St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-22
BRITAIN sQuIRWS.
REALIZING THAT UNCLE SAM IS
BECOMING MASTER IN GEN.
TRIAL AMERICA.
A SIGNIFICANT ARTICLE.
THE ST. JAMES GAZETTE CALLS
ATTENTION To WANING
INFLUENCE.
THE BVLWER-CAAYTON TREATY
If It II to BE Abeagated England
Might Prefer to Do 1t
Herself.
THE BgLWER-CMAYTON TREATY

LONDON, Aug M.-The st. James
Gazeete this afternoon publishes a
scare article asking how Great
Bsita4A stands with the United
States government in the matter of
the Nicaraguan' canal and says that
it will be well if Rt. Hon. George N.
'C&gA"n, under secretary of state for
foreign affairs, is asked to give some
,'explamation on the subject in the
house of commons. Continuing, the
Gazette remarks:
LAS far as can be seen we are
heading straight for crisis, and
there will be either a diplomatic
deadlock between the two countries,
or the English wnilI surrender impor-
TENT treaty rights. The deadlock
rcelh be avoided by discreet handling
of the facts by the foreign office, and
q surrender need never occur. Should
a situation be brought about in
which the United States finds it
can ignore the United States of Cen
tfal America, then goodbye to any
hope Of retaining, much less ex-
republics of the Spanish main, a
market in which we already suffer
from uncommonly sharp competition
from the Americans and Germans"
The ST. James Gazette proceeds
to rehearse the history of the Mic
araguan canal, claiming that the
accedence of the United States to the
Of
pany to guarantee further capital
for it would be an infraction of the
BulWer-Clayton treaty. The Gazette
quotes President Cleveland's refer
ence to the canal in his message of
1894, and says:
AMERICAN AUTHORITY.
'"These carefully weighed words were
designed to create a minimum of dis
trust in the foreign Office and when
read in relation to the consistent moral
support given by the United States to
the coQpany's enterprise, and the in
Sistent demand of the United States
people that their government guaran-
tee the entire capital, come what may,
it is plain that the ultimate object is,
not so much the cutting of the canal,
as the firm and final establishment of
United States authority in Central
America. With the canal completed,
wholly by the United States, the in
dependence of the republics would be
merely nominal. It is true that Eng
hsh financial assistance was sought
by the American syndicate, lest the
United States government falter in
giving the guarantee, but these nego-
tfations have collapsed because it is
not proposed to allow the English cap
5ftalists their due share of control,
{ which is sufficient indication of the
exclusive power the Americans mean
to exercise on the isthmus The car
dfnal point of the whole matter is, does
the government mean to enforce the
Bulwer-Clayton treaty? If so, will she
join the United States guarantee of
capital? If not what steps have been
taken to secure the neutrality of the
canal and the equality of rights and
opportunities of British subjects? 1t
is conceivable that events may so
shape themselves in the near future
that the United States will be prac-
teal masters of Central America, but
before we consent, any abrogation of
the Bulwer-Clayton treaty must be
made by ourselves"