Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — A TRIPLE ALLIANCE. [ARTICLE]

A TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

The Monroe Doctrine Said to Have Been Ignored. Extradition Treaty With Russia—Prelude to a Foreign Combine. The Washington correspondent of a NewiYork paper Sunday, telegraphed a sensational story to tho effect that a “triple alliance between the United States, Russia and France—such is the international combination of forces for mutual benefit and defense which has been secretly pending for six years and which, unknown to either the diplomatic or political world at large, culminated In an executive session of the U. S, Senate two days ago/ This is the first public announcement of the weighty meaning which lay behind the seemingly unimportant and formal announcement that ’the extradition treaty with Russia has been ratified.’ It is claimed that the United States will be sustained by Russia and France in all annexation projects in tho Western hemisphere.” The report is not fully credited In Washington, and the general belief is that no such interpretation can be placed on the mere ratification of the extradition treaty.