Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1902 — Want Roosevelt to Abritrate. [ARTICLE]

Want Roosevelt to Abritrate.

Germany and England have not only both given this country the most positive assurance that they will do nothing in Venezula that will give the Monroe doctrine a jolt, but tney have both united in a most earnest request that President Roosevelt accept the position of arbitor to settle the whole trouble, and they practically wont tak6’ no for an answer. What a contrast this friendly and pacificatory stand of those two natibns is, as compared with the stand this nation would have taken, and the consequent stand of Germany and England, had the-advice of a few such papers as the Inter Ocean been followed. The whole trouble wil doubtless soon be peacably and satisfactorily settled, and the United States will come out far the gainer in prestige and good will, in both hemispheres; whereas had the cry of the rabid press been listened to, we would how be right on the verge of one of the most disastrous and unnecessary wars in all history.