The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-20
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2o 1885

prepared by the photographic office Of
the Navy Department. rms map WaaS3
powered steam vessels, with distances
in nautical miles. The only ports. on the
n Mn,ab srs .t coast ,, Of so nea as Am peInfs
OF call for steamers are Demaidra,
British Guiana Inc Para, Brazil. Not
marlp,ng the divisions between British
Guiana and Venezuela, but the entire
British claim t.. Brazilian terrItory s9nen
of the British Colony:
The enate and Navy departments
have Just received the latest issues OF
inc journals. the shipping World in
which several pages are devoted 70 a
severe criticism Of the English polite
Justice of arbitrating the boundary dis
pute. An appeal rs made to the govern
ment to consent to an o al,3r PIE s ;naae-
est of British politicians made subserv-
lent to those. Of British traders. The
disastrous effects upon British com.
with the United States are strongly en-
phasized.
au l, ] ha Wish REACHED sss little I 0rl nspub & or IF
Journal. '.Th hess coisisson between the
to bring to a head a controversy. over
boundaries. which has lasted for a hum
dred years. Lord Salisbury has demanded
dPOlOSy LII Ttpou dtiOlls NAilS1t ~
probably be MAD not. perhaps. with
heartinass and sincerity, but
President Crespo has neither army nor
needs yield to superior force. The larger
question of determining the boundaries
between British Guiana n Venezueta
will remain; and whilst we. hope and be-
lieve that it VIII be settled amicably,
the controversy undoubtedly contains
the elements of a possible wal with the
.tThe merits of the case have been
practically abandoned on both sides Of
the Atlantic. The press of england are
well nigh unanimous in supporting the
contentious of Downing street, and
wen the Times" refers to the scene on
press. Of the. United States are equally
unanimous in supporting the case OF
the republic. The man who Invented the
g goor MY tg,r Go9 fds m m5gns or by, Mr thatt mad aaei
principle is already supreme in this
dispute. Day after day. we read of the
few of those who discuss the question
have taken the trouble to inform them
selves concerning it. The official maps
I lines. x And iHf the Pre-. President dent of Venezuela
is in this peculiar position:-When ne
retires at night he does net know what
when he wakes. up. in the morning."
proceeds to recount the successive en-,
n concludes as follows:-eWe believe
that this question viii be settled without
bloodshed: but we repeat that it con-
WITH the United states That. at all
events. every, Jingo, will admit will be
no noa hbIld I'D play; 9Th The .r poi feyn1 f9r fgd d.
James Monroe, from whom the doctrine
has taken its name. makes against the
interposition OF foreign powers in the
lies. The United States profess to believe
in this doctrine in stlll a wider sense. To
say; nor are European powers compelled
to accept the American version of the
policy in government which should pre-
vail in South America. But, from very
by its resolution; and Senator Morgan,
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign
a show of consistency. A few weeks ago
he said that the United States should
not permit this aggression. He stated
1t as his belief that it rs the purpose of
frontier sufficiently far into the interior
to encompass the rich gold fields Of tina t
the Monroe doctrine INFO operation. We
nave heard a great deal-tCo much for
our ~taste-aboutt this Monroe doctrine.
whom we one saw playing cards for a
stake, hills part of which was supposed
to be in a five dollar bill in his pocket.
money, he referred to the invisible note.
And whan he had lost all OF. the reputed
value of the note, he walked away.
The Monroe dodtrine is referred to, but
we never see it in operation. We care
nothing in this crisis about political
nitude, involved in the American policy,
but we care everything for the princa-
Pile of arbitration as a substitute for
disputes. We nave escaped a conflict
of arms until now, because Venezuela
is too small to fight. If our cause is a
fair one, we have nothing ito fear from
arhitrsilion. If we nave behaved in a
grasping and an arbitrary way and have
tice aside, we ought to be stopped in our
unrighteGus career.
1--WE scarcely know where to turn in
ParIiament-or out of it-excepting to
to the. ranks of a gallant band of Ouak-
ers in the country, for a man who is
prepared TO fight for peace. And we can
hour of john Brightr'