The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-07-21
WILSON'S REGIME
MAKES RECORD IN
DRAWING TREATIES
Peace Pacts Galore Show
Use Made of Treaty Power
Vested in Federal Govern
ment.
~ SIDNEY esPEY.

~ eIDNEv GsPEY.
WASHINGTON. July 21-President
Wilson's will be . record-breaking adj
ministration 10 far as the making OF
treaties IL concerned. Not only he's
Secretary of State Bryan succeeded In
binding nearly q score Of nations to
the United States with"peace pacts"-
that 10, pacts which make II certain
that the countries involved will not
come to war with the United States
in q gust OF sudden passion-but many
other important treaties are now pend
ing which promise to be extremely sig
nihcant diplomatic accomplishments.
There has been one dominating idea
in President Wilson's foreign policy:
that of using the treaty-making power
vested In the federal government to
advance the general peace movement
of the world. In the Taft administra-
ton the treaty-making power was the
keynote of dollar diplomacy. Now 1t
ia devoted to making tangible and vital
the idealism which has the striking
central quality of Wilsonian diplomacy.
The contrast has been a sharp one.
and has not been brought about with
out harsh discords.
Withdraws From Loan.
The first one came when President
Wilson withdrew the support OF the
United States from the famous Chin.
csc loan agreement through which
dollar diplomacy" has striven to get
foothold in the Orient. The fact that
the United States would not stand
sponsor for such a financial treaty
proved shock to Wall street, and the
withdrawal of American bankers from
participation In the loan followed as a
natural consequence. The action of the
administration in this matter caused
many nations to draw the conclusion
| that the United States intended to
| avoid all "entangling alliances" Of the
type which treaties are generally sup
| posed to bring about.
Imagine the surprise of European
governments two months later when
Secretary Bryan sent out prospectuses
| of the peace treaty" which he hoped
States. Mr.. Bryan outlined the idea
that there would be no wars if both
! parties to an international dispute
waited long enough for angry pas
siOns" to subside and allowed an i'm
partial commission to Investigate the
causes of their quarrel. The proposal
met with general favor, although IT
seemed to be regarded as innicuous.
and many nations have already accept
ed the Bryan idea.
| Two Treaties Worry.
| But the chief pacts negotiated by the
present administration are the Colum-
bian and Nicaraguan treaties. About
both of them violent controversies
have arisen. Both vitality affect the
future of our relations with Latin
DC,
that either of them will pass the SEN
ate in their present form. for they are
regarded in some quarters as dan
gerous.
The Columbian treaty contains the
now famous expression of regret"
through which the United States makes
amends for the Panama revolution of
1903. resulting in the creation of new
republic and the formation of the ca
nal zone. Accompanying the express
sion of regret is a gift of 5000. 900
for losses incurred by Columbia
through the uprising. Advocates of
the treaty claim that American ma
rines prevented Columbia from sup
pressing the revolution. that the revo-
luton was inspired from Washington
and engineered by agents of the
French Panama canal corporation, with
William Nelson Cromwell as the chief
conspirator. All of these claims are
heatedly denied by supporters of the
Roosevelt administration. and have
been denounced by Colonel Roosevelt
in unqualified terms.
Helps Columbia.
But the most discussed feature of
the Columbian treaty is the following
clause: THE republic of Columbia
shall at all times be at liberty to trans
port through the inter-oceanic canal
its troops. munitions of war and ships
of war, even In case of war between
Columbia and another country, without
paying any charges to the United
States"
The opponents of the treaty claim
that this clause Is in express contradic-
ton to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and
is at variance with the attitude of the
administration as expressed in its cam.
paign for tolls repeal, when 1t refused
to let even the coastwise shipping of
, the United States have preferential
3 treatment in the canal. 1t Is extreme
ly doubtful that the senate will allow
1 this clause of the treaty to stand
} Equally In doubt is the clause giving
= $25, OOO, 900 to the Columbian govern
: ment as naturalization for losses in.
. Cured through the Panama revolt.
The Nicaraguan treaty Is commonly
t regarded as an echo of dollar diplo
macy" and Secretary of State Bryan
= has already defended 1t on the ground
4 that it was almost entirely drawn dur
: ing the Knox regime in the state de
e partment 1t gives the United States
/. the righ of control and the power of re
organizing Nicaraguan finances, in &C
cordance with the Plat amendmen!
under which the United States super
vised the development OF the Cuban
republic The United States pays Mic
aragua 100000 under the terms oil
the treaty and in return acquires per
petual rights to the canal route in the
republic and a naval base on the is
land of Fonseca. The latter is re
garded as an important arm of the de-
tense of the Panama canal, and itl
: requirement Is held by the navy to be
, the most important concession gained
by the treaty.