The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-03-27
REPEAL IS
URGED BY
ADAMSON
"CalI to Arms" Sounded BY Spokes-
man for Administration Pres
ident No Cheap Trickster
Or Trader
RAPS JINCoISM OF
The "SHIP" TRUST
Declares Free Tolls Plank Slipped
into Party Platform Under False
Pretense Hits Railroad
Bugaboo"
Telegram by United Press.

Telegram by United Press.
Washington, March 27-A "calI t
arms" to all Democrats, as well as
patriotic Republicans and Progress
sives' to support the president in re
llealing the Panama free tolls exemp
ton was made In the house this after
noon BY Chairman Adamson OF the
house Interstate commerce committee,
the administratian's spokesman in the
iiglt for the 81 us repeal resolution.
The president has come down and
told us In order to assure successful
conduct of the foreign affairs Of this
government that this repeal should be
made at once" Adamson declared.
Yet he has been talked about as
though he was cheap trickster or
rtader, dickering in wares and seek
ing to impose on cFeduIous customers.
He has been requested to divulge state
secrets and lay bare to the world dan
ger points.
4 would not be impoIite. enough to
accuse ANYBODY Of Reasonable conduct.
but when the president OF any party
emphasizes the dire extremity OF the
government by going III person to con.
sfcas and describing an obstacle 10
the safe conduct of foreign affairs, no
man can escape BY audible or sophis-
try.
Whoever fights this repeal now not
only fights the honest equality and do
nestle economy or hia people, but he
fights the administration on the for
eIgn policy Of tAe government and ii
disaster results he must share the
odium and responsibility Cheap and
vulgar criticism has been INDUCED III
about the presidents motives. He has
been charged without foundation with
dickerIng with governments and pa
rading for help and peace Nations do
not do business IN that vulgar way
Englands attitude in any crisis in
which we may uecome involved will
depend on the honesty and fairness Of
our treatment Of England
There Is more claptrap. poppy
cock and delusion about this iingoism
against England than any other fea-
turo Of the ship trust propaganda
which Ii fraudulent from beginning to
end.
That the free tolls declaration In the
Baltimore platform was undemocratIc
and was Slipped ia under false pre-
lenses that majority Of Democrats
favored free tolls was asserted by
Adamson.
Go ask the chairman Of the plat
form committee and see II he will
deny II" he continued "He was busy
watching Tamma.y Hall and Wall
street for the protection OF the people
but it seems he watched the wrong
man. If that sentence stands the
Democratic party must stand as the
apologist and champion Of special priv
ilege and subsidy
There is no warrant in morals for
lis to give away s2.0o0.0O0 in tolls Of
the peoples money to few capitalists
wlso control the ships and railroads. :"
Analyzing the .clayton-Bulwar and
Hay-Pauncefote treaties as American
diplomatic victories. giving this coun-
try every privilege in Panama with
the only proviso that all ships should
be treated equally Adamson said:
The pretended haters of England
make much OF the fact that England
win be a large beneficiary Of the canal
The authority which collects the tolls
and uses it for its own official ships
will be the largest beneficiary"
Adamson touched on the "home rule
fight in Ireland BY suggesting that the
England haters" ought sc go to IL
ster and help whip England. He ex-
pressed the belief that this country
makes mistake in failing to force
England to give up Canada and all
other land in this hemisphere
AN effort has been made to pervert
the truth and becloud the ISSUE he
said, by perverting the meaning Of