Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-05
Cowdray's Railway Now Linking
Oceans and Levying Millions
on American Freight Would
Be Killed by Free Tolls.
Documents Show How Wilson
Has Been Won for $65,OOO,-
900 British Road Against a
S40O,OOO,OOO us. Waterway,
Bv ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.


WASHINGTON. April Uneasy
lies the head that would wear
crown. In the House discussion of
Mr.. Wilson's bill to repeal, in favor Of
England, the clause freeing the canal
to American coast-wise ships, the
Administration found itself more or
less tossed in many a Congressional
blanket.
Representative L'Engie regretted
that when the history of this Ameri-
can canal is written it will be neces-
sary to set down that the first at
tack came from within, and not from
without" incidentally, he referred to
England-of which Mr.. Wilson stands
in such profound awe-as the bully
of the world" and declined in the
name Of Florida to let her bully him.
Representative Doremus took up the
running with an earnest swat at the
Carnegie Peace Fund, an aggrega-
ton of gold, heaped together by a
protective tariff acting in conjunc-
ton with low water mark wages, and
now devoted by It's meddlesome old
owner to subverting republicanism in
this country and leading the Ameri-
can people back to the English knee,
and all with the celebrated Senator
Root as guide to blaze the way and
do the leading.
Nota Bene-Mr Root can be re-
tanned to do anything from defend
Boss Tweed to showing America that
the English really own an American
canal. built with $40O,OOO,OOO of Amer
lean money. to say nothing of an eX-
penditure Of hundreds Of fever-wasted
American lives.
Mr. Root IS not a man, not an
American. he's lawyer, and could
be retained by Mr.. Carnegie, were
chat aged ironmaster to take the no
ton into his added pate. to set aside
CORVALLIS surrender to Washington
on the ground that CORVALLIS was
under duress.
Wilson Upset by Knowland Speech.
As Mr.. Wilson Monday called the
usual circle Of newspaper men around
him. it at once became evident that
the Saturdays disclosures Of Repre-
sentative Knowland relative to those
Sunday and Thanksgiving Day visits
of the Gardens and Tyrrells and Bor-
dens and Benns-all English and for
England when they were not Cana
dian and for Canada and the Cana o.
dian Pacifc-to the White House, had
vastly rubbed wrongwise the fur o.
his feeling
He denounced the Knowland
charges" of canal deal between him
self and England as false. He be-
trayed heat and seemed scandalized
that anyone should be so far rude and
gothic as to criticise a President
Mr.. Wilson goes beyond the fact
MIR. Knowland expressly stated that
he charged the White House with
nothing He must he understoOd-he
insisted-as combining himself to tell
ing only Of those English White
House visits and how Immediately
upon their mysterious heels Mr. VII
sen delivered his canal repeal mes
sage to Congress.
Beaumont DaVison's Party.
That Mr. Wilson, of all men, shoult
take exception to the criticism Of a
President is Of itself sufficiently as
tonishlng. Mr.. Wilson is by way OF
being a critic of Presidents himself
dead Presidents, truly-but none the
less Presidents.
Was not 1t Mr.. Wilson who. In
commenting on General Washington
policies for opening up the West
spoke Of that departed Father Of his
Country as a cheap peddler OF rea.
estate?
Has not Mr. Wilson criticised Nt
Jefferson as thinking wrong side-up
and General Jackson because OF his
coarse and shag- bark weakness for