The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-12
IA TRIBUT,
 To:|1oRGAN COlOmbia'55 Opposition to
 slreaty. THEREIN RAISES COMPLAINT Thinks the Covenant Too Lib-
 eral to America. Death of Mrs. Shelley a Shock to Her Friends m Washington-Major Gorgas's Promotion-Cloture in the Senate.

Washington, March u-(Special )-Not within his more than five and twenty years as a Senator has Senator Morgan. or any other Senator in any period, re- ceived nobler tribute to the sincerity and wisdom of his patriotic course than that which comes from Colombia to the illus trious Alabamian.
 A powerful element within the Colom- bian government, if it can be said after four years of uninterrupted revolution that country has a government. is utter ly and irrevocably opposed to the terms of the Roosevelt canal treaty, because it gives too much power to the American government, whereas Senator Morgan and most of us humber Americans know through our reading of the treaty that 1t does not give our country sufficient power in view of our vast outlay of money and our assumption of responsi- bilities to the world.
 When the contents of the canal treaty were first made public Senator Morgan calmly but vigorously protested that the treaty placed this country in position to be snubbed by the little rotten, revolution ridden republic through whose territory of terror it was proposed to dig deeper the ditch of death'' which was certain in nothing but death and the absolutely unascertainable and inestimable total of the demands of the tax-gatherers upon the American people.
 These words are not Senator Morgan's but the ideas in general are.
 Now comes one Oscar Teren, a recent Ixy fad Y1oop of ba gress. badly chosen in time of revolution by less than Jsalf the voters. He howls against ratification of the treaty by Co., lombia. The opinion prevails that this election was provided for By the Panama Canal Company of rascalS and the fiscal rascals of the ns-continental railroads of our United States.
 The Colombian Congressman Teren may be the only man whose election to his revolutionary Congress was in defiance of the buyers of the United States Con- gress or he may be the man put up as their buffer.
 The pitiful apology for government in Colombia, overweighted by incompetency and restless under revolution. is promised by the Panama pack of pilferers $10. 900 for what there is of the "ditch of death."
 The trans continental railroad combine of the United States has probably offered that oligarchy an added gift of $l0.OO0.0 GOO, together with the cost of the recent so- called election-a mere matter of bargain and sale-and the French receivers of the Panama Canal Company has doubtless clipped in, say, another wad of $10,O00, 900.
 Moreover added to these $70,000,000, in- cludng $4O,OO0.OOO offered by the Presi- dent of the United States for the canal and its wayside graveyard, the American nation promise what Is upon safe estimate equivalent to a thou sand millions of money for canal work.
 Call Senator Morgans present attitude by whatsoever name one may, 1t yet re- mains that he is, whatever his own in- tentions be, fighting the bravest and greatest fight, ethical and right, in money, morals, and human mercy, in the preser- vation of human life. that has been ever made save only the fight of life that Eng land waged that the juggernaut might pass.