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Show A SAMPLE "ARGUMENT." This Is the sort of "argument" that seems to be winning the South to the support of the Panama canal treaty. We find it in the Dallas (Texas) News, which, after deploring the robbery of the province of Panama and the refusal of the President to proceed with the canal on the Nlcaraguan route, proceeds pro-ceeds to reply thus to a contemporary which had taken It to task: There Is another consideration which the Journal appear.s to have overlooked. Thero Is In many sound minds a question as to whether a number of the Republican Sen. ators and other leaders of the Republican party aro not at heart opposed to any canal anywhere They now Btand committed commit-ted to this Roosevelt scheme. They would wreck their political fortunes by standing out oncnly against a canal, but If they can, with the assistance of Democrats, hang the whole business up In politics they are going go-ing to do It. They cannot do this without Democrats to help liiezi. If the Democrats Demo-crats persist In opostng this treaty tho result re-sult of such opposition will be to land and leave the matter In a hopeless partv poll-tics, poll-tics, right where these Republican brokers In high lines want It. Once there, what can a minority of .Democrats do toward giving the Nation a canal'' "Will the Journal Jour-nal please tell us? And therefore the News urges the ratification of the canal treaty with Panama. It Isn't much of an argument, but then even prejudice and venom at times work for righteousness. |