Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-02-26
THE PANAMA TOLLS.


The canal shall be free and open the vessels Of ali
nations terms of entire equality, that there shall
be no discrimination in respect to the charges
of traffic. So Rule of the Hay Paunseote Treaty And
it highly credabe feeling the part of Americans
reflected by President Wilson, that afford to be
fair unfathfu promises simply because happen
be strong
Volumes have been published about this matter of tolls
through the Panama Canal but the biggest book would be the
containing what people don't know about it. We be-
ginning to suspect at least that the country generally will
profit by the provisions of the law signed by Mr.
Taft under exceptional conditions and that the exemptions
favor of coaswse traffic will only take expenses
off the shoulders of the American shipping combine This trust
based largely monopoly of wharfage and steel mills and
based largely monopoly of wharfage and steel mills
shpbuildng With free Steel free and the wharf building
activity of cities like New York. Boston, and the Pacific ports
competition spring cOastwise trade giving
sumer later the benefits of free canal But
things stand the trust will get the benefit of free passage
the United States will only operate cheap waterway for the
great captains of industry make money by This is probably
the Presidents view-part of it.
The whole freeols proposition is impoitic as it is
scay We have more to ask of Great Britain in the way of
restricted navigation Of intercommunicang waterways
than she has to ask of us at Panama Canada about
the Georgian Bay Ship Canal from French River Ottawa
twenty-five feet deep and capacou enough to carry the great
est lake freghers standard tramps This svs
TEN will flank whole lake and interior basin commerce. The
Erie Barge Canal is tadpole ditch compared with it. Ships
sailing from Chicago Milwaukee, Duluth West Superior will
be able to reach the Montreal route and that
too without breaking bulk the mileage would take to reach
Ere Pa by the present route Canada will then command
commerce far important to than of the Panama
Canal She will have the whip hand of extent quite as
great as that which get Great Britain wrenchng
treaty from Its plain meaning And she will be able to say
mace treaty agreeing to let the ships of all nations
through the Panama Canal equal terms You broke that
treaty by letting coastwse ships through and re-
using the same treatment to coastwise ships Now
use our advantage in the Great Lakes oue Our treaty as
TO the Great Lakes passages that they shall open to the
shipping of both nations equal terms what will that
mean once we begin playing fast and with the words
equal terms'''
We are wrong in this matter and the sooner we get right
the better We not only regards Great Britain
ana our relations with Mexico Colombia Cloth Pacific and an
Atlantic power and Canada but also with Germany France
ana PORTUGAL We are wrong with the whole world Our case
is like that of the private citizen who had done something that
was denounced as criminal "Creemnal repeated French
woman "Creemina Eet is worse IAN creeminal Eet is
positively slly!' Nv
faseness to obligations squirmy wriggng pettifog
gg attitude toward them part cannot be- justified bv
precedents If England drove sharp bargain with us long
years ago. that today neither here there bargain
we are too big to WEIGH Moreover-and herforehe conn
try should support the president in his determination to
con'roVerted arrangement The Adamson
JOINT resolution should be passed by passed
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