Why did President Grover Cleveland not help the then queen of Madagascar Queen Ranavalona III?

Madagascar is in the Indian Ocean, and US had no fleet capable of transporting a sizable military force there, particularly considering it would have had to take on the French navy (second in size only to Britain at the time);further, the French navy possessed large armoured ocean going warships at the time, which the US navy did not.Any attempt to help Madagascar would have resulted in war with France.

It's also worth mentioning that Queen Ranavalona was a bloodthirstry barbarian; prisoners,enemies, and slaves were regularly tortured and executed with revolting cruelty.The USA was not about to help a regime such as that against a Western power,on moral grounds.

The United States had neither the money nor the resources to help Madagascar; as it was still recovering from the Civil War and was in the middle of the Reconstruction period.

In the 19th century, the US would not have actively concerned itself with attempts to colonize an independent nation in Africa. Under the Monroe Doctrine, we would have intervened in attempts by European powers to create new colonies in the Americas. But it wasn't until 1945 that the US started to see the entire planet as our sphere of interest with obligations to intervene everywhere.

Madagascar? So what? I doubt the U.S. even cared. I doubt 10 people in the U.S. even knew where it was. It was of no importance to us and it was not prudent at the time to try to take on France.

One reader said it was because we were minding our own business. Good answer.

Back then news took months to travel, especially from 3rd world countries. And anyway, that was a long time before the U.S. Decided they needed to interfere in every countries business. It was France's problem, not ours. Maybe we need to revert to that stage. It is not one world.