The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-18
HE BACKS UP OLNEY
CLEVELAND SENDS A RINGING AMER
loan MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
He Upholds the Position Taken by the
Secretary Of State ON the vene-
.uelan Dispute.
DEFINES MONROE'S DOCTRINE
TELLS WHY ENGLAND's ATTITUDE
IS DANGEROUS TO OUR PEACE,
And Suggests that Provision BE Made
for q Commfssion to Fully Inves-
tigate the Controversy.
OLNEY'S NOTE TO SALISBURY
EVEN STRONGER AND MORE PATRI-
OTTO THAN The PRESIDENTS.
He States Clearly and Forcib1y the
Position OF the United States and
Gives Strong Reasons.
AMERICA is FOR AMERICANS
AND NO EUROPEAN AGGRESSION CAN
BE PERMITTED, HE SAYS.
Uncle Sam II Sovereign ON This Con-
tinent and His Fiat IL Law-Two
Letters from Salisbury.
He States Clearly and Forcib1y the
Position OF the United States and
Gives Strong Reasons.
AMERICA rs FOR AMERICANS
AND NO EUROPEAN AGGRESSION CAN
BE PERMITTED, HE SAYS.
Uncle Sam II Sovereign ON This Con-
tinent and His Fiat Is Law-Two
Letters from Salisbury.

WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. - President
Cleveland to-day transmitted special mes
sage to Congress on the Venezuelan con-
troversy, accompanied by the correspond
ence between Secretary Of State Olney and
Lord Salisbury on the subject. The mes
sage follows:
ITO the Congress:
I'm my annual message addressed to the
Congress on the Sd inst. l called attention
to the pending boundary controversy be-
tween Great Britain and the republic of
Venezuela and recited the substance Of rep
resentation made by this government to
her Britannia Majesty's government, sug-
gesting reasons why such dispute should
be submitted for settlement and inquiring
whether II would be so submitted. The an
swer of the British government, which was
then awaited, has since been received, and
together with the dispatch to which ii Is a
embodied in two communications addressed
by the British Prime Minister to Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador at this
capital.
TT will be seen that one of these COM
munications Is devoted exclusively to obser-
vations the Monroe doctrine, and claims
that in the present instance a new and
strange extension and development of this
doctrine is insisted on by the United States;
that the reasons justifying an appeal to the
doctrine enunciated by President Monroe
things in which We Il se at the present day,
and especially inappiicable to a contro-
Great Britain and Venezuela.
Without attempting extended argument
in reply to these positions. it may not be
amiss to suggest that the doctrine upon
which we stand is strong and sound, be-
cause it's enforcement is important to our
peace and safety as a nation, and is es-
tions. and the tranquil maintenance of our
distinctive form Of government. 1t was in
tended to apply to every stage of our ma
tional life, and cannot become obsolete
Nv q
of power is Justly cause for Jealous anxi-
ETY. among the governments OF the old
world and a subject for our our , abb
is an observance of ,,our Monroe
doctrine of vital concern to our people
fore, that we may properly insist upon this
doctrine, without regard to the state OF
things in which we live or any changed
parent why its application may not be in
voked in the present controversy.
THE POINT AT ISSUE.
"If European power. by an extension Of
it's boundaries. takes possession of the ter
rftory of one of our neighboriag republics
against it's will. and in derogation of it's
rights, 1t is difficult to see why, to what
extent, such European power does not
thereby attempt to extend it's system Of
government to that portion of the conti-
nent which is thus taken. This is the pre-
else action which President Monroe de-
clared to be dangerous to our peace and
safety and 1t can make no difference
whether the European system is extended
by an advance of frontier or otherwise.
.'It is also suggested in the British reply
that we should not seek to apply the Mon
roe doctrine to the pending dispute, because
1t does not embody any principle Of interna-
eral consent OF nations, and that mo states
man, however eminent and no nation,
into the code of international law a novel
principle which was never recognized before
and which has not since been accepted by
the the ei prcpe for Which
contend has peculiar IL not exclusive rela-
ton to the United States. 1t may not have
been admitted in SO many words TO the
code of international law, but since, in inter-
national councils, every nation is entitled to
the rights belonging to IL, IL the enforce
ment of the Monroe doctrine is something
code Of International law as certainly and
as securely as II ii were specifically men,
toned and when the United States is
suitor before the high tribunal that admin
listers international law the question to be
determined is whether or not we present
claims which the justice OF that code of law
can find TO be right and valid.
1.-THE Monroe doctrine finds it's recognition
in those principles of international law
which are based upon the theory that every
nation shall have its rights protected and its
ernment is entirely confident that under the
sanction of this doctrine we have clear
rights and undoubted claims. Nor is this
ignored in the British reply. The Prime
Minister, while not admitting that the Mon
roe doctrine is applicable to present condi-
tions, states: In declaring that the United
States would resist any such enterprise if
it was contemplated, President Monroe
adopted policy which received the entire
sympathy OF the English government of that
date He further declares: Though the
language Of President Monroe Is directed to
the attainment OF objects which most Eng
lishmen would agree TO be salutary, II Is
impossible TO admit that they have been in
scribed by any adequate authority in the
They cher Majesty's governmenD fully con-
cur with the view which President Monroe
apparently entertained that any disturb
ance OF the existing territorial distribution
in that hemisphere by any fresh acquisi-
tions on the part or any European state
would be a highly inexpedient change
ARBITRATION REJECTED.
In the belief that the doctrine for which
We contend was clear and definite; that It
was founded upon substantial considera-
tions. and involved our safety and welfare;
that II was fully applicable to our present
conditions and TO the state Of the worlds
progress, and that 1t was directly related
to the pending controversy, and without any
convictions as TO the final merits OF the dis
pute but anxious to learn in a satisfactory
ain sought. under q claim Of boundary, to
extend her possessions on this continent
without right. or whether she merely sought