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total of s97s 1000, 100000. Last year they
were $1,O57, ,OOO.OO0.OO and for the
present year, excluding the Rivers
and Harbors Bill the total will reach
81 ,090 900 100000. 1 am giving you
these figures to show that in 1910 and
the subsequent campaign, when the
Democratic orators were speaking
about the extravaganza OF the Repub-
lican Congresses they did so to make
political capital and votes.
Repudiated Pledges.
Senator James in his Playhouse
speech the other evening became elo-
duent over the repeal Of the Panama
Tolls Law and yet the party platform
on which he was elected Senator and
Woodrow Wilson was elected Presi-
dent declared unequivocally as fol-
lows: we favor the exemption from
tolls of American ships engaged in
coast-wise trade passing through the
Canal Honest old Champ Clark, and
Mr.. Underwood fought and voted to
keep that pledge, yet the President,
who In his speeches insisted that the
party platform was not molasses to
catch flies, together with the major
ity Of his party. repudiated this plank
Yet Senator James comes to Whining
ton and boasts of this population.
say It and / say it with deliberation
that in all the history OF American
politics there has never been a more
deliberate and shameless violation of
a solemn pledge and sacred obligation.
II the President, Senator James or
Senator Salisbury were against free
tolls for coast-wise ships they should
have said so in their speeches. In
common decency at least they should
not boast in public OF the pledge they
repudiated and the promises they be-
trayed.
Great stress was laid by the Demo.
cratic orators the other evening at the
!. Playhouse on the fact that we were
mixed up in no entangling alliances
l say that this surrender to Great Brl
tain on the Panama Tolls, is far NOR,
serious, far more dangerous and fai
more injurious to us than an entang
ling alliance.
What was back OF this surrender
We had become so involved in inter
national affairs along our border tina
the administration desired moral sun
port, II not the actual support. OF tn
British government I'm order to count
eract certain influences that Japal
was bringing to bear against us II
view of our involved condition. lie
me recall TO you the exposure mad
by Senator Smith, of Michigan, whel
he divulged the delicate internationa
: considerations that moved the PresI
! dent to ask for the repeal of tn
Panama tolls act Mr.. Smith. as
member of the Foreign Relation
I Committee Of the United States, wa
in a position to know. and when h
stated that Great Britains aid wa
sought in the Mexican crisis We Sc
before us the price that was paid 70
this doubtful support. The offensiv
. and defensive alliance OF Japan an
England has come to light in the wa
, that is now being waged. Therefore
in order to hold Japan in leash o
/ the California land question and
keep them from embarrassing thi
government by leasing a naval Goa
ing station from the Mexican gov
ernment, We we're forced TO bac
down on the Panama Canal tolls
Great Britain. This cannot be el
cused on the standpoint of treatie
because the weight of opinion of n
p majority was against II, and th
majority of the big statesmen of ou
country who have served the Stat
Department both at Washington an
e abroad were Of the opinion, and rlgh
I ly so, that no treaty made II mand'
, tory for us to hack down.
u Loose Administration.
u ''The administration Of the Depar
s. ment of State at Washington has be-
E lauded by our opponents, but the a
ministration of the State Departme
and its coordinate branches in Was
ington has called forth great CRITICS
d internally and has made our country
: dicrous in many ways Never before
l. the recent history of our royernme
ID have the affairs of this great State D
m partment at Washington been admi
ID istercd So loosely or SO Inefficient
G. Take. for example the treaty whi
Secretary Bryan negotiated with DE