Show A DESPICABLE PRESS Tie Outlook strongly takes to task those Journals which have undertaken to scandalize their country In the eyes orthp world by their denunciation of the course of the Administration with respect to Panama I says it is D National Na-tional disgrace that reputable Journals should feed their readers on rumors and suspicions and on scandalous accusations ac-cusations founded on nothing better than they say That some Americans Ameri-cans residing In Panama have aided and abetted the revolution it says is probable enough But that the Administration Ad-ministration has directly or Indirectly helped to Incite u rebellion against a country with which we are on terms of peace that It has at the same time conducted diplomatic negotiations with that country and excited a revolt against It Is wholly incredible Whatever What-ever Mr IIooscvclt5 faults lack of candor ant straightforwardness is not one of them Whatever Mr Hays faults crookedness in diplomatic dealIng deal-Ing la not one of them I is needless to say that there Is not the slightest suggestion of evidence to sustain these veiled accusations That Is absolutely true and yet It is this very reason which Induced the antiAmerican press of thlf country to make those accusations They size It up this way As they have no evidence to go on and dont require any oC course there Is no evidence on the other side to disprove their accusations and consequently they can be defiantly persisted per-sisted in especially as they are mostly I made by indirection and in the form of insinuations rather than as allEn lute statements But the despicable and countryhating course of that meanspirited press is detested utterly by the great American public |