The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-02-13
England Wishes to Regain Some of the
Prestige Which She Has Lost and
Wants America to Help
The American People Must Not Allow Them.
selves to Be Dragged Into the Far
Eastern Conflict.

Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British am
bassador, over the adverse action talk
Ell OH the arbitration treaty by the
senate this afternoon. Sir Julian
cabled the vote of the senate, with the
names Of those who We're registered in
opposition, to his government to-
night" 'It is great misfortune
great misfortune" Sir Julian said, and
so it was for him, as his government
had promised him a peerage upon the
occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee if
he should get the treaty through. The
action of the British ambassador in
posting" as objects of such social
and other penalties as the British gov
ernment and the British people could
lntlict upon them, the United States
senators who had the patriotism to
vote against the British treaty was a
gross, injurious interference in our do
mestic affairs that should have called
for the promptest action on the part
of the executive; but, unfortunately,
we did not then have James G.
Blaine at the helm in the department
Of state. If we did the ambassador
who so offended would have, without
delay, Travelled the same road jour-
neyed by Mr.. Sacl1ville West in 1885,
and others before him whose attempts
to meddle in our internal affairs were
much less serious. A few days later
Ambassador Bayard, upon his return
from London, said: '"The people of
England are greatly disappointed.
The treaty has been in the air for a
long time and there is universal regret
in England that it was not adopted;
but" he continued, II think the mat
ter has only been delayed"
The London Chronicle and other
British papers insinuated that the
United States senators had been bribed
by Russia and Germany; while the
London press generally made itself
the laughing stock Of Europe by it's
bitter denunciation of the United
States senate.
Now, when we may be face to face
with a great conflict in the far East
and Europe, with Japan, China and
England on the one side and Russia,
Germany, France, and perhaps Italy,
ON the other, and when England sore
ly needs some one else to come to her
aid and do the brunt of the fighting
for her, another of those "Internation-
al arbitration" conferences was held
in Washington few days ago, to re-
new the effort "to secure the adoption
of treaty between the United States
and Great Britain" The same old
treaty is again served up, and here is
where the huge joke upon the Ameri-
can people is attempted. Among the
resolutions proposed by committee
of serious gentlemen and passed at
deliberative conference is one which
reads:
Resolved, That it is recommended
to our government to endeavor to en-
ter into treaty with Great Britain
to submit to arbitration by the per-
manent court at The Hague. or, in de-
fault of such submissions, by some
tribunal specially constituted for the
case, all differences that they may
fail to adjust by diplomatic negotia-
tions, while one of your contempo-
raries, the New York Times, in all
seriousness, says in one Of lis editor
ials, Certainly this is an opportune
time for the United States to make an
overture to England for the execution
OF a general arbitration treaty."
John Bull has been plotting and
scheming and organizing and cajolins
us for the past ten years to entrap us
into just such a treaty, and now we
are seriously told that certainly this
is an opportune time for the United
States to make an overture to Eng
land" and the worthy, grave and rev.
erend signeurs of the conference
solemnly resolve "that it is recon.
mended to our government to endeayor
10 enter into treaty with Great
Britain Surely, as our French