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Show I NEWEST EXAMPLE Of i AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1 I Oar Treatment of Colombia is a Stultifica- v tion of the Moral Principles Underlying j American Government. I . , i Robert Kllis Thompson in Irish World. I Wlicii once a government begins to go down hill morally, 'it is sure to do so with accelerated speed. Our government, having thrown aside the I j;i mil principles on which its founders placed it, is now rapidly forfeiting- any vestige of re?pect that j it iiikt enjoyed, through its readiness to aggrandize aggran-dize itself at the expense of" its weaker neighbors. . Its ircatmeut of the republic of Colombia is a I ilcrjur depth than i1 had reached even in the ease ! if ihe unfortunale Filipinos. In that case we had I not formally hound ourselves by treaty to avoid I I-liiis' what we did. Jn this, we show how little j treaties hind u. when we see something- we much want hut eannot get without throwing them to the i winds. The refusal of the Colombian congress to ratify I ilif treaty for the construct ion of a canal across the 1 peninsula of Panama, unless we gave that'eountry J still more formal assurances of our intents to rec- ionize her sovereignty over the islhmus, was an 5 ad cniiroly withingits rights, Recent advices show I that it Mas more far-seeing than any one had given i In- -taie-men of Bogota credit for. There was, of ! .-..ut'M'. an element in the state of Panama which wa- tli-ilejisod with the action. There has grown I up :irm:id 1 he. Panama railroad a native element vlii. h derives its support from the trade which - i" -im-cs the islhmus, and cares nothing but to aug- iM'-nt its volume, by a canal or otherwise. The area I (' r;mama is four times greater than that of Xew .1. -r-oy. nut it population is Jess than 300,0fH., of I v-lii.in one-sixth reside in the town of Panama, a!lel hv courtesy a city. That is, the state of s Panama is about one-tenth of the republic-of Co- i Jombia. both in area and in population. The total j tmiher of active revolutionists is reported by our ! own authorities at 1,5(M. who have-arrayed them-. ; i H-lves against the authority of a republic of 3,000,- ' l !OI I -t oiiee. upon the reje.'ion of the treaty, the secoMonists of Panama began their intrigue for the (lismemberment of iheir count r' in the in- i ii nis purely of trade and of their own pockets. j Very appropriately they established their headquar- -er on our soil, first at Washington and then at ; I'rw ork. That our government, gave them any nceuiagement is not known, but a wonderful se- ; ri.- ,,f coincidences occurred, which, to say the i l"ii-t. call for explanation. The first was that an inilcii;ii-t organ ointed to the indejiendence of Panama as "the ltest solution of the situation" cre- su.'fl by i,e rejection of the treaty, stating that a I c-overiunenl once established there "would be : ''I'iilile of signing at once a canal treaty with the 1 nii.-l Slates: and if euoh a treaty were of the kiii-l ilc-ired by our government, the new republic j W"Unl iiHiurally not only have our recognition, but ! "iir i-iMteetion and our guarantee of a peaee- till career." This is the language used by the vir- in.. ik K'eview of Jicviews, we(-ks before the "insur- ! .li-e usHeial was the departure of our minister ir"V, I; .c.,tji on- the eve of the insurrection; the I T'-'iirn in W a-hingtin of two army officers, from a I ;':!;. 1. -in ml mission to Panaba; the dis)atcli to the ''" of a war vessel with 400 marines on '":::'. I. .uei ihe exact coincidence of the uprising I h! I)'l;ina with the entrance of our gunboat, the V-.-!iv:lle. into lhat harbor. Xor can it be said j ::--: ."nytliiiig done by the authorities at Wash- 3!:tto!i. or by our naval forces at the isthmus, has i di-il t,i (li-;irm the suspicions which these facts I J' .in; ni-pire iu the minds of the republics of Cen-I Cen-I '' and S,,uih America. Our men have been land-"! land-"! '!; l';t!!;nna for the express purpose of "prevent- 'xiithiir." which can oidy mean to prevent the j" i 1 1 1 1 1 ; c ,.f Cobnd)ia from asserting its rightful i ;':."rii v nver the isthmus and its inhabitants. Our J . ' .il aiiilmrities have f'orbidden the Colombian i-'""'- to cross the isthmus by ue of the railroad """ purpose, and it is intimated from Wash- ,! '- "' 'bat we will not even allow them to march :" " ( -u to Panama over their own territory, if. :!! !..ing. tliey should rind it necessary to set "!i the rr.ilroad and its vicinity! . .Mines the recognition of Panama as a de ( ' government, when the ink is hardly dry on . p ' :-r "diclaratioii of indeixMulcnce.' We, as a na- : . oi,j,.,-ted lo England's