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Show PANAMA EXPOSE. Interesting revelations are those made by the New York World concerning the - revolution -which established the Panama Pana-ma republic. Several years ago Theodore Theo-dore Kooseveit boasted that he "took" the Panama canal zone. Since the Democratic Dem-ocratic administration has been negotiating nego-tiating a Colombian treaty, the former president has not repeated his boast, and has gone so far as to say that the highest morality governed the actions of his administration in the acquisition of canal territory. The New York World, basing its text upon Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's own words, "I took the isthmus," isth-mus," proceeds to show by documentary document-ary evidence that this is just what he did do. Ever since the autumn of 1903, when the Panama revolution occurred, the American people have suspected that the United States government actively fomented the rebellion against Colombia, Colom-bia, but evidence has been lacking. Whatever evidence was collected and made public prior to the latest expose indicated that the revolution had been brought about and financed by the French Panama Canal company, and that the Kooseveit administration merely accepted ac-cepted the new Panama republic as an accomplished fact and prevented Colombia Colom-bia from reasserting her sovereignty. The latest disclosures tend to prove that the Roosevelt administration informed the revolutionists in advance that they could expect the support of the United States government and, more amazing . still, seem to show that this government virtually guaranteed to meet the expenses ex-penses of establishing the Panama republic. re-public. In the World account we read: "Dr. Amador declared to his friend, General Amaya, one of the generals who was arrested at the beginra'jag of the uprising, that the movement was a result re-sult of a plan for a long time considered consid-ered and discussed at length in Panama and Washington, and executed under the guarantee of the United States, which had advanced $230,000 to meet the first expenses of the new republic." The chief conspirators, according to this account, were Dr. Manuel Amador Guerrero, staff physician of the Panama Pana-ma railroad; William Nelson Cromwell of New York, chief counsel in this country of the Panama Canal compan-, and Philip Bunau-Yarilla, former engineer engi-neer and contractor of the Panama canal. Bunau-Yarilla is declared to have conducted the necessary negotiations negotia-tions in Washington through Assistant Secretary of State Loomis. So well were the arrangements for the revolution and the part the United States government was to play in the affair understood, that Dr. Amador, Ama-dor, writing to his son on October 20, 1903, the day after President Kooseveit had issued orders to the navy department depart-ment to hold warships in readiness on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides, outlined out-lined the plans for revolution and declared de-clared that the United States would not allow any Colombian forces to attack. While the New York World declares it has documentary proof of every fact set forth in its narrative and quotes freely from the supposed documents, it does not supply evidence as to the authenticity au-thenticity of the documents. Presumably Presum-ably the proofs are to be furnished if the narrative is questioned. Granting that the latest story is the most correct cor-rect yet made public, Mr. Kooseveit must rely for his justification ou the theory that the United States had a right to establish and maintain the republic re-public of Panama. According to this theory the United States government, believing that the government of Colombia Co-lombia was resorting to blackmail and had no intention of dealing fairly with the United States, adopted the only means left if it was to build without delay a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. Mr. Kooseveit can no longer contend, if this narrative is true, that the United States government went no further than to recognize the republic of Panama and to interfere with military mili-tary meastircs solely for the purpose of "protecting women and children." As a matter of fact, the excuse relating to women and children was nut offered by Mr. Kooseveit at any time prior to the statement which he made a few days ago. If the United Slates is now about to pay "belated blackmail," it must be due to the fact t Hat Colombia's course preceding the Panama resolution was (Uctated by a well-defined purpose to extort unjust billions from this coun try in exchange for the canal territory. It cannot escape notice, however, that although evidence has accumulated to prove the Roosevelt1 administration an active participator in the Panama revolution, revo-lution, no further evidence has been discovered to show that Colombia was trying to blackmail the United States. Mere delay in coming to an agreement and even the rejection of tentative agreements are not evidences of blackmail. |