The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-04
WORD WITH BARK ON.
Sec'y Olney to Send England a
Strong Message.
Can't Seize Land in Venezuela
Like Bully.
q. s. WON'T STAND IT.
Must Arbitrate or the q. s.
Will Interfere.
No InsOlent Bulldozing Will be
Allowed by Us.

NEW YORK, Oct. A special to the
Herald from Washington saws: The
great international question of the hour
is the boundary dispute. Secretary Olney
has prepared dispatch to Ambassador
Bayard which will soon bring the matter
to an issue This dispatch is of most
positive and unequivocal nature. AS
soon as it shall be placed before the
British government it will raise an issue
which can be settled only by the retreat
OF one or the other government. The
stand taken by the United States in this
dispatch Is one that involves the oldest
ana most sacred traditions of the Mon
roe doctrine
Secretary Olney's dispatch is a declar-
alton IN the most positive language that
the United States will never consent to
BRUSH occupation Of the. sDused ter-
rtOFy IN Venezuela unless that nations
right thereto Is determined by arbitration.
inns declaration is substantially the same
as that which vas made some months
ago, and to which the British foreign
oihce replied with a statement that while
the English right to a part of the ter
rltory in question could be submitted to
arbitration, the right to another part
could not be submitted TO such adjudica-
tion.
When Great Britain took this ground,
the question which President Cleveland
and his advisers had to decide was
whether the United States was bound by
the Monroe doctrine and by her dignity
to insist that all the territory in dispute
should be submitted to arbitration. or
whether by conceding England's coaten-
lion we should virtually abandon the
held and leave Venezuela to fight it out
alone Few more serious questions have
presented themselves to an American
administration within recent years.
he decision of the president and his
cabinet advisers, after careful discussion
and painstaking investigation, Is that the
bold and consistent policy shall be
adopted, and this policy has been formu-
lated In the dispatch t. Ambassador Bay
| ard
The dispatch meets England's re-
| JoInGer with a reallirmation Of the prin-
! ciple of original contention expressed in
| phrases which leave no possibility of
doubt as to the meaning of the
earnestness of the United States It
does more. In polite but firm
and significant words, Secretary Olney
declares it TO be the belief of the United
States government that the territorial
claims which Great Britain has set up in
Venezuela are in the nature of an at
tempt to seize territory on the American
continent to which she has no legal right.
The secretary points out two horns to the
dilemma, leaving England to choose
which it will accept.
First-If the quarrel with Venezuela
is an ordinary boundary dispute, having
its origin in faulty descriptions imper-
feet surveys or other misunderstanding
refusal to arbitrate the same is con
trary to the precedents set by Greas
Britain herself and contrary to the prac-
tice of all civilized nations.
Second-If on the othar hand. as ap-
pears to he the case, and is the belief of
the president of the United States, the
dispute as to the location of a boundary
line is mere disguise under which
Great Britain is attempting by superior
force to extend her territory in America,
this is directly violative of the Monroe
doctrine, and will never be submitted to
by the United States.
This is the substance of the dispatch
which in all proba bility will soon be-
come one of the most famous dispatches
ever sent out from the State Department.
II is direct, positive and practical ap-
plication of the Monroe doctrine in its
broadest aspect TO the quarrel ketween
Great Britain and Venezuela 1t COM
Inits the .. s. to position which must
be adhered to-