The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-09-17
ADMIRAL WALKERS ORDERS
The British Lion Must Keep His
Paws Off South America.
Venezuela's Appeal to the United state.--.
Danger of Allowing England to Pur-
sue uor Present Policy Unchecked
---May Be Serious.

WASHINGTON, Sept, 14.-There are
good reasons for believing that the
sealed instructions which were deliv.
cred to Admiral Walker on board the
Chicago intrusted him with q mission
more important perhaps, than any
that has been confided to an American
naval officer in recent years. The pro-
trhcted conference which President
Harrison held with Acting Secretary
OF State Adee on his recent visit to
Washington; the long consultation be.
tween Secretary of the Navy Tracy
and Mr.. Adee before Admiral Walkers 3
orders were agreed on; the care
fully worded official statement
given out that tho admiral was
directed to pursue a vigor-
Gus course in dealing with the situa-
ton, and especially in connection with
foreign aggression all take on new
significance when the fact is stated
that Admiral Walkers mission to La
Guayra with his squadron will be to
proifer the friendly intervention Of
the Venezuelan authorities, whocver
they may be by the time he arrives
there, for the purpose OF preventing
the final absorption of Venezuelan ter
rltory by Great Britain; and. further,
TO secure the restoration of the statua
quo as to boundaries rs it existed prior
to ls77, and 20 obtain consent for the
submission to arbitration of the ques.
tion of title to the territory in dispute
between the two governments
The keynote of. the whole expedi-
tion 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 Venezuelan minister to
Washington;
"rhe Hon Mr., Blaine is already
aware that agents of the government
of Great Britain have taken possession
nnduly and forcibly of the port OF
Barima, at the mouth of the Orinoco,
which, up to that timo, had been
possessed by Venezuela, whose title
to it was and is indisputable."
1t Is only necessary to glance at the
map of South America in order to see
the vast importance of this aggressive
step of Great Britain. When a
European maritime power has
once obtained foothold ut Barima it
controls tho Orinoco river and its affiu.
ences, through the territory it may
penetrate rs fnr as the Rio de la Plata.
Venezuela is, therefore, not the only
American republic that is at the mercy
of the naval power that gcts control
of the Orinoco river; Columbia, Peru,
Bolivia, Brazil, the Argentine Repub-
lie, and Uruguay are likewise in its
power This is not danger which
threatens Venezuela alone; it threat.
ems all America, and it is perhaps,
more serious than the possession of
the Panama canal by a European
power, since it would render nu-
gatory the efforts which, through
the initiative of the United States
government are being mado by the
nations of America to draw close their
family bonds; to unity their interests,
and to have one and the same DESTINY
in future All those aspirations might
bo rendered fruitless by tho presence
and control in the Orinoco of so form.
liable naval power as is Great Brit
ain. Her vessels would enter tho
mouth of the river and would carry to
the great centers of population her
productions, her ideas and her exclu-
sive interests.
Mr. Peraza. in behalf of the Venezu-
elan government, earnestly, and al.
most pathetically, begged the United
States government to intervene to pre-.
vent the republic from final disruption,
and to secure the submission to nrbi.
tration of the questions in dispute