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Show I MIGHT AND RIGHT. fl When the Democracy in Congress "shed croco- dile tears over the exercise of the power of the fl United States to compel peace on the Isthmus, B that the work which the world's commerce deft de-ft mantis the building of the canal, may be pro-B pro-B ceeded with, and tell of the wickedness of inter-fl inter-fl posing our Nation's might to trample down and B rob a struggling republic; they overlook one most B important factor. Are the people of Panama or of B the other states interested, of a class who have B any natural right to stand in the path of the fl world's progress? If the answer to this ques-B ques-B tlon is "no matter, they are entitled to their B own," then the answer is a direct impeachment B of the people of this country from A. D. 1620 to the B present time, for their treatment of the Indians; B then the shades of King Phillip, of Pontiac, of Te-B Te-B cumseh, of Blackhawk, of Logan, of Winnemuc-B Winnemuc-B ca, of Chief Joseph, of Sitting Bull, of Geronimo, H of all the fighters who have made a stand Bj against the encroachments of the whites; their H shades have a right to stand up as accusers of H the harbarism, the cruelty, the Injustice and H bloody avarice of the white man, who, for near-B near-B ly three hundred years has kept up the spoliation K of the continent, and blazed all his trails with Bj the blood ofthe original owners of the soil. n- deed, on that theory, all civilization from the be- ginning, is under indictment, for the rule from K the beginning has been to push back the worth-Hj worth-Hj less in the onsweep of progress. This brings to mind the chief factor which would plead in justifi-H justifi-H catlon for the conquest of Panama, if any sucli H conquest had been wrought, for the men of that ceglon are not flt to be free, not fit to go on H bringing into being generation after generation flfl fetches, that are but worthless encumbrances V to the earth. For humanity's sake, our country K interposed to stop the injustice, the cruelty, the B 8Pation of old Spain that had been going on H n Cuba for centuries, and it would have been a H rcy to thobe people had this Republic main-H main-H lnetl s rule there, but they are a vastly su-B su-B I),er,or race to the vagabonds who infest the jun-Msles jun-Msles of Panama. B ifWhen the Democracv fully ventilate their Plte- they will come pretty nearly being the laughing stock of the country. Senator Tillman sees this already, hence his remark that it would have been better to brush the rabble out of the way, rather than to steal up on them by a sneak. But then there was no sneak. Had President Roosevelt waited fifteen day3 before recognizing the government of Panama, there would not have been a hook on which to hang an objection. But the President has taken all the pith out of the objection by declaring that there was no bargain, bar-gain, understanding or negotiation with any of the Panamans, that he simply accepted the first opportunity offered to make sure a right of way, and that the naval commanders had no instructions, instruc-tions, except to keep the peace over the strip, which our Government, by the treaty of 1846, had undertaken to keep, and which it has several times since been obliged to lend forces to keep. Some better arguments, and some more substantial substan-tial evidence, than have so far been advanced, will have to be offered, before the Democracy will be able- to disgrace the Government or the President. |