The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-01-16
AMERICA And ENGLAND
A Leading Partisan Journal on Presi
dent Cleveland S Message.
BRITISH PRIDE'S SEVERE TRIAL
The United States Will Resist by Every
Means the Acquisition by England
of Any Venezuelan Territory.


British pride has been subjected
within twenty four hours to the sever
est trial it has had to endure since the
beginning of the century. The Presi
dent of the United States addresses to
Congress in Washington message
which will be heard far and wide, for
it's strikes severe blow to England s
prestige in all parts of the world and
places her in the dilemma either of try
ing the most dangerous of adventures
OF of yielding to the naughty ultima
tum addressed to her
The United States will not permit
England to arrange according to her
own caprice the boundary line between
her Guiana frontier and that of Vene-
zuela. The Monroe doctrine is to be
applied. English diplomacy having
rejected all arbitration, the great
American republic will send commits
sion, directed to give an exact account
Of the rights and wrongs of the two
parties to the case. An appropriation
will cover the expenses Of the commits
sion, which must make it's report in as
short Il time as possible.
Such is President Cleveland declar-
alton, and he ends it with these solemn
and proud words:
No va Tr1fE nf 1,A hi <,l
States to resist by every means in its
power, as a willful aggression upon its
rights ami interests, the appropriation
by Great Britain of any territory
which, after investigation. we have
determined Of right belongs to Vene-
zuela. I am fully alive to the respon
sibility incurred and keenly recognize
all the consequences that may follow.
l am, nevertheless, firm in nay convic-
ton that while il is grievOus thing
to- contemplate the two great English
speaking peoples of the world as being
otherwise than friendly competitors
i'll the onward march of civilization
and strenuous and worthy rivals in all
the arts of peace, there is no calamity
which great nation can invite which
equals that which follows a supine
submission to wrong and injustice, and
the consequent loss of national self
respect and honor.
The arbitration which Lord Sails
bury put aside is officially forced upon
him. The United States reserves to
itself the power to judge and put an
end to the difficulty. 1t takes meas
ures to make the intervention at once
equitable and irresistible, and it from
the start incloses the Queens govern
ment with terrible dilemma-submis-
sion, which means humiliation, or.
which means war.
War-that is, an implacable duel
against all the energies, all the ardOrs,
all the moral and material forces that
united America can let lOOse-England
is III no condition to run it's risks or
accept chances. Seven million Irish
men, whom her policy of iniquity and
violence has driven from their native
soil and cast upon the territory of the
republic, where they are powerful and
free, would be the soul of the stubborn
contest.
What an opportunity for requittal
And what an army that would be in
which the avengers of Ireland
marched side by side with the grand
sons OF the heroes of the war Of inde-
pendence The whole of Europe
would not dare to brave the new world.
united III its strongest passions, it's
most lmpetuous wraths, it's dearest in
terest. But England would stand
alone, and in this gigantic struggle
could count on the support or compile
ty of no one.
The sea, which she has too long
'uled and oppressed. would soon be GOV.
red with her wrecks. The agreement
nat, 1nterdicts privateering is a mere
diplomatic scrap of paper, which the |
irst storm would blow away. At the
ignal given by the United States more
han one bold sailor of the Norman,
3reton, or PrOvencal coasts would feel |
,oiling within him the blood of the
ean Barts. the Surcoufs, the Suffrens
Africa, Asia would move. The threat
ned danger would be universal.
The United States will obtain COM
lete satisfaction through it's vigorous
ttltude. The time is past when Brit
Sh diplomacy bought up one half the
7orld and intimidated the others. It
only strong with the weak like the
latabeles or with towards like the
'addlngtons and Deselles. 1t knows
ow to be prudent toward those who
re determined to defend the dignity
their country. A great lesson will
e given to all nations. -Lucien Mile.
oye IN the Paris Patrie.