The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10


, sage, that "therc would be no war, -
! because the English people, who now
! rule in their government, would
! never permit it to fight for any such
! foolishness as a refusal to arbitrate.
} The promptness aud thoroughness
= with which English opinion is coming
to the right view is indeed wonderful,
plain as the ultimate certainty OF it
was, and it ought to cover with shame
and confusion the Tories Of this
country, in Wall street and elsewhere,
who were so vocifcrously insisting that
there was nothing to do but for this
country to Immediately and abjectly
surrender its whole contention.
Prof. w. Hudson Shaw of Oxford,
university extension lecturer who
thus comes iiuto contact. with all
classes of people, says the message
came to the people, the most of whom
didn't even know of the existence of
any dispute, like thundcrbolt out
of clear sky" CHOW we believe that
the British government was wrong and
drew down President Clcveland's anger
justly" * Lord Salisbury's
action in refusing arbitration is re-
garded as a political blunder and
may say crime "There is
not single Englishman that does not
accept the Monroe doctrine rs laid
down by President Monroe and what
might be called the extension to If
which holds that no European power
should encroach an inch on this con.
tinent. This is of course what Eng
lishmen as a people think; it is not
what the politicians say Henry
Labouchere, the great English iourn
alist and radical leader, says that 'only
an idiot or scoundrel would bring on |
war rather than arbitratc,' in such |
a dispute. Labouchere's paper, the I
London Truth, in long six column |
article analyses the Monroe doctrine
and substantially takes the American
position in regard 70 it, although he
does not think it applies to the Ven
ezuelan boundary line. Truth adds
''Wc ought to do what should have
been done long ago. We ought to sub
NIT the enti.e question of this frontier
line to an arbitrator-the way tho best
IF us have always urged as the only fit
way to deal with international dis
Dutes, and which short time ago a
leputation of English members of
parliament went over TO Washington
% urge as rule of universal applca
ion. i" !
] no safe arbitrator can he found in ;
europe Laboucherc says, leave it to :,
apan. Henry NJ. Stanley declares ;,
hat the Americans arc right and :
theirs begin to see that. Even Bal ;,
our, the Tory leader in the House OF
COMMONS, is going to make state
lent on the subject, so Julian Ralph Il
ablcs TO the n. Y. journal. I,
The London Chronicle has been do N
~ magnificent work in clarifying p
ritish opinion, through its cores Fl
ondent, Henry Norman, who has is
zen in Washington for several weeks la
udying the subject. His conclusion m
that tho Schomburgk line is dcsti az
tie of any authority or validity as the tn
isis Of territorial claim upon Ven m
ucla. He convicts Lord Salisbury be
ON the records with two very grave it
unders, first in denying that the pc
ibera ministry in 1887 agreed to 81
eaty of arbitration, which Norman an
owes that it did do by producing OPP
tier from Earle Granville saying so ag
so many words, and second in deny dii
g that England formally repudiated sal
O Schomburgk line in 1912, which un
shows from the official correspond, OF
CO to have been the exact fact. The col
lronicle says editorially that these liza
sclosures ''vitiate' Sailsbury's wo
Iolc letter TO Olney and render it it
for us to revise our whole pre-
Nv of the situation. THE vital it.
i absorbing feature of the contro- the
'sy," it adds, lis that America de she
cs arbitration and we cannot refuse ten
request - The Pail Mall Gazette ,,
:epts the Chronicles information as
hentic and discusses it as matter oA'
H. ,,tn,os, oo,oorn Tho G. Jamos ing
lette. which had been furious Wv
~. ,o.;.. ,,,aaorl, the
nges its tone and gravely remarks: ,ne
he British people are not being 49,
perly treated by the government ~
N it is left to the enterprise of a
'spaper to discover in foreign ~
ntry that unpublished official cor. '"'.
,ondence upon which peace or r. r,0'
may depend does not Justify the -
ements of our own foreign minis -
- Even the "Thunderer, " the '"'',
don Times, concludes that there 49,
no particular sahet'9 l" tiie decl
omburgk line and says, i've would wou
,ome any reasonable method of set cure
2 the dispute without resort to lust
(Which is all Venezuela or ~ ~
ic Sam or anybody else asks. sheeI
le result will surely be as it was in OH
Bay Island controversy over which lie
, was 50 much war talk in 1916 Dem
British ministry will either back onde
, from it arrogant position abso- cons'
v or do so more gracefully by WOOL