Show ek 1 v k c l c-l t c Great Britain's Britain s Premise remise Is s in in Err Error of D DIPLOMACY is so largely a matter of precedent and custom that Great Britain seems to find it impossible to disassociate an nn American American Amer Amer- ican canal controlled and protected by hy America from tho the Suez canal to whose neutrality all nIl nations contribute As Secretary Knox plans to bring gently to tho the attention of the English government the latter has been relieved of all burden and expense the canal will be manned and controlled by our Uncle Sam and he lie will defend it England will win be put to no trouble or expense Such a reply to the British protest may cut across lots in diplomacy and be unprecedented in its simple directness but hut its very unusualness will win render it almost invulnerable Arbitration is a a. success only when the arbitrators are unprejudiced and have no personal ends to serve In this canal matter it would be impossible to constitute a court of arbitration without including within it representatives of or maritime nations that are as deeply interested in in- in in establishing Great Britain's Britain s cause as is that great grent rent nation herself It would be as absurd to arbitrate the question of canal tolls as it would be he for a man accused of murder to be he arraigned in a a. court where the presiding judge was Avas the father of the victim and mal the jurors were his brothers and sisters President Taft has always been willing that England should have an opportunity to P plead lead her cause causel before a an Ir impartial tribunal but he be senses to the ft fullness the impossibility of submitting the question to The Hague court In his message upon the ilic subject some somo months h ago the President suggested that Congress Congre s establish some method by which England might enter the courts of the f United States and demand demand demand de de- de- de mand justice from them That has not been done however and there thero seems nothing to do but fight the matter along the original b br line r a e 4 a e h. h Ii r T |