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Show THE GOOD NAME ASSASSINS. H "The true end of every great and free people , H should be self-respecting peace, and this nation ; H most earnestly desires sincere and cordial friend- ship with all others. i tmm "More and more the civilized people are real- ' izing the wicked folly of war and are attaining M that condition of just and intelligent regard for mm the rights of others which will in the end, as we M hope and believe, make world-wide peace possl- H 'H Who do people suppose said the above? Does M it read like Judge Parker? No, ior it is robust JjW English. It was none other than Theodore JM Roosevelt, and it was not a chance and senti- M mental expression. He included it in both his ' H messages to the Fifty-seventh Congress. Again H when last year at Waukesha, Wis., he said: ', - "We want friendship: we want peace. We . I H wish well to the nations of mankind. We loojc H with joy at any prosperity of theirs; we wish j H them success, not failure." 1 JH Then when we take the other side and seek i iH to And in any expression of the President a desire ' -H or fondness for war, we look in vain. There is s 'H no such thing. It is as though the leaders of the , ?sB Democratic Rarty got together and went to look 7H for something which should serve as a slogan for H the. campaign and decided that in as much as they t ? had given up every principle except tariff reform, ! - J ; and in as much as to press that with any force j would defeat their party the memory of 1893-94 B and '95 being still so distinct the onlv thing left ' was to make the campaign out of a general on- jH slaught all along the line of Roosevelt. The "dan- fl erous" idea started from those wise bankers who mi look grave and clip coupons in New York and JM other eastern cities. H Instead of being termed what they really are, "grafters, such as the master drove out of the temple," they are put down as "the conservative men who watch the nation's flnanoial Interest." V They started the scare story, but there is not a syllable that the President ever pronounced to 9 give justification for it. His recognition of Pan' JP B 1 ., ama Is cited. People should know that the only B I way Mr Bryan, T&m Patttfaon, Bourke Cock B 1 ran or even Judge Parker can maek a plausible iB R story out of that Is to omit the most important B I facts B I Secretary Hay and the minister from Colombia B Sj made a treaty by which the United States was B U I to pay to Colombia $10,000,000 for the strip of B ff land and $750,000 per annum after the canal B should be completed. This was sent to the Unlt- BS ed States senate and ratified. Then it was sent fi to the Colombian senate and contemptuously ro- n jecteu In the meantime our state department w had made a conditional agreement to purchase fftf the rights of the Frohoh company that had be- HIP gun building the canal. H v When the franchise for a right of way for a Blf railroad from Colon, now Aspinwall, to the city HH of Panama, across the isthmus was obtained, our , Bfl government, knowing how trifling the wretches idown there are, made a treaty by which it agreed to insure peace along that road. In persuance of that the government had several times since been obliged to send warships there and land marines. Blf When the treaty for the canal strip was sent B ' to Bogota capital of Colombia the members of B the Colombian senate from the state of Panama H' besought the congress to ratify the treaty, but B,' were turned down. B , Originally several northern states of South B America were independent republics. But in 18G3, B f if we remember correctly, they entered into a HK confederacy under the name of "The Republic of BB Colombia" Thp ptjito nf Panama hesitated long, BK but finally joined the confederacy on the express B! stipulation that if the arrangement should prove i unsatisfactory, she should have the right to j peaceably withdraw When the treaty was re- B jected she withdrew and President Roosevelt so BK soon as the news reached Washington promptly Bp recognized the new government and, anticipating Bti that there paturally would be war between Col- B ombla and Panama sent a warship to keep the H peace on the canal strip as he was bound to do B under the old treaty. Within a week Great Brlt- K ain recognized the new state, a few days later B France. Then negotiations were opened with B Panama, a new treaty made, the $10,000,000 whloh B congress had appropriated was paid to Panama B Instead of Colombia, the agreement with France B was consummated by the payment for the canal B property and the work on the canal begun. B Democrats in making the statement of the af- BP fair conceal the fact that Panama had the perfect B right to withdraw it any time from the confed- B eraoy; they conceal the fact that an old treaty B compels the President to keep the peace on the BB isthmus; that the President told Panama to fight H all they pleased, but that there must be order B on that canal zone, and voluntarily charge that B the administration incited the secession of Pan- B ama. B, On this last subject the words of the Fresl- B dent, in his message to congress reciting the B events which led up to and culminated in the K final treaty, are as follows B "No one connected with tills government had B any part in preparing, inciting, or encouraging the BB late revolution on the Isthmus of Panama, and that save from the reports of our military and naval officers, given above, no one connected with this government had any previous knowledge knowl-edge dt the revolution except such a WEs accessible acces-sible to any person bf ordinary lnt&1llgen6e, who read the newspapers and kept up a current acquaintance ac-quaintance with public affairs." Had not th President done what he did In the business these same shouters would now be denouncing de-nouncing him for having failed in his duty. |