The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-04-21
COOPERATE WITH
BUSINESS MEN
SENATORS FAvoR1NG COLOMBIAN
TREATY MOVED BY SENSE OF
RESPONSIBILITY.
Believe Ratification Will Lead to Now
Treaty Of Commerce That Wal
Be Advantageous.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
Political Correspondent Of The 1nteln-


washington. April 2O.-Those Repuo-
liCan senator's who have supported the
Colombian treaty are moved Chleny by
sense Of responsibility. They are
looking to the future. and they kno"
this thing must be got out or the way
Senator Lodge came near to expressing
the heart Of II when he said:
II think. and better judges than
agree with me. that the ratification OF
this treaty will lead To prompt add
tional treaty OF commerce and amltY
with Colombia. which will improve our
OPPORTUNITIES there Of making secure
the concessions we now have
At another point In his argument
Senator Lodge made clear the new
policy OF our government so to conduct
It's relations with foreign governments
as to further the interests OF American
business men operating in those coun-
tries. He said that inasmuCh as other
countries do this. it is essential FOR the
United States 10 do it. At one point
In his speech he said:
Develop Large On Fields.
~The indications are very strong that
very large oil fields--perhaps the largest
in the world-are on the point or de-
velopment in Venezuela and Colombia.
American companies have already start
ed in Colombia. but they will pass into
the hands Of the powerful British COM
bination If our people cannot at least
understand that they will be protected
against wrong and injustice If they In
vest in countries other than our own
for the purpose of furnishing the United
States with oil and charging our COM
mcrce. ! believe one of our companies
in Colombia has already been obliged to
fo al did and ~ has hAnn given
to It by Great Britain or by British in
forests. This is one of the important
features Of good relations with Colon
bia and with all South America, but
particularly with those countries in the
north where the oil fields are believed to
lie. These are some Of the arguments
which seem to me very strongly TO
justify. in fact to demand. the rttifica-
ton of this treaty"
Give Friendly Support
It is fact that the present adminis-
tratiou proposes to adopt toward Amer
lean business men operating in foreign
countries a degree of friendly support
which they have not always had in the
past. Again to quote Senator Lodge:
Our government in the past has in Ger
tain cases actually gone to the point OF
taking the position that an American
citizen or an American corporation max
ing investments in another country was
not entitled to any protection; that they
were to be frowned uron instead OF be-
ing encouraged. I regard this as an
absolutely false policy"
It Is recognized that II We are 10
stand up strongly for the rights Of our
own people in Lattn-America, our first
step should be to recognize generously
any claim that these countries may
have against US. II was brought out in
the debate that. whatever the merits of
what we did in connection with the
Panama nal. the result has been wide
spread suspicion against US throughout
all Latin America. The doing away
with this suspicion was the chief mo-