| Show IS DE LESSEPS A THIEF THE great de lesseps Le seeps whose name has been a household word for over a score of years in every part of the civilized world is about to be tried for fraud the french capitalists who contributed to the millions that were sunk in the panama canal project are not satisfied they believe that do de Le lessens seeps who set the work in motion and has been the formost man in the scheme from the beginning came out of the crash with too much money this will appear strange to the world who have always thought that de lesseps Lies of all men would be the last to pocket illegitimate gain in such arl an enterprise the public have been led to believe that the perfecting of the panama canal was the ideal of do de lesseps Lessens 9 glory that it had occupied his thoughts and imaginations to the extent of destroying his judgment and transforming him from the greatest endmost and most clearheaded clear headed civil engineer the word has ever produced to an untrustworthy visionary they could never be made to suspect that a man whose dreams of mental acquisition mounted to such heights would ever stoop to the occupation of dishonorable money getting the french government is belittling its own fame more than it can afford by the prosecution of this glorious old man As a stroke of national policy it would be better to assume sume his obligations he has done I 1 I 1 more for france than france has done for him and his country should see to it that he dies in honor and with his fame untarnished |
