New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-13
THE DOMINICAN TREATY.

Tho President is right in reminding callers
that responsibility for losses TO DuslhesS anu
nronertv in Santo Domingo through delay OF
failure to ratify the pending treaty. "oulu ieoU
upon other shoulders than his. tie mas uohe LIS
Let and done particularly well-for the protec-
ton of American and all other Interests "l,u ~.
order peace and honor. If his efforts shouiu
no ruthless no blame would attach to him. we
bave M idea they will be fruitless. 1t is not
tn no sunrosed the treaty will fail of ratihcatlon
Rut the very reasons that call for its rat1ncauon
also demand that il shall be ratified without I'M
necessary delay.
When that treaty was first framed we were
told bv the foes of the administration lnaC II
was a personal scheme or carlos MoIaleS'
AGAINST the desire of the Dominican people IN
tended to perpetuate his dictatorial autocrdc9,
to the oppression of the island wen lnLoflheu
and candid men knew such talk was nonsense
but there were enough who were not wen III
formed or candid to keep the talk going at the
rate of sixteen and half TO the oozen puI
what do we see now? Morales is gone, ned'
ahdtcated vamosed. skedaddIed, absquatulated,
in snite of the treaty which was TO copper 1asten
him To the throne; and yet his successor Is JUST
as earnest as he was for the treaty, ana SO. as
everybody now sees, are all the respohslole anu
substantial people of the island. Yet Lhere are
those who still protest against rauncatlon Oh
the treaty. Why?
Some Joker has put into circulation, INSCRIBED
unon beer mugs and liquor glasses, the ADVICE
IF drinking interferes with business, give up
business" So the motto of some seems 10 De-
eff incapacity and disorder interfere with prog
ross rive mn progress." The President does not
accant that rule Neither does the American
nation. There is incapacity in Santo Domingo
and there is also at times disorder. Is business
therefore to be withdrawn from the island ana
is progress to be abandoned? That is not the
Presidents policy He would amend incapacity
and mt stop to disorder, SO that business may
nrosner and progress may continue. That is the
only sound. reasonable and decent policy
Oh but it will mean mixing ourselves up
with the affairs of another nation. Yes, ana that
would be terrible thing wouldn't it?-seeing
that we never never, never have done sucn
thing before! Let us not try to be more royal
+bon the king Thomas jefferson was the
great apostle, champion and propagandist OF
the nolcy of ''peace with all nations, entanglng
alliances with none" Yet when occasion seemed
to demand it for Americas welfare-preclSeiy
one year. one month and two weeks aIter the
utterance of that much quoted 'gltterlng gen
erality,-be ardently and strenuously advo-
Gated an offensive and defensive alllance VIII
one European power for the purpose OF beglh-
ming and waging a war of conquest against an
other! There is no doubt that. generally speak
ing, it is a good thing to keep ourselves alooI
from the affairs of other nations. But when our
own interests and those of other countries, ana
the interests of civilization. progress, order,
peace and humanity are all to be served by our
entering into some simple and uncomprom1slng
treaty relations with some other state, what a
show we should make of ourselves If we should
timorouslv refuse and should try to crawl into
some hole of hermitage and draw the hole In
after lis