| Show ANNEXATION ANN OF This Would Sette Settle Al All Questions About Canal FA G 11 be United Slates Territory Should COlO Collie Irol from lids il Early s the thu Chicago Feb pending canal treaty L C Coole time the wen known engineer said today that perhaps s the ea easiest l wa way out ot of the contusion confusion would be for tor the United States to annex Not long Ir Cooley Coole visited I l Nicaragua ns as a member ot of a contracting onto cate to investigate the t of oC the Nicaragua canal rute route During his Itay stay he talked with 11 all time high Al AI ot of the thc Nicaraguan government to his hla observations In Nicaragua imo ho said The bi n Nicaragua was that the people of al all classes IncludinG the highest were ready and anxious annexation for to the United States It might be asked i If such Is the condition ot of public senti sentiment sentiment ment In Nicaragua why It is IB that the country does lot not propose ose annexation to the Unite United State States I aske asked ques queston question ton tion ot of IL a high ot of the Nicaraguan government and was answered that there wore were so rivalries and cn con 1 political 01 I Interests that It the adherent of ony any one faction propose proposed annexation all the other elements clemonts would al immediately pounce on him nd try to I it apper appear that he was trying to sel sell the country out An proposal by byan In an ot of the tho NI govern goern ment looking toward annexation to tIme United States would probably be util utilized to begin a revolution A high ot of the Nicaraguan government Ike asked me what the g gay eminent ot of the United Stat States would expect In the way 11 of IL a Ight right ot of WILY way I told him that we would expect to have a right ot of way under Unite United States control He remarked that he beleve believed a proposition to annex the en entire entire tire country ot of Nicaragua would not be unpopular and that It would be accept c ott as readily as the proposition to AmericanIze n a amal small portIon ot of the country through which the thc canal might The Th same ame high hh dUds whom I hev have quoted abe above Biked asked mi me what kind ot of labor would be brought Into Nicaragua to construct the canal I tolt told him that undoubtedly Iny any tret treaty that would be made with the States In ro to gard to the later matter would be and that I had no reason to b that the tho government ot of the United States would be Insistent about the In ot of all particular kInd of labor especially If It was as against tIme the accepted policy ot of the Nicaraguan go got I sid said In additon addition that the chances were that white laborers would come Into the country to build the canal slut and I if they remaIned there would bring others and that together they would Americanize the It if the were not careful To this the rejoinder was 1 that such a tendency would b be welcomed by all the Ppl people as It I is recognized that such an infusion ot of Americans Into Nicara Nicaraguan guan gunn politics would Insure immunity from revolutions I tok took measures to confirm the statement made b by the with whom I 1 conversed and found Cound that he had had In no degree overestImated the sentiment lime tho people I was ILS ILl al also so convinced that to be popular the proposition of annexation should ernan eman ate the United States government and not from any Nicaraguan |
