Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-22
power, our national integrity is assailed
if We submit to such intrusion.
vitality Affects National Honor.

Il can conceive of no question so vitality
affecting our national honor and Integrity
as that a domestic policy devised for the
benefit of the United States. and affecting
the people of the United States, must first
be approved by foreign power.
I'VE would indeed create painful inn
preston abroad if this mighty nation
should surrender to the control OF any
foreign power its domestic policies and
the control of its domestic commerce.
That We can never do and maintain the
prestige. the honor and the glory or this
republic
This reply by Senator O'Gorman of
New York to the speech by Senator Root
yesterday marked the opening in the
Senate today of the fight that is to be
made against adoption Of the Root
toll provision of the new Panama canal
act.
eff Great Britain had expended half
billion dollars in an enterprise affecting
ours, what would be her attitude il
the United States should make complaint
against her action, he said.
Followed by Newlands.
Senator OGorman was followed by
Senator Newlands, who also asserted
that the United States held domestic
rights at Panama that a foreign power
could not dispute. He proposed that the
free toll provision remain in the bill:
but that the objections of Great Britain
be met by an amendment whereby the
United States would pay the tolls remit
ted upon American coastwise shipping.
''All that foreign nations have the right
to insist upon" said Senator Newlands.
lis that the charges which American
ships are freed from shall not be imposed
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were credited upon the interest charges
of the United States they would reduce
to that extent the International burden
of the operation. maintenance and inter-
est charges of the canal.
Railroads Against Canal.
Senator Newlands declared the trans
continental railroads were trying with
the aid of Canadian roads. to ''paralyze
the canal" He said American roads
first tried to prevent the construction.
and then to restrict the operation of
the canal.
Failing in this, he said, they had ap-
pealed to their strong neighbOr in the
north, also interested in monopolizing
transcontinental transportation" This
activity, he declared, had been followed
by Canadian appeal to the British
government.
u. S. Honor at Stake, Says Root.
If the United States refuses to submit
to arbitration the Panama canal coal
question or to retreat from its position of
granting free tolls to American coastwise
ships, Senator Root of New York said in
the Senate yesterday, continuing his
speech after The Stars report closed, this
country would be guilty of false pretenses
,P ar~hi fyn-
ton. would violate all it's pledges and
promises to the world and would proclaim
itself Indifferent to national honor and in
tegrity.
Under the provisions of the treaty of
arbitration with Great Britain Mr.. Roo.
maintained this country is bound to sub
init the question to arbitration in view of
Great Britains protest against the free
coal law.
IF we stand in the position of arrogant
refusal to submit the questions arising
upon the Interpretation of this treaty
Hay-Pauncefote treaty. to arbitration we
shall not only violate our solemn obliga-
ton, but shall be false to all the princi-
pies that We have asserted to the world
and that we have urged upon mankind.
We have been the apostle of arbitration;
we have been urging it upon the other
civilized nations. Presidents, Secretaries
of State, ambassadors and mlniSters-aye
Congresses. the Senate and the House,
committed the United States to the prin-
ciple Of arbitration irrevocably, unequiv-
ocally, and we have urged it in season
and out of season on the rest Of man.
kind
Would Be Revolving Hypocrisy.
Mr. Root reviewed some Of the actions
and resolutions of Congress showing its
approval of international arbitration.
What revolving hypocrisy" continued
Mr.. Root, 1--WE convict ourselves of it,
after all this. the first time there comes
up question in which We have an in
terest the first time there comes up q
question of difference about the meaning
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