St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-12
JOHN BULLS GREED,
1t Is to Be Checked in the Orinoco
Country.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-There are
good reasons for believing that the
sealed instructions which were today
delivered to Admiral Walker on board
the Chicago entrusted him with mis-
sion more important, perhaps. than any
that has been confded to any Ameri-
can 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 be-
tween Secretary of the Navy,
Tracy and Mr.. Adee, at which
Mr.. Walkers instructions were finally
agreed upon, the carefully worded Off
clal statement given out through the
United Press that Admiral Walker
twas directed to pursue a vigorous
course in dealing with the situation,
especially In connection with foreign
aggression" all take on new signifi-
canoe when the fact is stated that Ad-
miral Walkers mission to La Guayra
with his squadron will be to proffer the
friendly Intervention of the United
States to the Venezuelan authorities,
whoever they may be by the time he ar
rives there, for the purpose of prevent
ing final absorption of Venezuelan ter
ritory by Great Britain; and, further, to
secure the restoration of the status quo
as to boundaries as it existed prior to
1877. and to obtain consent of the
submission to arbitration of the
important question of title to the
territory in dispute between the two
governments. The keynote of the whole
expedition is found in the following ex-
tract from a dispatch addressed to Mr..
Blaine before his resignation of the
state department portfolio, by Mr.. Pc
raza, the Venezuelan minister to Wash
ington:
"The Honorable Mr.. Blaine is really
aware that the agents of the govern
ment of Great Britain have taken pos
session of territory at the port of Barma,
at the mouth of the Orinoco, which up
to that time had been possessed by Vene-
Zuela, whose title to it was indisputable.
1t is only necessary to cast a glance at
the map of South America in order to
sive step of Great Britain. When an
European maritime power has once OBJ
tanned a fOothOld at Barma, it solely
controls the OrinOcO river and its nu-
merous affiuents.
cit may penetrate as far as the Rio de
la Plata. Venezuela is, therefore, not
the only American republic that is at
the mercy of the naval power, but also
Columbia, Bolivia, Brazil, the Argentine
Republic and Uruguay are likewise at
its mercy. This is not danger which
threatens Venezuela alone. 1t threat
ems all America, and is. therefore, most
important that the possession of the
Panama canal shall not go to European
power, since 1t would render nugatory
the efforts of the United States govern
ment to enable the nations of America
to draw close their family bonds; to
unity the 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 naval power as is Great
Britain. Her vessels would enter the
mouth of the river and carry to the
great countries of South America her
products, her ideas and her exclusive
interests"
Mr.. Peraza, in behalf of the Venezue-
Ian government, earnestly and almost
pathetically begged the United States
government to intervene to prevent the
republic from final disruption and to Sc
cure the submission to arbitration of the
question in dispute with Great Britain.
The Entertainments which thus culmi-
mated have been long pursued.