The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
Colombia Treaty Ratified by the Republican Senators With
 Reluctance.
MUCH GIVEN, NOTHING ASKED
Presldent Says We Will Fight to Main tain Monroe Doetrlne-Japanese Cabinet Refuses. to Yield on Yap = Allies Preparing
 Further Coercion for
 Germany.
By EDWARD W. PACKARD.

Ratification of the Colombia treaty, by a reluctant senate, did not evoke many loud cheers in the United States. Democrats for years had urged the adoption of the pact as virtual re pudiation of the acts of Theodore Roosevelt and John Hay in connection with the separation of Panama from Colombie- The Harding administra- ton urged it, not on that ground, but because 1t believed this sop to COlom- bia would help to restore amicable feelings toward the United States on the part of the Latin-American peo- pies, and also because Americans wish to develop oil fields in Colombia. All but four of the Democratic senators voted for the treaty, presumably for their old reasons. Forty Republicans obeyed the behest of the administra- ton, most of them because they hesi- tated to break with it on an important issue so soon after the beginning of Mir Harding's regime. Fifteen Repub- Hcan senators refused to turn so squarely against the policy of their party and voted against ratification after putting up a strong fight, in the course of which they tried to amend the pact by provision that nothing in it should be regarded as a confession of wrongdoing by Roosevelt in the ac- quisitiOn of the Canal Zone.
 Colombia will now greedily seize the gifts made her-$25, 100000 and valuable privileges in the use of the foo1 nothing in return, not even assurance of fair treatment for our capitalists who may invest in her oil fields. If most of the money does not stick to the palms of the grating politicians of Colombia there will be a complete re- versal of custom. More important, there Is little reason to believe this treaty will lessen the hatred of the United States which is the prevailing sentiment throughout most of Latin America. This statement is based on the opinions of men who are thor oughly familiar with the Latin-Amer- jeans.
 In pursuance of his policy of con- ciliation President Harding delivered a happy address on Tuesday on the oc- casion of the unveiling in New York, of a statue of Bolivar ,he Liberator. The day was the anniversary of both the Battle of Lexington, and the open ing of the final campaign which re- suited in the independence of Vene- zuela. Naturally the Monroe doctrine was the subject of the main part of the Presidents speech, and of it he said:
 ''The doctrine proclaimed under Monroe, which ever since has been jealously guarded as a fundamental of our own republic, maintained that these continents should not again be regarded as fields for the colonial en- terprises of old world powers.
 There have been times when the meaning of Monroeism was misunder- stood by some, perverted by others, and made the subject of distorting propaganda by those who saw in 1t an obstacle to their own ambitions.
 'The history of the generations since that doctrine was proclaimed has proved we never intended it self ishly; that we had no dream of ex- ploitation.
 "On the other side, the history of the last decade certainly must have convinced all the world that we stand willing to fight. if necessary, to pro itect these continents these sturdy