Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-02-13
SALISBURY is HEARD.
He Declares He Is supporter of the
Monroe Doctrine.

London. Feb. 1.-The banquet of the
Non-Conformist Unionist association
at the Hotel Metropole Friday night
was the occasion for an address by the
marquis of Salisbury, prime minister
and secretary for foreign affairs In
the course of his remarks he said. with
referance to Venezuela:
''T have been held up as the denouncer OF
the Monroe doctrine. AS a matter of fact
although the Monroe doctrine is no part
OF international law. my dispatch to Mr..
Olney, the secretary of state of the United
states. supported it as a rule of policy ia
the strongest and most distinct terms
But when l stated in that dispatch and
reiterate now, that as a rule of policy we
are the entire advocates of the Monroe
doctrine mean the Monroe doctrine as
President Monroe understood it. In that
sense you will not find any more convinced
supporters than we are.
Lord Salisbury then turned abruptly to
the Armenian question, and he reproached
the religious communities with laboring
under a mistake when they supposed that
England had bound herself in honor TO
succor the Armenians, which means to go
10 war with the sultan in order to force him
10 govern the Armenians well. The Ber-
lin treaty. Lord Salisbury said. merely
bound the signatory powers that if the
sultan promulgated certain reforms they
reforms-nothing more. He did not think
anyone could interpret that as an under
taking to go 10 extreme measures. He con-
tinued:
Mr.. Gladstone wrote letter that Eng
land could cope with five or six sultans.
That was most ill-judged and rash OBJ
seryation. If the sultan would meet US on
the open, undoubtedly we could cope with
hve or six sultans But it is not worth
arguing the possibility of England occu-
plying these inaccessible provinces.
Il am not bound TO answer the question
why Europe did not interfere. ! say con-
fidentially that none of the powers wished
to interfere, and | believe their view is tina:
with patience the sultan's prestige, which
is the only power left In the country will
ultimately reestablish order and allow in
ouStfy and commerce to take their usual
secure course. That is their view, and it
is our duty to give the sultan time 1T is
not for me to pass judgment on that view,
but no other remedy has been suggested.
1t is some encouragement to find that al
ready some degree of order is being re-
stored
If you do not act with the great powers
you must act against them and produce
calamities far more awful and terrible
than the Armenian atrocities
London. Feb. IAN editorial in the
Chronicle QiberaD this morning describes
Lord Salisburys speech las the most
amazing utterance that ever fell from the
lips of the governor of great empire at
the crisis of its fortune. Lord Palmerston,
in his widest after-dinner escapades, could
not have beaten it. 1t will do England
grievous harm in the eyes of the world.
He bestowed but one word on America
and it had better have been unspoken
We take leave TO tell him that he is play
ing with fire again. He should have said
either less or more. His confession OF
failure with regard to Armenia is a most
ignominious admission.