The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXI —NO . 30, PRICE FIVE CENTS. SHAME OF NATIONS, All Europe Remains Idle While Armenians Are Slaughtered. ENGLAND WILL NOT ACT. Christians in Abdul Hamid's Land Sacrificed to “Higher Politics.” THE END IS NOT IN SIGHT. Turks and Kurds Can Continue With- out Hindrance Their Horrible Massacres. LONDON, Ex., Dec. 29.—The next issue of the Contemporary Review will contain a long article entitled “*Armenia; An Ap- veal,” by Dr. E. J. Dillon, of which the following is a synopsis: “The time has come for every rea-| soning person to accept or repudi- ate his share of the joint respon- sibility of the British Nation for a series of the hugest and foulest crimes that have ever stained the pages of human history. The Armenian people in Ana- tolia are being exterminated by Turks and Kurds by such fiendish methods as may well cause the most sluggish blood to boil with shame and indignation. “The Armen:ans are neither lawless bar- barians nor brigands, nor are the Turks and Kurds the accredited torch-bearers of civilization, but 1f it be expedient that Armenians should be exterminated, why chop them up piecemeal? Why should an honest, hard-workjng man be forced to witness the violation of his daughter, and then have his hand cut off and stuffed into his mouth, while a sermon is being preached to him on the text, ‘If your God is God why does he not succor you? Then the other hana is backed off, his ears torn off and his feet severed with a hatchet. Sureiy roasting alive, flaying, disembowel- ing, impaling and. other horrors have nothing that ¢an excuse them in the eyes of Christians, hoiever deeply absorbed in polities. ““The Armenians constitute the sole civ- ilizing element in Anatolia. Christians they are, and from the middle of the fifth century -scarcely a year has elapsed in which Armenian -men and women have not unbesitatingly laid down toeir lives for their religious belief. The murdered of Sassoun, of Van, of Erzeroum, were Chris- tian martyrs; and any or all of those whose €yesAvere gouged out, whose quiv- ering flesh was torn from their boaies, might have obtained life by embracing Islam and abjuring Christ. But, instead, they died like Christian martyrs. Why is it that our compassion for these, our fel- fow men, has not yet assumed the form of effective help? For reasons of ‘higher politics.” “The condition of Armenian Christians when we first interfered (1878) was deplor- able. Laws existed only on paper. Mo- hammedan crimes were punishable only in theory. Russia was willing to substi- tute law and order for crimeand chaos and to guarantee to Christians the treatment aue to human beings. But we then de- nied her right to do this, as she refuses to admit our claim to undertake it single handed. “We said in effect: ‘Though our politi- cal interests may clash with those of Rus- sia, we will see to it that they are not sub- versive-of the elementary principles of human justice and the immutable law of God.” Yet we never took any efficacious step to fulfill that solemn promise. Our con- suls forwarded exhaustive reports, the press published heartrending details, Armenian ecclesiastics presented piteous appeals. But we ‘pigeon-holed’ the consular re- ports, pooh-hooed the particulars pub- lished by the press and ignored the peti- tions of the priests. We pressed a knob as it were in London and thereby opened hell’s portals in Asia Minor, letting loose legions of fiends in bhuman shape who set about torturing and exterminating the Christians there. And lest it should be urged that our Government was ignorant of the wide-reaching effects of its ill- advised action it is on record that for sev- enteen years it continued to watch the harrowing results of that action without once interfering to stop it. “During all those seventeen years writ- ten law, traditional custom, the funda- mental maxims of human and divine justice were suspended in favor of 2 Moham- medan saturnalia. The Christians, by whose toil and thrift the empire was held together, were despoiled, beggared, beaten and banished or butchered. Thousands of Armenians were thrown into priscn and tortured and terrorized until they de- Jivered up the savings of a lifetime. Whole villages were attacked. In a few years the provinces were decimated—Aloghkerd, for instance, being almost entirely purged of Armenians. > “(Oyer 20,000 woe-stricken wretches fled to Russia or to Per-ia. On the way they were seized over and over again by tke soldiers of the Sultan, who deprived them of their little money and clothes, outraged the women and girls, and then drove them over the frontier to hunger and die. “Those who remained for a time behind were no better off. Turkish tax-.atherers followed these, gleaning what the brigands had left, torturing and flogging their male victims, dis onoring their wives and de- filing their daughters. «Stories of this kind in connection with Turkish misrule 1n Armenia have grown familiar to English ears of late. It should | be remembered that these statements