The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-07
MORCAN'S FIERY WAR TALK
ON FLOOR OF The SENATE
Declares That United States Should Bring About
AbrOgatiOn of Clayton BulWer Treaty.
Objection on Part of England Might Bring on Conflict That
Would Cause Her to Lose Her Empire.

The resolution to which he referred
was one declaring the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty abrOgated.
Wants Treaty Abrogated.
After the routine of morning bust
ness" had been transacted, Mr.. Nor
gan addressed the senate upon his res
olution. He said he would exclude
from his argument any consideration
Of the Panama canal commission. The
only prospect of the construction of
the Nicaragua canal now by the Unit
ed States rested upon the protocols
which had been entered into between
this country and the governments of
Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
He challenged any senator to point
to single proposition which Great
Britain had made for such a mOdifica-
ton of the claytOn-Bulwer treaty as
would admit of the construction of the
Nicaragua canal. No such action, he
said, ever had been taken by Great
Britain. During all the time when
Americans were "hugging in their bos-
oms" the delusion that Great Britain
eventually would enter upon a friend
" arrangement for the construction of
the canal, Great Britain had reserved
profound and golden silence" He
called her silence golden" because, he
asserted, Great Britain, through Liver
pool, which was the commercial center
of the world, was being enriched at
the expense of the United States be-
cause the lack of the Nicaragua canal
was helping to the enriching of Great
Britain.
There cannot be anything more
precious today to Great Britain said
Mr.. Morgan, than to prevent the con-
struCtiOn of the Nicaragua canal. If
Great Britain. by her golden silence
can prevent that, her profits will con-
time, and the longer she can do that
the greater will be her profits on the
SueZ canal. She has remained as 81
lent as the spIynx which looks out
TpOn the Nile and upon he desert, and
she seems to be looking out upon
desert of wasted American opportuni-
ties. and, sad to say, American honor.
Great Britain is still silent"
With some feeling, in referring to the
Clayton Bulwer treaty the Alabama
senator said:
Great Britain's Danger.
1--WE will make no compromise with
Great Britain upon that subject. We
Will make no concession to Great
Britain in relation to the treaty. What
we shall do with it (and some of our
people are opposed even to that is
that we shall declare it abrogated- If
the vote on my resolution could be
taken today it would inform the presi-
dent of the United States that he has
no tWO-thirdS majority in the senate
to adopt any compromise he may make
with Great Britain.
IF it is the purpose of Great Brit
ain to still look for delay she will not
get il. If it be her determination to
pick a quarrel with us about it she
will find the United States can muster
at least half the number Of men who
voted for the president in the last cleo
ton, fighting men. And she will find,
when that war terminates, that the
steel band which binds the throne in
London with Australia and India and
passes through Canada will have been
rent in twain. and with it's severance
down will go the empire.
"She will find that her possessions
in the Caribbean sea have lapSed. She
will find that she has overtaXed our
patience. She has started with a new
king and upon a new career that will
break up the empire and reduce the
king to the sovereignty of his own is
land. Does Great Britain suppose she
can escape from the terrors of the ex-
listing situation and the prospective sit
uation everywhere, and that she can
find favorable opportunity to display
her military power against the United
States?"
Mr.. Morgan said he die not boast Of
the power of the United States in
money, men or valOr, but ne was thor
OUghly conscious of them and gloried
in that consciousness, because he knew
when the supreme moment should
come and any power IN the world
should undertake to bride the United
States by placing such restraints upon
her sovereignty as were contained in
the Clayton Bulwer treaty, the Ameri-
can people would resist it to the bitter
end.
And that resistance" he exclaimed
vehemently, will mean the wiping out
of any power on earth that undertakes
the job"
He regarded the Clayton Bulwer
treaty in the nature of an alliance. "a
shameful alliance with Great Brit
ain, and denounced any suggestion Of
the inability Of the United States to
sever such an alliance without in
curing the penalties of a war. He
maintained that in spite of the silence
OF Great Britain the United States
could abrOgate the treaty at any time.
and until it was abrOgated it would
s.ct as a clog upon the extension of the
commerce Of this country.
without concluding his speech. Mr.
Morgan yielded the floor, and at 2:45,
on motion of Mr.. Warren of Wyoming,
the senate went into executive session,
adjourning at 3 o'clock.