Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-04
SAYS AMERICANS GIVE
GREAT BRITAIN TOO MUCH
Senator Cummins, Attacking Repeal
Bill. Declares Country Is Allowed
More Than It Demands.

In an attack upon the Panama tolls
repeal bill, Senator Cummins of Iowa to-
day declared he was amazed at the
spectacle of Americans giving to the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty more favorable
Interpretation for Great Britain than
Great Britain itself demanded He de-
nounced this attitude as unusual and
unprecedented. He praised Great
Britain as a great nation. to be admired
for asserting and defending that inter-
probation of the treaty helpful to its
commerce, but expressed regret that
some Americans were not equally
Jealous of their country's welfare.
Senator Cummins proceeded to analyze
Great Britain's protest He said Great
Britain. through Charge Innis. had stated
exemption of coastwise vessels would not
he Objectionable if the regulations were so
drawn as to limit the exemption to coast
wise commerce. AS the regulations de-
filming coastwise commerce had not been
drawn. Senator Cummins insisted there
was nothing to which Great Britain could
object
Strong Arrangement.
Senator Vardaman's address, in the
Senate Yesterday afternoon was the
and other democrats who have abandoned
the free tolls" plank of the democratic
platform that has yet been delivered in
Presidents speeches in which he said the
democratic platform was mot molasses to
catch flies with
Il trust he added, that it will not be
out of place for me to suggest that it be-
comes the duty of the President to see
that the interests of the American peo-
pie are not flies to be caught by some
body elses molasses.'
Declaring that he regarded platform
pledge as binding as the oath Of office,
Senator Vardaman continued:
The idea of any one human being.
however great in his own conceit or wise
in the estimation of others. imagining
that he has the power to absolve himself
from such a pledge, in order to substitute
some theory of his own in place of it, is
a heresy in political religion in the United
States which is now being preached and
practiced by the leaders of the democratic
party for the first time. 1t may be trea-
son to the crown. but l cannot approve 1t.
1 will not subscribe to such doctrine.
Severely Criticises Root.
The Mississippi senator was severe in
his criticism of Senator Root whose
speech in January, 1918. he said, reopened
1T strikes me-" he said, that the
democratic party has fallen upon evil
lines, it's poverty of leadership has be-
come pathetic, when it has to rely upon
the distinguished senator from New York
,Mr. Root, that astute. resourceful. IN
firing lawyer whose professional career
is distinguished by his successful de-
Tense of predatory interests and the
malefactors of great wealth, this erudite.
radical exponent of the Hamiltonian
theory of government.
1T is unfortunate indeed for the de-
mocracy that this man remarkable, dis
tinguished in certain lines, should be-
come the leader and be followed by the
adherents of the party of Jefferson and
Jackson-that party which has held
stands for the preservation Of the Const-
tuition, the dignity of labor. the equality
of the Anglo-Saxon manhood, and the
sanctity Of platform pledges.
Bryan and Root Team.
Think Of Bryan and Root pulling to-
gether shoulder to shoulder for the moral
and mental uplift OF the American people
and the salvation of our national honor.
Does any senator imagine that the
reputation of platform promises will be
overlooked and forgotten by the people.
because the distinguished senator from
New York tells us it's the right thing
for US to do? Will the cogency Of the
appeal of the distinguished senator so
sway the public mind that they will for
get the excavations which Secretary
Bryan gave to the violators of platform
promises in his memorable address to
the Pennsylvania legislature May Is,
1872"