Show forman pros press comment london dec dee 18 in spite of 0 the prominence that all nevis newspapers papers give Pren L resident ident cleveland message to congress on the venezuela boundary question I 1 the general public refuel to get et excited or even interested those who read the correspondence resent president eident altitude attitude but the almost invariable answer received to inquiries for an expression of opinion is 11 what a t is it all ill about any way the message however wag was being used on the stock exchange to hammer american securities consola also declined but there was not excitement one new remarked yankee jobbers are rhe only persons pere otie injured by the message menage and they have just ground for or complaint the editorial comments of the ne new w york world and kew new york evening post on the situation are reprinted here with approval as indicating american opinion the radical evening newspapers take a most serious view of the situation editorially the star remark remarks it is difficult to exaggerate a the tile gravity of the situation the united states may be assured that englishmen of party v ill abide firmly by lord salis sails burys burvis claims and will not submit to the bounce bo unee public opinion to aft says a the tile west WN minster gazette wilf unanimously support lord salisbury but its a pity that be he enlarged the die dispute 1 ute by attacking the monroe doctrine london dec dee IS 18 all the morning papers devote more or legs less of their editorial d arrs tora apace to a d discussion of president message on the venezuelan question and to the merits of that question itself the daily dally telegraph li liberal beral publishes an editorial contend contending ing that america hae has no concern in th the e venezuelan an dispute the editorial goes on to sav in truth this invention of the monroe doctrine seems on this eide bide of the water tobe to be irrelevant because there is no question of territorial or i the he imposition of an Euro european peat I 1 system it is abat absurd ird because a statement ot of a an n american policy can cart hardly claim to attain the range of a principle of inter national law by what right does the tho washington government demand the arbitration ol 01 this matter 1 vi when ben the very theory which guides their interference has absolutely nothing to do with the point points in dip dif dispute ute abhat nation hae has ever agree agreed to the monroe doctrine how flow often has the Was washington hini government itself ventured to act advance it we say nothing to the process of twisting lating llie the lions tail generally resor resorted ted to at times of electoral excitement yet if it be true that all this zealous support of venezuela originated in parti an intrigues there ia is till still less 1 reason why we should submit to wl what bat from the british standpoint is a A holly inadmissible claim 1 OF the daily graphic save in an editorial 1 tile epitaph of 01 the monroe doctrine has been written on the venezuelan correspondence mr sir cleveland message a ie to a document which sett self re spiting americana americans will not read with ei her pride or pleasure it on only y bervee at to illustrate another ot of the Irl inherent herent absurdities ties odthe 0 the modern interpretation of 0 the monroe monroa doctrine president cleveland doce does not instruct mr SIr bayard to demand hie his passports pae nor does be he intend on invasion of canada or an ex tion to demerac De demer meram ira he ia Is struck by the awkward fact that he must first ascertain m what fiat there ie is to fight about abou t does president cleveland seriously think we can adroit admit th the e proposition that the frontier of european colo colonies nies in the america are to be held at the good pleasure ot of a committee of 0 washington gentlemen gent lenienT what would the united stale States have baidin eaid in 1843 t we as an american power had advanced the claim based on oa thie this principle to protect mexico from a wanton wantonly lae a eg 1 p deive nar ar by which pret president ident cleve y unda lande predecessor settled the texan bound boundary arv dispute Vy ENGLAND WILL NOT the time times I 1 says it ii 11 impossible sible to 1 I 0 ft I 1 0 i disguise the difficulties that have arisen between great B britain and the united states P president r ea t CleT lAnds mess aize and ite its reception by both sides of the tho congress beems to give additional interest the details of the boundary dispute are in comparison with the tile tar far reaching claims advanced in mr distell ditch and emphasized in president cleveland lev elands message roe convinced ae as we are that a rupture between the two great english ep pah ak ins in communities con would be a calami calamity v not ot only to thein themselves relves but to tile civilized world we are nevertheless driven to the conc lunon ludon that the concessions cee thi this country Is so imperiously imperioUS 17 summoned to make are euch such as a ri no O 0 sel self respecting nation least of all one ruai ruling an empire that has its roots in e every v e r y quarter of the globe could possibly submit 11 u b t to the united stated at a t e i t 1 ie u nile ives would never for a moment dreamon dream of yielding I 1 e to this kind of pf die tation we N e are of the game some blood and sha shall 11 not be less careful of ot our nal nai dional honor we can hardly believe the court e threatened by president cleveland w will it be seriously adopted by the amerl