Show AMERICA atEAAS IT We confess surprise at the tone ot the New York Worlds editorial on the Presidents message It declaims the message to toe a blunder A blunder because it is not sustained by international inter-national law because it puts the United Unit-ed States in a false position because its l assumption is absurd and thus concludes It is a grave blunder to put this gov enrment in the attitude of threatening war unless we mean it and are pre PaIred for it and can appeal hopefully to the sympathies of the civilized world in making it That tone might do for the English press but it by no means reflects the spirit of the American people nor Is it justified by anything that appears either in the message of the chief executive ex-ecutive or the correspondence of Secretary Sec-retary Oney This country is confronted con-fronted with the question as to ihether it will maintain or surrender the Monroe doctrinea doctrine which is supposed to have shaped the foreign policy of our government for seventy years of our national life To yield to the bluster of England in this controversy con-troversy means to surrender the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine and that the people of America are not prepared to do They wiouild repudiate the administration that would recommend it and that man or paper that counsels it th people peo-ple will set down as more English than American As for not threatening threaten-ing wiar unless we mean itthe World can rest assured that the government means it If the World entertains any doubt about it let it lake note of the universal response that the people have given to tlhe manly words of President Cleveland the immediate passage of a bill in the House of Representatives without a dissenting vote authorizing1 the President to appoint ap-point a commission to investigate and report on a true divisional line between be-tween the republic of Venezuela and British Guiana and appropriating one hundred thousand dollars to meet the expense of such commission I On the same day ctj > ill is introduced in the Senate the purpose of which is to strengthen the military force of the United States by adding to its armament one million infantry rifles one thousand guns for field artillery and five thousand heavy guns for fortifications for-tifications The bill makes one million dollars immediately available to commence com-mence carrying these several purposes Into effect All this considered together to-gether with the firm tone of the Presidents Pres-idents message and the aroused spirit spir-it of the people ought to convince even the World that there is no threat of war involved in the attitude of the American government on the Venezuelan Venezu-elan boundary question but what this country will make good in the support sup-port of a doctrine so sacred in the traditions tra-ditions of the American people so necessary to the proteotion of our Institutions In-stitutions |