| Show it is more than the venezuela dispute that incenses alie american public with regard to great britain that country has offered alic new world many little petty insults of late and has been especially domineering instead of acknowledging a certain share jine for the location of the boundary between alie british possessions and alaska great britain has set up the claim that the shore was once away out in alie sea and from there measurements must be taken in pursuance of their claim post offices and mail service have been located on american soil then british vessels have disregarded all humane and civil laws in the killing of seals in alaskan waters making almost extinct that useful fur bearing animal when the united states began agitating tho nicaragua canal great britain raised a row with that little country bearing the name of the canal and seized one of its ports on a pretext the impression in this country at once waa that great britain wanted to thwart our inter oceanic canal and there was great indignation dig nation alie public wanted president cleveland to act vigorously ahn the opportunity for vigorously resenting this bulldozing finally came in the dispute now pending because venezuela is a weak power great britain concluded it could shift the boundary ot its possessions in that part of the glebe and take in the mouth of one of the great navigable rivets rive Ts of south america but it cant be done without a tilt with ancla sam and john bull want that the vigorous stand this country has taken for the monroe doctrine will put an end to british bulldozing in these parti of the globa the lintn will still roar of course in the orient and africa seeking whom he may devour but he will not tread again on the eagleb tail feathers for at least n generation |
