New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13

PEACE-"PM GLAD YOU BOYS ARE FRIENDS.
10 eighteen points within week, and the whole
country fastened into a general revival OF in
dustrial and commercial prosperity.
The issues left unsettled by the treaty were,
. however numerous and formidable and some
of them were urgent. Adams, Gallatin and
Clay soon began supplementary negotiations,
which resulted in the making of commercial
convention on July 3, 1915, under which, I'M
fortunately, only few matters were disposed
Of The fisheries question was not so much as
touched and, indeed, it was not until in the
next century that it was finally settled. 1t was
not for many years, either, that the questions
of search and impressment were formally
settled, although after the Treaty Of Client they
were seldom raised in an acute form.
PEACE THAT HAS OUTLINED TIME
AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
With all its anomalies and omissions and all
its legacies of controversy to future years, the
peace of Christmas Eve hundred years ago
was real peace, based upon mutual agreement
and sincere desire, of sufficiently robust hore
"a endure the strain of all the differences and
disputes of the succeeding century, which have
indeed served merely to strengthen it and to
render its perpetuty more assured
Since the War OF 1912 had at least ostensibly
arisen through the aggressions or European
powers upon American rights and interests, II
was an interesting coincidence that the hrst
great confirmation of the peace should come
because of other European processes. At the
very time of the making of the peace the So
called HOLY Alliance was in course OF lorna
ton. and the direct and most important out
come thereof was the enuncaton OF the Mon
roe Doctrine To that epochal achievement
Great Britain contributed much, in the way Oh
suggestion and encouragement, and the sympa-
thetic attitude of that country greatly enhanceo
the moral, political and military force OF the
announcement The net result OF the EPISODE
was to unite the two countries more Closely
though from the very first Great Britain cnai-
lenged that part of the doctrine which was In
terpreted as forbidding further European COL
onization in America and which was then much
misunderstood while in later years, in respect
TO Central America and Venezuela, the whole
doctrine was more or less dehed.
DIFFICULTIES SETTLED IN EARLY
PART OF NINETEENTH CENTURY.
BEFORE the time OF the doctrine we had come
unpleasantly near to clash over the kiiilng
of Ambrister and Arbuthnot, IN Florids, oy
General Jackson, and in 1918 had begun RI
valrv for the possession of the Oregon country,
which lasted until 1916, and which more than
once caused talk of war. Indeed, the hnal
settlement was not until the San Juan arbitral
award was made in 1872. The Maine boundary
was another vexatious problem, submitted to
an arbitration of which we refused TO accept
the result, involving an attempt at the waging
Of war by Maine, and final settlement under
the Webster Ashburton treaty in lS42. At one
time there was a little cloud in Texas, when,
before we finally annexed that state, there was
some coquetting between it and England.
Central America was portentous storm
centre. with British aggressions in Belize and
on the Mosquito Coast and in the Bay Islands
and at Tigre Island, The Clayton-Buwer
treatv in 1850 was intended to compose all diff
ferences there, but in fact, proved itself a
fecund source of new troubles, which inter-
mittently vexed both countries until the Ill
conceived instrument was replaced by the Hay
Pauncefote treaty In Cuba we declined, IN
1852, to make a tripartite agreement with Great
Britain and France for the guardianship OF that
island and thereafter our paramount interest
there was recognized During the Ten Years
War British captain. Sir Lambton Lorraine.
in an historic episode interviewed to save Amer
leans from slaughter. During the Spanish war
of 1898 Great Britain was our one important
friend in Europe, notably when Admiral Chi
chester CALAMITY stood with Dewey at Manila
against the obstreperous Diederichs
On one occasion we had to read the riot act
for the undong of the work of an overzealous
British captain in Hawaii. and in Samoa the ILL
devised trpartite control caused much friction
until it was abolished. in 1898 In China. in
1859, occurred the famous blood is thicker
than water" episode, fitting prelude at long
range TO the cooperation of the two countries
in later years in establishing the principle of
the open door," There was some unpleasant
ness during the Crimean War, when attempts