The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
TACTICS OF JOHN BULL.
The Policy of Aggression Not
Pursued Without a Hidden
Purpose.
GRADUAL INCREASE OF POWER.
It Is Time for the United States to
Check England in the En-
CroachmentS.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 30.-In the
Senate o-day a historical review of the
Venezuelan boundary question was de-
livered by Lodge (R.) of Massachusetts,
who insisted on the importance and neces-
sity to the United States of the mainte-
nance of the Monroe doctrine. In sum-
ming up his speech. Lodge said he did not
believe that the people OF England had the
least desire to engage in hostilities with
the United States any more than the
United States desired hostilities with Eng
land. Nor did he believe that the English
people took any very serious interest in
the disputed territory. The people of the
United States, he asserted, had no desire
to interfere with any rightful possession of
Great Britain in Venezuela, but they could
not allow England to set up claims to
American territory and then seize and
hold the territory by force. II Great
Britain could do that successfully in Vene-
zuela she could do it in Mexico and Cuba,
and, if she could do it, other nations could
do the same.
Lodge said he had intended not to ad-
dress the Senate until the joint resolution
introduced by him giving to the declara-
tion made by Monroe in his message of
December, 1923, the formal sanction of
Congress. had received the consideration
of the Committee on Foreign Relations.
But since then the President had sent in
his message on the Venezuelan difficulty
and Congress. without dissenting voice,
hed.-vthorized the commission which the
LoI Ill
to much wild tIsk and cries. more vocal
than numerous, from thosSe who believe we
should never do anything p clash with
England's interests. This outS2ry, coupled
with London's attempt to frighcep Con-
gress by producing stock panic,t had
tended to confuse the issue. He therefore
thought little cool legislation woulG not
be out of place.
Two cardinal principles, he said, had
always governed the United States ! in
their relations with foreign nations. The
first was Washington's neutrality doctriipe
as laid down in the farewell address. The
second was the Monroe doctrine, the hiss-
tory of which he traced in detail. T. )
only attempt heretofore made by outsit
powers to break through that doctrine wa
the Joint intervention of England and
France and Spain Mexico in 1861. 4 sect
ond case has now arisen and the mainl-
tenance OF the Monroe doctrine is again
threatened as it was by the French in
1862. This second attack upon the pria-
ciple of the Monroe doctrine comes from
Great Britain and is made under cover of
a boundary dispute with Venezuela.
In order to show the importance of this
controversy which had now reached
crisis affecting most gravely the honor,
tie interests, the rights and the well-set-
tied policy of the United States he
sketched "briefy" as he said, but with
elaborate details, the history of the dis
pute between Great Britain and Vene-
zuela and of the negotiations between the
two countries. He continued as follows:
at will be observed from this brief out
line of the dispute that no new rights
have come to England or to Venezuela
since 1924, i. e., since the declaration of
President Monroe They have the rights
of Spain and Holland respectively, moth
ing more and nothing less, and are enti-
tied to exactly what those inherited rights
give them. In 1886 a British Minister
acknowledged that Point Barima be-
longed TO Venezuela by asking the Ven
ezuelan Government to erect lighthouse
there. In 1910 British court in Demerara
declared the territory of the Morocco, far
to the east OF the Orinoco, to be Venezue-
Ian territory. In l841 an English engineer
laid out perfectly arbitrary line running
from the mouth of the Orinoco in south
efIy direction until itreached the southern
boundary of British Guiana. Lord Aber-
deem disavowed this line and proposed
another starting at the river Morocco and
going further into the interior; Lord
Granville proposed another line running
further to the west Lord Rosebery an
other inside the Schomburgh line, but
coupled with the free navigation of the
Orinoco.
''fn 1893 he proposed second line, and
meantime Lord Salisbury had extended
the British claim while he was Secretary
for Foreign Affairs. Every British Minis
Ter has offered g different line, within
which Great Britain would not consent to
arbitrate, and every British Minister has
gone beyond his predecessor in making
fresh claims to the territory beyond the
line which he offered, about which he
would arbitrate At first sight this seems
to denote Inconsistency on the part OF the
British Government, but IN reality their
course has just been the reverse. There is
apparently just as much support for one
line as another when they pass beyond
the valley of the Essequibo. From Schom-
burg down every line was entirely arbi-
trary, and the constantly growing claims
beyond the various lines offered was in
entire keeping with the policy of the
British Government. Their object was to
get as much new territory as they could if
the matter ever came to settlement,
which they have used every artifice to
delay.
Asserting his belief that Great Britain
ba<, M GOOD cIai,,, +o a f,ot of lapd havond