Beaver County News | 1921-03-30 | Page 5 | Justice to Columbia

JUSTICE TO COLOMBIA President Harding is to lie commended com-mended in his effort to do justice to Colombia, and. the payment of $25.-OOO.OOi) $25.-OOO.OOi) for the territory taken at the time of the building of the canal will discharge a moral obligation. It is necessarily no reflection on the character of Theodore Roosevelt in saying that t''o n nl zone was siol en from Colombia. Of cour-o. a fake revolution gave this great country the excuse for stepping in and settling the di-mute. But there was no ex.-ue for taking the territory of Colombia as payment. The proposal to recompense Colombia Col-ombia is not new. It was propose.-! hy Presidents Taft and Wilson, and I hut for partisan politics in the senate the payment would have hen made long ago. President ITan ling's insist. -ore on -payment of the claim is all the more commendable hy reason of the fact that he will i oh;.;.- ! to mi- ' ,f many of tlv leaders of his own party.