The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-13
Ohio Man Takes an Opposite
 View of Question
PROVISION IN TREATY
anna Property n Treaty Is Drawn But It Is Afterwards Ma
 terially Changed
BY WILLIAM RANDoPH HEARST

parliamentary peace congress, has taken it upon his inconsequential sell to declare that the United States can not fortify the Panama canal. Over come by the subservient snobbery which so often affects Americans abroad, he has formally and fatuit- ousy undertaken to oppose the posi- tion of the United States government and to deny the recorded facts. If the people of the United States tenn porarily refrain from riding General Kiefer on a rail and depositing him on the nearest British water they should at least be allowed the priv ilege of securing his recall as soon as the cable can transmit the mes sage and an express car can execute the order.
 If the United States cannot fortify the Panama canal General Kiefer states first what is utterly untrue and sec ondly what is intensely unpatriotic. The United States can and win fortify the Panama canal.
 The Clayton Bulwer treaty, which would have insured the neutrality of the Panama canal. was not approved and the Hay Pauncefote treaty. under which the canal can and will be forti- fled, was substituted
 The debated question at the time of the treaty was primarily the right of the United States to fortify the canal and the Clayton Bulwer treaty was modified for the definite purpose of se- curing that right.
 Mr. Hay with diplomacy that was characteristically sweet as new mown hay was wrong in permitting the acceptance of treaty which would haNe allowed the United States to build the canal and the other nations of the world, friend ly or hostile, to use the canal, even to the detriment or positive injury of the United States which created it.
 Under the treaty which MT. Hay was on the point of negotiating the Unit ed States would expend great effort and enormous sums for the construc- tion of a canal to unite it's two coasts, yet it would either be unable in times of danger to send its own fleet through its-ewn canal to protect it's own coasts or else it would be compelled to per init a hostile Japanese fleet, bent upon destroying American humanity and American property to sail unmolested through a canal built by American wealth and energy. PreposterOus Treaty
 The proposition was too preposterous, too outra geous, unjust and unpatriotic to be located. The New York Amer ican sent MT. Creelman and MT. Dav- enport besides a staff of editorial writers, correspondents and cartoonists to prevent this surrender by the gov ernment of the peoples rights and in- terests and the New York American S representatives telegraphed me on ar rival that the objectionable treaty was as good as ratified and I telegraph ed them in return nevertheless to oppose the infamous treaty as long as 1t was not ratified and to expose it if ratified until it should be abrogated.
 When the people of the United States were fully enlightened to the char acter of the proposed treaty, the state department and the senate were so overwhelmed with protests that the objectionable treaty was abandoned and the Hay -Poncefote treaty was substi- tuted.
 This treaty permits the fertilization of the Panama canal.
 Since that time the acquisition by the United States of the territory on which the canal is built dispelled all possible question of the right of the Unitd States to fortify and of the de- clared intention of the people of the United States to fortify their canal and to insure the. canals free use at all times during peace or war to the fleets and navies of the United States. Fur thermore, it is the distinct intention of the people of the United States to prevent Japan or Japan's ally, Great Britain. from ever using the canal in of the people of the United States, who are clearly the constructors and proprietors of the canal.
 The Monroe Doctrine
 President Taft has done well to re- iterate the Monroe doctrine; he has done better to declare the governments intention to fortify the Panama canal He will do better still if he will formal ly declare that it is not only the pur- pose of the United States to prevent
 
 property of the United States. He will do best of all is he will formally de- clare that it is not only the purpose of the United States to prevent foreign nggression in the western hemisphere but it is particularly the purpose of the United States to prevent foreign interference with the actual property of the United States. He will dc best of all if he will add that il is especially the purpose of the Unit ed States to fortify with abundant strength it's property on or about the Panama canal.
 In view of the aggressive and ln- terfering influence of the alliedf ma tions of Great Britain and Japan. MT Roosevelt as well as MT. Taft deserve the commendation of all patriotic cit izens for his efforts in behalf of 2 fortified canal. Mr. Roosevelt was as entirely right in his Panama cana speech as he was entirely wrong in hi' London Guild hall speech. The Lon don fog or the London fiattery ap parently depressed Mir. Roosevelt's spir- | 1t of Americanism but the wholesome | atmosphere of the great and stren uousi west has reinnvigorated MT l Roosevelt and restored his patriot ism.
 | It is to be hoped that all citizens even the most devoted democrats vii commend and support the inspiring at titude of the leading republican states men since the nations interest and thu nations honor must rise superior to al personal feeling or party prejudice. It is also to be hoped that the senti ment of our people and their united front opposed to foreign aggression will henceforth find expression in thu | pla tforfpe of inc democratic party a,