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Show BRYAN DISCUSSES ! TOLLS QUESTION '.ECRETAR OF STATE ARC.UE5 FOR REPEAL OF TOLLS EXEWP TION IN PANAMA CANAL ACT. DecUrei T:t Opponent! to Repeal Hid Attempted to Appeal to Prejudice Prej-udice Rather Than to Reason in Their Arguments. 'A mtliliiKtoli S-.iT-l;iry Mrj.ni. in U :it:il-til I-II t In.ol" put, 111: Sunday, r---vl'-'A ti lit b-UK'b lit-' Panama tolls 'lii'-flofi, and la tin- eoui';-' of th.-ilat.-!iii-nt .l. c l.ir. a that tin- r.-p'-.i! of Hi'- tnll.-t exemption In tin- Panama i.'llllll IH't '(illlllOt III' ClihHtrili'll tu a eoMMlrm flou of the I lay Pamir'-lott-tr-'aiy," but M "niinply a r.tiinai on Hit- part ill' tin: Inltwi Slat.d tu laii-..-Iliat U'-htlon in tiiat wny." Mi', f (f iin rlihriiMni:il annus f'-;- lllI'i'H of till' Hllb.'Ct till' limiting nl i ili-lialtf In the house of repivscnta lives, tin. lialtiinnr.. platform and the' cITi'ct nf repeal on tin' treaty. j Claiming that the opponent of the; repeal liail Hi-i.oil upon tin. charge1 that thf pri-niiii'Mt iviih "surrendering in Knglund," Mr. Bryan declared that the opposition to thu repeal had attempted at-tempted to uppeal "to prejudice rather than to reason." "What ban Great liritalii done," he nuked, "11) Justify the accusation that! lii) In trying to dictate to this country. coun-try. She liaa simply called attention to the terms 'of the treaty and asked fur arbitration of the question, in case tliln government dlffera from tin; Mrltlsh government in the. construction construc-tion to he placed upon the language. "The very men who are ho insistent on construing the treaty to permit free tolls delayed for months the rat-lllcution rat-lllcution of the treaty with Great Britain Brit-ain hecause of their objection to arbitration arbi-tration of any subject. In' other words, they construed the treaty to permit discrimination and then objected ob-jected to allowing any International court to express an opinion on the subject. II'. as a matter of fact, the treaty Krauts the. rights which Great Britain claims, Is It a surrender to Great Britain for our nation to repeal u law that raised that question'?" |
