The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-10
Don't Ratify This Abom :
Unable Canal Treaty
THE CURSE OF GREED
Morgan Describes Cuba's Status by
Declaring She is Fettered TO Our
Warships' Decks Teller
Speaks Against the Reci-
procity Bill.
(By the Associated Press

Washington, Dec. 9-Senator Teller
concluded his speech in opposition to the
Cuban Reciprocity bill today, and Sena.
tor Morgan was heard in opposition to
that measure. The Alabama Senator dc
voted the greater share of his attention
to the Panama Canal question.
Mr.. Teller took up the question of the
activity of General Wood, while acting
as governor of Cuba, in behalf Of Cuban
reciprocity with the United States. He
said there were official records to show
that the Cuban government had paid to
exceed $4,000 in that interest during
General Woods administration. He de-
clared that the press of both the United
States and Cuba had been utilized in
support of the policy of reciprocity and
quoted figures showing the amounts paid
for newspapers advocating this policy:
Mr.. Morgan took occasion in the course
of his remarks to refer frequently 10
the Panama Canal treaty and in that
connection he again freely criticised what
he denomirated presidential usurpation." "
He declared that the United States is be-
coming affected to the core with covet-
BUSINESS and said the country seemed to
be quivering with doubt as to waether
it should go over entirely or pursue the
better course fllwed by our national faith
ers. So tar rs he was concerned he
would not be so mean as to yield to q
temptation to simply advance the COM
mercial interests of his State. He spoke
OF the 90 per cent reduction guaranteed
by the bill to Cuban products but warned
the people that it might turn out to be
a Spooner bill, which this government
may evade or not as it sees fit. Indeed
he asserted that the United States would
do as it might please with the island of
Cuba which he declared is little more
than a dependency. "She is" he said,
now fettered to the decks of our war
ships as firmly as Prof Langley's airship
was ever attached to his houseboat.''
He spoke of the negotiation of the
Panama Canal treaty as a grotesque act
and declared that Panama had mo more
right to appoint a minister to the United
States than that country had to conse-
crate a saint"
"He came" the Senator added 'as a
swift winged messenger of falsehood, dis
patched on his mission by the Panama
Canal Company
Mr.. Morgan said that Cuba would 60
we'll to give careful heed to our purposes
in the legislation under consideration.
They should not follow the old adagc
not to look a gift horse in the mouth,
for in this case ''the gift horse is a
bronco which greets them with Whitney
and may send them away with a kick"
Returning to the Panama situation Mr..
Morgan said that the United States $
practically at war with Colombia as the
result of the fact that the President had
fallen into trap. He wanted, he SAID.
to save the Senate from this same trap
and again referred to MIR. Bunau-Varilla,
the Panama minister, and after reviewing
briefly, that gentleman's history as an
engineer and contractor on the Panama
Canal he said that he had Contracted
wisely and well and had left the 18th
mus a rich man"
Mr.. Morgan declared that he had no
purpose of creating a sensation, but that
his whole purpose was to warn the Senate
against ratifying treaty the negotiation
of which he characterized as "a most
wretched, a most abomniable and a most
horrible transaction"
Notwithstanding this was the case, the
Senator continued: 1.-The Senate steps
over this breach of the Monroe Doctrine,
while the President of France and the
President of the United States stand over
the recumbrant figure and intone In uni
son their solemn and satisfied amen
He expressed the opinion that the cost
of the Panama canal in its early stages
would be so great as to cause Congress
to stop the appropriations before the en-
terprise had gone far and thus accomplish
tn epurpose of the trans-continental rail-
ways in preventing the construction or
any canal Discussing the Presidents
he said the chief executive had
failed to execute the Spooner law because
it was distasteful to him and that he had
not succeeded in formulating any satlstac-
tory excuse for his course. He predicted
that the time would come when Cuba
would clip the threads that restrain her
and bind her to Us and again float off in
to the sea of liberty
In such an effort he constituted, Cuba
might find friend in Germany which
might follow outer example ard create a
state of independence in a night and then
annex it with the coming sunrise. No
doubt there would be fighting ''for who, !"
he asked, ''is more eager TO fight than EN-
peror William III or our own strenuous
President?
He then proceeded to say that only yes
terday he had met great Democrat who
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