| Show What Two of Americas America's Most Influential S Newspapers Say About the Panama Canal T Tolls Question From the New York Herald AVOID PETTIFOGGING POLITICS The Tho hou house e of representatives Ila has liah voted u upon on the thc Panama canal tolls bill hill It has gono gone on record to repeal the clauso clause exempting American coastwise ships from paying payin tolls It has lias also voted to keep our our treat treaty with Great Britain and has arrayed itself it bv by a decisive de do- ci iYe majority with Avith President Wilson Deeply is 15 it to be regretted that the Republican party part did not stand more solidly behind the trie president Tim This is 18 h huot not a IL question of part party politics It is isa isa isa a question first o of D national ional honor an and second of national expediency in its b broadest road est and most patriotic patriot c sense cuse Tho The question now now goes poes to to the senate What will the tho Republicans an in the seu- seu ate do doT According to our Washington dispatches printed yesterday only onh four Republicans aro are c counted upon as certain tam tain to vote ote for repeal These are arc Senators Root Boot Lodge Lod o McCumber Ic umber and au Gronna All AU honor to them But is it possible that of forty three Republican senators only four are arc lar largo large o l enough h broad enough h patriotic h to M vote tc with tho president pu HI t this his question It lt is quito quite true trite that those jingoes oes' oes who alwa always want ant war and especially war with Great Britain aro are tr trying n to create a furore amon among the thoughtless and the tha unheeding hut but we 0 solemnly warn tho the Republicans in tho the sonata senate that thero there is no political advantage anJa c to tobo tobe tobo bo be obtained b by going with th the jingoes jingoes jingoes jin S SOn goes On the other hand hund every e consideration tion of patriotism national honor r and anil good politics sh should uld convince them before be lc fore foro tho the final vote oto is taken in tho the senate senate sen sen- en ate ato that ho who serves er hi his country best serves his hia party part best We do not nota a agree co with our Washington correspond correspond- out onto We believe that m many ny moro more than four n Republicans in the senate will vite their support to tho the president From the tho Chicago Daily News NOWR lOT Rj BIG BIGNESS SS AND GOOD SENSE Advocates of the policy polley of toll ton ex cx- for American coastwise trading trading trad trail ing vessels using using- th the the- Panama canal canal canal-a a policy which is declared by foreign nations nations na nit- and by many Americans to in involve in- in volvo oho a violation of f treaty obligations have o havo much to ra say about tho the greatness great great- ness fleas of the United States tatos They shout unceasingly that this nation i IB IE big enough to manage its own ovin o n affairs without without with with- out truckling to Britain or other foreign for for- ci eign n powers Since the tho Panama canal canalis canali i is the property of the thc Un United States Slates the they assert with a fine show how of or patriotism patriotism pa pa- tri that no other nation Dation should be permitted t to tell ten us how to run it Tho The greatness and power of tho the United States tates are arc not open to question except as persons un undertaking cr akin to speak for the nation throw doubt upon its greatness s b by m manifestations of pettiness patti petti ness and dishonesty No Xo other ther nation can force tho the United States to a course which the tho latter does laos not choose to pur pur- sue This constitutes no good reason renson however why the United States should display its tower by bring being foolishly offensive to tile the rest of the tho worl world Britain insists with good treason that t the toll exemption provision of the Panama canal act act- actis is a clear violation tion of the Paun treaty If th the provision pro pro- vision is not repealed the tho United States cannot with a good face faco refuse to t arbitrate arbitrate arbitrate ar ar- ar the question Believing as they thoy do that tho result of the tho arbitration would be a defeat for the United St States President Wilson ami duil i l hi hift ad arL visors ask congress con to save the country the tho embarrassing delay an and aud tho the humiliation that presumably would follow ar ar- ar J important questions ions of foreign n policy tho the president asserts aro are involved in the toll tuII exemption con can tro Supporters of the exemption provision provision pro pro- vision i ion reveal the tho weakness s of their position po rio- by bv their unsound arguments Tho The United St States es has never lIe yet shown lack of co courage when firmness was de do- On the other hand han tho the American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican people havo hao a habit of turning a deaf leaf car to fal false e appeals to 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