Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — The Inter Ocean Is Way Off. [ARTICLE]

The Inter Ocean Is Way Off.

The Inter Ocean is bitterly hostile to Great Britain in the Transvaal war, as it is in every question that comes up between England and other nations; and because of this unreasoning and permanent hostility the Inter Ocean is not a reliable guide nor a representative American paper, in matters where England is anyway concerned. There was, no other prominent paper in the county that tried so hard to force this nation into war with England over the Venezuelaa matter at the time of Grover Cleveland’s sensational outbreak, as did the Inter Ocean. Yet the result of the great arbitration just ended at Paris, shows that England instead of having been trying to rob Venezueala at that time was trying to settle with her on a very liberal basis, and was actually offering her by way of a compromise, considerable more territory than the arbitrators finially awarded her. For the United States to have gone to war with England at that time and in that cause, would have been at once, the greatest crime and the greatest calamity in all history yet, if the clamor of* the Inter Ocean and similar papers had been listened to that is what would have happened. The Inter Ocean was immeasurably in the wrong then and it is very far from being in the right now.