The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-12-10

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lust been received and which runs as fcl-
CeIombia's Latest Proposition.
Knowing that reyoiution has already
commenced In Panama IAN eminent CO.
4 lombanl says that If the government OF
the United States will land troops to pre-
serve Colombian sovereignty, and the
9s srs3kges i ssAsestsa py colombian charge
martial law; and, by virtue Of vested con-
stitutional authority, when public order
ratification OF the canal treaty as signed
or. n the government OF the United States
prefers. viii call extra session Of the con-
next May to approve the treaty. ran emf
nent CoIombian1 has the perfect con fidence.
xaes pfeSagfn e. ne says ana 4 i became
Representative there to adJusf nafters
along above lines to the satisfact tiss IL of
This dispatch is noteworthy from Two
stanupoinys It's oner Of immediately
guarant eeing the treaty TO us Is in sharp
| contrast with the positive and contemnf-
| uous refusal oflthe congress which has inst
closed its sessions TO consider favorShfv
such treaty; u shows that the govern
ment which made the treaty really had alb
solute control over the situation, but ala
! not choose 70 exercise this control The
| dispatch further calls on us to restore or
| der and secure Colombian supremacv VI,
| the iSthmus from which the Colombian gov
eminent has just by its action decided 70
the canal.
Important to Us.
The control. in the interest OF the COM
merce and traffic Of the whole civilized
| world, OF the means Of undisturbed
has beco aGross tfe ,sces q
70 the United States. We have repeated
~ exercised this control by Intervening
by protecting the territory from fore lam
invasion. In 1853 Mr.. Everett assured the
Peruvian minister that we should not
isthmus in the case Of war between Il peru
and Colombia In 1854 Colombia which
has always been vigilant to avail itself
expressed its expectation that in the
event OF war between Peru and Spain
the United States would carry into ef-
have been few Administrations of the
state department In which this treaty
has not. either by the one side or the
less important demands 1t was said BY,
Mr.. Fish in ISL that the department OF
state had reason to believe that an at
tsthmus had, on several occasions. been
averted by warming from this govern
ment. In 1885, when Colombia was under
the Cerruti case. Mr.. Bayard expressed
States could not but feel, that Euro
sister republic OF this hemisphere. as
to the sovereign and uninterrupted use OF
part OF whose territory we are guar
y The above recital of facts establishes
beyond question: First. that the United
States has for over half a century pa
tiently and in good faith carried out it's
obligations under the treaty of 1886: Sec
ond, that when for the first time il be-
came possible for Colombia to do any
peatedly rendered to 1t for 81 years by
the United States. the Colombian gov
eminent petemptorily and extensively re-
to do so would have been to its advar-
tage and immeasurably to the advantage
OF the state OF Panama, at that time UNI
der its jurisdiction: third, that through
out this period revolutions, riots, and
factional disturbances of every kind have
occurred one after the other in almost
uninterrupted succession, some OF them
lasting for months and even for years,
while the central government was unable
to put them down or to make peace with
ances instead of showing any sign OF
abating have tended to grow more
numerous and more serious in the imme-
date past; fifth, that the control of
Colombia over the Isthmus of Panama
could not be maintained without the
armed Intervention and assistance or the
eminent OF Colombia, though wholly un-
able to maintain order on the isthmus,
has nevertheless declined to ratify a
treaty the conclusion of which opened
the only chance to secure its own stabil-
ity and to guarantee permanent peace
on. and the construction of canal
across, the iSthmus.
Under such circumstances the govern
ment of the United States would have been
guilty OF folly and weakness, amounting
IN their sum to crime against the nation,
had 1t acted otherwise than II did when
the revolution of November last took
place In Panama. This great enterprise OF
building the interoceanic canal cannot be
held up to crafty the whims or out OF
respect to the governmental impotence,
ical peculiarities, of people who, though
they dwell afar OF, yet, against the wish
OF the actual dwellers on the istEmus, as
sert an unreal supremacy over the terri
tory. The possession of territory fraught
with such peculiar capacities as the 18TH
mus in question carries with 1t obligations
shown that this canal cannot be built by
private enterprise, or by any other nation
than our own; therefore 1t must be built
by the United States.
Provisions of Panama Treaty.
Every effort has been made by the gov
eminent Of the United States to persuade
Colombia to follow a course which was
essentially not only to our interests and
to the interests Of the world. but to the in
have failed; and Colombia, by her persist
ence in repulsing the advances that have
been made, has forced u.s., for the sake Of
well being, not merely Of our own people.
but OF the people OF the isthmus of Pam
ANA ana the people OF the ctVtliZe0 coun-
tries OF the world, to take decisive steps
to bring 60 an end condition of affairs
which had become intolerable. The new
republic of Panama Immediately offered to
negotiate a treaty with US. This treaty I
herewith submit. BY 1t our interests are
better safeguarded than in the treaty with
Colombia which was ratified by the sem
ate at its last session. 1t is better in Its
terms than the treaties offered to US by the
republics OF Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
AT last the right to begin this great under
taking Is made available. Panama has
done her part. All that remains Is for the
American congress to do its part and forth
with this republic will enter upon the exc
cution of project colossal in It's size and
of well-nigh incalculable possibilities for
the good Of this country and the nations
of mankind.
BY the provisions of the treaty the United
States guarantees and Will maintain the
independence OF the republic of Panama.
There Is granted to the United States in
perpetuity the use, occupation and control
OF q strip ten miles wide and extending
three nautical miles into the sea at either
terminal, with all lands lying outside OF
the zone necessary for the construction OF
the canal or for Its auxiliary works, and
with the islands In the bay OF Panama.
The cities of Panama and Colon are not
embraced In the canal zone bat the United
Ofofa ooRrr - k<kl H.. ox,1 a.