The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-13
THE yENnzunLAN saATTEn.
President Roosevelt ThinsSs PresideDf
 Castre Needs Thrashing.

President Roosevelt Thfn&S FreSsueHA
 Casfre Needs a Thrashing.
 Washington Special to N. Y. Tribune.
 That Venezrela has treated this coufl- try with grave d:scourtesy. not to say contempt. will be evident when the correspondence between that country and the United States is made public, as 1t will be when the Department of State forwards to the Senate the pa- pers called for by the Lodge resolu- ton. In fact. it Is probable that Ssna- tors did not realize the extent to which they would be embarrassed by the pub licAtion of the facts when they passed the Lodge resolution. LA
 The Department of State has made every possible effort to obtain courtesy, to say nothing of justice, from the Castro regime. and the Secretary ct State now admits that he has done &ll of the case rests with Congress. Ac- cording to the view taken at the State Department. this country must deliver an ultimatum and follow it with the gently and supsnely submit to treatment from Venezuela which would be the occasion of immediate reprisais were 1t oered sSsa to EnrNpsan nssion do not promise an immediate or satisfactory solution of the difnculty because of the typographical difficulties of the such as they are. but President Castro and his administrator would then be two weeks march back In the interior. at the end of an almost impossible
 If ever there was an executive who should be made to feel the christening executive is Castro, according to the view of the President and the Secre- tary of State. And yet there .s grave question if # would ee wise or profit to administer the sad'y-needed chas- tisement. If is a serious question if popular approval would greet the ap-
 It is equally questionable If the United States could gracefully under take the unpleasant task .n view oi the work this country. and especially spss promote international peace. And yet. ask officials. is 1t ttie wish of the poo pie or the judgment of Congress that the Government should suptnely submit to contun,eIious treatment at the hands of a semi-eivilized and wholly uncouth South American dictatorship? This is precisely the question which the admin the problem hich it will soon be up to Congress 10 solve. and 1t was to that end that the seerstary of state sug' ity of introducing his resolution.
 MT, Root regards the position of the Cnited States as precisely similar to that Of Well-dresSed man In the street. whose shiny silk-hat and in- maculate costume are being constantly besmeared by a ragged urchin. who persists in throwing mud balls Can the well.dressGd man east aside his rainent and chase the little pest with out too greatly sacrificing his dignity This is the question which was gravely asked by Secretary Hay. and while for a time MT. Root thought he could solve the problem. he has been forced to face the same embarrassing situa- ton and to reach the same nroblemati- cal conclusion.
 Among the interesting material which will be forwarded to the Senate will be the report made to the Presi- dent by William J. Calhoun, whom the Executive sent to Venezuela to make tion of the correspondence does noth- ing else 1t will serve to demonstrate to the world how long suffering and patient this country has been.