Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-06
MUST HAVE THAT
CANAL AT ONCE
PLAYED INTO ENDLAND'S HANDS
LONG EN0UGH-vAsT MA
TIoNAL NECESSITY.


his motion for the abrogation of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Senator Nor
gan challenged any senator to point 10
any single proposition which Great
Britain had made for such a modifica.
ton OF the Clayton ulwer treaty as
would admit Of the construction of the
Nicaragua canal. No such action, he
said, ever had been taken BY Great
Britain. During all the time when
| Americans We're 'hugging to their
hosoms" the delusion that Great Britain
| eventually would enter upon friendly
arrangement for the construction of the
| canal, Great Britain had reserved a
profound and golden silence" He
called her silence golden" because he
asserted. Great Britain. through Liver
pool. which was the commercial center
OF the world, was being enriched, and
the United States, because of the lack
OF the Nicaragua canal, was helping to
the enriching of Great Britain
There cannot be anything more
precious today to Great Britain" said
AR. morgan, than to prevent the con-
struction OF the Nicaragua canal. II
Great Britain, by her golden silence.'
can prevent that. her profits will con.
tinue. and the longer she can do that.
the greater will be her profits on the
suez nal. She has remained as silent
as the sphinx which looks out upon the
| ME ana upon the desert, and she
seems TO be looking out upon a desert
or waste in the American opportunities.
and. sad to say. American honor. Great
Britain is still silent"
Wlth some feeling, in referring to the
CiaytonBulwer treaty, the Alabama
| senator said:
| we VIII make no compromise with
Britain upon that subject. We will make
| no concessions to Great Britain in rela-
ton to the treaty. What we shall do
with it (and some of our people are
opposed even to that) is that We shall de-
clare 1t abrogated. 1t the vote on my
resolution could be taken today it would
inform the president of the United States
that he has two-thirds majority in the
senate to adopt any compromise he may
make with Great Britain.
IF it Is the purpose of Great Britain
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 num-
Der OF men who voted for the president
in the last election, fighting men. And
she will find, when that war terminates
that the steel band which binds the
throne in London with Australia and In
dia and passes throgh Canada will have
been rent In twain and with its severance
down will go the empire.
"She will find that her possessions in
the Caribbean sea have lapsed. She Will
find that she has over taxed our patience.
| She has started with a new king and
| upon new career thal VIII
break up the empire and re-
duce the king to the sovereignty OF his
own island. Does Great Britain sup-
nose she can escape from the terrors
of the existing situation and the pros.
nectiye situation everywhere. and tha'
she can find a favorable opportunity to
} display her military power against the
United States"
Mr.. Morgan said he did not boast OF
the power of the United states IN mon
. ey men or valor, but he was thoroughly
conscientious of them and gloried II
, that conscientiousness, because he knew
| when the supreme moment should come
and any power in the world should uh
. dertake to bride the United states ps
placing such restrictions upon her SOW
ereignty as were contained IN the Clay
ton-Bul,eer treaty. the American peo
nle would resist to the bitter end.
"And that resistance" he exclaimed
! | vehemently, Twill mean the wiping on
of any power on earth that undertake.
the job"