The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-31
BRILLIANT LODGE
Urges the Efficacy Of the Monroe
Doctrine.
GREAT BRITAIN HAS OVER.
STEPPED THE LINE OF JUSTICE.


ment of Affairs After Calm Declaration
-Eng1and's Great Greed-London's FL
nancial Attempt to Brighten Congress
Washington, December 3O-Mr. Lodge
OF M assachuettsa, according to notice,
rose to address the Senate today upon the
Monroe doctrine. He said he had in
tended not to do SO until the joint resolu-
tion introduced by him giving to the
declaration made by Mr. Monroe in his
message of December 1928, the formal
sanction of Congress. had received the
consideration of the committee on foreign
relations; but. since the President had sent
in his message on the Venezuelan diff
Guilty and Congress without a dissenting
voice, had authorized the commission
which the President requested, this ac-
tion had led TO much wild talk and
cries more vocal than numerous from
those who believe we should never do
anythin 6 to clash with England's in
terests. This outory, coupled with Lon
don's attempt to frighten Congress by
producing a stock panic, had tended to
confuse the issue. He therefore thought
little cool explanation would not be
out of place
Two cardinal principles, he said, had
always governed the United States in
their relations with foreign nations, the
first was Washington's neutrality doc
trine,as laid down in the Farewell ad-
dress. The second was the Monroe doc
trine. the history Of which he traced in
detail. The only attempt heretofore made
by outside powers to break through that
doctrine. was the joint Intervention of
England, France and Spain in Mexico
in 1861. A second case has now arisen and
the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine
is again threatened as it was by the
French in 1862. This second attack up-
on the principle of the Monroe doctrine
comes from Great Britain and is made
under cover Of a boundary dispute with
Venezuela. In order to show the impor-
tance of this controversy which has now
reached a crisis affecting most grayely
the honor. the interests, the rights and
the well settled policy of the United
States, he sketched briefly, as he said,
but with elaborate details the history of
the dispute between the two countries.
He continued as follows:
1t will be observed from this brief out
line OF the dispute, that no new rights
have come to England or to Venezuela
since 1914, since
THE DECLARATION OF PRESI-
DENT MONROE.
They have the rights of Spain and
Holland, respectively, nothing more and
nothing less, and are entitled to exactly
what those inherited rights give them.
In 1886 a British minister acknowledged
that Point Barima belonged to Venezuela
by asking the Venezuelan government
to erect a lighthouse there. In 1910 a
British court in Demara declared the
territory of the Morocco, far to the east of
the Orinooo, to be Venezuelan territory .
In 1S41 an English engineer laid out q
perfectly arbitrary line running from
the mouth Of the Orinoco in a southerly
direction until it reached the southern
boundary of British Guiana; Lord Aber-
deem disavowed this line and proposed
another starting at the river Morocco
and going further to the west Lord Rose
berry, another inside the Schomburgk
line. but coupled with the free navigation
of the Orinoco. In 1898 he proposed a
second line, and meantime Lord Sails
bury had extended the British claim
while he was Secretary for Foreign
Affairs. Every British minister has Off
cred different line within which Great
Britain could not consent to arbitrate,
and every British minister has gone be-
yond his predecessor in making fresh
claims to territory beyond the line which
he offered about which he would arbi-
trate.
At first sight this seems to denote in
consistency on the part Of the British
government but in reality their course
has been J3St the reverse. There is ap-
parently Just as much support for one
line as another when they pass beyond
the valley of the Eseoulbo From the
Schomburgk down, every line was entirely
arbitrary and the constantly growing
claims beyond the various lines offered
was in entire keeping with the policy of
the British government. Their object
was to get as much new territory as they
could If the matter ever came to settle
ment, which they have used every artifce
to delay.
Asserting his belief that Great Britain
had no good claim to a foot of land be-
yond the Esequlbo, Mr.. Lodge laid down
the principle that If England with no
authority tut disputed claim. SEXES
territory and declines arbitration upon it,
her action does not differ from seizing
and holding new territory in the Americas
by right of conquest.
THE SEIZRUE
Of this South American territory by New
England, he asserted, was an absolute
violation of the Monlo 90 doctrine. AT the
last session of Congress, Mr.. Lodge said
he called the attention of the Senate and
Of the county to the manner in which
England absorbed the islands of the Pa
oific, and to the necessity of our control
ling the Hawaiian Islands, necessity
which now becomes more pressing with
each succeeding day.
81 ask you now to look at the Carib-
bean sea. I ask you to note the strong
naval station which England has estab-
lished at ST. Lucia. Follow line thence
to the westward, and you find Trinidad,
the development of which has been
strongly pushed of late years, then ia
maioa, and finally British Honduras
That line faces the South American
coast. This territory claimed from Vene-
Zuela is being DUshed steadily to the west