The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
'MARsE" HENRY "RARs UP,'
Louisville Counterfeit


1t is a comedy, and very well played.
too. It is a comedy. and being mainly
French, naturally, the school Of Mo-
liere; cynical, even saturnine; Colombia,
the intriguing, wicked old beldame, to be
c1rcumvented and despoiled; Panama the
none too virtuous damsel, eager to be car
ried Off; Teddy. the gay Lothario! Who
snail play the part of Tartuffe? Not the
secretary Of state, i faith, for he is a
genuine scholar; not the junior senator
from Ohio, for, whatever else he be. he
Is not hypocrite, and stands not in need
OF money; why, sure, Old Transconti-
mental, who, after thirty years Of success
1ul lmposture. like Tartuffe, gets the
grand bounce at last After all his schem-
ing; beating Nicaragua with Panama at
washington; beating Panama at Bogota;
getting things his own way in America
thinking himself safe with the gray wolves
OF the senate and the skunks Of the lobby
OF a sudden our irrepressible broncho
buster in the White House turns I'm with
the real nigger-in- the woodpiles on tha
lsthmus; for. after all this rowdy-dow,
they are bound to dig the ditch; the glory
OF the administration; the exigencies Of
the next election; the one way out of a
dangerous dilemma; in American politics
the hrst real coup, a la Francois, The
honor OF the country? Ask him who died
Wednesday.
Secretary Hay" says the Evening
Post, needlessly reminding the premier Of
his advancing years the man on horse
back Of his youth, lis old enough. if the
president is not, to recall the vehement
protests against the recognition of our
seeding states by the European govern
ments, and proceeds to cite Seward and
Adams. We must either withdraw at
once, urges the Times, ''or, shutting our
ears to the voice of conscience and the re-
proacnes OF civilized mankind. plunge on
IN the path OF scandal, disgrace and dis
llolioT. WY. Mr.. Hay, with the Polk
ana Plerce messages in easy reach. I! inst
rars back on his hind legs and lafs .
nucn as lin Bludsoe might do except
lor that un1ucky accident on the Relic IF
the west. The world is with us.o SAYS
Mr. Hay They didn't know eye1ythino
even ever. In Lincoln's time, i says Mr. 11-av
circumstances alter cases" says he: and
looking around upon the swagger set of
diplomacy, upon England, with South AZ
rlca IN esse and other territorial steals in
posse: upon Russia, with one foot toIar
aply fxed In Manchuria; upon Germany
Wltn ner nose at least in the air of South
4A IN upon France. delighted to worF
OIL Iorty millions of her Panama losing.
de Lesseps tragedy and scandaI-in ,,oI,.
OF Iact. looking around upon all the thieves
-Mr. Hay is right enough The imneriaI
land -grabbers are refoiced. as well tha,,
may pc, tnat at laststhe great republic-
tne repuDi1c OF Washington and Franklin
and Jeferson-cons ecrate Is iibert = a,;d
9us1ie &c e to the stay-at- home
arts OF freedom and peace and mind your-
oWn-Duslness-the enemy OF forcas 4 Is = -,
spiendor and fraud. of s4s.yine right. OF all
INN, Inlngs 1eudal and despotic--i1as at last
broken se away from the glorious traditions
~ y. me ~. .opsoiete worthless Of democratic
simplicity, and, having dipped In the w y1t. :
e Gh,1 81 IA and taken a plunge In the
IN 1sa,! sea, Is ready to be as wicked as
1ne Wickedest. calling Polk and Pierce and
t .sa ,r 80 paws to witness that we have
=, softly! Softly! We shall get the canal.
The Paris stock gamblers will TYets the
forty millions. The gray wolves Of the
senate will get the advance on the French
bonds The skunks of the lobby viii ret
the offal promised them Teddy viii ge;
his slonnination. And, the rest Of us. Old
| Transcontinental along with US. will just
lahave cen to- grin and bear it, for the
little Niger of Panama, like his bic
brother in the south, is here to stay!