnexcusapie war lneVltaoie.
It should pause at once. II IS as ldfe 10
maintain that we are Jlstlfeo IN SO 40
\ ing or prepared TO make good our prano
new policy with arms against the world
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America can hght Wen ana Iearlessly
for right. 1t will be Woefuliy puhlsned
for hot headed wrong. 1t IS dl1ncult TO
see where we can count on any 1orelgn
friendship, either in the east or west IN
+ this ATTITUDE FROM Vehezuela perhaps
disingenuously and temporarily and be-
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