are neither rumors nor exaggerations, con- cerning which we are justified in suspend- ing our judgment. History has set xtgseal upon them. The Turks have admitted these and worse acts of savagery, the Kurds glory in them; trustworthy Euro- peans bave witnessed and described them, and Armenians have groaned over them in blank despair. Officers and nobles in the Sultan’s own cavalry regiments bruit abroad with pride the story of the long series of murders and worse crimes which marked their official careers. “In sccordance with the plan of extermin- ation which has been carried out with such success during these long years of Turkish vigor and English sluggishness, all Armenians who possessed money .or moneys worth were for a time allowed to buy immunity from prison. But, as soon as terror and confiscation took the place of extortion, the dunzeons of Erzeroum, Er- zingham, Marsovan, Hassankaleh and Van were filled till there was scarcely standing room. Educated schoalmasters, missionaries, priests and physicians were immured in these hotbeds of infection, and forced to sleep night after night standing on their feet, leaning against the foul, reeking corner of the wall. Hunger, thirst and slimy water rendered their agony mad- dening. “Yet these were not criminals nor al- leged criminals, but upright Christian men, who were never even accused of an infraction of the law. In these prisons were venerable old ministers of religion, teachers, missionaries, merchants, phy- sians and peasants.: Those among them who refused to denounce their friends or | consent to some atrocious crime were sub- | ject to tortures indjscribable, often oc- cupying days, while their tormentors laughed and howled in glee. Nights were passed in such hellish orgies and daysin inventing new tortures or refining upon the old. Some of them ‘cannot be de- scribed nor even hinted at. “In the homes of these wretched people the fiendish fanatics were equally active and successful. Dishonor with nameless accompaniments menaced almost every girl and woman in the country. “Children wera often married at the age of 11—even 10—in the vain hope of lessen- ing this danger. But the protection of a husband proved unavailing. It merely meant one murder more and one ‘Chris- tian dog’ less, and what astonishes one throughout this long, sickening story of shame and crime is the religious faith of the sufferers. “Such, in broad outline, has been the normal condition of Armenia ever since the treaty of Berlin, owing at first to the disastrous action and subsequently to the equally disastrous inaction of the British Government. The above sketch contains | but a few isolated instances of the daily commonplaces of the life of Armenian Christians, The Turks, encouraged by the seventeen years’ connivance of the only power which possessed any formal right to intervene in favor of the Ar- menians, organized a wholesale massacre | of the Christians of Sassoun. The prepara- | tions were elaborate and open. The project was known to and canvassed by all. A long report was addressed by the Abbot of Moush to the British representative at Erzeroum informing him of this inhu- man plan. *‘But international comity forbade us to meddle with the ‘domestic affairs oi a friendly power,” and the massacre took place as advertised. The rivulets were choked up with corpses; the streams ran red with human blood, the forest glades and rocky caves were peopled with the dead and the dying; among the ruins of once prosperous villages lay roasted in- fants by their mangled mothers’ corpses; pits were dug at night by the wretches destined to fill them, many of whom, beneath a mountain of clammy corpses, and vainly wrestled with death and the dead, who shut them out from light and life forever. “It was then that our present Embassa- dor at Constantinople took action and dis- played those remarkable gifts of energy and industry to which the Prime Minister lately alluded with pride. The British Embassador did his best, and at last carried the appointment of a commission of investigation. Yet, while the commis- sion of inquiry was stiil sitting at Moush, the deeds of atrocious cruelty which it was assembled to investigate were outdone under the eyes of the delegates. Threats were openly uttered that on their with- drawal massacres would be organized all over the country—massacres, it was said, in comparison with which the Sassoun | butchery would compare but as dustin | the balance, | “In due time they began. Over 60,800 | Armenians have been butchered and the | massacres are not auite ended yet. In | Trebizond, Erzinghan, Hassankaleh and numberless other places the Christians were crushed like grapes during the vin- tage. The French mob during the terror were men—hay, angels of mercy—com- pared with these Turks, “These are but isolated scenes. The worst cannot be described. And if it Lcould be, no description, however vivid, would convey a true notion of the dread | At most of these manifestations tial passion and delirium, the Sul- tan’s troops in uniform stood