The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-07
WARLIKE TALK.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
Gives England Pointers.

Washington, March 7.-Speaking to
his resolution abrOgating the Clayton
BulWer treaty, Senator Morgan said he
challenged any senator to point to a
single proposition which Great Britain
had made for such a modification Of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty as would admit
of the construction of the Nicaragua
canal No such action, he said, ever
had been taken by Great Britain Dur
ing all the time when Americans We're
''hugging to their bosoms'' the delusion
that Gerat Britain eventually would en-
ter upon a friendly arrangement for the
construction of the canal Great Britain
had preserved profound and golden
silence" He called her silence golden, .
because, he asserted, Great Britain
through Liverpool, which was the COM
mercial center of the world. was being
enriched and the United States because
of the lack Of the Nicaragua canal was
contributing to the enriching Of Great
Britain
There can not be anything more prec-
ious today to Great Britain" said Mr..
Morgan, than TO prevent the construc-
ton of the Nicaragua canal If Great
Britain by her golden silence can pre-
vent that her profits will continue and
the longer she can do that the greater
will be her profits on the Suez canal She
which looks upon the Nile and upon the
desert and she seems 10 be looking out
upon desert Of American wasted OPP
pOrtunities, and, sad to say, American
honor Great Britain is still silent.
With some feeling in referring to the
Clayton Bulwer treaty. the Alabama
senator said;
I'VE viii make no compromise with
Great Britain upon that subject We
win make no concession to Great Brit
ain in relation to the treaty. What we
shall do with 1t (and some Of our people
are opposed even to thaO is that We
shall declare it abrOgated. IT the vote
on my resolution could be taken today
it would inform the president Of the
United States that he has no two-thirds
majority in the senate to adopt any
compromise he may make with Great
Britain.
II it is the purpose OF Great Britain
still to look for delay she will not get it.
II it be her determination to pick a
quarrel with US about it, she Will find
the United States can muster at least
half the number of men who voted for
the president in the last election, fight
ing men. And she will find, when the
war terminates, that the steel band
which binds the throne in London with
Australia and India and passes through
Canada will nave been rent in twain.
and with its Severance down viii go the
empire.
''She will find that her possessions in
the Caribbean sea have lapscd. She will
find that she has Overtaxed our patience.
She has started with a new king and
upon a new career that will break up
the empire and reduce the king to the
sovereignty of his own island. Does
Great Britain suppose she can escape
from the lefICIS OF the existing S1Iud-
ton and the prospective situation every
where2 and that she can hnd a favor
able opportunity to display her mill
tary power against the United States2
Mr.. Morgan said he did not boast of
the power Of the United States in money.
men or valor, but he was thoroughly
conscious of them and gloried in that
consciousness, because he knew when
the supreme moment should come and
any power in the world should under
take to bride the United States by plac-
ing such restraints upon her sovereignty
as We're contained in the Clayton ulwer
treaty, the American people would re-
Eist to the bitter end.
And that resistance" he exclaimed
vehemently, will mean the wiping out
of any power on earth thar undertakes
the job