The ·Panama Canal Tolls OR A Statement of the Reasons for the WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY WILLIAM J. BRYAN, Secretary of State By HUGH GORDON MILLER of the New York Bar, former Special Assistant and JOSEPH C. FREEHOFF, PH. D. Statistician with the Public Service Commission BOSTON CHAPPLE PUBLISHING COMPANY, LTD. Dedicated to PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON (DEMOCRAT) who in his efforts to secure the repeal of the tollsexemption clause of the Panama Canal act, took and successfully maintained as exalted moral, courageous and patriotic a position as was ever taken and maintained by any Executive of any nation; SENATOR ELIHU ROOT (REPUBLICAN) former Secretary of State and authority on international questions, whose persistent efforts and unanswerable arguments contributed most in support of the President to secure the repeal of the foregoing statute; and HON. OSCAR S. STRAUS (PROGRESSIVE) Minister and late Ambassador to Turkey; member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, succeeding Benjamin Harrison, exPresident; lawyer, author, statesman and authority on matters of diplomacy, for using his great influence in favor of the repeal of the foregoing clause repugnant to the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. HE538 |