Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — PVLSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PVLSE of the PRESS

Shadi w. Cast Before. AVe will defy it, says Mr. Chamberlain. Let him proceed if he wants a col- > lision. This nation was never more ready for one.—New York Journal The partition of Africa has been accomplished, the partition'trf Asht is being figured out and it is time for Unde Sam to-keep a sharp lookout over nil America. —San Franeisch Call. Great Britain does not care to discuss the Monroe doctrine with reference to A 7 enezuela any more than to submit the boundary dispute to arbitration, and for precisely the same reason. She knows she is in the wrong, and that her iniquitous act is best to be accomplished, if at all, in silence and in darkness.—New York It is to be hoped that A’enezuela, backed by our Government, will demand the arbitration of England’s entjre claim, and will not allow it to be limited to recent encroachments. If our Government does not take this stand It will admit the right of any European power to dismember or take possession of any of our sister re/‘ publics in this hemisphere.—Atlanta Constitution. There is really but one course open to . Iho Government and that is to insist at the proper time—which seems to be-very near at hand—that Great Britain either submit its claim to A r enezuelan territory to arbitration or recognize the fact that if forcibly asserted tho force must be large enough to overcome not A’enezuola alone but thd United States as well.— Detroit Free Tress.

The United States is so fully committed to the Monroe doctrine that it cannot afford to give it up permanently. In the event that circumstances should compel “It to forego Its assertion" for the time be. ing, it would be in duty bound to return to the doctrine after it had placed itself -in a position-to maintain the theory in the — face of whatever opposition might he developed. To do otherwise would be to lose its prestige as a great power.—Denver Republican. if" our understanding' of the matter Ijs correct the United States Government has served notice on < treat Britain that the Monroe doctrine wijl for the future be asserted—and maintained—with promptitude arid vigor; that European encroachment on American soil will be forbidden; that the Corinto incident will not be repeated, and that the proposed - looting of Venezuela must be indefinitely postponed. The only question that need concern us, therefore, is that of England’s strict compliance with our program. AA r e are always glad to hear from England, of course, hut we can wait. She must keep hands off in Venezuela, that'is all. — AVashingtou Post.

Exit—Manly Art. The Corbett-Fitzsiuimoiis fight succumbed to public sentiment.—Pittsburg Gomnierci a l-'G a zet te. This episode niay bc 'salfftocnd prize fighting in America. No State will tolerate it.—M inneapolis Tribune. Prize fighters begin to think that the Governor with the marble heart is just about unanimous in this glorious country of ours.—Detroit Free Press. Speaking of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fiasco, does not the result look somewhat like immorality can be legislated against successfully?—Memphis Commercial-Ap-peal. Isis a victory over the lower passions of men, a triumph of conscience. For once the better element in human nature has scored a knockout.—Kansas City Journal. Corbett and Fitzsimmons have made costly nuisances of themselves. But if the curtain which drops on them is never to be raised again on prize fighting they will hnve been of some use in the world. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. But another fight was fought and won. It. was the fight between the United States of America and Corbett and Fitzsimmons, and foremen the United States came off victorious, it was a bigger battle than even these great names indicate. For it was a fight between civilization and barbarism. —St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The inability of the -Wealthy managers of the Florida Athletic Club to find a lawful battleground for the Corbett-Fitzsim-nious prize fight is proof positive that professional pugilism has received its death blow ip this country. Public sentiment 1b against these exhibitions, not alone because of their brutality, hut by reason of the thugs and rowdies which make up the greater part of the people who support them. No respectable community cares' to be invaded by such an elcfccut.—New York Hcruld.

John Sherman's Book. The tendency of John Sherman’s boos is to cause a toppling movement-on the part of certain monuments.—St. Louis G4obeDemocrat. The only moral that can lie drawn from the present book is the saddening picture it presents of the littleness of human greatness.—Kansas City Times. We fear John Sherman has failed to recollect aome of the most interesting events in his career. There is his terrific war on the Pnllman company, for instance. —Washington Tost. Senator Sherman is an able, wise, man and a statesman'of long and ripe experience, but he seems to have forgotten Job’s desire “that mine adversary had written a book.” i -Indinnnpolis Journal. The book is a kind bf history of the Republican party, of its periods of success, and of its failures, too. Sherman has tried to he frank, and once or twice he ia abusive of public men.—New York Journal Those who know Senator Sherman are well aware that he has n long memory for injuries received. He may apparently forgive what he conceives to be treachery to his interests, but he never forgets. That Indian trait in his composotion ip displayed in his book. —Cleveland l’laindealer. We have great respect and admiration for Senator Sherman; but, until proof to the contrary ia produced, we shall fear that he has made the mistake, in thia instance, of promulgating a charge whtetr rests on no firmer ground than suspicion bom of personal disappointment—Milwaukee Sentinel. <