The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-25

United Siates can permit no conn
promise and must defend against oil
comsrs with every means at the com.
maud OF lIi government, For seventy
years this couury has claimed an
especial right to speak on all affairs re-
la'ing to the western hemisphere. Il
is this right which permits aud requires
~ to speak with authority in dispute
between Great Britain and Venezuela,
Just ai the United States spoke with
authority in u dispute between France
and Mexico. II Lord Salisbury has
challenged this right it will be tho clear
duty OF President Cleveland aud seere'
,aTy OInay to assert IL in unmiitakablo
terms. so other course is possible, ba
tho consequences what they may. On
thii clear issue, whether this country
has or has not 4 right TO speak and act
IN all affairs relating to North aud
south America possessed by no other
nation, Great Britain not excepted. the
American people are Of one mind.
here ara very lew things short OF our
ava sell.deisBse isg which th!s peace.
loving nation would 20 to war. Tn!s is
qua Of Thorn, M ultarAnce eau bs too
decided, no warning too grave, no action
TOO vigorous TO use in deteRse Of Ihis
right, and II President Cleveland aad
Secretary Olney will but assert this
right With courage and decision the
united American people will stand be-
hind them.
This grave Issue, II it has been raised
by Lord Salisbury, altogether oyertops
aud overrdaa the leIaar iasue Involved
in tho precise limits OF Venezuela and
British Guiana. The mere boundary
dispute is our affair only as friendly and
interested spectators unless the boun'
Diary question raises the right OF the
United States to act and speak with Au'
.horlty on all questions which involve
either tho Independent administration
or tie territorial integrity OF any Amer.
lean republic in disputes with an Euro.
peau power. Itislndispensible to dis.
tinguish aud discriminate clearly be.
tween these issues. The United States At
present canno: and ought not toact as the
guardian aud protector Of the twenty
countries which form the American
syStem-ineluding Samoa aud the
hawaiian republic In this number-in
every dispute which arises IN their for.
sign relations or over the precise lin.
is OF thsig territory. This is clear. It
Is equally clear that the United States
ought at all times and on all proper oc-
casions 10 assert and maintain the right
to speak with Rn authority possessed
by no other power on any diplomatic
iSsus affecting any Of these twenty
states, their territories and their Rd.
ninistration whenever, IN the judE.
lnsnt OF the United States such an issue
appears likely TO impair their indie.
pendent action or affect their territorial
integrity.
This is the essence OF the "Monros
doctrine" AZ far as it relates to direct,
avoWed territorial acquisition by al
European power on the American henri
sphere, it Is now taci.ly accepted by all
the world, having been enforced by the
threat OF war in Mexico in 1867. Ap.
proved IN this sense seventy years ago
by Canning in = single conservation, it
has never found It's place in q treaty. a
convention or the findings OF an inter.
aationRl congress. In It's wider sense It
has been repeatedly denied directly and
by implication by Great Britain. whose
foreign IN inisLeTI have always claimed
that this country had 10 rights differing
in kind from other nations. but
only rights greater in degree
owing to iEs territorial position.
For obvious reasons the United States
Is not likely to assert its own view un-
Ill an Issue arsoI oil sutticie1: import.
Nnce TO demand vigorous action aud
iusiiiying the resort 20 extreme meas.
ures. Thus lar in tie Venezuela cues
ton tho right OF the United states TO
sneak with an authority Of itl own has
no. been put forward. Mr.. Blaine, Mr..
Frelinghuy.en. Mr.. Bayard and Mr.
Gresham in their dispatches for tho
pa't fifteen years have stuliously main.
tanned for this country the attitude Oi .
friendly power seeking TO adjust diiec.
enccs between two powers, both ila
friends and in ono Of which 1t felt
benevolent interest owing to its dis
parry OF size as compared with its.
antagonist
The fgtinuy character OF thu present
situation lies in tho fact that Secretary
Olney appears to have assorted the
specific fight and claim OF tho Uni,el
States under the Monroe doctrine
and that Mr.. Chamberlain, the English
colonial secretary, mas rotortOd by pro.
posing tho aggressive defense OF a point
on the Uruan OF JuruRn river outside
the Schom burgk line. aud Ia territory
upon which Sir Edward GTby lat
March expressed willingness 10 arbi.
trate, aud IN regard TO which arbiIra.
ton has been repeatedly offered By
GFsa. Bfitata. There Is q fair ground
for argument as to part, perhaps all,
tho territory between tue EiIequbO
and tho Schomburgk line, and Great
Britain might've do not say could
establish claim to 4 part Of H. For
territory west OF Sir Robert schom.
burgk's limo no Ca.o exists, except ono
based on the right to COLUMBIA thG
hintsr.And Of a coast held by u civilized
power In continent open 10 Coloniza.
ton. No such claim could for al IN.
atanL DO accepted by the United States
In South America, and any adminislfA.
ton will have the entire country behind
ii IN readiness 10 support any stops
doomed necessary 10 prevent such
claim from being accepted.
to the boundary question itIeli,
,hpro il no reasonable doubt that tho
Dntch colonial limits, from which Great