Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-05-01
MORGAN is WARLlKE.
THE ALABAMA STATESMAN TALKS OF
CLEyELASD's FOREIGN POLICY.
lie Declares That n Conflict with Great
Britain Is Not Remote Possibility
BayarJ and Cicveiand's Pol
icy Severely Referred To.

1 insult TO Consular Agent Hatch tho fin-
| siest Kind Of a prcteNt on the part Of
! Great Britain. and said II private lndi-
! vidual would sue for damages on such a
| case he would he laughed out of court.
! He had no criticism TO pass on the admin
| istration, because. as he said. he presumed
| the administration had takon proper steps
! to prevent Great Britain from obtaining
! a foothold on Nicaraguan territory "But
| IT II has not" he added, 'the next con-
| gress Will even II Great Britain must be
| driven off the continent at the point of the
| bayunet"
Senator Morgan added he dld not think
the canal project would be endangered by
the present complications. He said This
/ case has gone far beyond the Monroe doc
trine, far beyond the Clayton Bulwer
| treaty IL has character that IL dts
| unctly it's own. and that rests upon higher
! grounds than any doctrine or any treaty
! ever made or enunciated. The United
states and The governments OF Nicaragua
! ana Costa HiCa have entered into "A solemn
| compact with each other looking to the
| construction Of this great maritime high
| zens of the United States, is organized, aud
| starts the work
Now comes Great Britain with the dom
| marked her course throughout the history
| Of modern times. and upon the slimmest
| of preteNts, the most absurd of excuses
| makes a demand upon the government of
| Nicaragua that she does not expect TO he
complied with and in the hope that
through the default Of the weaker govern.
ment she will Ice enabled to establish a
sovereignty over the territory, and thus
canal and Of the traffic that may pass
through it. hslieve, congress. at its next
/ session. viii. " nothing shall he done
meanwhile 10y authorized powers now in
authority. enoctunlly aud finally stop the
nserressions Of Great Rritain. and abso-
| lutely prevent her gaining foothold at
| this most important point on the American
continent. think there is enough spirit
| IN the American people to put a stop to
| this proceeding. Great Britain is iot going
to stop It Of her own volltion, Somebody
seems to be a very good opportunity for for
the United states to assume that role"
Senator Morgan. referring to the admin
| istration in the Nicaraguan complications.
| said: "I have no criticism to make of the
administration, for the simple reason that
! done in the present emergency. have
conversed with no officer of the govern
the policy now being carried out. and am
wholly ignorant of the state OF affairs. |
American principles. and has insisted upon
the plain rights of this country and Of
the case, hut in the absence Of any in
am ass9minG that the admin,
can say this positively If it should
prove that the administration has not done
what believe TO be the right thing in the
Squeezing this little government and Of OBJ
next session. will am convinced give
utterance in no uncertain terms and de
ests from the Nicarasuan territory
fools; as rule. !, do not think they are
wholly blind to the character OF Great
Britain and the attitude of that country
toward the rest OF the world. It is not
nearly cemtmTy 70 and oarte& Of ae
quaintance with British methods and Brit
ish aims inhabitants of this country have
not fisyft
which England looks upon all territory
that is not yet under her dominion. John
in ITO Nothing in, the, meanwhle has oc-
Cured to change the character of his dis
position. He is the same grasping, greedy,
clever fellow-always ready to enlarge his
territories and his power. He looks upon
America with the same eyes to-day that
he did when we were a band of colonies,
INDEPENDENT in every particular except in
fact, and though he is little more eau
uous in his aggressIors In Nicaragua, he Is
altered not in the least his attitude to-
ward them. He has come on steadily, en-
largiqg his posts, until he has, nearly sur.
rounded the United States with chain of
British colonies and possessions. He has
a continent, Australia, larger In territory
than the United States. He has taken
cyprus, Egypt and countless Islands. He
hr,aS has squeezed us our Of territory on our
on the Western edge of this continent. lie
has hui!dozod us out Of the statute Of our
taken Samoa If it had not been necessary
TO fight Germany In order to accomplish
this. He is even now trying TO encase his
dominion over large part of Venezuela.
The president Of the United States tried
to give him Hawaii, for to establish the
British supremacy over one island in that
group, as was proposed by the cable con
cessiOn, would have surely been to give
Great Britain absolute control Of the en-
In this day OF enlightenment, we see this
same nation with It's record Of centuries,
a. record Of aggression; despotic squeezing
Of weak nations, hulldozing, braggadoco.
attempting 10 obtain a foothold IN land
where the Interests Of the United states
are paramount. To let Great Britain Sc
cure this privilege now, would be to give
her control of American commerce and 10
jeopardize almost every American inter-
The senator covers a possible contin-
gency and the Impeachment Of ambassador
enough American spirit in the American
RS9pie p,,p 10 pH, stop n 20 TINS prt9Ceeaing
her own volition, Somebody has got TO
step in and he disagreeable, and II seems
20 be very good opportunity for the
think there is spirit abroad in the land |
that would insure ready response to any
tanning such an attitude by congress as !
] have in mind. or course, war with |
baea HTtsa nea M has has fways y ,S
day not. so remote possibility as many
Mat ."s aonkess % R HG do Sn bnPT If fp'e5sSS ahosS
turn out that the administration has ac- |
quiesced i'm the British position, | am afraid |
something very decisive viii be done.
II fear that something quite unpleasant |
may transplre, something that might dis |
turb the pleasant surroundings of Mr.. |
Bayard In London, to Interfere maybe |
with the pleasant social relations of our |
minister there with his royal friends / |
trust n will not be necessary to do this
but there is little known to-day TO war |
rant the belief that something may not |
have to be done 10 dsarrange the very |
comfortable surroundings Of the American |
ambassador at the court of st. James. |
OF course, il would be very rude in con, |
gress TO DO this and il would also be rude |
order the president to take the-hed at the |
head of the American army, of which he |
IS the constitutional commander. know |
that II certain men that l have in my |
mind had been AT the head Of the Ameri-
can administration We would know for a |
certainty at this moment that every proper
step had been taken to prevent British en- |
croachments and 10 render such disagree- |
able action on the part of congress as I |
have intimated entirely unnecessary. but |
these men are not in charge and | have no
means of knowing that the men who are |
at the head of affairs have not done their
fun duty In the premises, so In the alb
sence of information ! am not criticisng
the administration"
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