Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19
The Panama Canal Is the
Property of the United States
A Democratic Congress Should Not Permit
England to Dictate How We Shall Con-
troll Oar Domestic Possessions.


right England interfere in canal built entirely with
money and ENTIRELY IN OUR TERRITORY.
the provisions of the conference report the Canal
passed Friday by the the house has done we'll notably
First The granting to American coastwse vessels of exemp
from tolls
Second Admitting American registry foregnbut vessels
owned by Americans
Third Prohibiting railway steamships from Of
canal
Forbiddng canal by vessels engaged in trade
in violation of the sherman law
in thing, which the recognition of the Ameri-
right control American canal the house has failed ut
tcrly
vessels engaged in foreign trade and denied
tolls by house piuy few. The difference the
tolls slight ships admitted As
business il is trfng, AS PATRIOTISM 1T IS MOMENTOUS
The Democrats congress had already denied the country
navy Now they surrender the county right to its
policy of abandoning the navy abandoning the Philip
pines abandoning the Panama canal abandoning everything but
the political jobs that its adheren have managed get policy
of poor patriotism and small Americanism.
The question right operate the canal that
dug by American through territory much American soil
Alaska New York great the Venezuela question: which
ceveland splendid patriotic action such all
his faults and to write his history of the great
American Presidents
The canal is domestic possession In his message of De-
cember 2 1911 President Taft points the canal
1t money that built it, We have right charge tolls
for its And Mr. Taft be it said his credit has
the first conended that the for Americans
should be found to American ships whether
coaswse in other trade the right to the canal free from
the tolls charged for vessels of other nations dubbed their
weak knees by dead and abandoned treaty the Democrats
have taken action utterly unworthy of pledged to
carry out the will of patriotic people.
The Cayton-Huwer treaty, the argument used to
brighten the house weakng by the British lobby at
Washington. Of questionable value an exhibit in
And the Hay Paunccrote treaty in its stead
expressly omi the clauses in the CaytonBulwer agreement
which restricted the right of Americans with the canal
then still to be dug~-as they chose
When this treaty pending Mr. Hearst fearing that an
pttpI vOllI bnr
Saca the House of Representatives has now permitted them
to be mterred withsen to Washington corps coespon
dents and cartoonsS fight for the exclusion objectionable
clauses The fight The clauses were excluded And
years later dead and dried treaty dragged from musty
pgconhoe and cited argument that Great Britain should
have the rights in canal built by the people as
the American people themselves!
Tamey submit of sale of the rights Of Aneri
citizens wholly This newspaper has begun and
WILL CONTINUE persistent fight for the restoration in the bill
OF the clause admitting all American vessels the free
In the meantime write your Congressman he he Demo
cra or Republican Tell him that you American
you want him to be least like one Tell him
YOUR money paid for the canal and you ships flying
flag
BE and persistent about it. and perhaps Won can
persuade him that American sentiment is important thing
far he is concerned than British argument the arg
men that are advanced by selfish socaed interests
that are controlled by British sentiments
is worthy of note that matter of the canal as in
the matter of baesps senate acted bravev and wisely
the Republican president of the United advocacy
have done better to follow But though every possible argument
not only from patriotic but from point Of view
has been land before the house It's action
close of the session has been discrimination political
mistakes which justify the cynical opinion President Grant ex
pressed of the party years
This question which there American opiu.
On the side the American people on the other foreign
power which has sought to be the aggressor every quarter
the globe and which has succeeded whenever might made
and ii met with a weaker nation
The canal is domestic possession 1t has been built
clusvey by The negotiations that led Of
the canal strip approved by the peop The land through
which the canal bought by the United and
gress voted the money pay for it. Domestic
remain has when the people
Great Britain powerful in the National Congress than the
voice of the American people