The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-26

clear to Great Britain and the world by
| frequent interposition of good offices
| that the controversy is one In which
its honor and its interests are involved,
and the continuance OF which it cannot
| regard with indifference.
DUTY OF THE UNITED STATES.
This status. the Secretary says, com
pels those charged with the interests
| of the United States to decide to what
extent, IL any, the United States may
| and should intervene In a controversy
between and primarily concerning only
| Great Britain and Venezuela, and to
| decide how far ii Is bound to see that
the integrity of Venezuelan territory is
not impaired by the pretensions OF Its
| powerful antagonist
Are any such duties involved upon
| the United States? II not, the United
States has already done all II not more
| than all that a purely sentimental in
terest in the affairs or the two coun-
| tries justifies, and to push its inteIpo-
sition further would be unbeconing
and undignifed, and might we'll sub
| ject II to the charge of impertinent In
termeddling with affairs with which 1t
has no rightful concern.
On the other hand, il any such right
and duty exist, their due exercise and
discharge will not permit of any action
that shall not be efficient, and that, II
the power of the United States is
adequate, shall not result in the accom-
plishment OF the end in view.
4 The question thus presented as
matter of principle, and regard being
had to the settled National policy, does
not seem difficult of solution. Yet the
momentous practical consequences de-
! pendent upon Its determination require
a that it should be carefully considered
and that the grounds of the conclusion
: arrived at should be fully and frankly
1 stated.
MAY JUSTLY INTERPoSE.
The Secretary lays it down as can
on of international law that a nation
may justly interpose in a controversy
y between other nations whenever what
: Is done or proposed by any of the
\ parties primarily concerned is a seri-
: Gus and direct menace to its own integ-
! rity, tranquility or welfare"
!, The propriety of the rule, when APP
d piled in good faith, will not be ques-
Q toned in any quarter. though 1t has
= been given wide scope and too often
= made cloak for schemes of wanton
. spoliation and ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
l. This leads up to an elaborate review
n of the Monroe doctrine, and Secretary
d Olney, stating that the proposition that
e America Is in no part open to colonial
y ton has very long been conceded, says
u that our present concern is with the
v other practical application of the Mon
w roe doctrine, viz. That American nom
A. intervention. in Europe necessarily i'm
K piled European non-intervention in
a. American affairs. the disregard of
ie which, by any European power, is to
be deemed an act of unfriendliness to-
IN ward the United States.
i'd SCOPE OF THE DOCTRINE.
I'd On this point the Secretary says.
to 1.-THE precise scope and limitations of
tie this rule cannot be too clearly APP
as pretended. 1t does not establish any
r general protectorate by the United
nee States over other American States. II
We does not relieve any State from its obli-
IT. cations, as fixed by International law
er nor prevent any European power di
ut rectly interested from enforcing sucf
IS obligations, or from infiicting merite6
er punishment for the breach Of them. Il
~ does not contemplate any interference,
,er in the internal affairs Of any American
he State, or in the relations between !
lite and other American States. 1t does no
be Justify any attempt on our part t,
nd change the established form of govern
'sy ment of any American State, or to pre-
,ce vent the people of such state from al
lon tering that form according to thei
rn- own will and pleasure
,ir- 1.-THE rule in question has but a sin
ON gle object. 1t Is that no European pow
ing er or combination of European power
me shall forcibly deprive an America
thh e State of the right and power of sell
ity government anu VI swapping Luz itSe
rid its own political fortunes and des
nm tinies.''
ave SANCTIONED Wy CONGRESS.
The Secretary that 1t is man
ov- fest that a rule which has been openl
ldi- and uniformly acted upon by the ex
gus cutive branch of the Government II
or seventy years must have had the san
rs 40 ton of Congress. Nor, he adds, If Il
an practical results of the rule be sougl
| for ic hn a. ms
re- scure. It's first effect was indeed m'
cal mentous and far-reaching. i. was I'll
,es- component factor in the emancipatio
cen of South America, and to it the ind
ary pendent States of that region are larg
her ly indebted for their very existence.
'wn Since then the most striking sing
to achievement to be credited to the ru
ow- is the evacuation of Mexico by II
VIII French But we are also Indebted
mas 1t for the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, ne
aIs tralizing any interoceanic canal aero
GER Central America, and excluding Gre
the Britain from any dominion there.
'ub- has been used in the case of Cuba,
In IL justifying the position while Il
be sovereignty of Spain will be respecte
,aW that the island will not be permitted
am become the possession of any 9th
European power. 1t has been influe
,u1d tial in bringing about the definite reli
it's punishment of any supposed protectc
ress ate by Great Britain over the Mosqui
ex, coast.
1teo President Polk relied upon it, thou
n e perhaps enormously, to prevent t
lay. transfer VI 1uoatan. 10Y, q VI oiis,
the same spirit, declared that existil
pted dependencies were no longer subJe
the to transfer from one european pow
cans to another, and another deVelOpment
lpon found in the objection to arbitration
tlon South American controversies by
., en- ropean power, and Secretary Baya
Non resisted the enforcement of the Pei
! To- ter claim against Haiti, declaring tn
SERIOUS indeed will be the con-
am uuences II European hostile foot shot
and without Just cause tread those Sta'
that in the New World which have eman
Mn IN pated themselves from European CO
Eng. troll
be be- NO INTERMEDDLING BY EUROT
RS in American questions, 1t is said. |
ana for American decision" says Sec
,, ine tary Olney, and then, applying t
mails doctrine in the reverse, he says
N to all Europe were suddenly to fly to ar
loss over the fate of Turkey, would it
be- be preposterous that any AmeriS
nded State should find itself inextricably
w volved in the miseries and burdens
w. the contest?
what have the States Of Amer
to do with the vast armies and file
of Europe, and why should they be
~ poverished by wars in which they
have no concern? The moral inter'
of Europe are peculiar to her and
mes tirely apart from those which are