by as de- lighted spectators when they did not actually take an active part as zealous exe- cutioners. “And these are the Turks whom unani- mous Europe has judged worthy of con- tinuing to govern and guide the Christians of Asia Minor. The Bultan undertakes, if a reasonable time be given him, to re- establish the normal state of things in Turkish Armenia; and we know that that normal condition implies the denial to Christians of the fundamental rights of human beings, the abolition of womanly purity, the disintegration of the family, the violation of tender children—in a word, a system of ‘government’ for which the history of the world affords no parallel. “Yet unanimous Europe. we are told, entertains no doubt that the true interests | of christendom demand that Turkish rule should be maiuntained. It cannot be too clearly stated that what is asked for is not the establishment of an Armenian king- dom or principality, not a ‘buffer state,’ not even Christian a itonomy in any sense that might render it offensive or danger- ous to any of the powers of Europe; but anly that by some eflicacious means ti.e buman beings who profess the Christian religion in Anatolia, and who professed and practiced it there for centuries before the Turks or Kurds were heard of, shall be enabled to live and die as human beines, and that the unparalleled crimes of which for the past seventeen years they have been the silent victims shall speedily and once for all be put a stop to. ““What serious hope is there that the lot of the Armenians will be bettered in the future? ‘“Continental jurisconsults have just given it as their conscientious opinion that any special reforms for the Armeni- ans would necessarily involve a grave violation of the rights of man and of the law of God, and the jurisconsults ought to know. If this be so, the sensitive Sultan will naturally shrink from lawlessnesand godlessness and piously shelve the re- Continued on Second Page. flung in while but lightly wounded, awoke | ¥ ! ’,'/’//) Lty /1/4!,”/,,«:,: 7 i i, 7 N N N NS MR. GLADSTONE IN HIS STUDY AT HAWARDEN. [From the famous portrait by McLure Hamilton, painted recently.] LOXNDON, Exe., Dec. 20.—To-day is the eighty-sixth anniversary of the birth of Mr. Gladstone. throughout the United Kingdom telegraphed congratulations to Hawarden Castle, Mr. Gladstone’ s residence in Chester, from which place the messages were forwarded to Biarritz, France, where Mr. Gladstone has gone for the benefit of his health. Many of the Liberal clubs ENGEANCE OF A MOB. {Death by Fire the Fate of a Wayward Woman in Kentucky. {BURNED IN HER HOME. The Man Who Had Murdered Her Husband Meets a More Merciful Death. CRIME OF ENRAGED CITIZENS. Horrible Method of Revenging the Perfidy of a Faithless Wife. LEBANON, Ky., Dec. 29.—A mob in. flicted horrible vengeance upon a faithless woman and her companion last night, when they burned Mrs. T. J. West to death and killed W. A. Dever, at Mrs. West’s nouse on Cartwrights Creek on the Springfield pike, three miles north of this city. The mob is said to have numbered about seventy-five, and it was about 12 o’clock when they appeared at Mrs. West’s house. Mrs. West, Dever and his little daughter were the only persons in the house, and when the mob called to Dever to come out, Mrs. West and the little girl responded, but Dever remained inside. Just as Mrs. Mrs. West reached the door several shots were fired at her, and she ran back in the house, but the child remained on the out- side. 5 The mob then fired several shots into the house, none of which took effect, and after several attempts to get Dever to come out the mob fired the building. The intense heat finally forced Dever to run out, and, with pistol in hand, he started for a cornfield a few steps from the house whera he took shelter behind a corn- shock and was shot to death. Mrs. West perished in the burning house, and this morning her remains were found in the chimney, where she had taken refuge. Her legs and the upper portion of the body were aimost entirely burned off. The girl gave the alarm this morning, but only meager information can be gained from her. W. A. Dever is the man who shot and killed T. J. West, the husband of the burned woman, at Beaver Green, on Cart- wrights Creek, three weeks ago. Dever had a preliminary hearing and was released on the ground of self-defense. The killing is thought to have bren caused by intimacy on the part of Dever and West's wife. with living with the woman. It is said that Dever had been warned that he would be killed if he did not leave. He is from Knoxville and leaves a widow and several children. Mrs. West also leaves a large family, but none were at the house at the time of the horrible tragedy. It was on December 7 that Dever killed West. The latter and his wife had been living apart for some time, and his wife had instituted divorce proceedings. She had been induced to withdraw the suit, however, and West was on his way to town to see about the matter, when he saw Dever. He snapped a pistol twice at Dever after accusing him of intimacy with Mrs. West, when Dever drew his revolver and, despite West’'s plea for mercy, shot and killed him and ran away, but returned when the Coroner's jury returned a ver- dict of justifiable homicide. Tiis incited the neighbors to fury, and last night's hor- rible work was the result. Struck by a Train. BENKELMAN, Nesg., Dec. 28.