Show Tim THE 1 t r declination to toa tonet a net at a arbitrator In the Venezuela trot trou ble is said to be Je to Ocr Ger Jn ny Jut but there are excellent reasons why the questions Involved bo be beI I submitted to The hague tribunal In Instead InI I stead of oC to C a 11 commission appointed by bytho b tho PresIdent thie ne or of these thes Is this that It the decision cIslon be JI that Vene Venezuela zuela the tho our govern gorn ment could not protest It the allies aUles pro prot t ded t to collect colket them It Ven Venezuela eru Were slow sial In paying rhey could then war Upon the country In earnest land hand j trOops take custom houses levy I Utes and ami hold territory as hut the trouble with this arrangement would bo be that It might some time be fI this country to 10 fort tho thio allies aUles to heave leae th count cOuntry since they generally lire are not In a hurry to 10 evacuate evacuate ate territory In hit whIch they IIley have ob a foothold on some pretext or another W ness tile the British oCCUla lion ot of Egypt or tile the French aggression In Slam ium It Is i much better not to en encourage courage tho thit occupation a lion ot of territory on onny onY ny Y pretext at nil to future corn com and our government Is en free to act ns no shall s seem m Jest best to 1 it when the tho arbitration and tile the responsibIlity are not accepted b by the Pr Another reason 1 Is equally plain Yen euela Is 18 not the Iho only American coon coun country try In debt to According to fIgures gIven b by the New York WorM World the Argentine Republic has hils II a debt or of snore nore than th annual Interest In Interest terest charge charita beIng over 01 i 7 per capita of Dt her population sail the payment ot of it nearly 40 10 cent of Its total revenue debt amount to Interest at from 4 to G C per cent the ot her cue cus custom tom tOlU houge pledged to European an bondholders Chile debt oC nt bearing Interest at 1 to C per er cent Is he l population owes over 9 lion duras OWlS owes almost os as much with It a pop pOI t of about and hili Paid no Interest thereon to te her rt most moat ot of Port Is In pawn to her hr l tore In mo having paId then them no IC In ini i fourteen years she ehe agreed I that she Jibo owed them though her total La II but bt It Is thedore quite probable that the Is l tat but n prologue to toa to a ser of at simiLar and It annot be desirable for this country to lace lacQ itself In n a position or f moral anti 1111 tot the entIre south 11 continent |