The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-12

Great Britain's avowed policy of col
Letting indemnity claims in the Amer
! icas by force does not alarm business
men of this city, although it is well
known that the English government
has an alleged claim of 100000 against
! this country for damages to Canadian
sealers in Behring Sea. If the English
kept closely to the consistency of their
aVowed policy, they would send their
warshipS here and seize some great
American seaport city until the money
was paid. New York would undoubted-
~ be the CITY that the British ships
would approach in any such event The
conditions and the entire Behring Sea
case precisely parallel the conditions
of affairs in Nicaragua at the present
time. Senator ]. P. Jones was found
yesterday at the Astor house, and
said:
TT is evident that Great Britain will
not pursue her bulldoZing policy to the
full limit of consistency. She could not
send her warships into New York har-
Dor and land her redcoatS until nego-
tiationS had been exhausted and war
had actually been declared, for such
action on her part would be a virtual
| declaration of war. And what would we
be doing all of that time? Why, if we
didn't want to pay the indemnity de-
manded, and felt as Nicaragua does
about it, we would blow her ships out
of the ocean before they could get with
in gunshot of this port
Mayor Strong smiled with a sort of
"What-are-y ou-giving- look when
the Recorder reporter asked him what
he would do if the British warships
came into the harbor and seized the
metropolis in lieu of the alleged $780,
600 indemnity
THAT is absolutely an impossible
superstition" said he. do you think
that we would let any British ships
sail in here and leisurely land hostile
red-coats? This government would do
a great deal before that could be
thought of, even by the English minis
try"
District Attorney Fellows said that
England would never think of taking
such measures with the United States
government. He thought she was en-
forcing the policy that she has al
ways carried out with half-civiliZed
governments, such as those of Africa
and Asia; but he was sure that a dip
lomatic imbroglio could never come to
such a pass with a government like
Uncle SANS
Coast defense is what the govern
ment of the United States has concen-
trated its naval efforts upon from the
first said Captain Evans, of the
United States cruiser New York. THE
supposition that England could send
her warships into this harbor and seize
the city, as she has done at Corinto,
is such an impossibility that I refuse
to talk about it,
''If this is to be the new policy of
Great Britain toward the smaller
American governments, as it has been
her policy toward the smaller govern
ments of the East" said Henry Clews.
sit certainly can never extend to the
United States. England regards this
government with even greater respect
than it does any government in the
world. The commercial connections be-
tween the two countries are so great
that any such Intention on the part
Of England would be thwarted before it
could be put into operation. We have
plenty of WarShipS to meet such an
emergency. The day when a foreign
and lay the city under tribute is past.
Such hostile ships would never live |
to reach this harbor in the first place. !
We would meet them before they could |
get sight of our wharveS and send |
them to the bottom
a high officer in the British consul
late, who cannot be named for obvi- |
that William Randall Dreamer, NJ. p,
was recently sent here by the English |
ministry bearing the signatures of 354 |
members Of the English parliament To
a petition in favor of an international
treaty of peace between Great Britain |
and the United States shows the in |
creasing feeling in Great Britain to-
ward this country. There is no inten-
ton on the part of England to do more |
than collect from scampish South !
American republics the money that is
justly due her citizens. The British /
creditors have gone to the limit of for |
bearance already. It was the only |
course for the British government. It |
surely could not appeal to the United |
States to enforce the payment of the |
money. What could it do otherwise? |
There is no intention to intrude upon |
the great Monroe doctrine. 1t is not a |
move on the part of England to estab- |
fish a foothold in the Americas. New
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