People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — THE AMERICAN PRESS. [ARTICLE]

THE AMERICAN PRESS.

Much Attention Given to the President’s Venezeolan Message. The papers of the country devote more or less editorial attention to the president’s Venezuelan message. Extracts from these expressions follow: NEW YORK. World—President Cleveland’s message to congress on the Venezuelan matter is a serious blunder. It is a blunder because it is based upon a wrong conception, because it is not sustained by international law or usage, and because it places the Unted States in a false position. Great Britain owns more territory on this continent than we do. She was here before we were a nation. If she had the hostile intentions which the president’s words impute,

I did she need i'o wait tor a Dounaary aisI brid race, us or to menace our : bri drace, to rssail us or to menace our republican institutions? The assumption is absurd. And.with it falls the structure of ponderously patriotic rhetoric reared upon it by the president. Journal —If England ventures to disregard the solemn warning which she has received, if she reiuses to recognize the authority of the United States in the western hemisphere, if ehe persists in contemning the historic policy, she will be guilty of a distinct act of hostility which this nation is not afraid to go to war over, even with the mistress of the seas, to defend a principle, and which has twice before won her cause when the British have appealed to the arbitrament of ai mies. Tribune —The president has spoken straightforward, manly words, which are worthy of, and which we believe will command, the approval and enthusiastic support of the people of the United States. Sun—Mr. Cleveland has borrowed a new uniform, but all the time it is the American uniform, and the country will follo.w the man who wears it. For the Monroe doctrine, as enunciated in the president’s message,except for a line or two we need not consider here, the people of the United States are solid and enthusiastic. Herald —Menacing as is the aspect which affairs have now assumed, it is to be hoped that the issue may be settled without disturbing the friendly relations existing between the two countries. The crisis emphasizes the desirability of international arbitration. Recorder—As an- American president, Cleveland’s resolute reaffirmation of the Monroe doctrine will be warmly welcomed and enthusiastically indorsed by men of all parties. Staats Zeitung Conditions have changed since the time of Monroe, and it would be more difficult today to say that the United States has an interest in the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela than in the earlier days when the United Stateß had to care for its own defense. Volks-Zeitung—President Cleveland has certainly upheld the rights of the Monroe doctrine with powerful language and warned England to look out or take the consequences—i. e., to prepare for a declaration of war from the United States. That’s right.

CHICAGO. Tribune —Ther is no mistaking the President’s attitude on the question of the meaning and of the_ maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, and there is equally no question that the Republican Congress will sustain him enthusiastically and patriotically. Inter Ocean —President Cleveland puts in unexceptionable language a ringing utterance of genuine Americanism, and without bluster meets the issue raised by the Monroe doctrine as boldly and as explicitly as did Secretary Adams and President Monroe when the gravest possible consequences threatened. Chronicle—The Issue is pointed enough to suit the most sensational temperament. Great Britain must abandon its claims to Venezuelan territory, the American Congress must relegate the Monroe doctrine to the limlib of forgotten dreams or the question must be left to the dread arbitrament of the sword. Times-Herald —The nation is with the president. It makes no difference to us whether or not any foreign government may decline to admit validity of the Monroe doctrine.. We are prepared to demonstrate its validity with the entire strength of a sovereign people. Its assertion and enforcement areMecessary to our place in the world. Record —The message is a dignified but peremptory declaration that the Monroe doctrine is a sound international law, that the United Sates will abide by.it, and that further aggressions in Venezuela will be met with resistance by every means in this nation’s power. WASHINGTON. Star —The message is one of the most vigorous and patriotic state papers that ever emanated from the executive mansion. Post—No president of this American union has ever given out an utterance more courageous, more inspiriting, more splendid. It will rouse the country from one end to the other. CINCINNATI. Enquirer Congress must sustain President Cleveland’s position or else abandon the Monroe doctrine. Commercial Gazette —No one could have asked for a stronger, more decisive or more vigorous support of the Monroe doctrine. War is a serious matter, but there are greater calamities than warone of them is the loss of national self respect and honor.