The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-17
WARL|KE TALK.
President Cleveland Sends
a Firm Message on
Venezuela to
Congress.
MONROE DOCTRINE UPHELD
However Serious the Issues to
Be Faced, supise submis-
sion Is Still More
Dangerous.
OLNEY'S ABLE MEMOIR.
Salisbury's Replies Are Tart and
Offensive in Tone Will
He Arbitrate?
OLNEY'S ABLE MEMOIR.

WASHINGTON. Dec. H. 1Se5.-The
president sent to Congress today the
Nenezuelen correspondence accompan-
fied by the following significant mes
sage
To the Congress-In my annual mes
.ss-4e a,-l-resseu 20 Coagress on the third
instant. ~cafled attention to the pend
Iireat saiaI Brl1s3n and tn the = Republic Of Ven
ezuela and reclted the substance of a
represent a ton made by this Government
suggestings reasons why such dispute
snogld be submitted 20 aroltratlon lot OF
would be so submitted.
The answer OF the British Govern
ment. which was then awaited, has as since @
been received, and together with the des-
patch to which ft is a reply, is hereto
appended.
Such a reply is embodied in two com
Prime Minister to Sir Julian Pauncefote,
the British Ambassador at this Capt.
communications is devoted exclusively
to Observa tions upon the Monroe doc
trine, and claims tlat in 81 me present present
and development of this doctrine is m
sisted on by the United States. that the
reasons justifying an appeal to the Mone ooes
are are generaIly 9nappiicable ITO the state
d. Day '"aT and i especially ,a inappiieable to
controversy involving the boundary line
between Great Britain and Venezuela.
Without attempting extended argu-
rnent in reply to these positions. it may
nct be an1iss to suggest that the doctrine
s5und because its enforcement is inn
Dortant to our peace and safety as
nation and is essential m to the he integrity,
1Isaintenance of our distinctive form o.
4 government 1t was intended to apply
to every stage of our rational life and
cannot become obsolete while our repub-
]c andures If the balance OF power is
justly a cause for jealous anxiety among
ihe governments of the old world, and
q subject for-our-a absolute noniaterfer..
ence, none the less is an observance Of
the Monroe doctrine of vital concern to
our people and their Government.
Assuming, therefore. that we properly
insist upon this doctrine Witnout regard ,a
live" or any changed conditions mere
or elsewhere. it is not apparent why IT'S
app1aca ton may not be involved IN the
present controversy
If an European power, by an extern
sion of its boundaries. takes possesslon
tNsl'5f ton Of its rights, it is diflcult to see
power p5iy does 81 not thereby attempt to .ex-
ferd it's system of government to mat
portion Of the continent which is sil,s {hus
President Monroe declared to be dan
gerous to our peace and safety, and
II can make no difference whether the
European system is extended by an adj
vance of frontier or otherwise
1t is also suggested in the British reply
that we should not seek to apply the
Monroe doctrine to the pending daspalte,
because 1t does not enbody any principle
on on the he general consent Of nations and
that mo statesman, however eminent,
and no nation, however powerful, are
ternational law a novel principle which
was never recognized before. and which
has not since been accepted by the gov
of NV nj 10
Practically the principle for which we
contend has peculiar If not exclusive re.
lation to the United States. 1t may not
have been admitted in SO many words to
5 the code of interna tfonal law. but since
in international councils every nation Il
entitled to the rights belonging to it.. If
the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine
as something we may Justly claim ut has
its place in the code of internatdonal law
specifically mentioned, and when the
United States is suitor before the high,
tribunal that administers international
law the question to be determined is
whether or not we present claims whlcn
the justice of that code of law can find
The Monroe doctrine finds its recogni-
tion in the principles of international law
which are based upon the theory that
every nation shall have its rights pro-
tected and its just claims enforced.
OF course this government IS entirely
doubted claims Nor is this ignored in
s the Br5s na admgng rag ds Tat he Rrps Monroe doc
trir,a Is applicabIe to present conditions.
sfates: IN declaring that the United
states would resist any such enterprise
If it was contemplated. President Mon
roe adopted a policy which received the
entire sympathy of the English Govern
Tnent of that date" He further Declares:
ssJshough the language of President Mon
roe is directed to the attainment of OBJ
iects which most Englishmen would
agree to be salutary, it is Impossible TO
admit that they have been inscribed by
any adequate authority in the code of
international law" Again he says: They
CIer Majesty's Governnent) fully concur
with the view which President Monroe
apparently entertained, that. any dis
turbance of the existing territorial dis