The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
TELLS OF BEGINNING.
M. Bunau-Varilla, Minister From Pan.
anna, Makes an Interesting Ad-
dress in PHILADELPHIA.

Philadelphia, Dec, 19.-M. Bunau-
Vanilla, the minister from the republic;
of Panama to the United States, deliv-
cred an address at the regular meet
ing of the members of the Academy of.
Political and Social Science in Griffith
hall, this city, on The Conditions Un-
der Which the New Republic Was.
Founded
There was a large audience of thes
members of the academy.
The minister was introduced by Pro-
fessor Leo S. Rowe, of the University
|of pennsylvania, who is president of
the American Academy of Political and
Social Science.
NJ. Bunau-Narilla, in the course of his
address, said that as far back as 1901
the Colombian government sent to the
UNITED States Martinez Silva, who left
his position as minister of foreign re-
I~lations to come and take care Of the
negotiations between Colombia and the
United States.
Silva warned his government of the
probable secession of Panama in case
the canal question should not receive a
solution in harmony with the ardent
wishes of the isthmians.
Turning his attention to the French
canal company, he declared thai this
company systematically discouraged.
the isthmian canal commission to rec,
ommend the Panama route by refusing!
to give to that commission any indica-p
ton as to it's Willingness to sell the con-
c%ession, or to fix a definite price"
The minister said the result was TOT
Oblige the commission at the end of
November, 1901, to report in favor of
Nicaragua, while = was perfectly APP!
parent that the sentiment of the COM.
mission was liked in favor of Panama.
and that the recommendation was only!
due to the impossibility of obtaining
a satisfactory offer from the canal
company"
VarilIa's Suggestion.
Talking of how DR.. Herran was sent
to Washington by Colombia; of the
difficulty in arriving at a %suitatlei
compensation to Colombia, ETC., M:
Bunau-Varilla then said: .
II wired to President Marrouuin that!
I was copvinced that if he made AM
offer of $40, DOC, 900 cash and $3.50, 900 an
nuity it could not but be accepted by,
the MIA States. :
DIR. Herran made then a proposition,
according to the terms 1 had fixed, and
it was readily accepted by the United
States. The attitude of President Mar.
roquin seemed to guarantee that he.
understood the situation.
The speaker then added tina he be-
gan to be ~astonished When he saw the
results of the elections to the new CO.
lombian congress. He outlined the
in which these elections are
manipulated by the government, and
added:
Fearing some treachery, before con-
Sress began its tasks in Bogota I sent
to President Marroquin a last telegram,
in which l warned him of the danger
that would result for Colombia from
any tentative amendment TO the Hay-
Herran treaty.
The speaker said further that he
made two independent efforts to pro-
tect Colombia against the foolishness
of her policy in the beginning of Sep
TENDER.
NJ. Bunau-Varilla stated that all of
the events upheld President Roosevelt
in his acts, and summing up the do
ings of the government at Bogota, con-
rluded:
When these accommodations of unouali-
fable acts obliged the isthmians to re-
volt against the tyranny of Bogota, and
when the declaration of independence on
the isthmus was for the third and last
movements of the Sd of November, | can
say that there has never been in the his
tory of the world a revolution that was
more justified than that one. 1t seems
almost incredible to think that there are
Still in this country people who speak of
the bonds of amity that link the United
States to Colombia. and there are people
who speak the right of Colombia to he.
treated with special care and considera-
ton by the world. To all these errat:c
voices the world has answered.: before.
thirty-tive days elapsed since the reyolu-
ton the world had already recognized the,
republic by the voice of the greatest pow