Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — THIS IS ONE NATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THIS IS ONE NATION.

Eagle’s -Screams American Patriots. ■ ' -7 LION MUST KEEP OUT. ’ 'p" Congress Votes to Sustain the President.

Bill Passed Giving Him Money and the Commission—American Pcoi>le, Regardless of Party, Uphold Grover In the Enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine Nothing Since the War „ Has So Deeply\Stirrcd This Nation— The British Press Is Insolent and Furious.

Washington correspondency: . .Congress is with the President, in the Jfcpport of the Monroe doctrine, and the American people are with Congress.) The ■Jfouse of Representatives- without dis.; denting voice has passed a bill appr'opriating $-100,000 fqi- an American judicial''.commission to ascertain the true boundary between British Guiana and. y<ineziiela. This is the beginning of the

first step in carrying out the assertion of tho Monroe doctrine as a principle of the international code. Leaders of all shades of domestic difference iu Congress agreed’ as one man in supporting the President. It has been the taunt pf the British press and the belief of the anti-American public abroad that in the assertion of the Monroe doctrine at this time the President was “playing politics.” ..It will shortly he apparent a-binad that ,in support of the right of Americans to rule America there are no parties \ the United States. This is a nation. ‘ a The action of the House, fresh from the

■people an 3 expressing their sentiments, raises,a crucial issue for the British Government and brings up the question sharp-ly-whet her it will fight or back down. The Anglomania's in the United States are neither numerous nW. formidable enough to cause this country to back down. Congress has indorsed thp President and the people will indorse Congress. The Monroe doctrine will be asserted both In letter and in spirit. It'will be declared for this time ni»i for all time that it means America for t}ie American republics and np monarchy in America. The powers must content themselves with partitioning and dominating Europe, Asia andjkfrica. This Western Hemisphere is the nome of the republican form of self-government; and if war breaks out the British monarchical'flag will have to depart from Canada and the .West Indies and South American Guiana. Great Britain having refused to submit her claims to disinterested arbitration, th® United States proposes” to go a step

farther in the controversy and inquire for her qwn. future guidance as to the justice of those claims. Nor is this unprecedented. We have a right to know the .facts. We do not attempt to decide, hut it is our privilege to as cot tain the truth, and thus we shall be. able to judge whether Great Britain's refusal to submit her title to investigation is well founded. All na tio’ns exercise the right of intervention in matters that/are likely to affect their own interests or interfere with the clearly defined policy- they may have pursued toward their neighbors. Leaving the Monroe doct rifle entirely, ont of th e qu os tioi we are quite as much justified in pursuing the course recommended uy the President \as Russia is to interfere with the plans of the English in Turkey, or England in regard to the conduct of Russia in China and Korea, or Russia, France andt 1 ermany in relations between Qhjua and Japan. ~ ' T ’ . ' Europe Is Breathless. / The-conte nti-oLthe message have areused the people of continental Europe as nothing ill the-second half of this century has done. Great Britain is astounded,_ according to her own papers. Many of them are insolent and truculent-dn their comments, and it is evident that the President’s utterances fill them with uncon-, cealed fury. One of them says that “tlufc epitaph of the Monroe doctrine has been

written— in the We nezttelan"- cor respond - once?’ Another sneeringly says that “the invocation of the Monroe doctrine is irrelevant?’ rtnd that- it is “not it principle of international law, because'"England has not, recognized it.’’—as if nothing were international law which did not have England’s assent and sanction. The London Titties declares that England will not admit the pretensions put forward by Presir /lent 1 Cleveland. The Times then proceeds to argue that the Monroe doctrine has never been recognized as international law ami quotes Lord Salisbury's admission that any disturbance of the existing territorial distribution in the Westcrii Hemisphere by any European Stifte Would -be highly inexpedient. Other or ga'ns of British opinion take the ground that if tin l “President should seriously declare that the United States would enforce the decision of the special commission, and such a preposterous contention was sustained by the American Congress

and people, there would seenunotliing left to Great Britain but to trifiah the United States a needed lesson.” Xfid more bluff to the same effect. - fV There was a time early century when English statesmen ai®English papers scoffed at the protest.qjtetlie United States, then a feeble the American ships by English war vessels and the removal of seamen on the pretext that they were King George’s .subjects. This protest was as “inipe’ftinient.” “The rightshf Search” was claimed to be«ft part of “international law” as defined by Great Britain. But

after the war' of ISI2 England silently revised her idcaS'of international law and dropped out "the right of search” of American vessels on the*ltigh seas, She will revise them again ill regard to tire Monroe doctrine before this Controversy is ended, and will admit that the Monroe doctrine does form a most important par-t 'of international law as far as matters regarding the American Hemisphere are concerned. ; Across the channel the sentiment is scarcely less serious. France and Germany, both having interests on this continent, view the message with undisguised alarm, as encroaching on their rights. They even go so far ns to suggest that England nlone is«,ffi"p66r'Stiape to handle the husky young republic, byt that if there were cqnoirt of the interested powers'll) denying the Monroe doctrine there would be no-difficulty-ta ex ploding the bubble, which, however, has caused many a continental statestnah

considerable logs of Sleep since it was «<j vigorously promulgated. The’ situation is briefly that the attitude of the President isapprbyedby'tha people Of the United States, that the members of both houses of Congress realize "this and' that there is a, manifest intention on all hands to pronounce to tho world that this country is dominant on this Continent and that her word “goes,”

BRITISH BOUNDARY. LINE CLAIMS IN VENEZUELA.