Deseret Evening News | 1906-05-12 | Page 4 | A Wild Rumor

A WILD RUMOR A dispatch from rain m Il Paso Taso says I It Is I rumored the Ihl virtual sale ale of nt Lower Jower California tutu the Tehuantepec pec rail railroad railroad road roar to Is I the ren r real al motive of ot Minister ler trip to ostensibly I taken as nil a 11 vacation La Ia Social a 11 Spanish h dally news newspaper ne paper edited 1 by br nn nfl ex lied lieu Mexican editor states that the caIn alo aloof nl of ot till the peninsula will he be consummate under th lb guise of or a n loan to nn on English syndicate I anti and that the sale Mia of ot the Te re r railroad carries with It tho the right to tn build an Isthmian l canal simi similar lar lur to 10 tho thie Panama canal In process of ot construction That rumor should be of at rt it Jt Is not hot probable however that the sale ale can call be h l male made na us long as ticho believes In the Monroe doc doctrine doctrine doctrine trine anti and keeps his hiI eyes ces open Accord cord According log ing III to that doctrine thin the American by b tb hit free and Independent conditions which hll h they the havo ha assumed anti and maintained are aro henceforth not to tobo bo tin 10 considered ts u subjects for tor future Colonization colonisation by any ami European power President Monroe further declared II 1 W e owe oe Oll It therefore rt to candor and au auto to the tho relations existing be between Jo tween th United States Slates and those pow powers ers Ir to 10 declare that wn ao II should consider any nn on their part art to extend their system to any portion of oC this hemisphere us u dangerous to 10 our jur peace and an safety As A tn long lon as iR that doctrine Is III upheld It follows us 11 a 1 corollary that no part of IC these r continents can CUll be b sold laId to lilY any power holser beyond the seas sp If Ie they the cannot extend their thIr Influence over 01 any part ot of America merIea by lr II violence neither can they do tIll so by h purchase Hilt But the tho rumor Is In all nil probability without foundation It cannot he part Jart of the Mexican policy poll e to separate any Jn ny section of or the thin country from the tho rest of or It for tor the th benefit benent of oC u a foreign nation Km unit If it tim the Mexican state Is l for Cor sale we presume Undo Uncle Sam would have to buy It whether he ho wants It or not oat