Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

Venezuela and Monroe Doctrine. The English press seems disposed tW ridicule the Monroe doctrine. But England may soon learn that it is no laughing matter.—Boston Globe. The question now for Great Britain to consider is whether it shall be a Dunraven fluke, an arbitration of the boundary dispute or ironclads and coffee.— Washington Times. The St. James’ Gazette wants to know “what the blessed Monroe doctrine is?” When it actually finds out it will probably use a “harder” adjective to describe it.— New York Journal. If, however, there be genuine ignorance on this subject among intelligent Englishmen, vve are inclined to believe that they, stand in the way of receiving ample instruction on this point in the near future. 1 —Mail and Express. Though there is no indication that our diplomats have done anything hi particular the people have prepared an ultimatum and are ready to enforce it. It is that England shall never control the mouth of the Orinoco or any other American river south of the Canadian line. —New York World.

To Americans generally it seems plainly evident that the British Government’s claim rests on a small foundation; and if the British Government should send an army to invade Venezuela, the justice and propriety of the Monroe doctrine would be brought in question.—Boston Advertiser. i The American people are weary and ashamed of the immunity that these foreign marauders have so. long enjoyed upon the western hemisphere. They want it withdrawn, once for all, and they want the United States to come forward as the 1 champion and the protector of free government in the world. There is no desire here to have Mr. Olney insist upon arbitration with England. What we desire is that Mr. Olney shall draw a dead lino and then put a man there with a gun.— Washington Post What Peary Accomplished. Though he returns without laurels from his Arctic explorations, he has evidently left no effort untried to accomplish what he undertook to do.—Boston Herald. , Peary says he will make no more Arctic explorations. A wise decision. He has accomplished nothing, and should retire from the field.—St. Louis Globe-Demo- • crat. Peary’s disappointment over the unsatisfactory termination of the expedition is unconcealed, but all admit that he is not responsible for the failure.—Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald. It will require a reading of the detailed story to understand what these explorers went through, but not many will understand why they were willing to go through it, and to go again.—Terre Haute (Ind.) Express. Lieutenant Peary has returned to civilization in safety, bringing nothing with him but a sheaf of excuses aud complaints of dreadful hardships; hut as no more than could have been expected of him, there need be no disappointment felt that he comes home empty-handed and forlorn.— Philadelphia- Telegraph. But Lieutenant Peary in what he represents is magnificent. If you stop to think how many of the great and useful discoveries in the history of the world have been incidentally made by fervid explorers of the unknown who sought either the impossible or the useless, you get an idea of the value of the spirit which is in Peary.—Detroit Tribune. Some of the institutions of the country will be the richer by the deprivations and labors of Peary and his Arctic fellow tourists; the general fund of knowledge about “Greenland’s icy mountains” will be increased throughout the civilized world, and Mrs. Peary will be rejoiced to find her long-lost, self-expatriated husband safely returned to the land of civilization, good food and rapid transit. —Albany (N. Y.) Journal. Summed up, the results of Peary’s two years' w'ork are the information that Greenland is covered with a thick ice-cap, that traveling in that country is extra hazardous and tremendously difficult, that the snowfall is phenomenal, the storms terrific and the general tendency of the weather abominable, that game is scarce, the cold excessive, and that if one does not take with him a large supply of provisions he suffers horribly.—Philadelphia Bulletin.

Recognition of Cuba. The United States by good rights ought to recognize the Cuban belligerents.— South Bend Tribune. The United States has not yet recognized Cuba as a belligerent. Yet Spain accorded the Southern Confederacy that recognition in 1801.—Denver Times. The position occupied by our government with reference to Cuba is not in the slightest degree representative of the sentiment of the people of the United States. —Scranton Tribune. All they ask for is munitions of war and such encouragement as Spain made haste to give the Southern Confederacy in 1801, and we hope they will get what they want.—Providence Telegram. This country should instantly recognize the Cuban patriots and take measures to protect them against a horde of outcasts who, unrestrained, might turn Cuba into an Armenia. This is Spain’s crowning disgrace.—Albany State. This state of affairs is not likely to strengthen the Spanish position in Cuba, and will eventually cause our government to permit this country to become a recruiting ground for insurgent armies which will soon crush the power of Spain on the island.—Scranton Times. Spanish efforts to prevent the recognition of Cuba indicate a belief that such action would involve something more than moral support. What the oppressors do not want is a pretty good thing for Uncle Sam to do, and the Cubans will appreciate it when it is done.—Pittsburg Dispatch.