New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-07

90 now an absolute boundary; II
wos not till after Lord Aberdeen hau omid he
the line and had given assurance tons were COM
menced Then it that the venezuela e rshtfu
reasssrsd the tba ord Aberdeen proposed d.
vsional line beginning near '"e
II is true as Lord Salisbury says ina. two con.
this proposition Lord aberdeen Would agree not
~ aI1enate any portion OF the remaining indian
to third Power and not to ma't hat Lord Aber
Seen refused to make these conditions S pro
that it pending these ';aur,mediate answer
appears to been given The ,oowed in due
s to which Lord Salisbury se, we're Obligated
to occupy or attempt to occupy any p after the
then &C Should be- finally settled
vrNrz,,r1.A,s RIGHTS ON THE ORINOCO.
That the territory then In dispute o'a "os n,s.t
N the Orinoco or to anywhere near !" 10 '"A n.a
s IN. fact that the British Government nsu
more than once and In more forms thah o,- nd
tinctly recognized Venezuelas rignt u LIE over
,ursde,on not d only th as Mouth nms Of the AmsSura
bont y sari AS far eastward the Morocco fvsr
indeed late June ISL o neafy possession Of
p Pont Barma and fortified the mouth OF tne cay
cura the governor o. sasmbiv that England would
netor ouaranee any protection or compensation nd
British settlers in that vicinity IN favor Of Venez-
e. 49, The But S'ssT
eatons we're true it would not be mat sn,e For
real w Sard ny0 Ss party that
such occupancy conveys legal tue orcusively shown
SH vS the III
that his Government ,oes forcSe Possession Of
al the teSoy within it. , TS' ia Xss at i'snsS
violation Of tn the rs C thai the and
J asty of Of line WIS ,SO rsa
made on the distinct understanding htnn nd ser
III matt
cam to that position and second that I've esab
hsd previously YGataa t a%d by mining
concessions within the disputed tert ths Srst Lord
s1s o
the she sere Maesys
r, to a aSsnd Se any Which
v formerly held by the Dutch In Guiana.
THE MINING CONCESSIONS.
t1ers ,s wide distinction between the reservation
~ q canricious frontier line which had just oeeh
specifically and Internationally abandoned anu a
general reservation or rights TO terr''o,'' ~
much or little that was formerly heiu ny VI.
venenueIa Believes on just grounds that the as
put I'd territory contemplated by tne aSae ,ween the
oro @s aa nd the Esssaubo she
has always insisted az she Sun s,1 itsburw com
pans were never intended to include and d ibs no,
n fact include any portion o, vne good NAB of the
country show ha the ne wSth ord el
snp Ia Mueis Wholly beyond the repqdatsd
hombusk Beside 4 is ysry fensFa reTed
x the Ss s. cS pus er,s SS
vens rs to- al he territory Of L the e.:
s ssSySSb gHsi BY British and which
has been in the unnerruped sos Two % centu
fna and lie e makes this in the very fac fac
the generally accepted
son of single foot OF ground west q the Es
aequibo nor even any r hs by the public trea-
ties already cited Engands present ss sdsm Of
mens stood in 1874 And surely he would nc G n
% Of OF disputed territory after the dispute
hal arisen can invest title by prescription or tnsf
because nsrs ARE Therefore the Country they nhabi,
is necessarily British territory
POPULATION OF BRITISH GUIANA
As a matter of fact however. it is very well
known that there no 10000 British SUBJECTS
.et,led west OF the Essequibo. There are not the
half of that number. 1t Is extremely douDtfu
whether there as many as 1000. According 70
the latest and most reliable census reports tne
populatlon OF the whole OF British Guiana hardy
weeds 300 600 or these over hundred thousand
are negroes most Of whom aliens from the
West India Island and comparatively rev oi 9 snIii
100. 90 more are East Indian and Chinese coolies:
who We're brought out from Calcutta ana az oam ar
and elsewhere In India and China under nve yeaa as
inlenture and are at best l!ttle more IMAM sases
The entire white population Is probably less a
1900 and the voting population less than . 49,
West OF the Essequibo there II not sihg.e BRUSH
settlement that was not made agans, the or RE
peated remonstrances and formal protes1s OF t me
Colombian and Nenezuea an authorities THOSE pc
tween the pumaroon and Moroeo rivers as .s aiS3
origin. 1t Is believed that not one OF them ex's hes
ever had even the passive concurrence OF venez-
uela Those Of the Morocco and on the eastern
one OF them had an existence twenty years ago.
while those at Barima Point on the Brazo Barima
on the Guiana and at the mouth OF the Amacura
most OF them less than dozen years Old
THE LEGITIMATE SUCCESSOR OF SPAIN.
Lord Sallsbury's alluson to Venezuela as the
se.f-constuted nheri:or OF Spain Is still more I'M
fortunate. For surely this late day he would not
be understood contestng the long-established
rule repeatedly applied By the United States and as
repeatedly recognized by Great Britain. that when
a European colony dependency in America be-
comes independent II succeeds pso facto to the ter
ritoral limits Of the colony or dependency as those
limits stood In the hands OF the parent country"
now proposes to make Venezuela the first and only
exception to that rue thrse-quarters OF a century
mal.y recognized by the Powers OF the world.
he clearly mlsapprehends the meaning Of the
similar decorations in the fundamental laws Of the
GA ,h co9m6ian Union namely that the territory
to me political changes Of isl9 was denominaed the
by newly constituted state. he says can have
no valid force as against International arrange
which II has separated itself" Assuredly not no.
body has ever contended that It can What Is
contended for is that the limits OF the. territory
comprised in the Captancy General OF Venezuela
they stood in 1910 are to-day the rghtfu limits
Of the territory OF the republic the legitimate
inherior Of Spain.
In other words. the Western frontier bound Try
between Spanish and Dutch Guiana In 1910. wher-
ever that was. Is undoubtedly the present rightsul
boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana
Lord Salisbury himself seems to admit this for
further his dispatch he says: THE present
difficulty would never have arisen II the Govern
ment or Venezuela had been content 10 calm rn,y
those territories which could be proved or even
reasonably asserted to have been practically In the
possession and under the effective jurisdiction OF