Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-29
ARBITRATION TREATIES.

In lace of the awful consequences
 of long drawn out war as exempli-
 fled in the present Japanese
 embroglio, many people will sincerely
 regret that the earnest efforts recently
 made by President Roosevelt in the
 direction of securing suitable arbitra- | tion arrangements between tbe various nations and tho United States have re- suited so fruitlessly. The senate has
 a great many sins to answer for, but
 this latest delinquency is perhaps, as
 we may learn to our cost some time in
 the future, one of the worst of which
 it has ever beer guilty.
 Judging from recently expressed opinions by politicians and the press
 in the east, it looks as if reaction
 from the stubborn attitude adopted by
 the senate is about to set in. We hope
 that this reaction will continue until
 the presidents wishes, as embodied in
 his treaties are matters of contract be-
 tween this country and the various countries involved. No one doubts
 President Roosevelt's bona fides, and why personal antagonism should be al lowed to stulify arbitration arrange ments is little hard to understand.
 Such a measure as the Anglo Ameri- can arbitration treaty would, we think. be intensely popular in both countries, and would point a moral of its own which the other European cabinets would fully appreciate. Mir. Roosevelt is warmly in favor of such a treaty, but the senate, for the time being, killed the project, by amending it out of all semblance to the original i document, so that it was of little use for the purpose intended and was wisely consigned to the waste paper ! basket by the president.
 It will be remembered that the Ol- | ney -Pauncefote treaty of 1897 was treated by the senate in almost pre- cisely the same fashion, so that it is safe to assert that if action is taken in the near future to secure arbitration between England and America that action will have to be by the senate as it would not be conducive to the dignity either of President Roosevelt or ot Great Brit ain to again broach the matter.
 There is no danger, however, at any time in the future of a rupture of peace between the two great sections of the English speaking race, and this being so perhaps the matrimonial mar Set affords better index to the feel. Ings of Americans generally on this question than does the action of the senators.
 While the daughters of our million iires continue to inspire vicariously he English House of Lords and the British maidens tn Washington do the ame thing on this side of the pond, here IS not much danger of an Anglo { American outbreak of hostilities.
 A"S AoeO OA Iuo tNO great seCllOUS If the Anglo-Saxon race is therefore l n a measure in the hands of the V American mother.in-law. She directs Ter daughters in the way they should | o, and the helms of the two great V ations respond sympathetically.
 Mr. Roosevelt cannot help feeling s hat the mangling of his pet measure a y the senate was no compliment to ' imself. In nutshell, it seems to us n 9 mark the determination Of the sen b te to as far as possible, keep the di- II ection of foreign affairs in it's own sl ands and to deal with contingencies P 5 they may arise! u