Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-10-10
ENGLAND WARNED.
BROUGHT FACE TO FACE WITH
UNCLE SAM IN VENEZUELA.
Great britain In 20 He informed
That the United States VIII Not
Permit Her to Seise Territory on
the Americas Continent.

Washington, Oct. s. The United
States and Great Britain have at last
came face to face In Venezuela. Sec
setary Qlrey has prepared a dispatch
to Ambassador Bayard which will
soon bring TO an Issue tie long-mooted
question Of boundary between Sene-
Zuela and British Guiha. This dis
patch is OF such a positive and un-
| e%quivocal nature that Ii threatens dis
ruption of the harmon ious relations ex-
listing between he two great English
| speaking countries. As soon as 1t shall
have been placed before the British
government il will raise an Issue
which can be settled only by the re-
treat of one OF the other, or by the sew
erance of friendly neutrality-suspicious.
by war. The stand taken by the Unit
ed States In this dispatch Is one which
involves n Of the oldest and most
sacred traditions of the governmental
principle which the American people
will with one voice demand to have
sustained, and therefore retreat cannot
come from this side OF the Atlantic.
The great question in Washington is:
"Will Great Britain yieldT" Secretayr
olney's dispatch is, in substance, a
declaration In the most positive Ian
guage that the United States will new
er onsen to British occupation OF the
disputed territory in Venezuela. unless
that nations right thereto is first de-
termined by arbitration. While this
declaration Is similar to the one which
was made some months ago, and to
which the British foreign office replied
/ with n Stotnnnant rhat nhiIn Ernlanls,
right to a part OF the territory In ques-
ton could be submitted to arbitration,
the right to another part OF the region
In question could not be submitted TO
such adjudication, the matter has now
been brought to a critical STAGE.
When Great Britain took this ground
the question which President Cleve-
land and his advisers had TO decide
was whether the United States was
bound by the Monroe doctrine and by
her dignity to Insist that all OF the ter
ritory in dispute should be submitted
To arbitration, or whether by conced-
ing E~ngland's conception this country
should virtually abaEdon the field and
leave Venezuela to fight IL out alone.
Few more serious questions have pre-
scented themselves to an American adj
ministration within recent years. The
decision of the president and his cabi-
net advisers. after careful discussion
and painstaking investigation. is that
the bold anG consistent policy shall be
adopted this policy has been form
ulated In the dispatch which Ambassa-
dor Bayard, as soon as he returns from
his present journey 70 Scotland, will
lay before the British government. The
dispatch meets Eagland's rejoinder
with a reafiirmation of principle OF the
original contention. expressed in
phrases which leave no possibility OF
doubt as TO the meaning or the ear
nestness of the United States. It does
more. In polite but Arm and signif-
can't words Secretary Olney declares
1t to I've the belief OF the United States
government that the .erTitorial claims
which have been set up in Venezuela
are not the result of natural mlsunder
standings. and the dispute concerning
them is not the proper location OF
boundary between the two countries,
but. under the guise of a boundary dis
pute Great britain Is really attempting
a seizure OF territory on the American
continent. The secretary points out
the two horns of the dilemma. leaving
Great Britain 20 choose which 1t will
accept.