The copper era., 1903-12-03
Right Goes With Might in Panama.

Right Goes With Might in Panama.
 From Callers Weekly
 For l3.OoJ miles by sea from Colon tC
 Panama read 4 by land. Be,weer
 the Atlantic and the Pacific there
 have been two tarrier-; that of the
 backbone joining two continents and
 that o' petty autocracy. When we
 can pierce the first barrier, should we
 wait long on the ti-sue-paper barrier
 oI greed and cunning?
 Beyond the dotted lines that follow the cour-e Of tho canal to each side. we can have no more interest than in starting q winter resort in Greenland. Thi= zone Of ten miles broad as es- scntially belongs 10 our dominion in the name Of the worlds progress a. the lines Of steel rails that knit our states into commercial unity. All that this strip l. its value d. canal site. It grows some bananas, some rubber, some cocoanut7. But the sum total of the exports from either port is not tithc Of the cost Of the French machinery that lies oxidizing by the grave9ide Of de Lcsaeps' am mbition
 The geographical separation of the I-thmian Republic from Colon bia proper is complete. Neither railroad nor highway connects them. Colom- l bia can not send soldiers through the ]. trackIcs7 iunglc; they must go hy l O. ..ft ,l. Itcpubli, there k far less trade then between Colon and the United States; there l. no common ground whatso- ever. Just a7 Spain sent her military rulers to Cuba, SD Bogota sent hers to the l-thumu,. Panama was to Coom- bia what the Tendcrloiu was to the New York Police Department. The Isthmian under dog is every whit as worthy our sympathy d, were the Cubans of the thunderstorms of in- dignation which broke from our guns mouths on the head of Spain.
 KEEPING A NATIONS WORD. Any one who has been to the 18th mus and who knows, too, the whole story of the Presidents policy knows hat our conduct toward Colombia has been more fair than that toward what Haa supposed to be worthy uf our U tcel. So it should be; for it is an | American trait not Co impose on the '' weak. Our treatment of the new ,' Republic, which this time we have ot strangled at birth, promises to be , .hich still eaTf- for reciprocity. In 'hile, in Venezuela, and in Brazil, within the last decade We have shown f, strong hand. It is a peculiar fact il hat with no South American country h las our conscientious observance ot k he Monroe Doctrine been SD exact as 4 yith Colombia We have always tood ready, with justice in view, to | pay her for giving Us benefits. But | or Us, the flag of England or Ger C many would have long ago iloated [ ,yer the bridge of the worlds com nercc, nor would either have paid . any subsidy for the privilege. { By the treaty of 1916 we reserved only the right to keep the railroad : Tree for traffic Faithfully we have , kept our own agreement. We have [ carried by rail tho unfcd soldiers of [ Colombia, whose only discipline is < that Of the lash whenever Bogota | demanded. We have prevented the success of native revolutions which
 : rights. for limited home ruIc. In short, but for Us, Colombia could not l have kept the I-tnmus d, long a7 she has. ;oHN HAY'S "sToNE WALL" pi"Lo-
 MACY.
 When France wanted to baild the canal. the United States did not stand in the way of a gigantic work for the worlds good. We have only to recall Nlaximiljau in Mexico to realize that our paterual interest in the Central American Republics alone made France pay the cNtravagant price that Colombia demanded. Is the Monroe Doctrine to be all give and not take? Is the protectors only reward to be the use of our good will for purposes of gain and of defeating the cause of : France having failed, when our expert commission decided in favor of tn, Panama route; when all our plans to go ahead were com plete. we waited upon the word of Bogola. Then Colombians came into contact with new kiud Of diplomacy the stoued-walIed diplomacy Of John Hay. It is stonc-walled because it k the same all the way through ! that it k on the surface-sulid rock. l II you try to dig beneath il, the foun- dation seems to slnk aS you dig; II 1 you try to scale it, the top seems to 1