The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-21
THE CASE OF VENEZUELA
 M--Concerning the Monroe Doctrine

By Fredrio J. Haskin.

nice bit of English superiority, that note, and when Mir. Cleveland got 1t did he get +madf" The record indi- cates that he did.
 Early in, December he sent to Con. gross his famous message on vene. zuela. He reviewed the boundary dis putes between England and Venezuela and called attention to England's evi- dent determination to disregard Vene- zuela's claims. As England was block ing every effort to obtain a judicial as- certainment of the facts concerning the boundary. MT. Cleveland asked Congress to create an American com mission to go to Venezuela. determine the correct boundary line. and thus ment could build its case in support of the Monroe Dostrine. In that mes- sage Mir. Cleveland said:
 When such Q report Chat from the American commfssionl is made and accepted. 1t will. In my opinion. be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power. as a wilful aggression upon its rights and inter ests. the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of gov ernmentai Jurisdiction over any terri- tory which, after investigation, we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
 "In making these recommendations. I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow. |. i. (. There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice, and the conse- Quent loss of national self-respect and honor. beneath which are shielded and defended a peoples safety and great ness."
 That message meant that one of two things would happen-there would be a war with England, or England would back down from It's position. The war scare sent stocks a-tumbling in Wall Street and the Anglophiies raved against Mir. Cleveland. But Con- gress supported him and passed the law appointing the commission, and the people of the country at large shouted their approval of his firm stand. Lord Salisbury and the Brit ish Government came down from their high horse, the British lion slunk away with its much-twisted tail be- tween its legs, and England agreed to arbitrate the boundary dispute. Eng land got most of the territory it claimed in the final outcome. but 1t got 1t by a judicial decree and not by force of arms.
 rTOm the Oay tnaL MT. CleNelan0 sent that message to Congress the nations of Europe have looked upon the United States In a different light. The Mon- roe Doctrine, which is the foremost positive feature of our foreign policy, Is no longer a toy with which we are graciously permitted to amuse our selves; but it is an accepted factor in international policy which commands the respect of all the world. The war with Spain made us a cosmic power in a fighting sense. Mir. Cleveland's stand In defence of the Monroe Doo- trine and of Venezuela advanced the United States to the front rank as diplomatic power. And no diplomatist on earth today seriously doubts but that the United States will back up the Monroe Dostrine and defend any American republic, even wayward Venezuela, from European aggression, with all the force it possesses. Tho Cleveland Doctrine will endure.
 Copyright, 1908, by Frederic u
 Haslkin.)
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