Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
TOLLS PROTEST
IS |SEMPHAS|zED
BY NEWARKERS
Mass Meeting of Citizens
League Deplores Policy
Shift at Washington.
!cL ARK'S ATTITUDE is
STRONGLY INDoRSED
Speakers See Betrayal of Ma
ton and Party DisloyaIty
to Platform.

1speakers at q mass-meeting of pro-
test under the auspices of the Citi-
Mems League of Essex County, at the
tKrueger Auditorium, last night.
fMany women were among the large
torowd that filed the hail. There much
Enthusiasm was shown when the
taames of Clark, Underwood or Roose-
Eelt We're mentioned. Reference to
dhe Panama policy of President Will
c1n brought forth evidence of disap
SSrobation.
One speaker Thomas c. Tuite, of
New York, declared that President
Wilson had deceived the people. He
i also asserted that he would vote for
a sterling Democrat and patriotic
i American at the next Presidential
election. "Ee is none other than VIII
liam Randolph Hearst" said the
speaker. The crowd groaned and
d with few exceptions hissed.
4 When Mr.. Tuite later asked the ques-
I ton; Hasn't Mr.. Wilson deceived
Z you?" a number of shouts of "No,
no." were heard, but the majority
y answered "I1e has"
With these two exceptions the audi
ence seemed to be in hearty accord
with everything the speakers said.
A resolution expressing a strong
protest against the free t""z repeal,
/ and further expressly .lsapproval
of the use of Federal patronage by
the President to coerce the congress-
men to do his bidding. was offered
) and read by Dominic A. Walsh. 1t
was adopted by a standing vote of
the assemblage. One or two persons
failed to stand up.
In the resolution the promise of
places in the public service as a re-
ward for votes is denounced as
E'corrupt and equivalent to bribery
lrhe members of Congress who have
kesisted the pressure of the admins
y'tration are complimented. 1t was de-
9i6ed to send copies to both houses
( pf Congress and to President Wilson.
James \. Prendergast was chair
I man of the meeting. During his re-
! marks, former United States Senator
+ Smith arrived in the hall and was
accorded q hearty reception. Mr.
eSmith was later invited to address
tthe assemblage, but declined on ac-
Seonnt of the long program.
During the various addresses many
gof the audience gave vent 70 thoir
s'eeeiings h9 seularks antagonist'e 81
y trsrrSs . ia 70 icy Of the Pfesaent.
! Ak,1nse @. N,l<ielbie, pt0n1ipenf
New Norw laHyfr, who IS -dsly
terinclpafSpeakersl He said:
THE message or the Chief EXecu-
five of this country asking the Con-
1gress TO repeal that provision in our
saw which ordains that no toll shall
De levied upon coastwise vessels
'oassing through the Panama Canal
Tying an American flag asks the
Congress to repudiate the American
and adopt the British position in the
Panama Canal question. After a
study of the treaties and the inter-
lnational law bearing thereupon, the
notes, mess1oranda, conventions and
discussions in Congress and Senate,
: without hesitation commit myself
! TO the American side of this contro-
r>rsy and without presumption set
opinion against that of the Pres
1t of the United States. because
law and equity, reason and jus
precedent and history, the scales
J 4 heavily against the British and
IN favor of the American contention
of this great question The President
band Great Britain may be right, but
: With two Presidents, the Congress,
with Olney, a Democratic, and Knox,
a Republican secretary of state up
holding the American position in
hie controversy, the question cam
lot be free from doubt and in that
ev< L ii is the duty of the last as
~ as of the first citizen of this
Shnd to range himself at the side of
bis own country.
But even admitting validity of the
treaty, I believe that the American
Interpretation thereof is clearly COR
,|ect. 1t must be remembered that
In that treaty, America figured as
'ihe owner and Britain as the user,
Snd surely the United States could
oiot be presumed to mean that it
would make rules for the regulation
.f itself in its own canal When you
contract to rent house to another
tfou lay down rules and regulations
dor his and not for your own use Of
The same.
Il And isn't the admission by Great
Britain Of this country's right to pass
It's vessels of war through the Pan
4rna Canal free from tolls an ad-
d1isson that we could do the SAME
feith regard to vessels of commerce?
H"I believe this country has the right
% pass all its ships through the canal
itithout charging tolls on the ground
rhat the canal is as much an Ameri-
Ian waterway as the Hudson, the
Delaware the Mississippi and the
9hio. notion, like a man, can do
c,ith it's property what it wishes in
Yhe absence of any agreement limit
IIAg oIs binding it, and in the absence
i} such agreement to expect the
fni ed States government to tax its
7wn ships Is like asking man to
flly rent for his own house. But we
Wish to exempt only our coastWise
hips and we win tax our so-called
hreign ships From time immemorial
lir coasting vessels, which can only
+ owned and officered by American
ltizens are peculiarly our own. In
Ilne of war they can be pressed into
lrvice. Our coasting vessels are as
Exclusively American 4 sells as those
nat ply our rivers, andA is the Brit
In government Itself which, by its
curse during, q period of ninety-nipN
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