americua CA da a government but it if so it will be incumbent upon us without entering g upon any measures to protect oar our imperial interests and to stand un for or our righta rights under international law astounding PRO rOSAL the times then procedda pro ceda to arguo that the mouroe never beert been recognized as an international law and then continues but ins recognition of this law does not cover the preposterous deductions which advance and which mr cleveland makes the basis of 0 the tile most astounding proposal that perhaps ever been advanced by any government in times of peace ainee the days of napoleon awe we desire to speak with all proper reserve but we can confidently predict that great britain will not admit the pretension pretensions put forward by president cleveland no appointed by a power which ie is not a party to the dispute will be recognized by un us ae as having a title ot of a y fort sort to pronounce up on a boundary question it will receive no assistance sais Lance from european authorities ita its decision will be null and void from the outset even if its origin did not ta taint ant it with partiality we wo shall be very much astonished if there ie is any disagreement among the or gani of pub lie opinion in this country as to the manner in aich the claim should be confronted the times contends further that england is bound to resist the extended claim of Monro elsm and says A power which lias has command of the sea doe does not regard miles of intervening ocean as severing it from rom its subjects AN the tile standard conservative in an editorial gays mays this extraordinary document will receive from english publicist publicists more dispassionate treatment than the decidedly provocative nature of its contenta contents renders altogether easy it wae was prepared by the responsible head bead of a elate state and wll will probably receive the formal assent of Con gresT englishmen must therefore take tale it beriou seriously sl y and r refrain retrain e from speculations th that a t would uld otherwise t le attractive as to the utility in view of the presidential election of twisting the tile lions tail the position president cleveland as guines is I 1 no american citizen wo would yd for a moment dream of admitting its soundness in any analogous case in which the honor and in forests of america were co ce benel ned nel there can be but one answer we decline to humiliate ourselves and we refuse to adopt the decision of washington in mailers matters altogether outside its jurisdiction the reina remainder inder of the standards Stan darde article ia is an echo of lord alia Salis burye burys argument and it concludes by saying t great britain will reject the demand aa as indignantly as 09 n gress would it if america were called to submit ber her claim to alaska to impartial umpires SERIOUS the dilly daily nes the liberal organ will sav ay it ie Is a rell remarkable document though its consequences are not likely to be serious ee rious no ither ithe r secretary olney nor president cleveland seems t to 0 realize that the monroe doe doctrine trine cannot be quoted aa as author stive in negotiations vl with ith a foreign power a the delani kioa lioa a can cans themselves it bi da ds nobody else president Pret ident cleveland proves too much it follos ol lotte from rom hie his message that neither british guiana nor canada hai item any right to an independent existence od american soil england ia is threatened with war unless ehe she permits president cleveland to adjust the boundary ol 01 venezuela happily there I 1 Is still some sense of h humor ii mor in the american p opie ople regarded as a parly party movement the message ii is not unskillful it puts the republicans in a hole if they consent to the th commission they enable mr sir cleveland to pose as an in accomplished twister of the lions tail if they refuse the commission they enable the democrate to denounce tham as the servile friends of the Brili elier but the great body of americans will not be led by any euch such motives or considerations side rations lord firm and slid moderate statement of the case v ill appeal to the justice and common sense of the Ameri american caa people le BLANK the chronicle Chro nicio liberal the menage message will be read here willi with blank astonishment can these be serious words addressed to ua us by the descendants of the little hip ship load of english to folk k who sailed in the mayflower 1 we will not take thine things loo seriously but will suppose that president cleveland ia is i engaged in the familiar la world of tall tail twisting twi atine 1 there ie is bat but one answer it 11 the enlarged application oi ol the monroe doctrine ie is to bo be enforced america must become responsible for the foreign yol icy of all the petty and impetuous little states on the two continents of america but what it tile commis commission vion should find that we are well within our rights per haps however the presidential election will he be over then and ud there will be no need of 0 patriotic messa bmw gelt anyway I 1 the message cannot obscure or defeat the blood tice ties of 0 affection between the two countries the poet post Conserva conservative conservatives mays dip dispatch patch of this kind ie is certainly intended not for the english Eng lieh foreign office but for the american electors ectore el the commission proposed to have live no more ore binding effect on thit this country than ia I 1 I 1 I 1 would the supreme court at washington Wa shim |