Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-02-25
END OF VENEZUELAN TROUBLE.

Lord Salisbury'S statement has been
received by the British press, as il
doubtless will be by the American, in
a most admirable spirit. No essential
principle has been sacrificed on either
side, says one. The settlement is cred
liable to both parties, says another
and not only creditable but satisfac-
tory, says third. A fourth declares
| the intervention of the United States
! is fully justified. a fifth clearly points
out that both sides have triumphed
signally; America in bringing about
| arbitration and Great Britain in secur-
| ing protection for her colonistst-the
| very objects the two governments have
from the outset had most in view. All
these, and others which might be
quoted, are utterances OF wholesome
! ness and truth, and it is pleasant to
believe that they accurately voice the
sentiments Of the British people The
| response to them in this country will
be no less generous and straightfor-
ward, nor will it less accurately ex-
press the satisfaction, the good will
and the rejoicing of the American
people.-New York Tribune.
Whatever else may have happened
to it, it is certain that the Monroe
doctrine has within the last eleven
months taken on q much less nebulouS
conformation, so far as our own nation
is concerned; that it has hardened and
crystalliZed as well as extended its
scope. 1t has taken such a position in
our foreign policy that it needs no act
of congress to give it prestige or
strength. AS for foreign nations in
general, their attitude also towar>- lis
doctrine has changed since December
last. There is now a manifest tend
ency on tn cir part to get the Monroe
| doctrine into international law rather
than to keep it out. This is because
they see that it has come to stay an&
that it will be better in the long run
for themselves to have it defined by
International agreement, and nailed
down within definite bounds in the
textbooks than to leave it subject to
any Interpretation an American gov
eminent may choose to put upon it
Springfield Republican.
What we have done for that republic
is to relieve her from having the purely
eX parte Schomburgk line imposed on
her by the superior strength of Eng
land, and from being compelled to rec
ognize as permanently torn from her
whatever lands British settlers have
seized and now hold. What we have
done for ourselves is to secure, before
the eyes Of the world, practical rec
Ognition from England of that Monroe
doctrine regarding which Lord Sails
bury, at the outset Of the controversy,
declared that, so far as he was aware,
it has never before been advanced on
behalf of the United States in any writ
ten communication addressed to the
government of another nation" In
dealing with the United States in the
present matter, and in effecting it's
settlement with us, Lord Salisbury
virtually accedes to the declaration
which Mr. Olney originally made as to
the position occupied by our country
in this hemisphere.-N York Sun.
1t would be futile at this late day to
discuss the true intent of the declara-
lions contained in President Monroe's
famous and now historic message.
Political principles grow, and in the
course Of time often obtain force and
meaning far beyond the intentions
and immediate purposes of their en-
unciators. The Monroe doctrine differs
in this respect from none of the other
great principles by which the policies
Of nations have been shaped, and upon
which they are founded The doctrine
Of Monroe as it is now understood oy
the American people was correctly in
terpreted by Secretary Olney in his
vigorous letter of year ago to Lord
Salisbury; and that the Monroe
doctrine which, by the conclusion of
the Venezuelan arbitration treaty, has
now obtained the force of international
law.-Philadelphia Record