Valdez daily prospector., 1912-08-26
MONDAY, AUGUST 26. 1912.
OUR NEW DECLARATION.

u'Itiu'ilCt llldi IS Hldur DI lnp Senate of the United States in serving notice upon Great Britain. and incidentally upon all other nations of earth that these Unit cd StairS are abun.lantly able to lake care of their own affairs and That the mrddling of foreign ma lions will not br tolerated. The drclarat ion has most tO dc with Inc rules for the operation of lh. Panama canal, but when taken in connection with the recent drclar- al ion of the Srnalr that the ac- uui-iIiun nf vast tracts of land iN furri"n governments ur for rivn cuI'puralinns al points upon ill" American continent Wh"rr ihry might menace the safety of rur country would not br permit l.'h. thr 'l"rlaral ion is vastly sig nilicant.
 The notice served incidentally upon Japan. but generally upon !hc world, that this nation would view With suspicion and alarm any attempt at foreign control of Magdalcna bay OF any other point upon the continent, is practically a rcaffirmatiOn of the time-hOn- urrd Monroe doctrine which Eu- rope, particularly Germany, had begun to regard as obsolete, but differing from the now famous warning issued by President Cleveland in the Venezuelan case, the warning does not come from the Stale department or from the administration but directly from the representative of the people in inc Senate. This actually means more than if the declara- Lion had come from the StaLr de- parrmcnt for there would in the latter ease have been pOsSibil- fly that the executive action might have been nvcrruIcd by Congress, inc court of last resort. while in he present instance there Is no power that may sel aside the de- ci$iom of Congress.
 Not only does ihiS latest warn ing to Europe and Asia that Amer ira proposes tO do aS'it plcaScS wilh it's own property, declare for ullr right t0 admit our ships en- gagged in coaStwiSr trade iO thI canal free of tolls, but it. goes to inc extreme of declaring that should Congress deem il wise, the canal will be made free iO every ship lhai floats the American flag. To arcrnIilaIr the declaration of indrp"ndrricc. the Senate has VOt- cd f" abr"galc the rules of Amer ican registry to the end that they may fly the American flag in times of peace and iO assist in the de- fence of inc nation in times uf war.
 This i> moi q declaration of war against England. Japan or Ger many. in facl il is one of inc things which will most strongly make for peace. We simply serve notice upon the world that we pro- pose to conduct our own affairs and that We are strong enough to lake care of our own inlere sts. To admit of foreign interference would be IO tie our own hands so that in the event of combination of England, Russia and Japan un- der the offensive and defensive al- lianc" entered into between those cations, we would not bc deprived of ability to defend ourselves at the very onset of trouble.
 There of course is no reason tO apprchcnd that any nation has ul- lcriOr motives in demanding n share in the control of the Pan anna canal, but it is obvious that in the event of hOstilities and our scacoasis would be much more vulnerable than they have been before the construction of the ca nal.
 The English press is extremely dissatisfied with Inc action of Inc Senate of the United States upon the matter of permitting Ameri- can ships engaged in coastwise trade to pass through an Ameri- can canal free of tolls and it ex-