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Show COWARDLY BULLDOZING. When nations do what would be pronounced both ridiculous and cowardly in individuals, what can save them from the world's scorn. Those European Eu-ropean commercial agencies, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and no one knows how many more, have sat down at the front door of poor, weak Venezuela and practically said: "Come out and settle or we will knock your old shells of forts to pieces, fire your glass houses, levy on embargo on your alligators, foreclose our mortgages mort-gages on your parrots and squeeze your boa-constrictors in short order." It is the cheapest b"lly-ing b"lly-ing of the age. Save the Monroe Doctrine long before this troops would have been quartered on the main land and the work of partition would have been going on. If those powers only realized the fact they would be thankful for the Monroe Doctrine, for could ten thousand foreign troops be landed there, before three weeks there would be a thousand thou-sand of them dead and five thousand more In the hospitals. In building the first twenty miles of the Panama railroad out of Aspinwall, six thousand workmen died. One night of exposure was enough, the Isthmus fever did the rest. Some countries estimate the life of a man at $1,000 in value to the state. At that rate the Isthmus Isth-mus fever will pay up all the powers in six months if they will give the fever the material to work on. Those powers would make money by sailing away and let the debts go. As it is they are at the same time exposing their sailors and marines to death and drawing upon themselves them-selves the world's contempt. |