New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-11
THE GOVERNMENT RIGHT
DID NOT INSPIRE REVOLT.
Former Commissioner Thinks Canal
WI be Built by 1911.

TIE innUendo that has been banded round IN
many quarters, that the United States govern
nent Inspired, if it did rot covertly suggest the
present isthmian revolt against Colombia was
repudiated with emphasis yesterday by prom
trent American civil engineer. who was a mem
Der Of one Of the isthnian canal commissions
This engineer. talking 70 a Tribune reporter de-
clared that, contrasted with its aspect at the
end Of last month. the present outlook for a
Panama Canal was roseate He asserted that
President RooseveIt's action should receive the
unqualified Endorsement Of every American citi-
zen whatever his political shade OF color. BY
January. 1914" he said. I look TO see the COM
Fiction Of the Panama Canal"
In explaining the origin Of the present 18th
nian revolt and the conditions that have pre-
vailed in Panama in the last two or three years.
this man said:
several years While the Isthrrians are a POOR and
eL7lIenty peaceahle race the educa ting influx and
impinged upon their life and brought home 70 them
through PanaT,s WI % % IN, Js me- eaIial
Colombian governments prime source Of revenue
year paid bv the pqrar1a T9f1rood eo- 7 - se,o
the territory between Colon and Pana--a ~ 1-5tcb
sum the Isthrans have received only 10 or Is per
needed to explode the magazine This meagre per
SEA- 5 Ha s, 52E long been thorn in Pananaas
6eirs driven home that the Colombian govern
ratfy the Hay-Herran treaty and the rsaIizati53
tFe { f canal fogtract osdS tsi- 70 slip through
Any talk. about Washington political coup de
tonmyrot ''i7 senate Is al
The Colombian governments seizure of the
pearl fisheries and later Of the salt revenue and
its Incarceration Of isthmian political prisoners
were also causes assigned as contributing to
Panama's raising the standard OF revolt The
TIL, 49, to-
that in the event Of the Washington government
negotiating 4 canal treaty with Panama that
republic would transfer noiety OF the payment
money 10 Colombia This was the view ex-
pressed yesterday by H H Kohlsaat OF Chi
cago. Why shoult Panama pay Colombia 4
cent in that event. asked the civil engineer
Il doubt whether had Colombia ratified the Hay
Herran treaty the isthnus would have received
more than, If as much as, the PaItry percentages
granted or the Panama railroad contract"
DOES NOT EXPECT BLOODsHED.
Asked whether he expected bIoodshed or an
attempt at bIoodsheG between Colombia and
Panama a result OF the revolt. the engineer
said:
NO. Nor do I expect internecine strife in
Colombia as a sequence Colombia's opera
bouffe departure from Colon for Cartagena.
after an homeric battle. viii give you an idea
Of the Latin temperament and its policy OF
buster"
As TO the Panama route Contrasted with the
Nicaragua route this man said:
The Panama Canal will cost. should estimate
some $4,000 600 to construct. and Will occupy IN
its digging say. eight years Local. and should
imagine LARGELY. Jamaica negroes viii constitute
the labor employed The jamaica negrO--tO employ
whom negotiations would, Of course, have 10 De
made with the British gOvernment-wOUld be easily
accessible and well able 20 Withstand the climate,
which is little II at all than that OF Jamaica
The evil climate OF Panama IS largely matter .
. i'll sanitation and lack OF sewerage. and American
enterprise could remedy the fever and TnaIarial
conditions Just u has In Cuba While the canal
was in course construction the territory would
naturally have be pOliCed- Americans would
probably form The nucleus Of the civil force.
IMPORTANCE OF THE CANAL