The age-herald., 1900-01-28
BY MURAT HALsTEAD.

Senator Morgan and General Wheeler are the Alabamians that most conspicuous ly answer to the call for heroes and states men in the Gulf states. Senator Morgan has had peculiarities of views that seemed to me difficult. I even thought he was oyereducated about the sovereignty of states, and I have a strong impression to that effect yet. He has, however. talked straight, broad, high, square Americanism for several years and he has done great deal of good of which the people of this country should be sensible and that they should gratefully and gladly acknowledge I thought he overdid his championship as to Cuba's "Junta" government which was, according to my chemical analysis, va per, but the senator meant what he said and believed 1t all every time he said it. I forgive him, for I have sometimes had experiences of erroneous information The conclusion is we shall have to keep Cuba by and with the will of the people of Cuba, who would be damaged severely if the clique of professors of Cuban independence who still disseminate hot stuff, though feebly and in small spoonful should get hold of the machinery of government of the island and mortgage it and all the pos sessions of the people-overlaying the is- land with a bonded indebtedness that would not be helpful to many. It Is pro- foundly the interest of Cuba and of the United States to remain together. Cuba is a territory as New Mexico is, and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Arizona and the Phil lppines, and we should take in the Danish islands, including those of the West In- dias, and Iceland and Greenland.
 Senator Morgan is much better Ameri- can than any of the Atkinson, Garrison and Hoar company of restrictionists who doubt the constitutionality of the United States holding Long Island, Nantucket and 'Martha's Vineyard, because they are sur rounded by salt water, and even have con- scientious scrupes that sting them like a New Jersey mosquito touching Cape Cod Whch hangs out to sea on a slender thread Of sand. Senator Morgan has the adyant- age of being real Jeffersonian democrat In that he is an expansionist as Jefferson was, as Jackson and Polk were-indeed as all the Virginian and Tennessee presidents were He is for an American isthmian ca nal and identifies that enterprise some of us think, little too much with the Nica- raguan. survey Let us assume that there Is actual, reasonable and necessary com petition between the Panama canal and the Niearaguan canal. The latter seems to nave more complex system of charters tihii thc papers lHdt cover the Panama ditch. Some of these charters seem to be In the nature of incumbrances
 Anotner fh1nS-the Americans do not need to eNciude Europeans from fair share of the canal that is to be between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, through Central Amer ica. We should not care to bear all the ex- penses and we ought not to be ambitious 10 set up for ourselves toH gate at the most important part of that which is ultimately to be the direct route by which the com merce of the people and the navies of the nations, shall circumnavigate the globe We should invite Europe to join in and aid with money. The canal through the 18th mus of Darien, whether it be by the Pana- ma or the Nicaraguan route. So enormous an enterprise should be based upon an in- ternational compact The Suez canal does not belong to any nation. The country with the greater commerce should have the greater influence and the broader privileges of the isthmian canal. The scare about European intermeddling should be over. If we need, dn case of war. to possess the isthmus we can find the way for our army ito occupy the land and command water in