Show NOTHING TO ARBITRATE For several years past had the New York Times rimes been beeh subsidized b by p British ship owners it could have ha done no better work for them than it has lias been doing It has fought every practical plan proposed through which to begin the thc rehabilitation re le ic habilitation of the merchant marine marine- it has hns perpetually sneered at every measure designed designed designed de de- de- de signed to begin the restoration of our flag on the I s sea a and has deplored the laws law which p prevent c British Brit Brit- ish merchant ships from trading between bet American Ameri can cnn ports Hence it seems perfectly natural to see its protest protest protest pro pro- test against passing American coasting ships free oZ oi of tolls through the Panama canal It says The honorable obligation of the tho United States to arbitrate does oes not rest m roly on the tho specific treaty treat It U rests on tho avowed persistent vigorous and explicit policy of the tho United States dunn during all its history in and pressing on other nations the tho principle of or arbitration Wo cannot honestly or decently y break our word worde give e fi freely ecly and openly to all tho world by in- dod dodging in a particular promise made to a single govern govern govern- meat ment Our arbitration treaty with Great Britain was but one concrete to embodiment of a principle to which ich Wo Po aro arc broadi broadly and deliberately committed It is hr moreover not simply a n p principle to to w which ieh wo we have ha assented assented as as- on Oil its its' proposal b by others it is IS one ODO that we wc brought forward ourselves an and that wo 0 have patiently and stoutly maintained until I very largely hugely argel we are arc l' l 10 io as its sponsor in the tho court of international op lf ion It may mar be that tho the senate will ill let Iet the treats treats- of arbitration tion lapse or th the senate may arbitrarily refuse to t to act upon a proposal if made Tn In either ea case caso o its iti responsibility re re- re will he be groat Let rt it be bo as plain as it can bo be made What has all that to do with ith anything our omit country may inay do d with its own Time The whole business can be bc settled by a hUes hUes- lion Did either r Secretary Thy nay or Ambassador Ilba sl or for fol a moment think that b by the treat treaty they included all anything thing which should in an any wa way our coasting ships 1 The idea that tha 1 the thie didis didis did is ridiculous |