The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-16
ENTIRE ISTHMUS LAUGHING
IDEA OF ARMY MARCHING ON . PANAMA RIDICULED.
Protected by Sea by the United states and by an Inpenetrabie Territory by
 Land-CoIom bIan Government Prob ably Going Through Form of Organ. izIng Expeditions to ApPsase the PeopIe.

Panama, Nov. 15.-President Morro- quin's statement as conveyed in cable gram to General Plaza, president of Ecuador, that Generals Reyes, Caballe- ros, ospina and Holguin are now march, ing on the isthmus to suppress the isthmiam traitors has set the entire population of the isthmus laughing. Protected by the impenetrability of the land and the many leagues of coast line separating the isthmus from Co., lombia and confident that the United States intends to prevent the landing of Colombian soldiers from the sea, the isthmians feel that their security is ab- solute. .z,ss .H
 The loss of the isthmian territory is, of course. tragedy for Colombia. The government at Bogota is probably ig- norant of the attitude taken by the gov eriment of the United States during the last two weeks. In frenzy to appease an angry and disappointed populace and to satisfy the public demand for some appearance of activity and an attempt to save the honor and the territorial in- tegrity of Colombia, the government is no doubt promising and threatening to send troops to the coast and to take other aggressive steps. The realization by the Colombian government of the irnpossibility of sending troops to the isthmus would not necessarily deter it from taking these steps. which are in tended merely to satisfy the people
 Well informed people on the isthmus believe that the Colombian government is going through all these forms of or ganizing expeditions not merely for the foregoing reasons, but owing to the ne- cessity of forestalling or of weakening the threatened revolutionary outbreak in Bogota,
 The growing feeling against President Marrocuin is believed to be due to the fact that he did not show sufficient de- termination to effect the ratification of the canal treaty. which would have saved the isthmus to Colombia and be- cause he appointed General obaldia governor of the department of Panama after Obaldia had declared that he would remain Colombian if the treaty were ratified. but that otherwise he would only be a Panarnaian. Governor Oba1dia was born in Chiriqni, in the state of Panama.
 The government Of the new republic, realizing the necessity os keeping It's army in a contented condition, is paying it's officers and soldiers with the utmost promptness.
 General Obaldia appeared on the streets of Panama yesterday for the Grst time since November 3, when the Independence of the isthmus was pro- claimed. He was greeted cordially by friends and acquaintances.
 It is generally asserted that the isth- mians will eventually insist upon the separation of church and state.
 This is one of the measures demanded by the liberal party in the last revo1u- tion, and the population of the isthmus is largely liberal.
 The question of the admission of Chinese is being seriously discussed by the press and in other quarters, the concensus of opinion appearing to be opposed to such admission.
 The junta has invited designs for a Panamaian coat of arms.