—Charles After Dever was released he was charged | | Van Buskirk, aged 25, and Maud Bond, | aged 16, while returning home in a car- riage from a party early this morning they were run down on a Burlington Rail- | road crossing by a train and instantly | killed. EEE e | SIXTEEN VICTIMS BURIED. ! Last Rites Over the Unfortunates Who Were Killed in the Baltimore Theater Panic. BALTIMORE, Mbp., Dec. 29.—Sixteen funerals of persons who lost their lives in the frightful panic last Friday night at the old Front-street Theater occurred to-day. Seven-of the victims were buried yester- day evening and last night. All of those who were killed in the stampede have now been interred. The death list has not been increased beyord the original fizures sent out by The Unit:d Press—twenty-three—and it is | not probable that there will be immediate | additions to the number. Those of the injured who are at the hos- | pitals are improving, and so far as can be learned those who werz.removed to their | homes immediately after the disaster are in a fair way to recover from their in- juries. ————— BUSINESS BLOCK BURNED. Lodge Property Consumed in a Hariford (Kans.) Blaze. EMPORIA, Kaxs., Dec. 29.—The three | largest business buildings in Hartford, | twenty miles south of hiere, were aestroyed by fire at daybreak this morning. The loss is between $30,000 and $10,000. The buildings burned were: P. P. Faxon's opera-house, E. C. Rich & Co., general merchandise, and McGregor & Reed's Hardware store. The Masonicand Odd Fellows lodgeroom was &l:0 burned, inciuding about $1000 wortl: of lodge property. The fire engine failed to work. The opera-iouse might have been saved but for this mishap. MERGED INTD VE UNIDY. | | Leading Bimetallic Societies of the United States Are Amalgamated. The New Association Will Support the Party Indorsing Free Coinage. CHICAGO, IrL., Dec. 20.—At a meeting in this city to-day between representatives of the American Bimetallic League, the National Bimetallic Union and the Na- tional Silver Committee, these organiza- tions were consolidated, and will be called the American Bimetallic Union. The new organization stands for bimetallism, and will support the party declaring in its favor. .In the event of non-support by either of the great parties, the union will put forth its own ticket in the next cam- paign. At a meeting held by the orzanizations just consoliaated, last September, it was recommended that the action of to-day be taken, and when this was reported to the | separate orders representatives were ap- pointed ior a final conference. tional Bimetallic Union sent Thomas G. Merrill of Helena, Mont., and E. B. Light of Chicago; the American Bimetallic League; General A.J. Warner of Ohio, ana Judge Henry G. Milier was put forth by the National Silver Committee. These gentlemen met to-day and after arranging the. preliminaries formally declared the organizations’ merged into one. Ratifica- tion by the executive committees of the different organizations is all that is lack- ing to make the combination effective. gnt two officers were decided upon to- day—A. J. Warner for president, and E. B. Light,-secretary. The general head- quarters will be at 134 Monroe street, and branch offices will be maintained in Wash- ington and_San Francisco, and probably in others cities West and Soutg. The united: organization will press the cam- paign of education along its lines with the utmost vigor in all parts of the country, and Secretary Light says that if neither of the big parties take up their cause they will have a party of their own. The Na- |« | the house with smoke. ANGELS CAMP CRIME, Fiendish Attempt to Blow Up Foreman Miller's Residence. GIANT FOWDER THROWN An Intervening Feuce Prevents the Explosive From Striking the House. | FIVE LIVES SAVED BY CHANCE. Discharged Employes of the Utica Mine Believed to Have Sought Revenge. ANGELS CAMP, Carn., Dec. 29. —An enemy or enemies of William Miller, an- derground foreman of the Utica mine, made a fiendish attempt last night to blow up his house with giant pow- der, and with it Miller, his wife and daughters and a guest. That the attempt was unsuccessful was due to the poor aim of the man who threw the explosive at the window of Miiler’s bedroom. Miller’s house is located back of the Utica company’s office, and faces on Bush street. Three or fout sticks of giant pow- dow were wrapped in an old mining shirt, and the assassins attempted to throw the bundle upon the veranda in front of the window of the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Miller. About fifteen feet from the porch there is a picket fence, and the shirt encircling the explosives struck this and fell just inside of the- yard, on a line with Miller’s room. & The explosion that followed shattered most ot the windows of the house, broke the transom over the hall door and filled Miller seized a gun and rushed out, but there was no one in sight. Afterlighting the fuze the bomb- thrower had plenty of time to escape be- fore the explosion occurred. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Miller two of their daughters and a lodger were in the house at the time. The nervous shock has prostrated Mrs. Miller. Had the riant powder reached the spot it was intended {o reach the house would have been wrecked, and it would have been miraculous had its occu- pants escaped alive. Miller is one of the most esteemed citizens of the community, and but one motive—revenge—could have inspired the deed. In his capacity as un- aerground foreman of the great mine the employment and discharge of men de- volves upon him. In the past lawless acts here have demonstrated that there is a certain foreign element in the community that would stop at nothing to avengea grievance, and Miller seems to have been the intended victim of one or more of these malcontents. The company’s property is well pro- tected at night by armed guards, and a warm reception will await any one who may hereafter approach Miller’s house after dark with felonious intent. Should the perpetrators of this morning’s crime be apprehended Angels Camp citizens, irrespective of nationality, would relieve the county of any expense in the matter. ZABOK UNIONS AT PEACE. Adjustment of the Differences Between Chicago Associations. CHICAGO, Irn., Dec. 29.—Peace is re- stored among the labor associations of this city. The terms of settlement of existing difficulties suggested by the American Federation of Labor at its recent meeting held in New York were accepted to-night by the Chicago Trades and Labor Assem- bly, and, having been previously accepted | At by the Chicago LaborCongress, the trouble is all ended. The result will be the amal- gamation of the Labor Congress and the Trades and Labor Assembly, which was the plan of adjustment proposed. T Qe JUSTICE WAS PROMPT. Murderer Hoover Sentenced to Death Sixteen Days After His Crime Was Committed. OMAHA, NEBE., Dec. 29.—The jury in the murder case of Claud H. Hoover re- tired yesterday at 11 A.M., and came into the courtroom this morning at 10:15 with a verdict of murder in the first degree and fixed the penslty at death. This was the most rapid work ever seen in this city or State, the murder occurring but sixteen days ago. On December 13 Hoover quarreled with Sam DuBois, his brother-in-law and a Councilman-elect, and was discharged by the latter from his employ. Hoover then got arunk, and coming upon DuBois in a shoeshop shot him without warning, DuBois dying the next day. All the evidence was one-sided, and the verdict occasioned very little sur- prise. BN FOUR ENGINES ATTACHED. Trouble Between Wisconsin Central and Baltimore and Ohio. CHICAGO, Irn., Dec. 20.—A deputy sheriff hampered passenger traffic on the Baltimore and Ouio Railway for a short time yesterday by attaching four of that company’s big engines in the roundhouse near Taylor street and the river. The trouble was caused by the Wisconsin Cen- tral Railroad Company, which yesterday afternoon brought an assumpsit suit in the Circuit Court for $25,000. The claim includes a bill for $14,300 for labor and ser- vices and the rest is for track rent in the Grand Central station during the months of May and June last. It was nearly 7 o’clock before Superin- tendent Van Smith released the engines on a $40,000 bond signed by Isaac G. Lom- bard, president cf the National Bank of America, and in the meantime the Walker- ton accommodation had been taken out by a freight engine. Superintendent Smith says no demand for the sum sued for had been made, and he cannot account for the ‘Wisconsin Central’s action. i g THREATEN TO STRIKE. Window-Glass Makers Are Considering a Tie-Up. MILLVILLE, N. J., Dec. 20.—There are mutterings of an approaching struggle be- tween the window-glass manufacturers and workers throughout the country, which, if it occurs, will affect between 8000 and 9000 skilled giass-workers. The National Manufacturers’ Assaci- ation, -at a recent meeting in Chicago, passed a resolution to shut down all win- dow-glass factories on January 1 for a pe- riod of four weeks, presumably to restrict production and aavance prices. This action, throwing out thousands of workmen in the dead of winter, is resented by the trade, and it is rumored that if the shut-down takes place the men will refuse to resume work again unless the full scale, which was reduced in 1894, is restored. s ) BLOCKADE IN THE CASCADES. Heary Snowfall Interrupts the Great Northern’s Schedule. ST. PAUL, Mix~., Dec. 29.