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Garter. In his famouB first inaugural
formulating the democratic creed,
Thomas Jefferson puts the same idea
in those words, familiar to us all:
"Please, commerce and honest friend
ship with all nations, entangling alli
ances with none."
TO FIGHT FOR RIGHTS
,: Wo want war with no nation, but
rather than surrender our right to
our complete sovereignty over every
pquare foot of our globe-encircling
domain we will cheerfully and cour
ageously face a world in arms.
The amazing request of the presi
dent for the repeal, like the peace of
God, passeth all understanding. If
ho has any reasons which are not
utterly untenable and which impelled
him to make the request, he has not
vouchsafed them to us as a body or,
so far as I am informed, to any mem
ber of the house. If he has adequate
reasons and did not deem it prudent
to make them known to the world at
large, ho could have communicated
them to us in secret session. With
all due deference to the president, it
seems to me that we are entitled to
those reasons before bolting a demo-
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cratic platform, which is generally
considered an indefensible, ati extra
hazardous performance, frequently
fatal in its results.
In his message one reason assigned
by the president was in these words:
"That exemption constitutes a mis
taken economic policy from every
point of view."
If it is "a mistaken economic
policy" now, was itsnot "a mistaken
economic policy" during tne cam
paign of 1912, when we all, under
the lead of the president himself, in
dorsed it as part of the democratic
creed, on which we appealed for
votes? If so, why did the president
indorse it then? It cannot be that a
proposition which was good before
tho election can be so awfully bad
after the election.
But it is not "a mistaken economic
policy." If so, is not our policy from
the very beginning of shutting all
foreign ships out of our coastwise
trade also "a mistaken economic
policy"? Do not our rules of charg
ing foreign vessels for wharfage,
dockage, pilotage, and so forth, while
charging our own vessels no fees or
smaller fees, also constitute "a mis
taken economic policy," if the presi
dent is correct? In short, if he is
correct, is not anything we can do
to give our own people any economic
advantage whatsoever in the race for
commercial supremacy "a mistaken
economic policy"?
FADES BEFORE FACTS
Most assuredly the "mistaken-economic-policy"
reason of the presi
dent is untenable and fades away
before the stubborn facts of our his
tory. As that is a disputed point, why
not amend this bill so as to continue
the present law with the exemption
section for two years or suspend it
for two years? By amending the bill
either way we control the situation.
If the exemption from tolls should
turn out to be "a mistaken economic
policy," we can repeal or modify it;
but if we pass this repeal bill, con
trol over our own canal, built on our
own soil with our own money, is
gone from us and our heirs
Forever and forever,
As long as the river flows, '
As long as the heart has passions,
As long as life has woes.
A second reason for the repeal as
signed by President Wilson is that
tne exemption of our coastwise trade
from the payment of tolls is "in plain
contravention of the treaty with
Great Britain concerning the canal,
concluded on November 18, 1901."
Of course, the president believed
that or he would not have said it, but
he was mistaken. If I believed that,
I would vote with him, for I am as
tender and jealous of my country's
honor as lie is or as any other living
man is, even as tender and jealous
as the gentleman from Texas (Mr.
Henry), the gentleman from Ken
tucky (Mr. Sherley) and the eentlfi-
man from Pennsylvania (Mr. Palmer)
are, notwithstanding they are self
constituted custodians of the honor
of the American republic and the
American people,
It is painful, perhaps presumptu
ous, to disagree with these three
great international jurists, but it
must be done. The sunramn nmirr nf
the United States is supposed to
Know some law. In the case of Olsen
versus Smith, reported in the One
hundred and ninety-fifth United
States, volume 332, at page 3" 4 4 a
case involving tho very point 'in
volved in the exemption section of
,t he Panama tolls law, the court had
the, temerity to rule cont.rn.rv t i,,
opinion of my three learned friends
aforesaid . ,
Chief. Justice White, then Mr. Jus-
' i it.
tice Whilo, delivered the opinion 0f
the court in these words:
SUPREME COURT DECISION
"Nor is there merit in the conten
tion that, as the vessel in question
was a British vessel, coming from a
foreign port, the state laws concern,
ing pilotage are iji conflict with a
treaty between. Great Britain and the
United States providing that 'no
higher or other duties or charges
shall be imposed in any part of the
United States on British vessels than
those, payable in the same ports by
vessels of the United States.' Neither
the exemption of coastwise steam
vessels from pilotage resulting from
the law of the United States nor any
lawful exemption of coastwise vessels
created by .the state law concerns
vessels in the foreign trade, and
therefore any such "exemptions do
not operate to produce a discrimi
nation against British vessels en
gaged in foreign trade and in favor
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