The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-21
The Arbitration Surrender.

vi lHc people OF the Unlteu states
to Great Britain was defeated in
the Senate last week. Few persons
cOmprehended the enormous wick
edness of the so-called arbitration
treaty. The very badness of the
treaty was well calculated to de-
ceive. People could not believe
that it was a contract of sale to
Great Britain. They consequently
assumed that it was treaty of
friendship and reconciliation.
In its original form it was an
agreement to submit all disputes
between the United States and
Great Britain to arbitration, and
the board of arbirators was so made
up of judges and foreigners that it
would have been easy to forestall
every question and obtain decisions
favorable to Great Britain, regard
less of the merits of the individual
cases. Besides, the United States
has always been in favor of the
principle of arbitration. We have
always preferred arbitration to war;
but the arbitration proposed under
the treaty, if adhered to, would
have stripped the United States of
its power and influence as the
Great Republic of the Western
Hemisphere. 1t abrogated the
Monroe doctrine and submitted all
questions of dispute to the prin-
ciples and practice of international
law, which law does not recognize
the Monroe doctrine.
The treaty would have given
Great Britain the power to compel
the United States to submit all her
claims to the Nicaragua canal, or
any other transit across theisthmus,
to the arbitration board; board
unknown to our Constitution; a
board which ignored the Senate
of the United States, and placed
the treaty making power in other
hands. 1t was not amended or
modified in any way to enable the
United States to take independent
action with regard to the Nicaragua
canal. Great Britain has made
treaties with Nicaragua, and claims
all sorts of privileges inconsistent
with the claims of the United
States of the right to construct the
canal. Arbitration under the trea-
ties originally framed and under
the treaty as ameuded, covered the
question of the canal, and would
have prevented the United States
from constructing it.
The treaty also provided for the
settlement of International boundary
lines where there was none in dis
pute. The pretense that the boun-
Diary line between Alaska and
British Columbia is in dispute is
outrageous. 1t is most definitely
located by the treaty of 1926 be-
tween Great Britain and Russia,
and all that is required is survey
to establish the line.
But these are only incidental and
small points. Great Britain is our
enemy. She has made every ma
ton that she can control our bitter
enemy. Chill and Peru are now
most radical enemies of the United
States. They belong to Great Brit
ain; they are bonded and rebonded,
and have nothing to say except to
do the will of the bOndhOlders.
Recently Great Britain has cap
tured Japan and has introduced
the gold standard and the English
banking system in that country and
taken complete charge of the gov
eminent of Japan. She has so
managed as to make every nation
in the Pacific ocean our enemy.
Not only this, but she is building
Notifications on the Pacific, the
like of which are unparalleled any
where in the world. Esquimalt,
near Victoria, is to be made strong
er than Gibraltar. Why is this
On the Atlantic coast she has a
series of fortified islands extending
with a slight intermission from
Halifax around the Caribbean sea.
The Bahama Islands, within a few
miles of our Atlantic coast, extend
around the Caribbean sea. These,
Great Britain claims, and they bris-
tie with Notifications.
England expects to control Cuba