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Show PLAYING WITH FIRE. ! If the adjustment with Panama was a steal, B as the Democrats in Congress aver, and they still, t B in the interest of the world's commerce, ratify fl the canal treaty, how can they escape the legal .J B and logical conclusion that they are accessories H after the fact, to the steal? It is only about nine H months until election, but it will require an Im- B mense amount of nerve on their part to keep up B their clatter about Panama long enough to impress B itself on the election. To blame and deride a B President for doing something which he would B have been justly blamed had he failed to do it, r B does not make a case which sensible people will ' B with patience long consider. The Democratic Con- J M gressmen and press will have to handle this mat- ,,, Bfl ter very cleverly or the first thing they will know y M they will wake up some morning to find them- B selves the laughing stock of the nation. & H While some of them challenge the integrity y B of the President, and others charge that his vola- B tile temperament has run away with his judgment, ' B they are playing with something which is liable B to prove to be a full charge of nltro glycerine. B |