The Washington herald., 1913-01-26
THE OPEN FORUM
GIVES LIONS TAIL
AN AWFUL TWIST
Derides Senator Roots Speech and Op.
poses Any Suggestion of
Arbitration.

bill passed, and this tired out feellnS
seems to be chronic with much OF our
legislation, especially that relating to
foreign affairs.
Other nations know that all they will
have to do is TO put forward the most
absurd claims and persist, and that this
tired OUT feeling will take possession,
and that the matter will be settled by
shifting the question to foreign arbi-
tration tribunal, and hence the odious
deals that have been put of on us.
II was that tired out" feeling which
permitted the Halifax award TO be palm
ed of on our government This was
the most consummate theft or bare-faced
robbery that was ever put on on a ma
tion.
1t was that tired out feeling that
Permitted the ratification of the infa-
nous Clayton-Bulwer treaty. and the
Venezuela arbitration. and the tired
CUT feeling is responsible for the Hay
PauncefOte treaty, which brings us into
our present trouble. This tired OUT
feeling has been responsible for much
maladministratiOn and legislation that
has cost this nation millions and mil
lions OF dollars for the benefit of the
few. 1t is this tired out feeling that
makes us fee to arbitration instead of
settling all our questions ourselves. as
all enlightened nations do
II Senator Roots theories were car
ried out by this government it would be
nothing short OF giving up our sovereign
rights to another nation.
If England were to gain the point in
this controversy she is contending for,
We had just AS we'll allow her to formu-
late rcgula tions for the Erie Canal or
the Mississippi River. And our COnst-
tuition would forbid this. When Japan
was making efforts to secure land in
Mexico, England was she is now an
ally Of Japan. England was then press
ing her claims to having hand in run
ming the canal for uS-She yields one
point TO take up another-she's bound
TO have something-she, a friend of
Japan, warned us 10 look out that ia
pan was after Magdalena Bay. As Eng
land foresaw. We at once became alarm
cd about the designs of Japan. and
went To work to thwart them. This WAS
one instance where our Senate was tired
out" but Englands cunning triumphed-
she got through the Hay-PaunCeforte
treaty all right, and Japan never had
the least intention If harm to any
body. \ very much more dangerous
power seeks to gain some hold on a
much more vital economic utility that
cost this government s325. .O0, 900, and yet
we. like an innocent child. play with the
beautiful hut cunning serpent and fail
to see danger. We must have thought
that We would have full and undisputed
control over the canal or we would
never have abrogated the Clayton Bull !
ner treaty. We would also never have
entered into any other treaty which did /
not give us this undisputed control, and /
we would never have built the canal If /
We had not been pretty sure on this !
point.
The excuse of Mr.. Root that we
were tired out when the bill was
passed Is a very poor one. 1t opens the
eyes of this nation to much that we can
not only regret but stand in dread of
a big body of men dealing with the
intricate problems of state becoming
Tired out and throwing them to the
dogs presents very lamentabIe spec
tacle to the American people.
Our sovereignty is in jeopardy.
II England gains her point this will .
place her in position to he constantly
on the look k-out for violations of the
equal privilege understanding. and all /
the power it carries with it. which in
the hands of England would be i'm
mense, and we would be tired out"
indeed by her never Ceasing teasing.
and finally give over the canal to her.
Our sovereignty is involved in this
very question. Can we turn over our
internal affairs to other nations? /
Rightly understood. England's atti-
tudc toward us is an affront. She pre-
sumes upon our ignorance of foreign
affairs and becoming Tired out to
make us puppets. All nations are but
her pawns. which she moves about at
will. She is never fatigued. and al
ways knows what to do and how and
when to do it, Her inscriptions use
Of Japan. mentioned above. Illus
trates this
SO far as dishOnor in viola ting treaty
obligations is concerned. it would be
not only dishonorable in the light of
English diplomatic dealings with other
powers. and more especially with us, to
do thing that aims at our sovereign e:
He is a poor student OF English history
who fails to find in it examples of not
only fragrant violations of her most sa-
cred treaty obligations. but of her du-
Dlicity and deceit in taking advantage of ,
such obligations to work mischief to the
parties she was bound in honor TO in these
treaties. shining example of this is =
to he found in the Holy Alliance" or :
Conspiracy Of Kings" An agreement :
was entered into between the kings of =
Spain, England. and Russia in which ''the !
high contracting parties were to take
into their holy keeping the affairs of the
world" and to see To it that nothing
was done by any nation but that which
was approved by the "God-given right f
of those who were Gods vice regents on | O
this earth Each of the high contract fl
ing parties was bound in every conceiv- II
able manner that can bind mans honor il
to an interdependence, and TO mutual aid | r
in every undertaking made by the other. T
They were bound. too. to mutual help in :
defending any possessions in foreign
lands as if those possessions were their
own.
Spain was at this time mistress of the
world. and the sun never set on the Z
Spanish possessions
But her American possessions COM .
menced to secede, and all soon fell away +
England instead of following her most I;
trade Of arms and other contraband ar 1
ticles. and, seeing that the destruction of f
Spanish supremacy would accrue to her Y
benefit, proposed TO Mr.. Rusk. our AM
bassador to London, to promulgate dog f
ma forbiddng any European power to 7
acquire territory on the American hemi-
sphere, or what We know as the Monroe | =
doctrine. England was. of course. not 4
10 be known in it, because she was still a
/ factor in the Holy Alliance" and her b
Implicitly and double dealing must be hid. '
The scheme worked England fore -
Jaw, and she reaped rich reward by r
supplying her allies enemies with war =
material and doing the very reverse to l.
which she was by treaty bound TO do.
This is only one instance of many. And n
'et American statesmen can get their Fl
consent to stand up and heap abuse upon s.
hose who have been patriotic enough to l