The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-24
4 WAR MESSAGE.
ruE PRESIDENT TALKS WAR
AND PATRIOTISM AT A LATE
E'F. DAY,

r,eeial Message to Congress Concern
Tor the Monroe Doctrine and the Vene-
znelan Dispute With England--It is all
RIuF TO Deplete the Gold Reserve and
Issue More BOnds-More Jlngoism--
England not Alarmed. 5
ARLINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Fresl'
dent sent to Congress to-day the III
noTrent Venezuelan correspondence
accompanied by the following senln-
can't message: a"1.
To the Congress:
Tn nv annual message addressed 70
the Congress on the 3cd INSTANT eau,
n attention to the pending boundary
-nt~oTersv between Great Britain
"a Venezuela and recited the sub
nnoo 0F a representation made by this
"oZornment TO Her Britannia MaJesty's
sso1ornment suggesting reasons why
S,ob diarutes should be submitted to
su6itrafinn for settlement and In
o,irinp whether it would be 80 sub
m1 ne onawer of the British govern
~a1f which was awaited, has since
hon received and together with the
5isnatch to which it is areply Is hereto
Sr1ch reply is embodied in two con
m~nniceti0ns address, by the British
Prime Minister to Sir Julian P6unce
fote the British ambassador at this
canital 1t will be seen thai n OF
these communications is devoted ex
cIusively to observations upon q
Monroe doctrine and cl3im5that IN b
present instance new and strange eX
tensions and development Of this dec
triue are insisted on by the United
States. that the reasons justifying an
sppeal to the doctrine enunciated By
President Monroe are generally map
plicable Ito the state of thingsin which
we live at the present day, and especl
ally inapplicable to a controversy IN
volving the boundary line between
Great Britain and Vene Zuel6.
Without attempting extended argu
ment in reply to these p sitiOns it may
not be amiss to suggest that the doc
trine upon which we stand is strong
and sound because its enforcement is
important to our peace and safety as a
nation and is essential to the integrity
of our free institutions and tranquil
maintenance of our distinctive form
of government. Il was intended to
apply to every siege of our national
life and cannot become obsolete while
our republic endureS. If the balance
of power is justly a cause for Jealous
anxiety among the governments of the
Old World, and q subject for our ALSO
lutte non-lnterference, none the less is
an observance Of the Monroe doctrine
of vital concern to our people and their
government.
Assuming, therefore that we may
properly insist upon this doctrine with
out regard to 1.-THE state of things in
which we live" or any changed condi-
tions here or elsewhere, it is not ap
parent why its APPLICATION may not be
invited in this controversy. If an
European power, by an extension of
lis boundary, takes possession of the
territory of one of our n~eighboring n
publics, against its will and in deroga-
ton of it's rights, it is difficult to say
why, to that extent, such lropean
power does not thereby attempt to ex
tend its system of government to that
portion of this continent which is thus
taken This is the precise action which
President Monroe declared to be dan
ger0us to our peace and safety" and it
can make no difference whether the
European system is extended by an
advance of frontier or otherwise.
1t is ais1 suggested in the British
reply thai we should not seek to apply
the Monroe doctrine to the pending
dispute because it does notinvolve any
principle of international law which
"I5 founded on the general consent of
nations" and that no statesman, how
ever eminent, and no nation, however
UoworFv11 oro oon0 nofonE RI i0corf IN
the code of international law a novel
principle which was never recognized
before and which has not yet been &C
cepted by the government Of any other
country"
Practically, the principle for which
we contend has peculiar. if not eXciu-
sive, relation with the United States.
1t may not have been admitted in so
many words to the code of information
al councils every nation is entitled to
the rights belonging to it, if the en-
torcement Of the Monroe doctrine is
something we may justly claim it has
lJs place In the code of the information
al law as certainly and as securely as
If 1t were specifically mentioned, and
when the United States is a sutton be
fore the high tribunal that admins
tiers international law the question to
De determined is whether or not we
present claims which the Justice OF
tha code OF law can find to be right
ami valid.
Inc Monroe doctrine finds it's recoe.
milton In those principles of interna
tiOnal law which r based unon thn
theory that every nation shall have iLs
rights projected and it's just CLANS en-
forced.
Of course this governments entirely
confident that under the sancti0n ~
this doctrine we have clear rights ar :
uudouhted claims Nor is this ign0r4C
in the British reply TIE Prim3 Min
lister, while noJ admitting that tn,
Monroe doctrine is applicable TO r
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