The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-02
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9YA1B posts, ne tt0uSly marking
stde ina irate Esri tish possession Vens
y III III Ia mt ap preciate the Joke because
66e set up at Point Barinla, oppp-
B sSk lsland, and another at Arnacuro.
i Abef:deen father OF the goyencr
y Ganad promptly ordered the posts
& dAnynd.is Aberdeen WAS so far from urg-
u xtTaord inaly claims that he vol,n-
asdlv proposed q boundary line beginning
4 ut he mouth Of the Morocco, a few miles
rest Of the Esequibo. ss
VI was the first definite claim Of Eng
EsSlsha I'd land beyond the Esequibo, and the
sole foundation to 1t was the indefinite
Fsa allegation that Hollanders had settled
ssithere, which justified Great Britain IN in
ssftituttng authority over regions the linz
'Stts of which, in Justice, could never be
B adjusted or fixed with accuracy. Aber-
q deem dared not claim the coast, SO jestlng-
fly acquired BY a civil engineer, but he
U feeOInp his country and Wfnked the
VI ht1er eye at the public while he swept a
curve around a pretty region OF country
y In the interior. But this is Insignificant
4 eo,nparsd with the coast relinquished,
81 ard right there was a weak point, for II
] Elfle Dutch did settle west Of the Esequibo
4 IL vas necessarily on the coast, for the
Interior was still unexplored. 1t TOOK
late, statesmen to discover holes In Lord
Aber deems modest ckaims.
IS While this project was under advise
ment Tr Fol'tique, the Venezuelan pleni-
p>kentiary to London, died. Nothing fur-
thes was done until 1850, when Great
Britain agreed mot to encroach upon ter
rtcry in dispute" Whatever that meant
vas. not stated. The status quo still ex-
(. lists, and there is still no territory in dis
II ~ - oil
chooses to claim and occupy, and Vene-
dzuela is too smallto dispute it.
ENGLAND says that Venezuela began 1t
i,y the Iianoa concession Of land east OF
the sschomburgh line, but Venezuela In
s sists that this territory never was IN dis
pute-7that the status quo OF 1850 con-
ceG1ed the little strip between the Morocco
asd the Esequiho. From 1850 to 1886 there
were a good many pigeon holes filled In
the foreign. Office in Downing street rela-
tive to Venezuela, and the questions TILED
so many square feet OF paper that the
rublic considered it was entitled to so
many square miles of land. In 1856 the
Stanesmans Year oBok entered the figures
10000 square miles for Guiana, presum-
ably as a feeler. AS nobody said anything
about it, in 1887 the maps and records
we're changed.
In 1881 Lord Granville, after rejecting
proposals for compromise from Senior
Rojas, yenezuela's agent in England, pre-
scented an altogether new boundary
scheme, as follows: 1.-The starting point
shall be fixed in place on the seaeoast,
distant nine miles due east from the r.ght
bank OF the River Barima, and the line
shall run toward the south, passing over
the mountain or hill called Tarabita, on
the original map Of SchombUrgh, situated
III &, degrees North latitude; thence to the
west on the same parallel OF latitude till
it intersects the boundary line proposed
by Schomburgh, laid down on the said
map: further on it shall follow the course
Of The hcarat;st to ITS confluence with the
Cuyilni. and then the left bank OF the
River Ciyuni UP to its headWaters,
whence it shall turn to the southeast, to
meet the lire proposed by Schonlburgh
10 the Eseluibo and Corantin
In it's interior prolongation this was al
most Identical With the Aberdeen bound
airy, but 1t gained what looks like a nun
tlrad miles of sea coast for British Gull
ans. Lord Granville urged that the new
boundary would prevent all further dis
mute, since it left the great river to the
republic and left it undisturbed in pos
session of the mouth and harbor.
In 1888 the Queen U4ord Granvile)
made oyertures for amicable arrange
meats On territorial limits, commerce anc
finance. General Guznlan Blanco, eX-
pres,. lent, was therefore sent to London
with full power to deal definitely with the
nuastip tsuznan Bianco was quite as
sst,,ta IS Lord Granville. He Gid not
propose TO let England give an ultiInatun.
he wanted that boundary line submitted
In, I,,c.l a6 a
!, s,tccess A treaty was actually drafted
which embraced an article providing for
submitting differences to third or sew
ei,sl powers in amity with both countries
without resorting to war.
Just as Gen. Blanco had won his great
victory after two years, work there was a
general election, and Lord Salisbury
stepped into Office, and the arbitration
clause vas dropped out Of the treaty SO
quick that the Venezuelan did not have
time to commit it to memory. Since then,
fol. ten wears under Salisbury, Gladstone.
Resebery. and now Salisbury again, Eng
land has persiste1t]y declined to afbl-
trate. She has repudiated the bounda-
ries OF Granville, Aberdeen and Scnom--
burgh, has extended her territorial
claims with a reckless disregard of ma
tional rights and contempt fef American
interference Her unbiased claims nave
been backed up by force and ultimatun,s
Surniliating to the fiery Spanish repu5-
tic
II is not to be supposed that the ag-
gressiyeness Of the colony was not en-
1olrased from Downing street. Colonial
governors are crown aproi1tees and
they get tips from the horne Office. There
fore. it looks like bad faith that in 1885,
while Gen. B.anco had SO nearly come TO
a treaty with Granville. that the status
quo Of 1850 was being violated. One Mi
ehael MerurS, magistrate by order of
his exce,leney the Governor Of British
GUIANA proceeded to the region OF the
& 1fsacuro river, the eMtrme coast limit OF
The scfomburgh line. and began to de-
face, the trees Of the virgin forest with
her ,najesty's name signed to sundry no.
Hoes to obey the laws Of the queens col
ary
Tais region had never been claimed by
England in all the realms Of diplomatic
corresponaence II was not even dis
rutea territory The latest agreement
had left ell the littoral bordering on the.
arincco TO Venezuela. Jurisdiction was
no. claimed over the Amacuro, even after
5he dropping of the arbitration clause.
In 1856 Lord Rcsebery, as foreign secre-
terry. recommended the acceptance OF APP
pfoxiraatelv Granville's boundary. Eng
land made no claim to sovereignty over