Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — Common Sense for Arbitration. [ARTICLE]

Common Sense for Arbitration.

It is no small gain to the arbitration treaties in the senate that they should have won the support of John Sharp Williams, whose growing influence on the Democratic side of the chamber is noticeable. He is in disagreement with certain distinguished persons of President Taft’s party in and out of the senate. He thinks it absurd that American representatives on a joint high commission would regard as justiciable such home questions as alien immigration or defaulted state debts, or such settled national policies as the Monroe doctrine. But if a joint commission should so decide, it would be within the power of the senate to deal with the agreement as with any treaty. Wherein, then is there surrender of the constitutional prerogatives of the senate? Why quibble in a cause to end wholesale murder for the satisfaction of imperial ambitions or the greed of syndicated capital’—New York World.