The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-12-26

tended peoples safety and greatness
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Executive Mansion, December IL, 1895
SECRETARY OLNEY'S VIEWS.
He Tells the British Premier the United
States 10 Sovereign on This Continent and
Its Flat Ia Law.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S-Accompany-
ing the presidents message in regard
to the Venezuela complication is the
correspondence on the subject 1t
starts with Secretary Olney's note re-
opening the negotiations with Great
Britain, looking to the arbitration of
the boundary dispute. This bears the
date of July 20 last and is
addressed to Mr.. Bayard. The
secretary begins by stating that the
president has given much anxious
thought to the subject and has not
reached conclusion without lively
sense OF its great Importance as we'll
as Of the serious possibility involved in
any action now to be taken. He then
comments on the long duration of the
boundary dispute, the ''indefinite"
claims Of both parties and 1.-The contin-
uous growth Of the underlined British
claims" the fate of the various at
tempt at arbitration of the controversy
and the part in the matter heretofore
taken by the United States He shows
that the British claims since the
Schomburg line was run have moved
the frontier of British Guiana farther
and farther to the westward of the
line proposed by Lord Aberdeen in
1874. He then summarizes the situa.
ton at the beginning of the year and
the secretary lays it down as
canon of international law,
that nation may justly inter-
pose in q controversy between other
nations whenever what is done or
proposed by any Of the parties prima-
rily concerned is a serious and direct
menace to its own integrity, tranquil.
ity or welfare" This leads the secre-
tary up to an elaborate review Of the
Monroe doctrine and after stating that
the proposition that America is no part
open to colonization has long been
conceded, he says that present concern
is with the other practical application
of the Monroe doctrine-that Amer
lean non-intervention in Europe nee
essarily implied European non-inter-
vention in American affairs, the disre-
gard of which by any European power
is to be deemed an act of unfriendli-
ness toward the United States.
The secretary says that it is mani
fest that rule which has been openly
and uniformly acted upon by the ex-
ecutive branch of the government for
70 years must have had the sanction Of
congress.
american questions, 1t is said, are
for American decision" says Secretary
Olney, and then applying this doctrine
in the reverse he says:
II oil Europe were suddenly to fly to arms
over the fate Of Turkey, would 1t not be pre-
posterous that any American state should find
itself inextrcably involved in the miseries and
burdens OF the contest? What have the states
Of America to do with the vast armies and
fleets Of Europe and why should they be i'm
poverlshed by wars in which they can have no
direct concern ?.The moral interests Of Europe
are peculiar to her and entirely
adverse from those which are pecu-
liar to America. Europe is. with q single inn
chicll principle. America is devoted to the
idea that every people has an inalienable right
OF self-government. Any European control Of
our interests is necessarily both incongruous
and injurious and, II the forcible intrusion Of
European powers in American politics is to be
deprecated, the resistance must come from the
United States, the only power with strength
adequate to the exigency
The secretary then says:
ho Of TYnfa,f CfafaS ~ Wit nj
interest in the cause Of popular self-govern-
ment, which they have secured at the cost Of
infinite blood and treasure. The age of the
crusade has passed and they are content with
such assertion and defense Of the rights OF
self-government as their own security and
welfare demand 1t is In that view more than
any other that they will not tolerate the
political control Of the American states
by the forcible assumption of q European
power The mischicfs to be apprehended
from such q course are none the less real
because not Immediately imminent In any
specific case. The United States Is to-day
practically sovereign on this continent and
its hat is law. All the advantages Of this
superiority are OF once imperiled II the
principle be admitted that European pow
ers may convert American states into coll
onies of their own. The principle could be easily
avails6 Of and any power doing so would i'm
mediately secure base Of military operations
against Us and 1t is not inconceivable that the
struggle now going on for the acquisition Of At
RIGA might be tr nsferred to South America.
The weaker countries would soon be absorbed
and South America wonld be partitioned be-
tween European powers.
There Is then doctrine Of American public
law we'll founded In principle and abundantly
sanctioned by precedent which entities ant
requires the United States to treat as ar
injury to herself the forcible assumption by al
European power OF political control over an
American state The application Of the doc
trine to the boundary dispute between Great
Britain and Venezuela remains to be made,
and presents no real difficulty
mob Rule at Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18.-Philadel-
phia is all but at the mercy of gang