The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-10-02

Lesseps scandal and tragedy had first
sent over one Hutin to spy out the lay
of the land. Hutin talked about
hundred and fifty millions. He was
only a "feeler." Having aseertained
that forty millions was about the fig
ure that might be made practicable
twenty millions for the thieves of
France and twenty millions for the
and Lampre came.
With his arrival upon the stage the
scenes began to be shifted. First one
newspaper correspondent and then an
other came out for Panama. First
one alleged expert and then another
came out for Panama. Public opinion
thus manipulated and supposed to be
adjusted, the gray wolves Of the SEN
ate came out and began to show the
whites Of their eyes. Then to- Wag
their tails. Then cautiously to come
out into the open. Finally, came the
Spooner act, setting aside the Morgan
Hepburn bill and substituting Panama
for Nicaragua. \ rlri HA5E
But even here, the thieves had lit
tie care for the looks; they were not
wholly insensib(e Of the finalities, and
so, for appearance sake. they inserted
clause setting forth that If there was
any hitch in the ratification Of the
proposed treaty with Colombia, the
president should use his discretion
and select a route. In other words, the
gray wolves, in selling out to the
French jobbers, who had nothing to
sell but few pots and pans, and q
lawsuit, were careful not to be too con-
spicuously in the service of the trans
continental railways. equally opposed
to every and any canal project.
Who could forsee that the thieves in
Bogota, getting Whit of the stealing
from Washington, would contrive that
before the delivery of the goods, TWEEN
ty millions should come to them? But.
so it came to pass Colombia rejected
the treaty. The situation provided for
in the Spooner act has arrived. The
president is face to face with the pre-
else contingency which even the
thieves considered necessary to secure
their rear and save their bacon among
the people In case there should be too
great a row. And, what do we see?
Why, we see appeals for delay. urg-
ings for a new treaty. plans 70 q Col
ombian revolution and the secession OF
Panama-anything, everything, to
make good the twenty millions to the
the thieves in France and the twenty
millions to the thieves In America.
completing the sum agreed upon in: the
Spooner act. OF course, If these avail
the twenty additional millions for the
thieves in BogOta must be made good
also, and will be inserted in the next
treaty. . S@&l
II the president harkens to tho
clamor and hesitates, It will not mean
that he is personally corrupt, with q
share Of the stealings coming. to him.
but it will mean that the power behind
the steal Is. like the power OF Quay in
Pennsylvania and Addicks In Della
ware, too great for him-his nomina-
tion and election--to- resist 1t. sNs
Panama has some engineering ad-
vantages over Nicaragua, but all
other advantages, and they are over
whelming, are with Nicaragua. Nearly
the whole OF the Nicaragua route
through the San Juan river and the
lake already exists. It is. safe to say
that the cost Of its completion will not
exceed the cost of Panama When it
is completed, we shall have a water
way all our own, right across the Gulf
of Mexico and the Caribbean sea from
the cotton states of the south-Flor-
ida. Georgia., Alabama, Mississippi.
Louisiana and Texas-the canal
through friendly. healthful. fruitful
region, destined to be Americani7ed
and to become, as Texas before It, 9
state or territory Of the American
union. not smell of a job anywhere.
The Colombian treaty is dead, killed
by an overdose of raseality in Bogota.
Will you act upon the mandate un-
guardedly given you BY, the spooner
act, or will you continue to play poll
tics Of the. Quay-Addicks brand until
the thieves get their second wind
working, the while. the scheme Of the
ranscontinentai. railways for obstrue-
ton and delay: Il.
Il