Show 1 S MUCK l HAKE HAIiE IX Li TILE TIU TROPICS T S Some of or the papers o of the country have bought and andt t t are publishing columns of ot muck from the Panama Pana- Pana I ma mn canal country An Eastern syndicate has offered these articles to every paper In the countr country The S lican has declined to bu buy them We Ve are arc desirous of or printIng printing print print- Ing all the news but we want to know that the tho statements 1 f wo we print arc true And we haven't an any chance to know lenow i I anything about it in the case mentioned mentioned We Ye dont don't know r. r who Is writing the articles nor whether he has even seen C x 5 the tho isthmus nor whether he has honestly Informed himS him him- S self nor whether tho the syndicate II is offering for tor sale what he ic has written There are a a. good rood many things which make mako us leary about buying this latest product of or the theS muck rake J S S S SS S Wo 0 are aro assure assured by the managers of or the syndicate tc I that these articles show a distressful condition on the thc j ji S Isthmus that tho the canal will not be bo completed inside of 01 fifteen years that there Is a world of or graft for tor the favor fa fa- S vor or d of or the thc administration that sickness is rife and 4 deaths are aro frightfully prevalent that tho the food tood Is bad bail the S S S order worse and ind nothing is as goo good men would like to toS S have havo It S 5 Now aside from a general doubt o of tho the authors author's r I truth and means mean of Information we dont don't like lIko to print that sort of or material because It 11 doesn't do any good rood It ItS S does do s not help Every article of or that character hinders the work of or canal construction because It tends to disS discredit dis dis- ls- ls S S credit the entire enterprise in tho the minds of or such persons S as may happen to read rca it And An in a sense It reflects on 1 5 the tho honor of ot Americans engaged in fn digging the canal We Ye believe the canal will be he l built an and that with the thes S S s least possible loss lOBS of ot time with tho the least possible waste wasteS S of or mone money with ith all care caro for the tho lives Jives and the tho health of S S the tho people who are compelled to live on the Isthmus t S. President Roosevelt himself made mado a a. personal i Investigation S tion of or conditions along the canal and his report to congress congress congress con con- gress should be accepted as authoritative until something r A a i k Y I I SA r r'S 1 I J- J S. S 1 S S. S S I S. 5 5 s ii S J 1 I t j i r t A 1 t i. i 1 1 J r i i l' l I- I rU HIt v. v from a more moru credible author and an author who hat lint had better opportunities to get set at the truth comes along JO Joe Mitchell Chappello Chappelle ha has since toM told In hi his magazine maga a zinc sine an even en more pl pleasing a story of oC the work worle on the canal annl and of conditions In the canal zone Wo 0 would take Mr word against that of or any other man who sho Is I likely 1 to sell his stories storIe to a syndicate syn And we would take President Roo Roosevelt's word against either The Tho muck ral rake rako o is a good thing when It is a good thing But Dut when It tears down without nn any chance of or value alue in it AmerIcans Americans Ameri helping to build up w wo we can see seo no cans want tho the canal constructed and that as quickly as possible If Ie tho the present system Is not doing that work In the l lest best t wn way wo we do not know how to suggest a n bet bet- ter And wo we are not going to hamper the work even P by bythe bythe bythe the small activity of printing tho pro productions of oC the muckraker muck muckraker raker rakel who doesn't agree with an any accredited person who has made an In investigation |