Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1914 — National Honor Imposes Obligation In Panama Canal [ARTICLE]

National Honor Imposes Obligation In Panama Canal

By OSCAR S.

STRAUS, Former

Secretary of Commerce and Labor

OUR PRESIDENT HAS RISEN ABOVE THE PETTY PLANE OF PARTISANSHIP TO THE; HIGHER PLANE OF NATIONAL ! HONOR. SENATOR O’GORMAN SAYS THAT NATIONAL HONOR IMPOSES UPON THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION THE DUTY OF OBSERVING THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. THE PRESIDENT ANSWERS THAT NATIONAL HONOR IMPOSES ON AMERICA THE DUTY OF MAINTAINING HER INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATION. 1 belong to a party which has as a plank in its platform that coastwise vessels ought to pass through the canal free of toll. 1 THROW THAT PLATFORM TO THE WIND when a question of international obligation conies forward. WE ARE NOT YIELDING TO GREAT BRITAIN, FOR WE ARE SECURE BEHIND A FENCE OF SELF CONFIDENCE. WE ARE YIELDING ONLY TO A SENSE OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHT. WHEN THE PANAMA QUESTION IS ENDED IN THE WAY I HOPE TO GOD IT WILL BE I AM SURE GREAT BRITAIN AND ALL NATIONS WILL UNITE WITH US IN THE CELEBRATION OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF ANGLO-SAXON PEACE.