Bisbee daily review., 1903-11-21
A PRESCIENT ADMINISTRATION.

From the ancient times of the wise
 men of the East, down to the present is
 long vista of years to contemplate.
 It required but the touch of Aarons
 rod to devine the presence of water,
 when the Children of Israel were bad
 ly in need of that necessity. It re-
 quired only a Roosevelt and a Hay in
 the twentieth century to disclose the
 fact that precedence is not lost art,
 nor a dead occult. If for instance
 John D. Long had not missed the prop
 osition entirely when he was the See
 retary of the Navy. and permitted his
 assistant to blow the Spanish fleet
 out of the water. before war had been
 declared. the prescient hand of the
 president We have would have been
 manifested. A more starting instance
 of prescience is. however, before the
 children of America today than was
 ever manifested to the children of
 Israel
 The great and powerful United
 States, which has stood for every
 thing that is free, and always on the
 side of the weak. and against the
 strong and bullying methods of the
 powerful nations. when any attempt
 was made to impose upon the sister
 republics of South America. is giving another exhibition of prescience,
 which would compare fayorably with the acknowledged Omniscience and Omnipresence of the Deity.
 On the third day Of November in the year Of our Lord 1903, the citizens of Panama, rose in revolt against the parent government of Colombia. Whatever may have been the cause of the secession, that was a matter with which the national government of Co- lombia had to deal By a wonderful case of prescience the government at Washington was familiar with this proposed revolution, and on that very day had seven of Uncle Sans battle ships appear all at once just al that very point on the map. Admiral Glass is dispatched with all possible haste in the presidents yacht to act as his personal representative. Hurry up orders are given the navy yards, coaling stations an6 commanders of vessels. The representatives of Pan anna appear like magic in New York and around MT. Secretary's Hays Of fee in Washington, and as speedily as a Bisbee lawyer would draw lease for a building on Brewery Boulevard 2 treaty is signed between the United States and the Republic of Panama, the flag of the new government IS hoisted to the maintop of the Amer1- can flagship. salutes are fired, ana then it comes out that the United States is to build sewers and water works in Panama, and the nations of the world are warned to keep of the grass at Panama" While the United States wants canal that will give us the commerce of the seas, which will be derived by connecting the waters Of the Atlantic with those of the Pa cific can she take the stand of the present administration, with it's won derful presient methods? Is justice beng Ccne to a weaker nation?
 Have :he acts Of the United States in the Pa-ama business been above suspicion? Have they been upon the high plane Of international honesty Can it be overlooked that a steam shin laden with ammunition and guns, could leave an American port, cleared by q U. g. custom house as carrying a cargo Of lumber, with her destina- tior a friendly port, and this same steamer attempts to land these man. fes.sfiOns of war on a barren coass. away from any port of entry, but be- ing caught in the act. sneaks away to other possessions of this country and delivers them there to the revo- lutjonists7 And having thus provided tha secessiopist5 with ordnance. cite them or 10 further revolution, anu men in the midst of it make hasty treaty, recognize the seceding government, and give tacit warning to all the world that they will have trouble if they poach upon Panama preserves. Fms may be diplomacy, it may be mani festa;ion of precedence. but it looks like the kind exercised when man watches for the occupants to leave a house, and then enters that house with the aid of jimmy and a crow bar. The prescience of the present