Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-25
The Complete Stenographic Report Of Senator
William Alden Smiths Arrangement of Foreign
Policy of the Present Democratic Administration

charge from any source, use our streets
defended by our police, and take back u
| foreign country at nightfall the wealth
that should be used upon this side Of the
border. (Applause) That country get:
| the quickest response in the hour of tria
who shows the most solicitude for its ow,
people.
The little kingdom Of Holland comes
into my mind so plainly. There those
sturdy Dutchmen pushed back the sea
and planted a garden where Neptune
had formerly held sway. Those sturdy
Dutchmen by building turf upon turf
Kept out the tide, and behind the bikes
OF Holland there is happy. prosper
Gus, progressive people. Behind these
bikes they conduct all their industries
and live in happiness and contentment
If You were to ask the Queen of the
Netherlands why she appropriated
money from day to day to build those
bikes more securely. why she did no,
let them stand as they were. to wrestle
with the elements. the answer would
be that her people sleep better, sounder
eAii'i my NCNolC tIcIIISelScS " tHSlL
industries with greater enthusiasm be-
cause they are protected by these mar
lvelous bikes built by the genius and
generosity of the Dutch people.
Tariff the American "Dike."
The American protective tariff is our
dixie to keep out the undesirable pro-
duct of other lands, (Applause), and
we should strengthen every foot Of ii
and keep it on to serve the purpose OF
the American people.
/ said little while ago that we could
not do this unless we had assistance
from Maine. Michigan cannot do i,
alone. We have forced upon freetrade
states at the south Of US a diversified
productivity, but we cannot maintain
the principles of protection unless we
have the help of Maine. and Maine has
no right to prosper unless she is will
ing to make sacrifices and honest effort
to hold fast those principles Of govern
ment that mean so much to the welfare
and the honor and the happiness of
one people. tApplause)
When President Wilson took the
oath of Office l said we were at peace
with all the world. Funds were upon
every hand. There was no misjudg
ment of our plans or purposes in the
world and ashamed as l am to say
it, as much as would willingly avoid
it, the truth is that we have not a real
earnest unselfish man in all the world
We have treated these countries at
the south of us shamefully. We have
through this administration at Wash
ington broken solemn treaties between
two states of Central America.
Why We Are Not at War.
People say that the president
has kept US out Of war. He has
not kept us out of war. but twice
by executive decree he has entered
into the field of war If we are
cause his course has been either con-
sistent. assuring or helpful. We are
out Of war because the warning nations
of the earth still remember the tri-
umphs upon the field of battle of
Washington and Grant and Hancock
and Roosevelt Thank God that there
is that feeling. He has broken solemn
treaties at the south Of us. Our sold
iers have occupied the White House in
the capital of Nicaragua for two and
half years. Our soldiers have held
an administration in power down there
against the public will, with a puppet
governor created by the state depart
ment of their country, and our soldiers.
obedient to orders from the commander
in chief, have kept that administration
in power. Only the other day they
passed treaty.in the American Con-
gress providing for the purchase by the
United States of route across Mic
aragua for a canal. No one knows
what they want of another canal. He
has bought that route in spite of the
protests of Costa Rica. Costa Rica, a
friendly country. in treaty with Nicara-
qua. agreed that never would they sell
or give away or leave right to cross
Nicaragua without the consent Of Co.'S
ia Rica. Yet our government has bar
gained with Costa Rica. although our
president. Mr.. Cleveland. found that
treaty to be binding upon both those
countries. yet this administration has
trafficked with one against the other:
they bought a naval base in Fonseca
Bay of Nicaragua when Honduras and
Salvador both have open ports upon
Fonseca Bay, more rights in that Bay
than Nicaragua has, and yet out of a
treasury already depleted our govern
ment is paying millions of dollars for
the questionable right of Nicaragua in
Fonseca Bay. And there is a treaty
now pending in the Senate. and have
done my best to help keep it in COM
mittee. for more than year and a
half. but there is a treaty down there.
which is approved by the president
providing that We should give s25,OO0.
900 to Columbia to soothe her wounded
feelings, Columbia which for all the
future generations of time has the
right of her citizens to cross from one
port on one ocean to another port on
the other ocean. without charge. We
have paid S400.0 100000 to construct
canal there. a canal that the world
will use, and that the citizens of Co
lumbia have a special right in. and yet
We did not ask any contribution from
Columbia. She should have been as
sessed $50,O00,00O on the principle Of
betterments, a rule usually applied in
public work, and yet we have not
charged her single penny. But this
administration conceiving that Column
bia was aggrieved. has asked us to give
her s25,00000O as salve money. So far
as am concerned. and only speak for