recognition of the s ;i'l i rn ( ,nfedcracy in as hasty ami dis- '"!5;''eous. Yet that was on May 13, 1861, and the ---ion of the (ulf tates and South Carolina had a place months before that. And that bound -idijects of the OjUeen to neutrality, while This pi' ceiled bv our active interference on behalf Jm- ,vlK-N. 1 "1- aggrosion upon the authority of a sister i j i I '.eiidly lepublic is alleged to be justified by I 11 ; ri if lp;. which provided for the construc- " , the railroad across ihe isthmus. The style j l!; 'v hich ileit treaty is internrcted by Mr. Hay and j J-N a-sneiates is on,, of the beauties of imperial-di;il,.;nucy. imperial-di;il,.;nucy. It provided that '"the United ':' - al-o guarantees the rights of sovereignty vhi,., Xew (iranada (i. e. ("olombia) jxwsusscs over -;nd territory." This is now vaid to nean no more 'h'i that we guaranteed ihe immunity of the isth-I:''.n isth-I:''.n 1n.ni foreign aggression and conquest, which V( l ad done by the Monroe doctrine to the whole 'j die republics of th" continent. That is to say, " ailiia made valuable concessions to us, but got I " lung in return excejit what she had enjoyed for i my-tbree years already in common with' all her hat Colombia couced.'d was, that in case she proved inadequate to the policing of the railroad, -tt-p might stei in for that purpose. But does the. l,!'e-ent situation justify any such intrusion? It is not alleged that a single train has failed to make schedule ti,m, since the "insurrection.' or that it v;vnd (lo s through the legitimate efforts of the . olomimui government to restore its authority. We "lJ!i!,J'rfl'rn2' with no justification, but a remote thJ"'s,"!l,'V" ,'.;rc' l1"" once the isthmus has been sci-ih: (,f c.jv;j t.0jltt,st hetveen rival factions, : r ' ; - - "-7 1 - ;: ( - M " - - -! S ' f ' , J ' - " r ' ' . ' "y " - ' y . ' - ' r t ' X -i ?V''$:WiCft-vt ' ' ' James E. Dolan, ; i J President Ancient Order Hibernians. 1 but both have had the wit not to justify our interference, in-terference, and we did not interfere. Why make an exception now, and why make it before anything has occurred to call for it i Especially why should the American government govern-ment extend its active patronage to a secessionist movement, whose goal is the dismemberment of a sister republic i Are ,the American people, is the Jiepu'olican party, so jnuch in love with secession, as to support such a movement? If the people of Panama were suffering under some terrible oppression op-pression from the federal government at Bogota, that might appeal to our sympathies. But even their "declaration of independence" can allege nothing of the sort. They have not a single grievance griev-ance except that the people of Colombia the nine-tenlhs nine-tenlhs majority generally thought they were entitled en-titled to ask more, both in compensation and in guarantees, than the recent treaty offered them, and that this did not. suit the people of Panama the one-tenth minority. Dispatches inspired from the state department actually seeek to justify this secession by giving it the respectability of bulk, since that of principle is out of the question. It is alleged that not only Panama, but all the Pacific states of Colombia, will join in the movement, not because they are opposed by the federal government, but because the eastern states of ihe republic are growing rich faster than they! It will be time enough to credit those states with the same unpatriotic motives as characterize the l.oOO insurgents of Panama, when- they announce an-nounce the fact. Meanwhile it is well to recall that this was exactly the plea with which our own secessionists tried to magnify their movement. It was announced, both in Xew York and in London, that the Middle and Western states were about to cut loose from "the fanatics of Xew England," and to cast in their lot with the Southern Confederacy. Mr. James Cordon Bennett made himself and the Herald unpleasantly prominent in advocating this little plan during the. interval between the secession of South Carolina and the attack upon Fort Sump-ter. Sump-ter. After the latter event he had much less to say. It will be time enough to believe mean things of the Colombian states on the Pacific Avhen these have occurred. It is not hard to guess what the other republics of Central and South America will' think of this J aggression upon the sovereignty of Colombia, which we had solemnly pledged ourselves to maintain main-tain over the isthmus. They were well aware that the attack upon Mexico was in the interests of slavery, and to obtain a fresh area for its expansion. expan-sion. With the overthrow of the slave power and the passage of our government into