The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-07
CHORDS AND pIscoRDs.

When the senate. doing the unexpect-
ed thing, came down on the Hay
Pauncefote treaty like thousand of
brick and smote 1t with meat axes and
fails, until there was nothing left of 1T
but the frame around the place where 1t
used to be, then. indeed. the most of
us simple folk stood by in mute sur
prise; but few of the more knowing
ones realized that it possibly meant a
knockout blow for the Nicaragua scheme
and corresponding boost for the
Panama deal. Who said money? Money
is no object!
1t was godsend for the Republican
country editors. All through the presi-
Dental campaign, they had been de-
nounced as slaves, tools, hirelings and
lickspittles of Great Britain, and they
had no other choice than to face the mu-
sic. But here was their chance, and
they set the eagle screaming till
the echoes resounded back and forth
between the Rockies and the Alleghenies
and all the stars around the "E Pluribus
Unum'' got Jared out of place. On the
other hand, the Democratic editors felt
that having shown their colors all
through the campaign, they did not have
to rehabilitate themselves by any splurge
of jingoism, and. besides, they had evil
IDENTIFY studied the question calmly and it
hoT. 70
time to let the eagle scream and the
weIkin ring. The Gil o b was pleased
to notice that most of them understood
the weighty questions involved and dis
cussed them dispassionately. But oc-
| casionally one of them lost his head and
was carried away like the Glencoe Enter
prise which evolves the following:
THE latest move OF the Panama canal
lobby is the announcement that England,
Germany and France lave entered into
an agreement 10 jointly complete and con-
troll the Panama canal. regardless of con-
gressional action on the bill for the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal. The
! Panama crowd have unintentionally help
ed the Nicaragua canal. Were the peo-
pie OF the United States to wake UP
some morning and read In cold type the
had taken stock in the Panama water
| way, there would be a demonstration
akin to that aroused by the destruction
of the Maine. Then if never before
would the construction of an America n
/ canal, fortified by American tWelve-inch
guns, become assured We must have the
Nicaragua waterway, and we will have
1t, without regard to the Clayton-BulWer
compact or any other. 1T is evident that
If England attempts to meet the amend
ed Hay-Pauncefote treaty, by any such
! n haT n c aIgs -
fashioned ear piercing screams that will
mean business from the American ca
| GLE
Dear brother! Have you any idea what
you are talking about? Are you really
awake or talking in a trance? In the first
! place your announcement that England
Germany and France have entered into
! an agreement" ETC., has not even the
shadow of foundation. But do You
know that the Panama company has con-
cessions to build canal that a large
amount of work on this canal has alread y
| been done and that the above mentioned
! nations may find a way to supply this
! company with the necessary funds for
| completing the undertaking as a private.
! neutral. enterprise? And what can you
or anybody else do about it? Haven't
! European companies the right to engage
in private enterprises in South America ?
| And If a neutral canal is built at Pana-
ma, what good would fortified canal
| through Nicaragua do US? You win find.
on studying the subject, that there Is
only one of two consistent courses 70
pursue, Make the canal neutral, which
Will render it safe against attack and
destruction, and then depend upon our
navy to keep the enemy from using 1t In
case of war; or, make It an exclusive
~ American and fortified canal, in which
case we could never feel sure of it's 3eing
safe until we had annexed ell of Central
America. and then, to prevent the build
ing of rival canal through the isthmus
of Panama, annex that territory also.