Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1913-01-24
ROOT OENQuNCES
PANAMA ATTITUDE
q. s. SCORED FOR CANAL STAND
BY ARBITRATION 40.
voCATE.
A WAY TO KEEP PLEDGE.
Otherwise, Says Senator, We Would
Be Called Treacherous-
Attempt TO Repeal
Free Tot.

NtteWpt 70 VepeA
Free Tot.
Washington, Jan. 2S.-"Shall, we IN.
form the world that the United States
is false to its agreements. faase to its
pledged word? Shall We have it made
known the world over that it must
look out for the United States or 1t
win get the advantage Of you? That
h is astute, cunning slippeU!
A Two How Speech.
With this vigorous denunciation Of
the attitude Of this oountry in the
Panama canal controversy With Great
Britain Senator Ekha Root closed .
two hour speech in the senate With an
appeal for the submissiun Il Tie F1na-
ma question to ARBITRATION q TIE re.
that woah give free Dasase to Annsri-
Gan eoastwise ships
Speaking from he expes3eoee d =
nember Of President Rcsoeyeh's cabi.
net whea The Panama cA1A sDne was
purchased and whom over Is artitra-
ton treaties were made With foreign
nations. Senator Rect delivered the
attitude Of the United States that has
been heard siaoe The Panama contro-
kersy with Great Britain arose.
It became known. following the sen.
ator's address, that Senator Brande.
gee, chairman of the interoceanic Ca
nal conusission, will call meeting
within few days to take mp Senator
Roots amendment for the repeal OF
the free tod provisioa.
ENost to Change Lw.
4 Led BY Senators Root ani Brande.
gee, both Of whom opDesed .the orig.
NAL passage Of this pRovistsa, de-
termined effort will be made at this
session OF congress to change the law
before 1t goes into effect 4 the canal
20 that the cause a dispute VIII Great
Britain win be removed.
Senator Root declared the Uaited
States would violate al its pledges
and promises to the world, would be
guilty of false pretenses" in il ID
vocacy Of general arbitration and
would proclaim itself Indifferent to ma,
tional honor and integrity il it re-
fused to submit to arbitration or to
retreat from the unjust position 1t had
taken.
He declared free coastwise tolls to
American ships were illegal, unless tho
same concessions were made to for
eign ships. The claim that the United
States had domestic rights over the
canal because it owned the canal
zone constituted violation of the ex-
press guarantee of the United States
70 Great Britain, he said.
1T is not our territory except in
trust he declared Treaty or 10
treaty, we have long asserted that tie
nations OF Central America had no
right to debar the world from its right
Of passage across the isthmuA Upon
that We based the justice of our en-.
tire action which resulted in our hav-
ing the canal zone"
The United States had preached ar.
bitration for years Senator Root de-
elared and had besought the nations
Of the world. lin season and out Of
season, to enter into arbitration agree
ments for the settlement Of all dis.
putes."
"Are We Falser
Are we Pharisees?' he cried.
Have we been insincere and false }?
Have We been pretending all these
long years of declaration! Are we
ready now to admit that our country,
through its presidents and congresses,
have been guilty of false pretenses,
Of humbug, of talking to the galleries,
Of uttering fine words to secure ap.
plause?
THE instant that an interest IL at
stake we propose to falsify every de-
claration, every promise, by the AFRO
CANT insistence that we alone can de-
ter,nine the Interpretation of this
treaty; that we will refuse to abide
by the treaty.
And is the game worth the can
die? Is 1t worth our while to remain
In position. to maintain which we
may be driven to repndiate our princi-
pies, our professions and our agree
ments, for the purpose of comforting
money benefit at the expense of the
treasury of the United States on the
most highly and absolutely protected
special industry in the United States
-our coastwise shippins?"