Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-18

those primarily Interested that the dis
Duted frontier of Venezuela has nothing TO
do with any OF the questions dealt with
by President Monroe; that it is not a
question of the colonization of any Euro
pean power, of any portion Of America,
nor of the imposition upon the communi-
ties of South America OF any system of
government devised in Europe.
1t is he says, simply the determination
Of the frontier of a British possession
which belonged to the throne of England
long before the republic of Venezuela
came into existence.
As he proceeds In the discussion, the
language of Lord Salisbury becomes tart.
He argues on the theory that the Monroe
doctrine in itself is sound, but disclaims
any intention Of being understood as ex-
pressing any acceptance of 1t on the part
of Her Maiestys government.
4 He quotes Mr.. Olney as saying THAT
distance and 5000 miles of intervening
ocean make any political union between II
European and an American state I'M
natural and inexpedient will hardly be
denied" and adds that the necessary
meaning of these words is that the union
between Great Britain and Canada, be
tween Great Britain and British Honduras
or British Guiana ara ''inexpedient and
unnatural
President Monroe, says his lordship,
disciaims any such Inference from his
doctrine, but in this, as in other respects,
Mr. Olney develops it. He lays down,
says Lord Salisbury, that the inexpedient
and unnatural character Of the union be-
tween European and an American state
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Her Maiestys government is prepared
emphatoally to deny it on behalf of both
the British and American people who are
subject to her crown. They maintain that
the union between Great Britain and her
territories in the western hemisphere is
both natural and expedient. But they are
not prepared to admit that the recognition
of that cxpediency is clothed with the
sanction which belongs to the adoption Of
International law.
They are not prepared to admit that the
interests Of the United States are ncces-
sarjly concerned in every frontier which
may arise between any two of the states
who possess dominion in the western
hemisphere, and still less can they accept
the doctrine that the United States are en-
titled to claim that the process of arbitra
ton shall be applied to any dc mand for the
surrender of territory which ore of those
states may make against another
Lord Salisbury concludes with the state
ment that Her Majesty s government have
not surrendered the hope that the contro-
versy between themselves and Venezuela
will be adjusted by reasonable arrange
mcnt at an early date.
The second note Of Nov. s6, is wholly
devoted to a discussion Of tie boundary
dispute exclusive Of it's relation to the
Monroe doctrine This dispatch, however,
sounds the keynote of Great Britain
position with reference to Mr. Olnoy $
representations. Lord Salisbury states
that Great Britain has repeatedly ex-
pressed its readiness to submit to arbitra-
ton the conflicting claims OF Great
Britain to territory of great mineral value,
and follows this statement with these i'm
portant words: But they Nhe British
government cannot consent to entertain
or to submit to the arbitration Of another
power or foreign jury, however eminent,
claims based on extravaRant pretensions
of Spanish officials in the last century and
involving the transfer of large numbers of
British subjects who have for many years
enioyed the settled rule of the British
colony to nation of IA different racs ond
language whose political system is snhlect
to frequent disturbance and whose institu-
tons as yet too often afford inadequate
protection to life and property.
mo issue OF this description has ever
been involved In the questions which Great
Britain and the United States have con-
spnted to submit to arbitration, and Her
Majesty's government is convinced that
IN similar circumstances the government
of the United States would be equally
firm in declining to entertain proposals of
such nature