The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-10-12
ENGLAND CALLED down
0lney tells England she Must
Keep off the Grass.
ATOTHER PAPER
Young Hearst, of the San Francisco
Examiner, buys the New York
journal.
Electric Cars Collide In Tacoma, Seriously
Injuring Several Passengers,a Heavy
fog ana Fast Running said
to be the Cause.
ATOTHER PAPER

1
Herald, from Washington, says:
The great international question of
the hour is the Venezuelan boundary
dispute. Secretary Olney has pre-
pared dispatch to Ambassador Bay
ard which will soon bring the matter
to an issue. This dispatch is of most
positive and unequivocal nature. AS
soon as it shall be placed before the
British government it will raise an is
sue which can be settled only by the
retreat of one or the other govern
ments. The stand taken by the United
States in this dispute is one which in.
wolves one of the Oldest and most sacred
| traditions of the government-an en-
| fOrcement of the Monroe doctrine.
Secretary Olney's dispatch is, in SUBJ
stance, declaration in the most posi-
tive language that the United States
will not consent to British occupation
of the disputed territory in Venezuela
unless that nations right thereto is
determined by arbitration. This dec
laration is substantially the same as
that which was made some months
ago and to which the British foreign
office replied with a statement that
while England's right to part of the
territory in question could be SUBJ
mitted to arbitration, the right to an
other part of the region in question
could not be submitted to such adjud-
ication.
When Great Britain took this ground
the question which President Cleve-
land and his advisers had to decide
was whether the United States was
bound by the Monroe doctrine and by
her dignity to insist that all of the ter
ritory in dispute should be submitted
to arbitration, or whether by conced-
ing England's contention we should
virtually abandon the field and leave
Venezuela to fight it out alone. Few
more serious questions have presented
themselves to an American administra-
tion within recent years. The decision
Of the president and his cabinet ad-
visers, after careful discussion and
painstaking Investigation, is that a
bold and consistent policy shall be
adopted, and this policy has been for
mulated in the dispatch which AM
bassador Bayard will lay before the
British government as soon as he re-
turns from his present trip to Scot
land.
The dispatch meets England's re-
joinder with reaffirmation of the
principle of the original contention
expressed in phrases which leave no
possibility of doubt as to the meaning
of the earnestness of the United States.
1t does more. In polite, but firm and
significant words Secretary Olney de-
clares it to be the belief of the United
States government that the territorial
claims which Great Britain has set in
Venezuela are in the nature of an at
tempt to seize territory on the Amer
lean continent to which she has no
legal right. The secretary points out
two horns to the dilemma, leaving
Great Britain to choose which it will |
accept.
First-If the quarrel with Venezuela
Is an ordinary boundary dispute, hav-
ing its origin in faulty descriptions,
surveys or other misunder-
standing, refusal to arbitrate the |
same is contrary to the precedents set |
by Great Britain herself and contrary |
to the practice of all civilized nations.
Second-If, on the other hand, as |
appears to be the case, and, as is the
belief of the president of the United |
States, the dispute as to the location
of boundary line is mere disguise
under which Great Britain is attempt
ing by superior force to extend her
territory in America, this is directly |
violative of the Monroe doctrine, and
will never be submitted to by the |
United States.
This is the substance of the dispatch,
which, in all probability, will become
one of the most famous dispatches sent
out of the American state department.
1t is direct, positive and practical ap-
plication of the Monroe doctrine in it's
broadest aspect to the quarrel between
Great Britain and Venezuela. 1t COM
mits the United States to a position |
which must be adhered to.