| Show mis J g OUTLOOK A tow few lAYS days nio ngo the Venezuelan situa situation J tion appeared beyond the critic critical I nl ii stage various capitals of ot reports ero vere out that a n settlement was WaN at ot hand The Tho it Ie wao Mill fald wall to 10 be Lo raised kly 1 and Ii nil thus thull olio ojie of tho the greatest dangers to peace was to bo ho I i lint Hut the has not been raised I cl There U Is i now a n hitch In tho the pro prop The rIo allied demand c they h bo be as nR preferred cred creditors Hers and that othor other h J claims tho the country be made mado a n ai i It IL seems that unions this demand 11 Is III acceded to tho tim thor timS S r wilt will be he Indefinitely ly pro liro prof f Ii ii tho tim continued I answer to tills this new representation i will be bo awaited with consider I Interest Int interestS rest S The Tho demand Is 18 of course coune unjust tiniest anti and antiI I have hlo been bo n formulated for the very 0 purpose ot of delaying a n final Una settlement settlementS S The claims of I Franco are arc certainly as asI I just ns nil of ot tho the pow powers C ers lr r anti and It would be lie singular for tor YeM Vene rutin to refuse to treat France right because 6 tho the French government dh illI not rent gunboats to tu the I ast Franco l hns lius acted the ho part ot ota o ori ri a Q true friend to Venezuela by not Join Ci ins Int tho tim coalition against her anti on ont onNi Ni M that t at account she aho should certainly not nott t bo lie ret aside when the linn final I settlement J Cf GC claims occurs This Is l perfectly I Hut Venezuela will have 1 to give g e lit In on th point i int too In order tn to icuro the withdrawal of tho the block 1 fleets and anti the restoration re Of her h r Ui commerce i Tho Ilio United States Is Ie not nt present a 1 at t party to the negotiations that nrc be being beng r ing ng carried on but Lut such Buch Influence OB Eta our lur government con can properly p iiI i in the tilt council ot Of nations on this matter 1 should now be crY emphatically tj in favor of a speedy settlement It Is IB 1 not to o be In denied tl that some somo of ot tho the blockading have INn beyond jI their rights havo destroyed gun gunboats 1 boats hoats and merchant chips sluts and nn attempt attempted t tell k ed ell to tl enter nn an Inland sea BOO where they th had 1111 no HE business hu they the have bombarded I forts torts apparently without provocation t ond C flu In violation ot of the th customs ot of war var varr r killed hilled peaceful villagers How flow 1 much further may thoy they go It If the tho block blockade aie nc Is not What other unexpected situations may not develop The file States obtained great In 10 s af r tho war with Spain but hut butI I this iii Is will tI II not IH hi maintained nei tho the I country gain n a diplomatic victory for tor forthe t the Monroe the real nAI issue In Inthe 7 the tho Venezuela war sar sarS saris i S It 11 Is reported re from Havana flint flintS S German have made e extensive S In III West Indian Is and andS S IHn L fl taken IU fn photographs of certain for tor It Is Ie that this ill j realty do does s 1 not moan mean anything since I J the tIie soundings were ware taken merely to verify facts already known knowlI to 10 nil all gov gor gO gorI I U Ir t It H were er derod to test I the tM exCel of ot such h Itu s It would not lx Fe 1 tJ n it bad Idea heu to tot t j wend some som American officers to make along the lerman coasts mill aril to photograph Omo some forts would at once elicit the Iha German I interpretation of ot the exact meaning of ot tuch studies tudIe |
