The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-01-04
EUREKA. NEVADA. JANUARY 4, 1918


salt Lake Telegram When to make close comparl
sons 1T seems most singular that the most famous corporation at
orneys especially corporations press which
supposed to be close accord supported by the railroads.
the that insist that the United shall charge tolls
Its coast ships when they pass through the Panama canal
1t may be coincidence but it looks though there
something behind it, and would think that the railroads
really the Of charge the coasng ships
tolls they would put the honest ground that those
competitors the railroads and every bit of toll left off will reduce
the cost of freight between the East and the West that railroads
will have to meet it, will probably carry goods both
shores less than keep running the people
In the interior will have increased charges to pay.
irritating to readi of these newspapers that
honor stake that because of the treaty
bound by the pledge of entire equality tolls the Panama canal
after its construction
the reasonable Interpretation of that the
that other treaties when nation pledges another
that will do by it exactly the favored nations
After all the vebiage stripped aside takes good deal of
gall for insist that coast shipping which
had been independent foreign power hundred
when the treaty signed shall by that treaty be handicapped and
reduced to the level of every other nation that may to
ship through the Panama Earl Grey his letter
the President admits that have the right subsdze
ships but insists that mustbe other than by remit
ting tolls the Panama canal That takes character ofreasonng
which the ordinary mind grasp 1t in effect says:
"You have perfect right do you please with ship
ping that particular shipping which lines of ships between
two American port but the me must not remit toll
from those ships because the other side of the have to
pay toll to get through"
Earl Grey letter evidently inspired by the Canadian Pa
c6c railway officials They be treated running from Hall
Quebec exactly ships running from Boston
New York San Francisco the canal concerned and
the question keeps coming back What business to Canada
Great Britain what do with the character of shipping
which has been by certain laws for hundred and
the right which has been questioned by foreign power
We have treaties with Great Britain which give all the
rights England of the most favored nations and with that
posing Great Britain build canal England the
Scottish ne Would those treaties interfere with her making her
arrangements about her shipping? Would American
dare Earl Grey did the other day. to insist to the British
that because of treaty which the United States
equal rights with all other and about England that that
included free passage through the canal? Not much
We think the coast shipping ought to tolls We speak
the standpoint of the who lives in the in
because the tolls that emed from the coast ship
ping railroad the interior will have
any right England dictate the United States
she shall do with her shipping stranng the point al
the limit of mpatenc and doubt Earl Grey when be
finished writing letter. said to his stenogapher, THAT
cheeky business fail get anything by neglect
ing to ask for it.
the The Hague tribunal would be just
than it would be for Engshman who
has come bought American bride to submit
Hague whether he had paid too much for
the lady The Hague tribunal would have just much
business with the it would with the other.