Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-11
tends to humiliare their country il they
would take the trouble to formulate
clearly and definitely. Just what 1t is

tends to humiliare their country II they
would take the trouble to formulate
clearly and definitely. Just what it is
they desire. s
Il, for one, would rather cut off my
hand than see the United States adopt
the attitude either of cringing before
great and powerful nationa who wish
to wrong US, or bullying. small and
weak nations who have done US no
wrong
The American people desire to do
Justice and to act with frank generos-
ity toward all other nations of man
kind; but err greatly in my judgment
of my countrymen If they are willing
to submit to wrong and injustice.
Again and again in the past they
have shown, and rightly shown, that
when the choice lay between righteous
ness and peace they chose righteous
ness, just exactly as they also chose
Righteousness when the choice lay be-
tween righteousness and war"
Mr.. Rooseyei. cites the revolutionary
war, the civil war and the Spanish
American war as instances In which
I'VE put righteousness above peace"
He also cites the existing arbitration
treaties between the United States,
Great Britain and France as better
than the proposed treaty, because they
make no false pretenses. and exclude
questions affecting our vital interests,
independence or honor.
Finds Flaws in Treaty.
He continues: "The proposed arbi-
tration treaty is defective. in the first
place. because 1t is not straightfor-
ward. 1t sets forth that all .justicisble'
matters shall be arbitrated. The lang
uage both Of the opponents and the de-
tenders of the treaty shows that even
among our own people, and before a
cause for applying the treaty has
arisen. there Is hopeless confusion as
to what justiciable' means.
Such being the case. 1t can be i'm
agined how useless would be the eff
fort to define justiciable' when Sc
rious conflict had actually arisen and
blood was UP and passion high. The
wording of the treaty is SO loose, it so
lacks explicitness as to allow one set
of its advocates to announce that 1t
binds us to arbitrate everything, and
another set to say that under 1T we
would not have to arbitrate anything
we did not wish to.
1.-The fatally objectionable feature OF
the proposed treaty is the clause pro-
viding that the joint high commission
which may be composed conclusively OF
representatives Of the two countries
but which also may be composed ex-
clusively of foreigners, may by un-
animous vote, or>by vote Of all but one
Of its members. determine that any
given question whatever must be ar
bitrated.
"It is difficult to characterize this
provision truthfully without seeming to
be offensive. Merely to speak of it as
silly comes far short of saying what
should be said. 1t is arguable that in
certain cases either of the two COM
ponent parts Of the treaty-makine
power. the president or the senate
should delegate to thesother, for cer-
tain purposes. the power of exclusive
action. @ sisl.s Z - is "a 3
But no sound argument can be
made for permitting both the president
and the senate to delegate to outsiders
possibly to foreigners, the exercise OF
a fundamental and vital power.
"The greatest service this nation can
render to righteousness is to behave
with erupulous justice to other ma
tions. and yet to keep ready to hold
its own II necessary"