Show I S Timely Topics I MONEY WELL SPENT Let u us us- now while we have the chance wind up the thelong tong long ong and Involved history of the quarrel we have been maintaining with Colombia The senate of that country has approved the United d States Colombian treaty whereby we are to pay the Colombians for such damages as were occasioned that country through the loss of that province of hers hers S that Is now the republic of Panama The years have been many and the years have been long since the difficulty arose Most AmerIcans Americana have forgotten about It The fact remains that In tn the days of Roosevelt certain activities of ours led to the secession of Panama from Colombia and gave Us us an opportunity to ta get on with building the canal without further dickerIng dicker dicker- Ing with Bogota The episode did us vast harm all aU the way way from the Isthmus to ta Cape Horn Harn Latin-American Latin resentment was stirred and stirred deeply It Is the subject of many of the South American stock tirades and aimed at the theOf Colossus of the North It has hurt us In Central America and helped to tx make us unpopular In Mexico We can repair some of he damage and soothe South American feelings to a considerable extent extejt by appropriating appropriating the sum of twenty-five twenty millions and sending It to the Colombians There Is Is' nothing In the treaty for which we we need peed apologize or feel greatly ashamed ashamed- Philadelphia Public Ledger |