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Show AS TO PANAMA. It is always the case that a little, new-fledged new-fledged nation Ib bumptious for a while, and especially toward the nation that has helped it to freedom. It was so with Cuba, and the bumptiousness was especially espe-cially directed " against tie United States. Venezuela became hufTy at once which this country had saved It from destruction. And now it is Panama. The Pana-mans Pana-mans arc hot because the Americans hold them to the treaty In the building of the canal, and are determined to hold the control over their expenditures and the rule of the canal strip which the treaty conceded. It Is a matter of course that Secretary Taft will be able to show them their error; quite as much so as that they should raise the row they have done. At the same tlm.e, we adhere to the position we have heretofore stated, that no permanent settlement of the canal question Is possible until the isthmus isth-mus comes under control of the United States. The idea of entrusting the enormous investments there and the Immense interests in-terests Involved in the world traffic that will ensuo on the completion of the canal, ca-nal, to the puerile sovereignty of the Ignorant, Ig-norant, passionate, and conceited people who form the bulk of the people of Panama Pa-nama is neither business nor sense. This is a temporary arrangement, which Is bound to create and keep up repeated and Intolerable uncertainty and friction. The canal la a world enterprise, and Its management nnd control Is tho business of a world power, and not to be hampered ham-pered perpetually by the small views, narrow prejudices, and Immature judgment judg-ment of such a volatile people. |