The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-21
Executive Mansion. December H. 1895.
BRIrI,n SIDE OF me QUESTION
Lord Salisbury Says We Have No Bust
ness To Interfere.

Lord Salisbury Says we Have No Bust.
ness To Interfere.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE British side of
the question is set forth in two notes from
Lord Salisbury to Sir Julian Pauncefote,
one of which the ambassador is instructed
to deliver to Secretary Olney. The note
is dated November 26, and says:
ION August / transmitted to Lord
Cough a copy of dispatch from Mr. Olney
which Mr.. Bayard left with me on that
day. l will not now deal with those por-
lions of which are concerned exclusively
with the controversy that has for some
time past existed between the republics
of Venezuela and her majestys govern
ment in regard to the boundary which sep
arates their Nominations.
THE contentious set forth by Mr. Olney
in this part of his dispatch are repre-
sented by him as being an application of
the political maxims which are well
known in American discussion under the
name of the Monroe doctrine. AS far as
l am aware this doctrine has never been
before advanced on behalf of the United
States in any written communication di-
rected to the government of another ma
ton, but 1t has been generally adopted
and assumed as true by many prominent
writer's in the United States. 1t is said
to have largely influenced the government
of the country in the conduct of its for
eign affairs; though Mr.. Clayton, who
was secretary of state under President
Taylor expressly stated that that admin
istration had in no way adopted it. But
during the period that has elapsed since
the message of President Monroe was
delivered in 1923, the doctrine has I'M
dergone a very notable development and
the aspect which it now presents in the
hands of Mr.. Olney differs widely from
its character when it first issued from the
pen of it's author.
THE dangers against which President
Monroe thought ii right to guard were
not as imaginary as they would seem at
the present day. The system of which he
speaks and of which he so resolutely dep
recates the application to the American
continent was the system then adopted
by certain powerful states on the CONT
nent Of Europe of combining to prevent,
by force of arms the adoption in other
countries of political Institutions which
they disliked, and to uphold by external
pressure which they approved. Various
portions of South America had recently
declared their independence and that in
dependence had not been recognized by
the governments of Spain and Portugal,
to which, with small exception, the whole
of Central and South America were NOM
nally subject. 1t was not an imaginary
condition that he foresaw, If he feared
that the same spirit which had dictated
the French expedition into Spain might
of Europe with the idea of imposing by
the force of European arms, upon the
South American communities the form of
government and the political connection
which they had thrown off In declaring
the United States would resist any such
enterprise if contemplated President
Monroe adopted a policy which received
the entire sympathy of the English gov
eminent of that date.
THE dangers which were apprehended
by President Monroe have no relation to
the state of things in which we live at
the present day.
There is no danger of any European
state treating any part of the American
continent as a fit subject for European
colonization. 1t is ineligible that Mr.
Olney should invoke in defense of the
views on which he is now insisting an
authority which enjoys so high popular
ity with his fellow countrymen.
UNCLE SAM MOI. CONCERNED.
Great Britain is imposing no system
upon Venezuela and is not concerning her
self in any way with the nature of polit-
ical institutions under which the Nenezue-
lans may prefer to live. 1t is contro-
versy with which the United States have
no apparent practical concern. The dis
puted frontier of Venezuela has nothing
to do with any of the questions dealt with
by President Monroe. II is not question
of colonization by an European power OF
any portion of America. IL IS SIMPLY the
determination of the frontier of British
possessions, which belonged to England
long before the republic of Venezuela
came into existence. The government of
the United States does not say that Great
Britain or Venezuela is in the right in the
matters al issue. But they lay down that
the doctrine of President Monroe when
he opposed the imposition of European
systems or the renewal of European colo
ni2ation confers upon them the right of
demanding that when European power
has a frontier difference with South
American community, the European pow
er shall consent to refer the controversy
to arbitration, and Mr. Olney states that
unless her majesty's government accede
to this demand it will greatly embarass
the future relations between Great Britain
and the United States 1t follows of ne
cessity that If the United States will not
control the conduct of these communities,
neither can it undertake to protect them
from the consequences attaching to any
misconduct of which they may be guilty
towards other nations. If they violate in
any way the rights of another state, II is
not alleged that the Monroe doctrine VIII
assure them the assistance OF the united
States in escaping from any reparation
which they may be bound by information
al law TO give Mr.. Olney expressly dis
claims such inference from the principles
he lays down.
But the claim which he found upon
them is that if any independent American
state adya noes a demand for territory or