Show Till nut Cleveland CI lanti Plain DenIer Dealer Tho The course of ot President Roosevelt lion has heN been I marked out for tor him hUn by lIy law Ill Falling to till the Panama canal eamil on terms specifically provided he lie heIs lieIs Is hi to reopen negotiations with NIc and end Costa Cuta for tor the necessary nary sary rights on Oil tho the Nicaragua route This will take time line nut there ther may amy bo be boas bons bean as ns much In iii securing tho the right of ot way tny I Oil on that rattle us on the tho oUter other but hut that will not benefit Colombia It Is that any 1111 better otTer oriel will bo lie made for tor the Panama canal and nut whether that work Is III or is fA not eventually undertaken by h the tho United States lie Ihl government at lit In Is Innot 11 not lOt unlikely to tutu In grasping at lit the tho shadow of or the Trench French It lost Ios everything Republican It IL Is in still sUIi too tOI early earl anTi however to con consider sider aider the pending treaty as ns lost A veil ell to bo lie drawn over OCI the tho situation nt at Bogota and although discouraging reports continue continuo to be bo published their entire correctness corr tony may mn perhaps be bo open opeil to questIon In view lew of oC the fact that Interests favorable to tho the Nic route lOutO may umpIre Inspire In them In Iii Indeed Indeed deed It is III not at nil all improbable that lint the present ent doubtful situation at It Ho Bo goto Is lit tho the york work of oC vital rival canal pro promoters promoters or of or Interests which desire no canal ut at all nh or of ot native blackmail blackmailers ers When one tediuM the scandalous that takes lakes place In some sante of or our American legislatures when Valuable franchises are aro at lit stake IH Is it Inconceivable that lint In u II country countr like Colombia the tie Issue of ratifying this canal treaty which cornea carries a II fran fain franchise chine chise not easily estimated In money alone should be complicated and twist twistS twisted ed 01 In lottie tho native mind by the Ih question of ot the lie almighty dollar Pueblo Chieftain It would appear however ho IV ee 1 that a serious diplomatic mistake has been made III In allowing a treaty treat to be pro pre prel Rented l that would receive n a unanimous moos ote vote of ot rejection It would seem Heem that nn an arrangement might aught be he made maile that would secure nil all essential protection without Involving any nn loss 1089 of oC national dignity or vio via violation violation lation of or Its It II notional national constitution Kansas ansas City Star I IThe The commission found Cound that with the payment ment of ot 40 million dollars dollar for work already done ilone tit II t Panama the tit cost ost of canals by b tho the two to routes would bo ho about the same RamI The Panama route would however give for lor forthe tile the more mora satisfactory piece of or engl engi engineering n work since it would furnish turn Ish a u canal one fourth the length of tho the theother other having fewer locks lork less leAs eleva elem elevation ion tion of ot summit level 1001 and hess Ip s curvature At 1 the santo same time line it would be his less lesH fa tn favorably situated as ns a n short cut train from the tho North Atlantic to the North Pa 11 Pacific CHIc The rita chief f engineering disadvantage ell tage tago nt Rt Nicaragua would be lie the tho high higher or er cost ost of ot maintenance noll Not ot only I would the channel be bo longer but the tho shifting sands oft off or on 01 the tho Caribbean would entail a heavy lIel ex cx expense hOuSe pense for maintaining a n harbor Mr Noble estimated this tithe difference In an rin annual nual maintenance charges at nt AgaInst this Is to be set the ho economy of ot the lie Nicaragua shortcut St at Paul Globe The probability Is IB that these thelle states will secede front from rom the lie rent rest of ot the lie coun coon country country try sot pot up a II government of ot their own proceed to conclude with the Unit United ed 1 States an iiii agreement out of or which they tho would win great frent material advantage tags tage Many lInn people le have havo predicted this lila outcome from the th beginning The Thu present aspect of Qt affairs makes It al ul almost most a 1 certainty i Boston Globe It transpires that lint certain Americans heavy Interests In 11 the thu Panama project and others thinking ln that the tho treaty trat would be adopted have Invested heavily in lands along ulong the Panama route Those These speculators have base hind had n a powerful lobby In lii Congress Congre and would like Ilka to see Ret eo the Ito United States protect their Interests by b coercing n a sovereign state which within Its It rights has lion done what Its Congress COrll deemed best be t anti and what many of ot Its ablest n lest citizens have been boen long advocating In American and anti native journals H it i Is IR this thin evil principle principle vie of ot coercion cerlon lint nil all true Americans AmerIcanA should promptly sit lilt down upon Why hy did ve lC o Invite Colombia to Join In a n treaty with us tin In the first OrRt place If It wo we did not intend to sacredly by Ii her decision |