The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-23


dearest interests and prudence compels
us to anticipate the difficulties it pre-
pares for u.s.
This precedent tended to establish
the right of every government to inter-
vene in the affairs of foreign states
who saw their situation should tend
to endanger its own safety or the polit-
ioal equilibrium on its frontier" AS
far as Is known every other govern
ment i'm the world tactily acquiesced
in the establishment of this precedent.
IF any government recorded pro-
test it was that of the United States.
but even the United States protested
only by interference from the acts and
language of the president. Secretary
Clayton signed his instructions July Is.
1919, six weeks after the Russian troops
had been ordered to enter Hungary.
The language of these instructions was
as emphatic and as decisive as that of
the ears circular. SHOULD the new
government prove TO be in your opinion
firm and stable, you might intimate, II
you should see fit, that the president
would i'm that event be gratitied to re-
ceive diplomatic agent from Hungary
to the United States by or before the
next meeting of congress. and that he
entortains no doubt whatever that In
case her new government should prove
to he firm and stable her independence
would he speedily recognized by that
enlightened body
THE Russian Intervention brought
the Hungarian war so quickly to an end
that before October all resistance was
over, and when congress met carry IN
December, lSi9. President Taylors an
nual message could only proclaim what
would have been American policy.
grt.,n in, hn o.
tions the Austrian minister was or
dered to take execution. He protested
accordingly. Daniel Webster had then
become secretary of state and replied
to the protest in Il paper known as the
Hulsemam letter. in which he declared
that he believed II to be the American
policy and the law in regard tn new
nationalities claiming recognition.
RIGHTS REGARDING INTERVIEW
TiON.
"Of course questions of prudence ma
turGlly arise in reference to new states
brought by successful revolution into
the family of nations; but it is not to
be required of neutrakpowers that they
should await the recognition OF the
new government by the parent state.
NO principle of public law has been
more frequently acted upon within the
last thirty years by the great powers
of the world than this. Within that
period eight or ten states nave eStho-
iished independent governments WIFI
in the limits of the COLONIAL dominiOns
of Spain ON this continent. anu III fu-
sope the same thing mas Deeh zone
by Belgium ana treece' me cNls'
ence oi all these governments was ~.
ognized by some OF the ieauiiiS power
of Europe as well as by the ohlteu
States bef0re 1t was acknowiedsed ID!
the states from Which they hau se'a-
rated themselves.
IF, therefore. the United states hau
gone so far as torinaliy 10 acknoWi-
edge the independeG.H ofs hungary; al. u.
though, as the eNeh- mas nloNe eu' II
would nave peen precipitate SUI
and ore from whicn no dement, Mou,u
nave fSaulteu W ei'nel Pai's ~ "ou'.
not heNerthrless' nu.s uee" '.,5ad n
against the '"W U, na'lo.ia. III
the! ,ooh ho .'ai' III "'' ''i''>
austria ,,. A. l.,
lh''s oil po'h slu.s tnS ~ III,
'ernei'e potn io' any - a,,i,,,ad
gariahs seenis ~ iaa. a,oI 1 h,, a;thar,
a,lS hot .Mp,e'n,s 20 b.x. offered
anu ho po"It' p,it;on &C y,os shawn
", ni'i1,,, ,rn,,,nr tn tbo nr;nciules
or to the acts of RUSSIA, whicn SET
tied the course OF history.
Besides the -FOUR preceuehls ".
Greece belgium roianu anu iiu'smS
Where "eM n',io", ,',s,, .,,r'hor nf inter
ton, much larseI hui,nc, Va ny ~
Nentiohs occurred III r"io.e a.,
process OF ulsruptioil y, ,o'.noi'uu. .s,.' :,
M -. ,niros NJ tho sultan of
w o'' ~ ,iL - nr 81, nthe,
SPAIN Oh the rhulcn. "iiu VI w rn,
many, Russia ana ltaly. 1901
'lnterVentions nave occurred mus
1898: in Portugal by England, i'm 1927
again in Spain and Portugal in 1886, by
ENGLAND and France, under what was
called the ouadruple treaty; in Pied.
mont and Nanles bv the Holy Alliance
T., 1907 and i'm On MANY instances since
isls that tbe mere enumeration would
ia r,n~ ,nd dificult. but none of tn.
5is,urbed countries claimed permanent
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rndor n form Of revol,,.