The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-05-09
Views OF g Statesman.

In q recent interview, United Otates
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, thus
himself on Nicaraguan
affairs:
"There is absolutely nothing in the
present trouble in Nicaragua to war /
rant the fear that there will be any
damage done to the interests of the
Nicaragua canal that is projected
across the Isthmus.
The Nicaragua Canal will be, must
be, built. The American people are
beginning to realize how much this
project means to their interests,
their prosperity; their safety. They
have now come to the point of know
ing what the canal means, and of un-
derstanding its vast importance to
them. They see as others have seen
for decades that it is folly longer to
continue to hug the coasts, to round
Cape Horn with their commerce, to
practically bisect the country by sep
arating the Pacific from the Atlantic
coast by neglecting to provide the
natural means of communication.
Without the canal the United States,
so far as it's general commerce is con-
cerned, is at the mercy of the rail-
roads traversing the continent and is
obliged to pay the highest rates for
transmission of goods, rates that
almost wholly absorb the value of
the commodities themselves. The
lack of a canal obliges us to main
tain two navies, instead of one, and
thus greatly increase the cost of our
national ddefence.
There is no longer any argument
against the necessity or the value of
this canal. The question is whether
Great Britain should be allowed to
block the project and prevent its
final realization. In answer to that
question, will say emphatically that
I do not think for a moment that
that the canal project will be endan-
gered by the present state of things
in Nicaragua, or by any other COM
plication that may arise there. I be-
lieve that Congress at it's next seq.
sion will, if nothing shall be done
meanwhile by the authorized powers
now in authority, effectually and
finally stop the aggressions of Great
Britain, and absolutely prevent her
gaining foothold at this most i'm.
portant point on the American cont
nent. Congress, in my opinion, will
checkmate the whole game. Con
gress is the American people; it il
backed by the sentiment of the PEG
pie, and I think I know to-day pretty
nearly what the sentiment of the
American people is on the subject Of
foreign aggression.
The cuuse of Great Britain's con
troversy with Nicaragua is a shallow
fimsy pretext.
i War between the United States
and Great Britain has always been I
possibility, and it is not SO remote
possibility as some may think. Thi
: case has gone far beyond the Monro
| doctrine, far beyond the Clayton
Bulwer treaty. It has a characte
, that is distinctly its own and tina
: rests upon higher grounds than an
: doctrine or treaty ever made Q
enunciated. The United States an
the governments of Nicaragua ant
Costa RIGA have entered into q so
emn compact with each other, lool
ing to the construction of this grea
maritime highway. The Compan!
= composed mostly of citizens Of th
. United States, is organized an
starts the work.
Now comes Great Britain with thu
8 domineering spirit Of aggressio
:, which has marked her course through
- out the history of modern times an
= upon the slightest pretext, the MOI