Show bior 4 THE PANAMA CANAL t DEMOCRACY DESERVES NO CRED S IT FOR PROPOSED WATERWAY its it declaration declarations are incorrect in at least two particulars strenuous ou policy advocated in Ilat 1 lattore forin OB an which buchanan made III each a the democratic platform undertake undertakes to make the party the guard an of n na dional and int internal anat oual oust honor by attack log lug the adm a panama canal policy the platform says our party having long and earnestly ad vacated the co st ruction of 0 an filter inter 0 panic canal for the purposes of 0 national defense and commerce between the state staten an and d with foreign i atlo atio g w we e favor tin the ea early r ly completion tio of th the e istham lan canal 1 H t atile while maung maling this declaration and ac accepting the result results as an I 1 dished s hed and irreversible fact we cannot too ford bly express our disapproval of the meth oda by shiell in disregard of the usages and obliga obligation tio s 9 of international law and treaty obligation obligations the canal loutt has been acquired or too so emaly record our hop hope that this p decedent of defiant diplomacy may never neve r be us d against us to our hu and injury if tie tl e democratic party has ever ad located the construction of an isthmian canil its adv advocacy oacy has been purely sea demie no democratic administration has las ever taken a step or I 1 eted a finger in that Ai direction democratic platform of 1856 As to the question of methods the th party is on in favor of the most is 11 pol cy ey for the establishment and maintenance of isthmian trans L t the democratic platform of 1856 on which james buchanan was mas nominated contained the foll following oming resolved that the great highway h batule as well us as the asse t of states most immediately interested in its it maintenance has marked out for tree free communication between the atlantic end and pacific oceans constitutes one of the most important ts Is realized by the r spirit of modern lines imes in the n u conquerable energy of our people and that result would be secured by a timely and efficient exertion of the control which we have the right to claim over it and no n power on earth should be a offered to lm pl pede e 0 or c clog g its progress by any inter fe ence with relations that may suit our policy to establish between our govern ment and the governments of the state states within vh whose 0 so dominions it lies we can un der no circumstances surrender our prel po derance in the a of all quetin s arising out of it when the resolution was adopted the th question of an is asti ngian canal was mas not being agitated as it never was in any practical way by the democratic party the resolution refers to the maintenance of overland isthmian transit which had been interrupted by nicaragua Mcara gua under a pretense that her sovereignty was being invaded the resolution virtually assert asserts the paramount right of the united state staten to maintain and control the transit route which was an important part of corn com muni cation with cal forma forms against any and all comers a e message in his annual message of 1 arest pre dent bud bucl anan said the transit across the istl mus was a highway which must be open to the world and that the commerce of other nations is not to stand still and await the adjustment of such petty controversies as those t wh ch nicaragua Isicar agua had raised th the government of the un ted states expect no more than this he added and they will not be satis satisfied fie d with less these were brave and true utterances utter ancee but no democratic administration ever did adyth n u to male make them good still less d d the democratic remo cratic party ever at tempt to apply tl ti em to the construction of an canal it was left for a republican admin to do that president roosevelt a s panama canal policy has moved steadily and firmly towards assuring the consa notion of the canal and his methods have not riot savored of a deficient d as much as d d those advocated by the democratic party in isiac |