Arizona republican., 1914-05-17
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issues and considers the admins tration policy infamous, He said: In view of the nearness of v,te on cunai tolls in the senate and the astonishing statement which trust is wholly without foundation, that tic administration has offered t. pay Colombia S25.000,000 blackmail because Cuiumbia hehaved so badly .n til, past, l wish to say a word on tue Panama exemption clause.
 Tt should not be repealed There is no question that we have legal and as unquestionably d moral right tC exempt our coastwise traffic from .ollS.
 But if this is contested by any power interes,eu with which We have an arbitration treaty, we should ar htrate, for we have explicitly stated that the interpretation of treaties is q proper subject for arbitration. 1 We must never make promises ; ". don't keep
 But to submit our cause to arbitla- tiun when we believe it just is one I thing. and to abandon il in advance | If arbitration is a totally different ] thing.
 Tt would be bad enough to repeal the exemption clause in any event, but the circumstances under which | this repeal is asked makes it in
 fintely worse.
 We progressives explicitly stated l ir our platform that we believed the coastWise traffic should be free
 from tolls
 Our platform was a promise which
 we solemnly made, and not for the purpose of using it in an effort to get power and synicaily abandon this promise afterwards.
 We regarded it as covenant with the people and q solemn obli- ! sation.
 The plank in the democratic plat
 form was put in either with the 1 knowledge that what it promised was false or with the determination
 to disavow it when once it had
 served it's purpose of deceiving the 1 voters
 Platform Promises Sacred There is nothing we need more i 'p iois>' Alt Oi puDllc liip than 10 insist that promises made
 on the stump shall be kept off the
 stump and there are few more re
 Volting types of public immortality
 more damaging to public con
 science and more deeply dscredit-
 able to those responsible for them than those which exhibit a readiness to make promises before election ; coupled with an equal readiness to 1 rcpudiate them afterwards.
 Nor is this all. It would be bad
 enough if the administration shame
 "ssy admitted it had won the elec- i ion on false pretenses: but that it
 'fould HOW feel it would be immoral
 Q carry out the promises solemnly
 1nHd" to the American people is
 much worse
 However the repeal is not asked
 n the ~Iound that justice demands l t.
 'It IS asked on the ground that
 to take this action would help us
 in carrying out the feeble. timid. in-
 over year has masqueraded as the
 foreign policy! of the American gov
 ernment.
 1 We are asked to surrender oui rights in q canal we built with ou, . money, with the effort of our citi ] zens, which is the greatest engineer ing feat of all ages, so that for { sooth. some other nation may play ! on our behalf the game we are toe | weak nl1I- is sheer nonsense
 If Uncle sam would do justice tC ] others and insist on justice in re- ] turn. he has the power by his owr strength to secure that justice. ! Above all to try to placate for e'gn powers so that We may be abl, to bear ourselves as we ought O, the American continent is as fooisi IS iSnoble. If I had followed such course and asked permission of tn foreign powers and trusted to , strength not our own, the American ! hattie fleet would not have made tn, RI voyage around the worfd-a vovag, <i when dld more for internationa peace than all the preposterous. uni Nersal arbitration treaties formed {, please amiabe old women of botI ! sexes which our Bryan. at the be ! hest of Mir. Wilson. can evolve il ! those rare moments when he permit ! the business of the state departmen ] to serve what he regards as an il ] legitimate interruption to the pleas { ure and profit of Chautauqua lee ! turing.
 ' I 1, . has called policy of watchful wait . ing. we would have no Panama cana ! how: it would be at least fifty year $I in the future with the chance q { being built then by some old Worl ] nation. If I had hesitated to ac ! precisely as I did about Panama. tn ! chance of building in this generatio ! would have vanished into thin air. $ Condemns "BIackmaiI, $ T cannot believe MT Wilson Ina { so far forgotten the dictates of hon ] or and his duty as a citizen to con ! sent to pay s25.0OO,OOO or any othe }l sum to Colombia Such paymen ! would be nothing but blackmail. I Whether it is done in a spirit C ! mean timidity or an equally mea ] spirit of trying to discredit his ore l decessor in office. it would be pre- { cisely as dishonorable as for a flu { ture president to pay the heirs ( ! Huerta $25,000,00 as solace to thei l feelings because we occupied Yer