Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-22
,lished by way of Tehuantepec or

to be established by way of Tehuantepec or
Panama
In the event OF q war with Great Britain, as
it now stands our Pacific coast would be at the
mercy of British fleet through such a canal.
MIR. Blaine proposed modification of that
treaty that should make it equitable in view of
our present vast interests on the Pacific coast.
THE treaty., he said, binds the United
States not to use it's military force in any pre-
cautionary measure, while it leaves the naval
power of Great Britain perfectly free and un-
restrained-ready at any moment of need to
seize both ends of the canal, and render it's
military occupation on land matter entirely
1.-THE Clayton Bulwar treaty commands this
Government not to use single regiment OF
troops to protect its interests in connection with
the interoceanic canal, but to surrender the
transit to the guardianship and control of the
British navy"
doctrine which for sixty years has been the
cornerstone of our policy as far as the con-
ti1entS of North and South America are con-
cerned.
Had Secretary Blaine, instead of asking a
modification of the treaty, at once declared it a
nulllty, he would have followed q precedent
in the treaty history of England in connection
with her defenses of her East India possessions.
The Island OF Malta is, next to Gibraltar, her
strongest fortress upon the route to India. In
1905 she entered into a solemn treaty with
France to surrender the island and remove her
troops, She refused to abide by it and renewed
the war with France assigning changed clTcum-
stances after she had made her treaty as her
Justification. l do not criticise England action
self preservation is the first law.
have dwelt upon Mr.. Blaines career as Sec
rotary of State, not only because it has pro-
voked the most intense hostility to him in
England, and most disparaging criticisms at
home to awaken alarm, but because nothing in
his whole career so commands my admiration
as his waJchtulness over American interests
while in that office, and his courage in maintain
ing them.
Canning, in 1926, then Premier of Great
Britain, referring to the sympathy he had ex-
tended to the new republics in South America,
and to his diplomatic defeat OF the Holy Al
lance that would crush them, said, with just
pride, L called the New World into existence to
redress the balance OF the Old
Mr.. Blaine with equal justice, can say, I
gave the moral support of my Government to
maintain the integrity, to harmonic the in
terests, and to unity the political spirit of the
Western republics" In closing this branch of
| the discussion, let me give you great au-
| thority.
You, doubtless, saw the published inter
| view" with President Anderson, of Rochester
/ University, in which he corrected the impress
| sion that he intended to vote for Gov. Cleve-
! land, and states that he favored Mr.. Blaine
J foreign policy. In private letter to myself he
| says:
I have no fear of Mr.. Blaine's alleged lingo
! ism. He may have made some trit1ing mistakes
! in his dispatches on foreign affairs, but he is
! too broad able, and patriotic man to toment
! war with foreign nation.