Show I A FOOLISH SPEECH The speech of Senator Morgan on his r resolution declare the ClaytonBul war treaty abrogated was in our Judgment n execrable taste for the reason that enlightened nations have established certain rules for dealing I with treaties and those rules have governed so long that thy operate as unwritten laws Tho fact that the ClaytonBulwcr treaty was negotiated shpws that there was a time when our Government acknowledged ac-knowledged the claims orGrcat Britain in the countries bordering on the Caribbean sea I In the Judgment Judg-ment of this cotjitry no such claims any longer exist then the decent way Is I to notify Great Britain that this country desires Its abrogation To setup set-up in the Senate and metaphorically twist the British llona talfnnd to make threats of what we will do If the lion does not like the twisting is I a border ruffian proceeding altoghether unworthy the Senate of the United States That spirit which loves to drive this I Nation Into war and then to denounce everything done because of the war I is i not one which this country should either follow or approve Our Nation can get any reasonable thing desired from Great Britain without either t war or bullying nnd get it sooner by withholding with-holding all bluffs |