Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-07
GREAT danger
POINTED OUT BY MORGAN.
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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. During all the
time when Americans were "hugging TO
their bosoms'' the delusion that Great
Britain would eventually enter upon a
friendly arrangement for the construction
of the canal. Great Britain had preserved
=" a profound and golden silence" He
called her silence golden because, ne
asserted. Great Britain through Liverpool.
which was the commercial center or the
world. was being enriched and the United
States because of the lack of the Nicara-
qua canal was contributing to the en-
riching of Great Britain.
There cannot be anything more pre-
cious to-day to Great Britain said Mr..
Morgan, than to prevent the co~nstruc-
ton of the Nicaraguan canal III 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
has remained as silent as the sphinx
which looks out upon the Nile and upon
the desert, and she seems to be looking
out upon a desert of wasted American
opportunities, and. sad to say, American
honor. Great Britain Is still silent
With some feeling. in referring to the
Clayton-Bulwar treaty, the Alabama SEN
ator said:
1--WE will make no compromise with
Cr1a+ rritaI, ,,Da, that uphiaot Wa will
make no concession to Great Britain in
relation to that treaty. What we shall
do with it { and some of our people are
opposed even to that) is that we shall
declare it abrogated. If the vote on my
resolution could be taken to-day 1t 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.
"If it is the purpose of Great Britain
still to look for delay she will not get
it. If it be her determination to pick a
quarrel with US about II, she will find the
United States can muster at least half
the number of men who voted for the
President in the last elec~tion-fghting
men. And she will find, when that war
terminates, that the steel band which
binds the throne in London with Aus
tralia and India, and passes through
Canada, will nave been rent In twain; and
with its severance, down will go the en-
pire.
She will find that her possessions In
the Caribbean sea nave lapsed. She will
find hat she has overtaxed our patience.
She has started with a new king and upon
a new career that will break up the en-
pire and reduce the king to the sovereign
ty OF his own island. Does Great Britain
suppose she can escape from the terrors
of the existing situation and the pros
pective situation everywhere and that she
can find a favorable opportunity to dis
play her military power against the
United States?'
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 conscious
ness, because he knew when the supreme
moment should come and any powers in
the world should attempt to bride the
United States by placing such restraints
upon her sovereignty as were contained in
he Clayton-Bulwer treaty the American
people would resist TO the bitter end.
And that resistance" he exclaimed We
hemently. will mean the wiping out OF
any power on earth that undertakes the
fob"