The Venezuelan Question: Report on the Subject by the Committee on Foreign Commerce and the Revenue Laws of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New YorkPress of the Chamber of Commerce, 1896 - 15 strán (strany) |
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adopted Advisory Council American citizens American republics appointed armies or navies avert boundary dispute Britain British Guiana CARL SCHURZ cause or object Chamber January 2d Chamber of Commerce CHAUNCEY civilization co-operate Committee on Foreign common sense Congress court of arbitration definite decision DEPEW earnest eminent equal number expedient of statesmanship findings and recommendations Foreign Commerce FRANCIS friendly HEWITT impartial arbitration interests involved international disputes international peace Joint Commission long existing Lord SALISBURY MONROE Doctrine moral authority nations NEW-YORK patriotic peace with honor pending controversy point of honor possible combination power or possible President President's proper public spirited question of boundary question of honor report and resolutions report the results Revenue Laws sentiment SETH LOW settled sides Special Committee SPEECH submit Substantially unassailable THURBER tion uncertainty United unloosed Venezuela and British Venezuela Boundary Venezuela question VENEZUELAN QUESTION War is hell wise counsel wish
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Strana 6 - With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm ; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battleflags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.
Strana 8 - When such report is made and accepted it 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 interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Strana 1 - Resolved, That the members of the National Conference on Immigration heartily endorse the wise suggestions of the President of the United States in his annual message to the Congress, regarding the enforcement and amendment of the laws concerning immigration, and regarding an international conference to deal with the question. They urge upon the Congress the speedy passage of the laws required to put such recommendations into effect.
Strana 6 - ... means be a misfortune, but rather a healthy exercise to stir up our patriotism, and to keep us from becoming effeminate. Indeed, there are some of them busily looking round for somebody to fight as the crazed Malay runs amuck looking for somebody to kill. The idea that the stalwart and hard working American people, engaged in subduing to civilization an immense continent, need foreign wars to preserve their manhood from dropping into effeminacy, or that their love of country will flag unless...
Strana 7 - American citizens earnestly hope for a continuance of the long existing friendly relations between this country and Great Britain. General SHERMAN, whose memory is dear to us all, is reported to have said, in his vigorous way : " You want to know what war is ? War is hell." And nobody who has seen war as he had, and as some of us have, will question the truthfulness of this characteristic saying. True, war sometimes develops noble emotions and heroic qualities in individuals or in a people ; but...
Strana 12 - It should see its highest glory, not in battles won, but in wars prevented. It should be so invariably just and fair, so trustworthy, so good tempered, so conciliatory, that other nations would instinctively turn to it as their mutual friend and the natural adjuster of their differences, thus making it the greatest preserver of the world's peace. This is not a mere idealistic fancy. It is the natural position of this great republic among the nations of the earth. It is its noblest vocation, and it...
Strana 12 - ... surely, it should not, whenever its own notions of right or interest collide with the notions of others, fall into hysterics and act as if it really feared for its own security and its very independence. As a true gentleman, conscious of his strength and his dignity, it should be slow to take offense. In its dealings with other nations it should have scrupulous regard, not only for their rights, but also for their self-respect. With all its latent resources for war, it should be the great peace...
Strana 3 - ... inches of notice of it ! In the last twenty years these cases have occurred at the rate of two or three a year. They have covered questions of boundary, of insult to the flag, of property, of personal injury— every question, in fact, with which nations have to do, except the one question of the actual existence of the national life. In every case the difficulty has been settled for all time, and no war has ever grown out of any of them. Our country has settled more than forty of these difficulties....
Strana 6 - I yield to no one in American feeling or pride ; and, as an American, I maintain that international peace, kept in justice and honor, is an American principle and an American interest. As to the President's recent message on the Venezuela case, opinions differ. But I am sure that all good citizens, whether they approve or disapprove of it, and while they would faithfully stand by their country in time of need, sincerely and heartily wish that the pending controversy between the United States and...
Strana 3 - ... foreign nations, lasting altogether only four years and a half. We have been literally the peace nation of the world. Great Britain has settled about a dozen in the same period, and all the nations of Europe have had from one to seven cases. Japan and China have in this way settled difficulties; all the South American republics except two, and two of the Central American republics, have done the same.