Bisbee daily review., 1911-01-19
NEUTRAL|zE THE
 CANAL SAYS BOSTON
SentimentaliSts Thinks Brotf. ehy Love VIII Take
 Care of the Work

 Panama Canal should be neutralized, hearing the signatures of men and women, prominent in the United Stat es and abroad, was made public to-
 day, Richard Olney, former secre- tary of the state; David Starr Jor- dan, president of Leland Stanford, ir university; William Dean How els, author; Charles P. Anderson,
 Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chi cago: William II. F. F'aurce, presi-
 dent of Brown university: Jane
 Adams, of Hull House, chicago; c. B Holt, justice of the United States district court, and George Foster 1 Peabody, the New York banker. are
 among the sponsors Of the document.
 The statement follows:
 Why the Panama Canal should be Ineutralized, not fortified.
 T. Because the canal would be safer in wartime without fortifca-
 ton. According to the agreement Isigned by the Hague Conference in I1907. unfortifed coast places can not
 be bombarded.
 "2. Because the original intention iof our government, as distinctly ex- pressed in 1900. and previously, was ! to prohibit Qualifications of the canal
 Trough this prohibition was omitted
 in the finally revised Hay-Pauncefort treaty. signed is 1902. this is no
 wise implies hat We ought to fortify l it. nor was its construction proposed as primarily a military undertaking.
 @. Because. though the Suez Canal | as built with English money. Eng Hand agreed 10 its naturalization. The Straits Of Magellan are also neutral ized and the Interparliamentary Un- ion. in 1910, declared in favor of the naturalization of all inter-oceanic
 waterways
 "4. Because the United States in all it's history has never been attacked and began every foreign war it ever had and is too important a custom CT for any great nation al this late day to wantonly attack. Though an enemy might in stress of war be tempted to break it's pledge to us,
 no nation would dare break its neu- itralization pladge with the combined lpowers, as the penalty of noninter- course, which could be included in ithe general treaty. would involve
 commercial ruin.
 "5. Because. with the experience
 of nearly a cenmry's peace with Eng
 land, ensured by our undefended
 Canadian border line. until we have
 asked for complete arbitration treat
 ies with all possible future enemies
 and have been refused, we should be insincere in increasing our war lmea -es. This is especially true in lview f the facts that, since 1902, .itAe ions have signed one hundred arbitration treaties and President Taft has made the impressive declar-
 any question whatever should not be larbitrated; that the second Hague Conference in various ways diminish
 ed the likelihood of war; that not Ionly the prize court but the court of arb.tral justice is practically assured i;
 and that in the summer of 1910, Congress unanimously passed a re- solution asking the president to ap-
 point a commission of five to con
 lsider the utilization of existing agen-
 lcies to limit the armaments of the
 world by mutual agreement of the 5 nations and to constitute the world lnavies an international force for - the preservation of universal peace r and to consider other means to dim ) finish expenditures for military pur poses
 + 6. Because. in the words of Hon ! David J. Foster. chairman of the - committee on foreign affairs in the l house of representatives The in ? itiaI expense of the necessary for S ltihcations would not be less thar q s25, coo, 900: in all probability il | would not be less than $50,000, 900 e The annual expense of maintaining : such Notifications 1000 miles iron s home would probably amount to $5. l 0O0, coo With all the fortifcationl
 possible, it is still apparent that 1T s order that the canal might be ot j. military advantage to the United r States in time of war a guard ot { battleships at each of its entrances { would be an absolute necessity. Il } is equally apparent that with sucl 2 a guard the Notifications would b, g unnecessary, if not entirely useless p We are bound by solemn treaty ob ] ligationt to see to it that the cana ! shall be and remain forever open tC
 British ships in time of war as vel