Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . then offeredto accept the Aberdeenline; but Lord Gren-ville suggested a bound-ary farther west; andin subsequent negotia-tions the British de-mand was extended stillfarther in that direc-tion. Venezuela, repre-senting that this ap-parent enlargement ofBritish dominion con-stituted a pure aggression on her ter-ritorial rights, invoked the aid ofthe United States on the ground of theMonroe Doctrine. Venezuela asked forarbitration, and in so doing included inher claim a large portion of British Gui-ana. Great Britain at length decli
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . then offeredto accept the Aberdeenline; but Lord Gren-ville suggested a bound-ary farther west; andin subsequent negotia-tions the British de-mand was extended stillfarther in that direc-tion. Venezuela, repre-senting that this ap-parent enlargement ofBritish dominion con-stituted a pure aggression on her ter-ritorial rights, invoked the aid ofthe United States on the ground of theMonroe Doctrine. Venezuela asked forarbitration, and in so doing included inher claim a large portion of British Gui-ana. Great Britain at length declinedto arbitrate unless Venezuela would firstyield all territory within a line westwardof that offered by Lord Aberdeen. Inthese circumstances, Mr. Olney, as Secre-tary of State, in instructions to , American ambassador at Lon-don, of July 20, 1895, categorically in- quired whether the British governmentwould submit the whole controversy toarbitration. In these instructions declared that the Monroe Doctrinedid not establish a protectorate over. Benito JuarezPresident of Mexico other American states; that it did notrelieve any of them from its obligationsas fixed by international law nor preventany European power directly interestedfrom enforcing such obligations or frominflicting merited punishment for thebreach of them ; but that its singlepurpose and object was that no Eu-ropean power or combination of Euro-pean powers should forcibly deprivean American state of the right and powerof self-government, and of shaping for it-self its own political fortunes and des-tinies. This principle he conceived to Maximilian. Emperor of MexicoExecuted June 19, 1867 be at stake in the dispute between GreatBritain and Venezuela, because, as thedispute related to territory, it necessarilyimported political control to be lost byone party and gained by the other. To-day, declared Mr. Olney, theUnited States is practically sovereign onthis continent, and its fiat is law uponthe s
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