The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-10-12
JOHN BULL STANDS Still
Matters i1 Venezuela Do Not Suit
Him to the Fullest
Extent.
There Is an Idea That Ireland
Shall Not Be Further
Harrassed.
The r1onroe Doctrine and Other
Matters Affecting Amer
ican Affairs.

lCdH AlldlTSs
The intelligence that the president has
made up his mind to give John Bull an
object lesson as to the Monroe doctrine
has rivaued in sensational interest the
shocking news of Turkish and Armenian
conflicts at Constantinople.
The inflammatory evening press deals
ington that Mr.. Cleveland has presented,
or Is about to present, an "ultimaum" to
Great Britain on the subject of the Ven
ezlelan boundary dispute. Some Of the
opinions are pertinent, others inpertinent
or. amusing.
No one takes seriously anything opin-
donated in the columns of the St. James
Gazette. This newspaper is the spoiled
child Of Toryism and needs daily spank
ing. Lord Salisbury would pay no more
attention to it's advice than to the jocu-
larities of Mr.. Labouchere. It is the or
gan in which the efervescent enthusi-
tive party finds vent. It is always enter
tanning and editorially is often as divert
ing as Punch, though 1t lacks the serious
quality of the latter journals pronounce
ments. Punch is the first grave digger of
humorists.
In this wise the ST. James's chortled Of
the rumored ultimatum from Washing
ton, with its alleged limit of ninety days
for an answer: isn't it awful. But it
might be still more awful if we only knew
exactly what the blessed Monroe doctrine
was or what on earth the United States
government has got to do with a quarrel
between Great Britain and another inde-
pendent state
This is just like the st. James, fippant
and slangy. The Westminster Gazette.
the organ of the young radicals, takes the
matter more at heart. IT is to be hoped"
says this journal, that if the settlement
of the question can be hurried up, Lord
Salisbury will do it; but surely President
Cleveland cannot wish to rush us out of
Just claims
OF course no one elieves that Mr.. Oh
ney's communications will mention any
time within which action must or should
be taken. This would be tantamount to
a hostile declaration. The best opinion
is that Great Britain will not be hurried
by the American government, but that
Mr.. Olney's chief object is to define clearly
the Monroe doctrine. London editors
who have been in the habit Of sneering at
Il as an imaginary principle" will be
furious to find that it is a sacred Ameri-
can tradition and solemn fact. It is
quite we'll understood here that thus far
the Manoa grant cuts NO figure in the ne
gotiations The issue is clearly defined:
There shall be no extension of European
territory in the western hemisphere.
The fundamental fact is that in 1850
England entered into an agreemnt with
Venezuela that neither of the parties
should occupy the terrntory in dispute.
This agreement England has violated, for
she has seized since that date a tract al
most as large as the state of New York.
In 1881 she removed the starting point Of
her alleged boundary thirty miles north
west from Morocco, making the Gran,
vile line" Five years afterward she
withdrew to a point on the coast about
midway between Granville's terminus
and the Guiana river. This was Rose
bery's first line" In 1890 she set her ter.
minus on the Orinoco ITSELF at the moutn#
of the Amacuro River, to the west even
of Barima Point This was "Salisbury's
line" In 1893 the boundary was carried
to point west even of the Amacuro, into
the interior Of the country to the Sierra
of Usupamo. This is the new Rosebery.
line
If these excessive advances have not
had in view such acquisition of territory
as would bring the enormously rich min
Ing region of the Orinocovalley into Brit
ish control. it is difficult to understand.
what they have meant. The dispute 5
me which has special claims to arbitra-
ton. 33 2ls,3S 3 d y.9,
Great Britain, as matter Of law, has
succeeded only to those rights formerly
possessed by Holland in,the region east OF
the Orinoco, Venezuela to all those for
merly possessed by Spain. The ques-
ton, then, OF the de jure boundary de-
pends upon the determination OF " nat
boundary existed originally between the
Dutch and Spanish possessions enc
zuela has always Insisted sthatathe Esse-
ouibo river YVES the original line OF ssdi-7
vision. This has never been admitted by
Great Britain; yet prior to 1S40 she had
80 xp,a M much heVOnt1 that