People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-16
A SECRET MISSION.
Adm. Walker Sails For Venezuela
Under Sealed Orders.
Great Britain May be Called to Account
For Several of Her Arbitrary Seizures
-Chinamen Take Action Against
Having Their Pictures Taken.
Gone to Venezuela.

Gone to Venezuela.
WASHINGTON, Sept 12.-There is good
reason to believe that the sealed instruc-
tons received by Adm. Walker on
board the Chicago intrusted him with
mission more important, perhaps, than
any that has been confined to an Amer
lean officer in recent years. The pro-
tracted conference which President
Harrison held with Acting Secretary of
State Adee on his recent visit to Wash
ington; the long consultation between
Secretary of the Navy Tracy and Mr..
Adee before Adm. Walkers instructions
were finally agreed upon; the carefully
worded official statement given out
through the press that Adm. Walker
was directed to pursue a vigorous
course in dealing with the situation,
especially in connection with foreign
aggression" all are of significance on
the supposition believed to be well
founded, that Adm Walkers mission to
La Guyra with his squadron to proffer
the friendly intervention of the
United States to the Venezuelan
authorities, whoever they may
be, when the vessel arrives, in
preventing the final absorption of Ven
ezuela territory by Great Britain.
Also to secure the restoration of the
status quo as to boundaries as itexisted
prior to 1877 and obtain consent for the
submission to arbitration of the ques-
ton of titel to the territory in dispute
between the governments.
The keynote of the whole expedition
is found in the following extract from a
dispatch addressed to Mr.. Blaine, before
his resignation of the state department
portfolio, by Mr.. Peraza, the Vene-
zuelan minister to Washington:
Hon Mr.. Blaine is already aware that agents
Of the government of Great Britain have taken
possession, unduly and forcibly, of the port Of
Barima, at the mouth Of the Orinoco, which up
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whose title is unQuestioned. Iii only necessary
toglance at the map TO see the vast importance Of
this aggressive step Of Great Britain. When
European maritime power has once obtained
foothold at Barima, it absolutely controls the
Orinoco river and its numerous affuents
Through that artery it may penetrate as far as
the Rio De La Plata. Venezuela is, therefore
not the only American republic at the mercy
OF the naval power that gets control Of the
Orinoco river Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
the Argentine republic and Uruguay are like
wise at its mercy. This is not danger which
threatens Venezuela alone; it threatens all
America and is, perhaps, more serious than
the possession Of the Panama canal by
O European power. since it would rem
der nugatory the efforts which through the
Initiative Of the United States government
are now being made by the nations of
America TO draw closer their family bonds to
unity their interests and to have one and the
same destiny in future All these aspirations
might be rendered fruitless by the presence
and control in the Orinoco of so formidable a
naval power as is Great Britain Her vessels
would enter the mouth of the river and would
carry TO the great centers of population her
productions, her ideas and her exclusive inter
eStS.