Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Senator Billee Chandler is very much in favor of the President’s Venezuela policy, in fact he is en thusiastic, and if he will only wait till the proper time he can pe mustered into active service. President Cleveland's Venezue*lan message is the most aggressive definition of the Monroe doctrine that has ever been uttered by an American president. It took the wiud out of the sails of the “jingoes.” if the Republicans are at all anxious to raice more revenues they should begin at once by i. - creasing the tax on liquois, beer and tobacco, and levying a tax on incomes. Superfluous wealth should pay its proportion.

The Indianapolis Journal says that President Cleveland’s message in connection with Secretary Olney’s note to Lord Salisbury, of July last, constitute the clearest exposition and strongest assertion of the Monroe doctrine that has ever been made, and commit the government fully and unequivocally to its maintenance. Bob Ingersoll, republican, thinks Mr. Cleveland acted with too much Baste in the Venezuela affair; Calico Charley Foster thinks he was ♦oo slow. In taking issue with the administration in its efforts to maintain an established principle the opposition should remember the political fate of Tom Corwin, who bitterly opposed ihe war with Mexico. Queen Victoria, it is said, is very much incensed at the course of Lord Salisbury in refusing to arbitrate the Venezuelan boundory dispute. Her plea is for peace with the United States. The wiser heads 4a Great Biitaiu do not want a war with the United States, but that is what will happen unless England withdraws her claim to Venezuela territory.

Senator Turpie, in bis speech defending the couiseof the president in enforcing the Monroe doctrine, said: “To surrender this policy now would be to abandon at once our duty and destiny. It would be to deny the faith in that great American doctrine which we have for seventy years maintained, nnd which we have in manv instances vindicated and nforced. It may cost us much to sustain this policy; it would cost us more not to do so.” ■ ■ «. • There is now more than $70,000,000 in the United States treasury, but it is not go.d, and can be used for no otheri purpose than to meet the ordinary obligations of the government What is needed is legislation ihat will keep the gold reserve to the limit reqivred by law. Mr. Cleveland sent in a message explaining what he believed necessary to be done, but instead of proceeding on the line mapped out, the Reed congress* went to work to increase the reve* nues of the rich and the burdens of the poor.

Ex-Congreasman Holman is much pleased with the President’s Venezuelan message. Great Britain would yield all of Biitish Guiana before she would risk a war with the United States, hesa’s. He thinks a war would result in the utter annihilation of the British government, tne subjugation and annexation cf Canada, and the independence of Ireland. Before the war concluded, he thinks, there would be a treaty of closer alliance between all the governments of the western hemisphere, aud the I’nited States wo’d be recognized as the central power, with all the sister republics more or less dependent upon her. Hon. Sterling R, Holt hae been elected Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee.— As we have a Sterlipg Holt on the situatioi, now let us on to victory. — —* JaspertCounty Maps on Sale at Long’s.