Show M M M M I I M M H M M M I I M I I M M M M M M THE HOAR C CANAL AL f t I 4 t I I 4 I I I I I r. r 1 I The deep and implacable animosity which Senator Hoar seems to feel toward President Roosevelt on account of the latter's policy in the Philippines Philippin s has found a a Tent tent and if the venerable venerable ven venA erable cherub from Massachusetts can have his way a a. terrible punishment awaits the Chief Magis Magis- It is proposed in a t bill intro introduced in the Senate Sen ate yesterday which reads It shall be the duty of ot the President nt of ot the United States as soon as IlS the same sam can economically end conveniently bedone bedone be bedone done to cause to be excavated and constructed a canal of ot such depth an and capacity as aswill will be sufficient for the movement or ot ships of the greatest tonnage and draft now In use use- and such as may be reasonably anticipated from the Atlantic to the pacific by bv such route as may be selected by him having satisfied himself himself himself him him- self of the right of the United States to construct and protect such canal Should such a measure become law Mr lr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt might just as well sublet the rest of the job to Mr Root Hoot or 01 Mr lr Cortelyou and go to digging for surely he w would Uld not find time tim for anything el else ele e. e Seriously speaking what the bill Dill proposes would be bad politically and in ethics The isthmian canal canalis is too great a matter to leave to any anyone one man to decide and act upon in generals and details Such responsibility should never be devolved on or accepted accepted ac ac- ac by a single individual even though he be President of the United States If it was Mr Hoars Hoar's idea to place a burden n upon upon upon up up- on the shoulders of Mr 11 Roosevelt which could neither be dumped nor shifted without hurting somebody and thus raising a row in camp he went about the business in the right wa way If the Pre Pres ident were given the authority provided in the bill and were to select the Nicaragua route the Panama people and the canal anti-canal interests which are working working work work- ing under their cover covery would shriek with rage and do all they could to knife the R Rough u h Rider in the i ext lext Republican National Convention Were Vere he to buy the old de Lesseps ditch the ithe nearly universal American sentiment in favor of the Nicaragua project would rise against him He understands that a and d though the spending pending of a hundred and eighty millions of public money and the enjoyment of much additional patronage would not be hard to bear bea still till the he President is not R-ot ot quite green enough to walk into a hole filled with responsibility and trouble and empty of thanks We Te fancy that it will not take long for this freshly hatched Hoar bird to to find its way to a last resting place in a committee pig pigeonhole 4 j w |