The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-19
NOT A POLITICAL QUESTION.


 as Business Necessity.
 The right of revolution in the Amer ican code is an inalienable right of mis- governed humanity. l. Y
 In our coutnry 1t is the right of revo- lution by the ballots of a free people unfortunately, in most of the South and Central American countries 1t is the revolution of force.
 By that right we, as nation, this day live and move and have our being. To deny it to others situated now as we were then, is to take away the justifica- , tion of the framers of the Declaration of Independence and all that has come to US from it's signing to the present hour. .-, .... .--... The people of Panama saw all their vital interests being sacrificed by the parent Government in the interests of a gang of legislatives thieves and poli- tocastros. They revolted and in four days had expelled the Colombian gov- erEmental forces, established a provi- sfonal independent government junta, shed not drop of blood and set the standard of an independent people from side to side Of the isthmus. Answering their appeal to our Gov ernment as the guarantor of republican government on the Western Hemis- phere President Roosevelt gave them recognition. What else and whom else could he recognize? Certainly not the Colombian Government, that had not, after the departure of Its officials and l troops, symbol of authority flying or living soul with whom anybody could l treat.
 The recession was complete; the people were rejoicing in it; acceptable men were ordering the creation of a l free government for an accomplished 1 free republic. The President recognizes the powers that be in the republic of Panama. He is commended by the ac- quiescence in his act of the European powers who could assume an interest in l the situation. Whether, under treaties, he might have as properly acted other wise than he has done is a polemical and academic question only. The United States has never bound herself by any treaty not to give due and full recognition to any American republic successfully established. If she has now is the best time to declare any such treaty null and stand by her original genius.
 | So far as what has been done affects the isthmian canal question, the effect is fact adjudicated.
 l It determines the building of the canal 1 by the Panama route.
 1 To secure that was the compelling reasoning for the creation of the new nation. Our right to trade with that new nation is absolute and beyond the control or right to protest of any other nation.
 The Constitution only recently urged l the President to abandon dickering with Colombia and turn to the Nicara- qua alternative nominated in the Spoon- CT act.
 But now the course of events brings conclusive reach.
 We stand, then, for the prompt &C., uuirement from the republic of Panama of the concessions we need and there- upon the immediate prosecution of the canal construction.
 The people of the country want the canal.
 The people of the South want it and want it as quickly as it can be built. A hundred industries and prosperities of the South wait upon it's completion.
 The canal matter is not a partisan is- sue. Both parties have pledged that it shall be built. Republicans and Demo- crats have divided both ways as to routes. But now that the course of events gives us the approved route un- der better conditions of control than we ever demanded the time is arrived when partisanship should keep hands off the proceedings.
 Every patriot should stand by the status as it is and proceed to back up the Government as one man. Es- pecially are the Southern people vitally concerned in seeing the canal cause go through as it is now pointing.
 Give us the canal!
 After that there will be plenty of poli- 1 tics on hand to satisy the most eager of ! it's devotees.-Atlanta Constitution,