the hands of men who believed in the principles of the Declaration Declara-tion of Independence, they must have breathed freer. But since lhat very party turned it h back upon the principles of that Declaration and ceased to believe be-lieve that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," they have been alarmed as to their own relations with us. Last year there was a manifest drawing nearer, on then-part, then-part, to support their common cause against the t government which had proclaimed the Monroe doc-' doc-' trine, but which had sunk so low sis to tolerate and even support the attack of Germany and England upon Venezuela for the collection of private debts, i They now will drawr closer still, and if Colombia. should find itself drawif into a war with us' over j the isthmus she may not lack allies in her sister I republics. I Xor will the steps la ken by Mr. Koosevelt's gov- j eminent fail to affect the political situation at home. His party, as was shown by Senator Proctor's Proc-tor's speech to his Vermont constituents, and by the applause with which that sneech was received in Republican papers, is growing .ick of the Philippine Phil-ippine business. Multitudes of very stalwart Republicans Re-publicans are only waiting for a decent excuse to get out of those islands. They are wearied with the cost, the profit lessness and the waste of men involved in that piece of expansion. How will they relish having the anti-imperialistic sentiment of the country fanned into a flame by these doings at Panama i How will they like to have this added to the burdens of next vears election, along with the prospect that that election will come at a time of great and widespread depression and discontent? .Manifestly the safe policy for the party was to take in sail and increase the ballast. But this administration admin-istration is all sail and no ballasU :! (I Nf''M': ill j ' Samuel R Gnso j Salt Lake Inventor of Another Flyins Machine What Has Become of the Irishman? Colonel John 1 Finerty, in his paper, the Chicago Chi-cago Citizen, thus answers the above question: The Chicago Tribune recently asked, editorially, editor-ially, "What Has Become ofjthe Irishman?" 'Well, the Tribune ought to know.j) Its editor-in-chief is Irish on both sides of his a?lily. Its managing editor is ditto. Its typographical" foreman ditto, and so on from top to bottom. The Irish cling to the Tribune as the scent of the roses to the vase. We are glad to add., however, that, unlike Moore's vase, the Tribune is neither broken not shattered. The Rev. Tom Gregory, of this city, whose name indicates Celtic ancestry (either the Scotch McGregor or the French Gregoire), frequently, we lOnl. lauds the "Anglo-Saxon." The Rev. Tom is. an admirer of the late Charlemange. Does he not know that most of Charlemagne's military ca-reeer ca-reeer was spent in forcing. Christianity and civilization civili-zation on the Saxons? . ' . ' "What lias Become, of the Irishman?" He is no longer alluded to by "American" candidates for office as ''the man who dug our canals and built ' our railroads." Xow, he runs both. Witness, Sir "Tom" Shaughnessy of Canada, J. P. Farrell of Washington, "and others." "What lias Become of the Irishman?" Ask the South, North, East and West. "Wherever grass grows or water runs" you will find him. There is no land without him, and every land, but more particularly par-ticularly "Yankee land," would be very lonesome without him. "What Has Become of ihe Irishman?" Ask the Hon. Lawrence McGann and the Hon. Edward M. Lahiff. the one city comptroller and the other city collector of Chicago. "What Has Become of the Irishman?" He is fast making his impress on the American people. "The joyless American face" has disappeared and, in its stead, a jovial, handsome Hibernian cast of countenance is substituted. The American girls have become the handsomest women in the world during the last generation. They derive their matchless match-less features and splendid figures from their Irish blood. By the way, where does our able friend, Arthur P. O 'Gorman of Maryland, derive his "Anglo-Saxon" enthusiasm from? We are not aware that the O'Gormans figured in the Saxon Heptarchy.- The senator should buy and study OTIarts "Irish Pedi-gn-cs." "What Has Become of the Irishman?" One of them runs the Chicago National bank, and the sons of three of them are also presidents of Chicago banks, namely, John A. Lynch, John V. Clarke and I James II. Gilbert. ' "What Has Become of the Irishman?" Ask j . John M. Smyth, Alexander II. Revell and E. F. Kennedy, the three leading furniture men of Chi-- eago. The John M. Smyth company is the largest furniture house iu the work). . . ; i |