Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-08

tNdC the vessels Of other nations in trade shall pay toll. It means also that the United States intends to con- trol the Panama Canal independent of Great Britain or any other power on earth and ill strict accordance with the requirements of the Monroe doc- Urine.
 This position of our government, which is the only one that the pat rlotlsm of the country will ever tol- crate, is surrounded with some legal difficulties which cannot be over thrown unless the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is considered in it's connec- ton with preceding treaties and as resultant therefrom. The Hay-Paunce- fote treaty, ratified by the Senate, Dec. 16, 1911, contains this clause: The canal shall be- free and open to the vessels of commerce and war of all nations on terms of entire equality so that there shall be no discrimina- tion against any such nation or it's citizens or subjects in respect of the conditions of traffic or otherwise." By the Clayton+Bulwer treaty of 1850 Great Britain was accorded equal rights with the United States over the isthmus as it stipulated that the canal then proposed to be built (the Nicaragua) should be under the joint protection and control of Great Britain and the United States and that neither of these governments will ever erect or maintain any for tlllcations *'sk.s or occupy or colon- ize or assume or exercise any dom- inion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica the Mosquito Coast or any part of Central America"
 Wien the United states began to consider seriously the project of talk ing over the unfortunate Panama Canal affair, unfortunate an account of previous failures, and building it, he first step to be taken in the work Was to replace the Clayton and BuliVer treaty win. another that would be ill accordance with Ameri- can principles. The Hay-Pauncefcte treaty, December 16. 1901, as he re- suit of these efforts. MT. Hay was regarded as one of 1he greatest Amer ican statesmen especially in d;l3' O. matic role, but owlug to the self sh policy of Great Britain and her his toric inpudence, MT. Hay could not accomplish what the American peo- pie desired. Eleven years ago when the treaty twas concluded, on ac- count of it's provisioa being so much more honorable to the Unite States than those of the Clayton Eu- iver treaty, many lIoped that With d mutual good will olr country need fear no special trouble. As the time for the completion 0f the canal ap- preached, it became evident to MT. Bryce, the British ambassador to the Un ted States. that the temper of the Hay y-PauncefOte treaty to be so strict
 ly interpreted as to allow England many foreign country equal privileges wila the United States. Great Brit ain became more complacent and eX- press willingness 70 surrender all its rights under the Clayton-Bul yer treaty without colIpensation- bu, with British craft stipulated that British ships should pass through the canal on the same terms as those of the United States.
 As a legal proposit on President Taft with his judicial mind, talked at first at the idea of enforcing he act of congress of August "A, 1912, as it looked to him to De violation of treaty rgI-ts, but happily he got over the ,remoGs of the occasion and became ready to support Congress.
 But the question is still before con- gless and Anglomaniacs will be loud
 m denunciation when our national
 governments reiterates finally $ de cision to uphold the Monroe doctrine
 and con rol it's own affairs withou, asking leave of any fore ga power
 We will! have spent. when tho canal
 is complsted, over $l00,000,000, but
 nothing has been wasted nor dollar
 of the money stolen, nor is there any
 lingering scandal as when DeLesseps
 sauandered an equal. amount on the
 enterprise, "one tn I'd s1ens on the
 canal, one third wasted and one
 third stolen." Under all the civcum-
 stances of the case thc United States
 canno; allow Great Britain CT any other foreign nation to enjoy any
 kind of partnership in the control and
 management of the Panama Cana.
 A study of the story of tle treat-
 ies between Great Bri ain and tlc
 oe