The Irish standard., 1895-11-02
History of the Dispute And n ! l,aaS n
They Fight +, Each Other 1s' H IEE| |
For. "A
How John Bull Spreads Himself
On American Soil By the M
4 Use Of Cheek. s5ISsS5sg
The South American Country ,,I
Will Have No Relations
N With England. q

a With England. Il a
For the last is years readers OF the
press have heard now and then of the
progress made by Great Britain iii ex--Sf
tending her rule. from the indefinite
boundary line of British Guiana over a
considerable portion of Venezuela. It
was vaguely understood that che Monroe
doctrine was being disregarded that sa
weak little nation was being. lispoiled,4
and that the United States was using up
reams Of paper in diplomatic .correspon-F
dence on the question, says the Chicago
Times-Herald.
Yet so we'll did JOHN Bull prosper in the
acquisition of land on American soil that
in 1887 the British official publicati tionas
announced that British Guiana eontained,
los, 900 square miles. Just a, year before
the official record, and the authorized fec-g
ords Of all civilized countries, gave the
area as $4,000 miles. Where did the
South American colony of England get its
increase? No new survey had been
made; no territory had been gained by2
cession or accretion from the seal or by as1
new adjustment of boundary lines. Eng
land had got $4,000 square miles Of land. J.
an area as large as the state Of Hndiana,
and Venezuela had been robbed OF that
! much.
1fe nSchS avrf Nf E1ftyA
was that no one entered a protest loud
enough to be heard. The world accepted
the usurpation, new maps were made Of
the territory. BY 1890, in spite Of the
diplomatic correspondence, the report
of the International American conference
contains two maps of South America,
both of which agree that there is no dis
pute about boundaries between Venezuela
| and British Guiana, and that TIE latter
| contains all the area latest claimed fol. it..
| in 1887. The new boundary is accepted
by the United States, boundary made by5
England mad protested by Venezuela
What could a country do with only
1000, 900 people (equal to Indiana again),
| an army of a few thousand men and a.
| navy Of four vessels? If England had
| been content with what she had stolen
the incident would have been forgotten.
But allowed an inch she coveted an ell
| There were gold mines beyonds-tfle veri-
table Ell Dorado for which Sir Walter
Raleigh had searched. Raleigh n1ade
two expeditions to the Yuriari region
both of which were disastrous. The re-fi
gion passed directly from Spain, by right
of discovery and colonization, to Venez,
uela. The mines in 1884 had yielded
nearly $25o,000 in gold. The English
stood inside the schomburgh line, TN
latest boundary looking upon all thia
with greedy eyes. Her acquisition OF 50. .g
900 Venezuelan square miles had been
made with such ease that it would he til hAss
grosset folly (of which England waSS
never known to be guilty., to Jet such aH3
opportunity slip. So British guns are ta
hold what Sir Walter Raleigh failed ~
! discover. On the whole 1t il .cheapet tas
let other people do the discovering an4E
developing. # sFsf i,SI
! The scale upon. which England s con-
tinued entertainments have been prose-
cuted is shown by the map. Cuyani s...nes'
is as far TO the westward Of the Eehoms
! burgh line as that Is rom the ExeqWib0si
| river-the legitimate boundary (acc0fd.
Ling to Venezuela) OF British Guiana TsIf51
Is rapid progression. III six ysai Bs
Great Britain has acquired q fsriftntyss
nearly as large as the state Of MinAflst
without war; or cessation or purchsass4
The process is Instructive 81 III III a' IRa
In 1914 England obtained by itreatya;
from Holland, the South American fprpy75y
inces of Esequibo, Demerara and ~ BeTTfss;
bice; Surinam, the fourth and largest
province being retained By Holland audi
known as Dutch Guiana: 1t was exactlH
stated IN this treaty that the eeded@ prev
inces extended westto the Eseauibo rtysrssss,,
all to the north and west Of that strsexn;;sSSS n;;sSSS
were the possessions OF Spain. For three I
and a halt centuries the EsAQuiDO,as 8 9adeS
been the boundary between the two co1n,,sss
tries, and the Orinoco, flowing from tlesS
heart Of the Venezuelan republic. reaaRe edg;
the ocean two degrees mort Of ! theS &. aS
western limit OF British Guiana That is,l
| it did-it doesn't now. The latest Inal1i i-a.
festo OF John Bull is against q govern
ment railroad to the mines snd Hight
house on Isle Barima. at6he morthp ST thA5
OTinocO. s iss Il ss SassS SsS
England has progressed 126 N nilessa
along the coast, has gained the hafbpr sofSs fssl
the great river, and the mines of El l9ofa.3
do. Her manifestations are accOmpanNs
led by guns of the latest patterns ii ssss
Very early after sVenezuelan indApanrsS
dence from Spain, Eng land prdc
her ears and heard rlrnors (nObody sselsslss