Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-30

United States had paramount in
terestp in an isthmus canal; and Pres
ident Hayes says in special message
held that any canal must be virtually
a part of our coast line" and hence
a matter "of paramount concern to
the people of the United States" A
few years later Secretary Blaine in
several dispatches, and Secretary FIRE.
linghuysen, repeated phrases of Mon
roe's message, as governing the 18TH
mus canal.
Olney's Pronouncement.
Third:-The bankruptcy of the
French Panama canal company in
1889 somewhat relieved the pressure
for the control of the canal and of its
West Indian approaches; but in 1895
the Monroe doctrine was appealed to
in novel way, as controlling a long
standing boundary controversy be-
tween Venezuela and the neigh ooring
British colony of Guiana. The United
States had repeatedly offered its
good offices, and suggested arbtra-
ton; inasmuch as Great Britain took
no heed, Secretary Olney protested
against any attempt of European
power to extend its boundary over
! territory claimed by an American
power: because Che said) the Monroe
| doctrine provided shat no European
power of combination of powers
| shall forcibly deprive an American OF
| the right and power of self-govern-
] ment.'
Beyond any previous enunciation OF
the Monroe doctrine, Mr.. Olney made
| the statements that distance, and
| .l, I'd nf N s.
ocean make any permanent politica
| union between an European and ar
! American state unnatural and mex
pedient;r and that "today the United
| States is practically sovereign on this
continent, and that its fiat is law upon
the subjects to which it confines it,
| interpretations" all these doctrines Mr.
| Olney believed to be the accepted law
| of this country" This dispatch wa:
| fortified by message from the pres
ident in which he held that "sinct
| in international councils every nation
is entitled to the rights belonging t.
II, if the enforcement of the Monroe
doctrine is something we may justl,
claim It has it's place In the code o
international law" He limited at wa
as the penalty if Great Britain de
Not Original Doctrine.
Mr.. Olneys doctrine was certainl,
mot the original Monroe doctrine. L
is really the laying down of new
principle, namely, that Great Britain
which through its possessions in Can
ada and the West Indies, has for
century been an important American
power, is no longer to exercise influ
ence on the future of Central an'
South America. That lesson Grea
britain took to heart. for she accept
led the proposed arbitration (by which
NEARLY all the territory in the DISPUTE
was assigned to Great BRITAIN; AM
lin the Spanish war of 1898 Grea
britain was solicitous to make 1t clea
that she would not, and other Europ
can powers must not, interfere witt
1.-The American policy of the Unite'
! States AS result of that war, tn
! United States acquired West Indial
!, lstation in Porto Rico; and the neN
! attitude of Great Britain led to tn
, first Hay Pauncefote tready of Fef
Is, 1900, by which Great Britain agree
Ito give up the joint control over 18th
( mus transit, which was provided b
q / the Clayton Bulwer treaty of 1851
, The new arrangement was not salts
, factory to the senate, and hence
second treaty was, negotiated by whic
: the Clayton Bulwer treaty was de
2 clared ahrogated and the Unite
, States was left free to control an
! isthmus canal, and to "neutralize' /
I her own way.
Venezuela's Trouble.
a Germany has for, some years bee
, looking eagerly about the world fo