Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-03-31

treaty
IN suggesting two year suspen-
sion Of tolls Speaker CLARK said-
\ Most assuredly the mistaken eco
tnonic policy reason for the president
tis antenable and fades away before
the stubborn facts Of our history. AS
\ that is a disputed point, why not
amend this bin so as to continue the
present law with the exemption for
TIVE years, or suspend it for two
years? BY amending the bill, either
way, we. control the situation If the
1 exemption from tolls should turn out
to be d mistaken economic policy
our own canal, built on our own soil,
Iswith our money. is gone from us and
our heirs forever, and forever"
Not Afraid OF War
we want war with no nation" said
| the speaker, but rather than surren-
der our right to complete sovereignty
lover every square foot of our globe
encircling domain, we win cheerfully
and courageously face a world in
arms"
He attacked the attitude Of house
democrats who have aided the presi-
dents fight for the toll exemption
Irepesl Referring to published declar
4 .rations that his opposition to the
| president was the opening gun OF his
flight for the nomination in 1916" the
speaker declared he had told all to
whom he had spoken about the 1916
situation, that if the presidents admin
Iistrtion we're a success, Mr.. Wilson
would be reelected, and II It were a
failure @the nomination would not be
worth having. AS 10 his own future,
the speaker insisted he could be hap
py without the presidency, the speak
ership or even with retirement to pri-
yate life, should his constituency so
determine.
There is no personal issue between
1.-THE president Of the United States and
! myself he said. 4 trust there never
will be. have at no time uttered one
word Of criticism Of the president,
At no time. so far as 1 am informed
or believe, has the president said one
single word of criticism of me- have
\ never ersoha moment entertained the
epinfDn fI1as President Wilson is ac-
tuated by other than the highest mo-
\ tiyes. Ia don't believe that President
Wilson has. ever entertained any other
opinion as to the conduct Of those OF
US who find it necessary to differ
/ with him on this measure.
President Wilson does not desire a
breach in the democratic party. |
don't desire a breach in the democrat.
ic party, and there is no breach in the
democratic party. would scorn to
believe that President Wilson's coun-
tenances for one moment the efforts
Of some Of the jackal press to repre-
sent, that we arc seeking to disrupt
the democratic party With most of
those who have asserted that ! am
seeking to disrupt the party, the wish
is father to the Thought"
! Replying at length to what he CALI
! ed a "scurrilous and slanderous ar
ticle in the New York Worgd,9 the
speaker said the charge that he had
been swayed in his attitude toward
the bill by the ship subsidy interests
1 was a base and false insinuation,'
''If any man here believes that Sian.
der shouted the speaker, "let him
,stand up here and now, so that he
} may be seen by hundreds Of witness
i les"
7 The newspaper named, h@v said
: "along with every editor in America
\ who hopesat to be an ambassador, min
: lister, consul general, or in some other
: fat and Juicy Job has been endeavor-
/ ing to place me in antagonism to the
/ president ever since the election
! These papers declare am opposing
E this surrender to Great Britain as an
opening gun in my campaign for pres
ident in 1916. It may surprise these
obsequious courtiers to know that
) never hinfAd ri anv hunnan haino thAI