Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-06
MORE STRAIGHT TIPS
On American Sentiment Given the
English Public.
The Correspondent Of the London
Chronicle Indirectly Addresses
Some Sound Sense to Lord Sails
Disqualification Cardinal
American Principle, Which Will
be Insisted Upon.

London January 5.-Mr Henry Nor
man, the special commissioner of the
London Daily Chronicle, cables as fol-
lows from Washington:
"The London correspondents of the
American papers having revealed my
identity here, I have been overwhelm-
ed with expressions of sympathy and
thanks to the Chronicle for putting the
American case and opinion before the
British public. All the papers com
ment most kindly AS I have tried to
explain, Americans believe that their
attitude of demanding arbitration is
one with which civilized men must
sympathize. In support of this the
whole Union, if needful, will speak " G
absolutely one voice. But at the SAKE
time there is here an infinite desire 10
see an immediate
AMICABLE SETTLEMENT.
I have to-day talked with several men
who are being denounced in New York
as jingoes and the above are their ear
nest statements. The people simply
cannot understand Lord Salisbury's at
titude. A Senator said TO me to-day he
thinks the same as if a millionaire
quarrelled with his intimate friend be-
cause he had lost ten cents in his house.
I repsat, with every ounce Of influence
I possess, that everybody here worth
considering desires peace. II Lord Sal
isbury can find way to make the
slightest advance toward recognition
of the Am srican attitude he will be re-
ceived with wide open arms.
The responsibility of any man or
ministry holding back at such a mo-
ment when England needs
EVERY FRIEND SHE HAS,
for the sake Of mere dignity or Obsti-
nate adherence to the letter of diplO-
macy is appalling to contemplate.
REGARDING the Aberdeen dispatches
and the Schomburgk line, I must eX-
plain my attitude. l assert nothing,
nv means Of information being neces-
sarilv limited. | simply ask a refuta-
ton of the statement that the corre-
spondence I cabled proves that Eng
land in 1S41 freely admitted the Schom-
burgk line to be destitute OF any author
itv or validity as the basis of terri
torial claim. The New York Evening
Post. indulging in some clever fooling
at nv EXPENSE. quotes Lord Aberdeen 5
letter of March 30 1914, which states
that England by removing the bound
arv posts did not cede any rights which
she might consider herself authorized
10 claim in the future. Unless better
report is possible my position Is
INDEED UNASSAILABLE.
base nv contention upon the British
official statements at the actual time the
boundary posts were removed. No eX
nos- facto explanations three years later
can affect this. If England made any
condition when she ordered the practic-
al destruction OF the Schomhurgk line
i'm 1871. in response to the repeated ar
guments demands and insisience of the
Venezuelan government. then let us
have the official correspondence con-
tanning those contentious. II these cam
not be produced. then my documents
and my contentious hold the field.
But the question az stake is infin-
itely bigger than such arguments or any
prOmiscuOus discussion Of the Monroe
doctrine. The American government
and people would he perfectly willing.
and indeed glad, to see England
SECURE ANY AMOUNT
of Venezuelan territory if her claim is
capable Of historical and diplomatic
proof. They are willing to meet Eng
land I'm anv direction and to any eX-
tent in finding a competent tribunal 10
determine this. They ask only that
Lord Salisbury's blunt refusal and
President Cleveland's menaceS alike be
set aside and forgotten. They regard
the demand for arbitration as the sa-
cred right of great. powerful nation
standing on what it believes TO be a
matter of principle Now, Lord Sails
| bury is a great man. He has a life
time reputation for brilliant foreign
statesmanship. Whatever he may do.
his patriotism and dignity are beyond
question. The American government
and seventy million people earnestly
and sOlemnly invite him to forget the
past and meet their national convic-
tions half way. If he will, the voice
o. every reasonable man on this con-
tinent will be raised to praise him.
To nv absolute knowledge, I am ex-
pressing the heartfelt sentiments of the
American government.
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