The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-25
SECRETARY Hay aesukEp.

| lEl1eG STATES ldS Detu utftdtS1- ~
Clayton Buirer treaty was UNIVERSAL,
condemned almost from the day OF IL
ratification II provided tina, neithe
nation should build a canal across thu
isthmus without the consent g III.
other This treaty was practically II
abandonment Of the Monroe doctrine
and has been denounced by the people
OF America regardless Of party, eveI
| since it's ratification by the Senate
| Mr. Blaine. and previous TO his time
as Secretary of State. Mr.. Frelinghuy
sen. had held that England herself. by
her acts in the Mosquito territory and
in British Honduras. had abrogated
the CLAYTON Bulwer treaty
But in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
Mr.. Hay proposed to go further than
even the weak and vacilating Clayton
| had gone in his trucking to England.
| The Senate would have none OF ii and
has given Mr.. Hay and England to I'M
derstand that the United States pro-
poses to build the Nicaragua canal
and that she proposes also to control
that canal.
MIR. II. H. Kohlsaat. editor Of the
Chicago Times Herald, has just made
public a private letter from the late
Senator Davis written in March last
regarding his proposed amendment to
the treaty which the Senate has adopt
ed with notifications which go farther
than Mr.. Davis himself proposed.
though no farther than he would have
supported. and no farther than what
the American people endorse and ap-
prove. Senator Davis in his letter
said:
THE amendment has this especial
advantage that it was phrased as near
ly as possible in the language of the
tenth article of the treaty of Constan-
tinople Therefore this amendment,
so adjusted to the treaty Of Constan-
tinople puts the British Government in
the position where it must either az
cept the principle Of the treaty Of
Constantinople. which Great Britain
herself proposed. or fatty say that the
lines of that treaty which are of ad-
vantage to Great Britain shall stand
In our treaty and that the lines of that
treaty which are to our advantage and
may be Instantaneous to Great
Britain shall be obliterated from our
treaty. II the committee had framed
their amendment on different lines.
or in different terms, Great Britain
could have said that we had departed
from the treaty of Constantinople and
introduced new principles. She would
not have been correct in saying so,
but she would have said it. My own
object was to hold her as closely IS
possible to her own precedent. The
possessions of the United States, as to
Texas, are less distant and. as to Calf
ornia. not much further distant. from
the ports of access of the Nicaragua
canal than are. the possessions of
Turkey at the lower end of the Red
Sea from the port Of egress from the
Suez canal The idea that the two
situations are not identical in prin-
ciple, so far as the necessity of de-
Tense is concerned, is simply prepos-
ferrous.
Article Is Of the treaty Of Con-
stantinople binds the parties to ask
other States which have not signed
States could not do. because to do 50
would be a violation Of its policy as 30
European complications. steadily adj
hered to since Washington's farewell
address. Article s and possibly some
other articles in the treaty of Con-
stantinople. binds the signatory pow
ers to watch over the execution of tho
treaty To do this would bring the
United States within the concert OF
Europe as an active. participating and
possibly belligerent power. That
which We cannot do as to Europe the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty invites the
European powers to do as to the west
ern hemisphere, introducing them as
parties in control under certain con-
tingencies and all in violation of the
Monroe doctrine"
While not intended as a criticism II
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty no more ex-
plicit criticism of that treaty. pointing
out so succinctly its weak points has
been uttered by any one, as Mr.. Davis
set forth in this letter. After reading
it II is not to be wondered at that the
Times-Herald has so bitterly fought
the treaty and called the action of the
administration in asking for its con-
firmation. pusilanimous giving away
of American rights to England.
II is essential to the welfare OF the
United States that the Nicaragua
Canal be constructed and 1t is equally
necessary that il be controlled by the
United States the same as the inland
waters Of the country are controlled.
II is TO be hoped for the good of Mr.
Mckinley's administration that the
vote of the Senate will result in the
retirement OF Mr.. Hay from public life.