The President. Hay, Secretary of State. Bowen, Minister to Venezuela.

PRESIDENT:

John Hay, where are you on the great, gray sea?

I beg you will at once return to me.

This wireless business is the devil’s own,

And Castro’s playing him with me alone!

Venezuela sneering at my threat;

Santo Domingo more and more in debt;

Their foreign creditors dispatching fleets

With duns and guns and sons of guns—it beats