The San Francisco call., 1895-12-15
Real and Ultimate Object Of
Great Britain's Present
Attitude.
OUR DUTY IN THE PREMISES
We Must Shut England Out of the
Control Of That Rich
Country.

The intimation in the recent dispatches
as to the tenor of Lord Salisbury's reply
to Secretary Olney's proposition to submit
the Venezuelan boundary question to arbi-
tration and his refusal to do SO causes q
new interest to befelt in the question and
the probable outcome of the situation.
That Congress will speedily take some
action indorsing the Monroe doctrine and
making it principle of our National pol
icy and vital factor in the consideration
aud settlement of this question and all
others that may arise in future seems GER
tain.
1t is to be hoped that the administra-
ton will awaken to some realization of the
interests involved and vigorously and en-
phatically insist on such a settlement as
will secure to our weak sister republic all
the rights and territory that she wrested
from Spain-with none of which has
she ever parted. No verbiage or
profusion of alleged facts of surveys and
explorations or boundary lines run by
British subjects should be allowed to OBJ
scure the real merits of the question and
cloak Great Britaln's purpose In this mat
ter for one moment.
The true bearing of this question on the
future commercial interests OF this country
can be clearly seen by any one who will
give it little consideration, and the tenn
per of the American people is to protect
those interests at any cost.
always after the great mouth of the
OrinOco" can be truly said to have been the
inspiration of every move that Great
Britain has made and every position she
has taken on the question of the boundary
between her province of British Guiana
and the republic of Venezuela. This object
has been kept steadily in view from the
time she first acquired possession of the
three small Dutch colonies lying on the
coast, between the Essequibo and Corinto
rivers Spain was the possessor by right
of discovery. The Dutch only held pos
session by sufferance on the part of Spain
and they could pass no more title to
Great Britain than they held themselves
And in any case her cession was in no
respect binding on Spain, as she was no
party to the treaty of 1914 and never by
any act confirmed it, nor has Venezuela,
after her, ever conceded foot of territory
west of the Essequibo River to Great
Britain. No sooner did these colonies,
with their shadow of title, come into the
possession of Great Britain than began the
series of moves, always after the great
mouth of the Orinoco." And this policy
bas been steadily followed through all the
succeeding years and the various and
changing Ministries that have held the
helm of state in England. Her diplomats,
we'll trained IN the history of her colonial
acquisitions and the art OF letting time de-
velop a small holding into claim TO an
empire, have kept in view during all these
years the golden stream of wealth that
would ultimately flow into her Golfers
could she but make good her foothold on
the great mouth of the Orinoco and so con-
troll the future commerce of the tributary
regions. Once thus established it will take
something more than protests and remon-
strances to induce er to withdraw. The