The evening times., 1895-12-17
sALIsBuRY's TERsE REPLIES,
He Says We Are Not CONCERNED In the
Nt.iiez ne lAn EiSnufe

He Says We Are Not CONCERNED In the
| Nrnezuean Dispute.
Lord Saiisbury's reply is addressed TO
Sir Julian Pauncefotc, british Ambassad dor
at Washington under date OF November 70
last. TINS dealtonly Wit: the application OF
tiie eiUflrO uDcirn, III Inc case issue, ana
was followed OH the same day by another
note uiscaos,ng the bounuary dispute per
ST.
AT the outset Lord Salisbury states TINT
30 lar ds lie Is aware the nionrtsr doe. rInc
has never been before aayaIIcfd on betialr
OIL the United States In any written cOiuml-
niciition addressed 10 TIE government OF AN
other uation. Hr giyes wnat he belicyes is
the BRUSH Interpretation of the doctrine,
aud maintains inut tie .ianScrs which were
apprehended ny President monroe have no
reiation 10 the state 81 Things in which We
i've at the pZeseut day, and adds, with
tllniy-covercd irony, tu;.L 1T Is inteilig ibie
that Mr.. Oiuey should invoke III defense of
th. views on WHICH it nOw lnsisiing an
authority (MonroeJ which enjoys SO high
inen."
Tue dispute between Great Britain aud
Venezuela. AYERS Lord Salisbury, is a cOn-
iroycrs; witb which the United states have
no oapparent practical coucerH.
Continuing III short. piihy sentences, he
says II is difficult, indeed, 10 see bow the
question in controversy eau materially
attest any STATE OF community outside
those primarily Interested; tnai tie dispated
frontier OF Venezuela has not hing IT, do
with any of The questions dealt with by
President Monroe: that il is not u ques-
ton OF The coiopizatiop of any European
power OF any portion Of America. nor of the
imposition upon the communities or South
Ancri"a Of any system or government de-
visci in Europe.
1T is" h.. says "sianniy the determine
;ioU OF the frontier or british possession
which belonged TO ti,e throne or Enetsnd
long before the republic of Venezuela cane
INTO existence
As he proceeds in the discussion the
language OF Lord Salisbury becomes tart.
lie argues on the theory that the Mon
roe doctrine In itself Is sound, but dis
claims any intention of Icing understood
as expressing any acceptance OF IL Cn the
part OF her ma jeSty's government.
He qutes Mr.. Oincy as saying: That dis
tance ana 5000 miles of Intervening ocean
make any political union between a Euro
Dean and an American State unnatural and
inexpedient, will hardly bc denied" and
ADDS that 1.-The necessary meaning OF these
words is that the union between Great
Britain and Canada, between Great Britain
.iI.i JaLi4Ic;i and Trinidad: between Great
britain and British Honduras or British
Guiana are 'tneXpcdient and unnatural -
President Monruc, says his lordship. dis
Claims any such inference from his doctrine;
but IN this. as ia ether respects, Mr.. OtDey
develops it.
He lays down." says Lord Salisbury,
that the inexpedient aud unnatural char
acter of the union between European and
an American slate is so obvious that H. VIII
hardly be denied. Her hatestys govern
inent are prepared eiBphatiafsily TO deny
IL ON behalf OF Doth the british ana American
people who are sabjert to her crown They
ma intain that the union between Great
tiri,ain and her territories i'll the western
hemisphere is both nat,iral and exredient.
but tney are not prepared TO admit that the
recognition OF that expediency is clothed
with the sanction which belongs to aGOp
tion or International law.
''They are not prepared to admit that the
interests OF the United States are ncces-
sarily concerned III every frontier dispute
whicn may arise between any two OF the
States who Possess dominion i'll the Western
and stiii less can they accept
the doctrine that the United States are en-
titled to claim that the process OF arbitration
shall he applied to any demand for the
OF territory which one OF those
states ma = make against another
Lord Salisbury concludes with the state
nenL LDat her ina Jest s. 'sgcvernneut havenot
the hope that the controversy
Dc adjusted by reasonable arrangement ut
III early date.
The second note of November &c is
sboIly devoted TO discussion of the
,m,paary Gjsnute exclusive OF i,s relation
% he Monroe doctrine. This dispatch. how |
'ver. sounds the keynote OF Great Britain's |
,osition with reference to Mr.. 0iney's |
representations.
Lord Salisbury states that Great Britain |
las repeatedly expressed its readiness to |
uhInit to arbitration the conflicting claiuis
# Great Britain to territory of great min |
raj value and follows this statement with |
hese important words:
but they the British 4eyerHmeHt) cannot /
oDseuf to entertain. or submit 10 the arbi- |
ration of another power or 4 foreign ;urist,
owever eminent, claims based on eXtraya-
.ant pretens:ons of Spanish officials in the /
asst century, and involving the transfer or |
arge numbers OF British subjects, who have
or many years enjoyed the settled rule OF
he British colony. To a nation of different
ace and language. whose political lnstt-
utions as yet too often afford very made
uaie protection to life and property
mo issue of this description has ever
cen involved in the questions which Great
sritain and the United States have Con-
ented to submit to arbitration, and
er majesty's government are convinced
nat insinniar circumstances tn hetiOvcrnment
{ the United States would be equally
rm in declining to entertain proposals