The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-18

doctrine in itself Is sound. but disclaims
any intention of being understood as eX-
pressing any acceptance Of 1t on the part
of Her Majesty's government. He quotes
Mr.. Olney as saying: THAT distance and
5000 miles of intervening ocean make any
political union between European and an
America state unnatural and inexpedient
will hardly be denied" and adds that the
necessary meaning of these words Is that
the union between Great Britain and Can
ada; between Great Britain and Jamaica
and Trinidad; between Great Britain and
British Honduras or British Guiana, is
inexpedient and unnatural
Declares Eugland's Position.
President Monroe, says his lordship. dis
claims any such inference from his doc
trines, but in this, as in other respects. Mr..
Olney develops 1t. He lays down." says
Lord Salisbury, ''that the ineXpedient and
unnatural character Of the union between
European and an American state Is so
obvious that it will hardly be denied. Her
Majesty's government are prepared em-
phatically ito deny 1t on behalf of both the
British and American people who are sub
ject to her crown. They maintain that
the union between Great Britain and her
territories in the western hemisphere is
both natural and eXpedient. But they are
not prepared to admit that the recogni-
tion Of that eXpediency Is clothed with the
sanction which belongs to the adoption of
international law. They are not prepared
to admit that the interests of the United
States are necessarily concerned in every
frontier dispute which may arise between
any two of the states who possess domin-
ion in the Western hemisphere, and less
can they accept the doctrine that the
United States are entitled to claim that
the process of arbitration shall be applied
to any demand for the surrender of ter
ritory which one of those states may make
against another"
Lord Salisbury concludes with the state
ment that Her Majesty's government have
not surrendered the hope that the con-
troversy between themselves and Vene-
zuela will be adjusted by reasonable ar
| rangement at an early date.
Cannot Submit TO Arbitration.
The second note of Nov. 26 is wholly de-
voted to a discussion Of the boundary dis
pute, exclusive of its relation to the Mon
roe doctrine. This dispatch, however,
sounds the keynote of Great Britain's po-
sition with reference to Mr.. Olney's rep
reservations. Lord Salisbury states that
Great Britain has repeatedly expressed its
| readiness to submit to arbitration the
| conflicting claims of Great Britain to
territory of mineral value. and follows
tHlS StuttHltHl with tHe WoTuS.
| But they Uhe British government can
not consent to entertain or to submit to
| the arbitration of another power or a for
| eign jurst, however eminent, claims based
on extravagant pretensions of Spanish
officials in the last century. and involving
| the transfer of large numbers of British
! subjects who have for many years enjoyed
the settled rule of the British colony, to
| a nation of different race and language,
| whose .oolitical system Is subject to fire.
quent disturbance, and whose institutions
as yet too often afford very inadequate
protection to life and property. No issue
of this description has ever been involved
in the questions which Great Britain and
the United States have consented to sub.
NIT to arbitration, and her Majesty's gov.
| ernment are convinced that in similar
circumstances the government of the
United States would be equally firm ir
| declining to entertain proposals of such
| a nature"