Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07

tiIitieS from Italy in the Cerrutf case6 MT. Bayard expressed the serious con4 cern that the United States could not but feel that European power should resort to force against a sister repub., lie of this hemisphere, as to the sov~
 ereign and uninterrupted use of part
 of whose territory we are guarantora under the solemn faith of treaty
 The above recital of facts establishes beyond question, first, that the United States has for over half century pa-, tiently and in good faith carried out, it's obligations under the treaty of 1846s second, that when for the first time it
 became possible for Colombia to do anything in requ1tal of the services thus repeatedly rendered to it for fifty. seven years by the United States the Colombian government peremptorily and extensively refused thus to do it's part, even though to do so would have been to it's advantage and immeasura- ply to the advantage of the state of Panama, at that time under its juris- diction; third, that throughout this pe- riod revolutions, riots and factionaI dig- turbances of every kind have occurred one after the other in almost uninter- rupted succession, some of them last ing for months and even for years while the central government was un- able to put them down or to make peace with the rebels; fourth, thatl these disturbances instead of showinn any sign of abating have tended tu grow more numerous and more serious in the immediate past; fifth, that the control of Colombia over the isthmus of Panama could not be maintained without the armed intervention ans assistance of the United States. I'm other words, the government of CoIom- bia, though wholly unable to maintain order on the isthmus, has nevertheless declined to ratify treaty the conclu- sion of which opened the only chance to secure its own stability and to guar. antee permanent peace on and the con- struction of canal across the isthmus. Under such circumstances the gov- ernment of the United States would have been guilty of folly and weakness amounting in their sum to & crime against the nation had it acted other wise than it did when the revolutton of Nov. last took place in Panama. This great enterprise of building the inter. oceanic canal cannot be held up to grat1 fly the whims, or out of respect to the governmental impotence or to tha even more sinister and evil political pecul- iarities, of people who, though they dwell afar off. yet against the wish of the actual dwellers on tho isthmus ae- sert an unreal supremacy over the ter ritory. The possession of q territory fraught with such peculiar capacities as the isthmus in question carries with 1t obligations to mankind The course of events has shown that this canal cannot be built by private enterprise or by any other nation than our own; therefore it must be built by the Unit ed States.
 TREATY WITH NEW REPUBLIC. Every effort has been made by the government of the United States to persuade Colombia to follow course which was essentially not only to our interests and to the interests of the world, but to the interests of Colombia itself. These efforts have failed. and Colombia, by her persistence in repuls- ing the advances that have been made, has forced us, for the sake of our own honor and of the interest and we'll be- ing not merely of our own people, but of the people of the isthmus of Panama and the people of the civilized coun- tries of the world, to take decisive steps to bring to an end g condition of affairs which had become intoIerables The new republic of Panama irnnne. diately offered to negotiate treaty with us. This treaty I herewith sub> init. By it our interests are better safe guarded than in the treaty with Coz lombia which was ratified by the sen- ate at its last session. It is better in it's terms than the treaties offered to us by the republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. At last the right to begin this great undertaking is made availa- ble. Panama has done her part. All that remains is for the American con- gress to do it's part and forthwith this republic will enter upon the executior( of project colossal in it's size and of well nigh incalculable possibilities foR the good of this country and the na- tions of mankind.
 By the provisions of the treaty tha United States guarantees and wflF maintain the independence of the re- public of Panama. There are granted to the United States in perpetuity the use occupation and control of striM ten miles wide and extending three nautical miles into the sea at either terminal with all lands lying outsida of the zone necessary for the constxuce ton of the canal or for. its auxiliary works and with the islands in the bay of Panama.
 The cities of Panama and Colon ard not embraced in the canal zone, but the United States assumes their sanitation and, in case of need, the maintenance of order therein. The United States en-
 joys within the granted limits all the rights, power and authority which 1t would possess were 1t the sovereign of the territory to the exclusion of the ex- ercise of sovereign rights by the re- public. All railway and canal property