—Dispatches from the West indicate that & biz snow- storm has seriously interfered with traffic. The storm began Friday and so com- pletely blockaded the switchback on the Great Northern on the west slope of the Cascade range that the schedule was sadly interrupted. The storm in Washington appears to have been especially severe, and for a dis- tance of nearly ten miles, between Madi- son and Wellington, the slide of snow and earth made it impossible for the overland trains to get through. — -— HIS MEMORY FLED. Dr. Kellogg’s Sermon Brought to a Sud- den Close. YOUNGSTOWN, Oxro, Dec. 29.—While delivering a sermon in Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church to-day the pastor, Rev. Dr. H. W. Kellogz, was stricken with loss of memory, and the services were sud- denly closed. Dr. Kellogg took a trip through Europe this year for his health. Last night he slept bus little, suffering with nervous prostration, and this culmi- nated in his breaking down. The trustees will probably engage an assistant for Dr. Kellogg in his church work. ARMING FOR A STRUGGLE. Miners in the Transvaal Prepar- ing to Attack the Boer Government. President Kruger Declares His Readi- ness to Meet the Threatened Storm. PRETORIA, SouTH AFRICA, Dec.29.—The trouble between the foreign residents of the Transvaal and the Boer Government, erowing from the refusal of the latter to grant to foreigners civil rights equal to those enjoyed by the Boers, is rapidly be- coming more serious. It is rumored here that the English miners are arming to en- force their demands. In an interview President Kruger said that the Government was alive' to 1he gravity of the situation and the threaten- ing attitude of the foreigners in Johannes- burg. He added: “If the threatening storm must come, let it come.” Numbers of Jadies and children are leav- ing the Rand. Business is seridusly affected. Munfl notorious characters are gathered in Johannesburg. The Ameri- cans :nd Germans are siding with the gov- men! Lidivgs itvg Death of a Cleveiand Banker. CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 29.—Charles H. Bulkley, aged 52 years, one of Cleveland’s foremost capitalists and real estate dealers, died this afternoon of a complication of diseases, His wealth is estimated at be- tween $2,000,000 and $3000,000. He wasa director in the National Bank of Com- merce, and was well known to bankers throughout the country. RS A, California Wheat at Sydney. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 20.—A Mel- bourne dispaten says 1000 tons of Califor- nia wheat has arrived at Sydney. The stock of old Victorian wheat, together with the orders already placed in Califor- nia, will cover the net deficiency for ustralia. IENGLAND'S KEW ROLE Stands Opposed to a Policy She Had Championed. Years Ago. CHANGE IN ATTITUDE Once a Staunch Supporter of the Doctrine Enunciated by Moaroe. SIDED WITH THIS GOVERNMENT\ Her Interests in South America Had Been Threatened by the Holy Alliance. MEMPHIS, Texx., Dec. 29.—Congresse man Money of Mississippi, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the last Congress and the committeeman who reported -the resolutien authorizing the President to request Great Britain to arbi- trate the Venezuelan boundary dispute, has prepared an elaborate history of the Monroe doctrine and the Venezuelan quese tion, as he became intimately familiar with it on the Foreign Relations Comse mittee. ““The Monroe doctrine has two widely different features, one of which only is ine volved in the Venezuelan dispute,” said Mr. Money. “In the first place; no Presis dent has authority to lay down a funda- mental or permanent policy of govern- ment. The constitution has placed that power in Congress, and Congress, at the time of Mr. Monroe's seventh annual mes- sage and on' other occasions, declined ta affirm the Monroe doctrine, and two years later disavowed it entirely.” Then follows the history of the doetrine, which he daemonstrates to have been called out by the historical Holy Alliance formed by the Kinegs of France, Austria, Russia and Prussia, which t: ey proceeded to make effective, Great Britain vamnly protesting. * Eventually the alliance pro- posed to cross the Atlantic and subjugate everything to Kings in the Spanish provinces, although the United States had recognized their independence. Fearing for its South American trade, Great Britain intimated a readiness to stand by the United States‘in resisting the alliance, and in this way came the protest, not against a monarchical form of gove ernment in America, but against the al- lied powers extending their political sys- tem to any portion of either continent of America. Mr. Money says this boundary dispute is 250 years old ; that there never was a de- limitation of the frontier, and thst his committee “thought the dispute of such gravity that as. the impartial friend of both we conld venture to suggest a peace- ful solution.” Al S 4 BLUFFFER BLUFFED. Michael Davitt Sums Up the Venezuelan Situation. CHICAGO, Irn, Dec. 29.-— Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament fram South Mayo and East Kerry, was among the guesis registered at the Palmer House yesterday. He has been touring Australia, arnd came to Chicaga from San Francisco. 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