Show WAS OUT FOR PLUNDER President Marroqulns pica for the sovereignty and rights of Colombia and the great facilities of Panama would have much greater force If any good had ever come to humanity either at home or abroad from that sovereignty or had there ever been any beneficial use made by Colombia of Panamas eligible gible location and great natural resources re-sources otherwise than for oppression and greed In this region a man who would try to hold a great water supply without making any beneficial use of it would speedily find that he must either use it or lose it and no plea reciting Its riches and aluewould avail him The truth Is that Colombia officials undertook to make this Isthmian canal a holdup proposition thinking they had the United States at their mercy that It must pay their price and on their terms Naturally they1 are chagrined cha-grined and would like to make a plea for their pockets i > But after all it Is the plea of a robber and of n power which was out for no legitimate act but simply sim-ply for plunder Ant a canal built under un-der a treaty which recognized Colom bias sovereignty would have been merely a milchcow for the blackmailing blackmail-ing publicists of that country milked whenever their pans were einpty J would have needed the strong arm of the United States to protect the canal and Its traffic from the raids of Colombia Colom-bia j ant is the break with that plag Ins gang was bound to come sooner or later it is just as well to h cl now and be done with the contention before any millions are put into the work |