Repeal The Toll Exemption Law.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 18, 1913:
    It is natural that the Trustees of the Carnegie Peace Endowment should condemn the Panama tolls exemption law, should argue that it must be arbitrated or repealed, and should strongly urge its repeal. In a sense there is nothing novel in their statement of the case. It has been too widely and carefully discussed and the condemnation of the act of Congress has been too general and too intelligent to leave much to be said. But the addition of the Trustees' statement to what has gone before is new, and is another proof of how deeply the enlightened sentiment of the country has been aroused by the Ill-considered and careless action of Congress.
    The names attached to the statement must carry weight with the leaders of Congress. They are men of widely differing party predilections and various callings, but all men of note, most of them of experience in high and responsible stations connected with international relations. Of those eminent in diplomacy there are ex-Secretary of State Elihu Root, ex-Ambassadors Choate, White, Tower, and Straus, and Luke E.Wright, former Governor General of the Philippines, while there are also such distinguished educators as Dr. Eliot, Dr. Pritchett, and Dr. Butler. These are, surely, precisely the sort of men with whom President Wilson would incline to practice that sovereign mode of safeguarding action by consultation to which he attaches so much importance.