The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-10
Still Against the Government.

The resolution introduced yesterday
in the senate by Senator Hoar, re-
questing the president to furnish
further information as to the proceed
ings on the. isthmus, with specifications
as to various points, and the speech
of Senator Morgan, in which that
statesman exhausted his supply Of
damnatory epithets. reveal substan-
TALLY the same spirit and motive. The
stately language Of the Massachusetts
senator concealed the same opposition
to beyOnd-the-sea acts of our govern
ment which Morgan expressed in his
vituperatiye, yet, withal. picturesque
way.
Morgan went so far as to say that
the negotiation of the Panama treaty
was "a most Wretched, q most
abomnable and a most horrible trans
action" and charged the president
with committing an act of ''usurpa-
tom in promptly acting to protect the
free transit of the isthmus, as warden
of such transit and to defend the de-
partment of Panama against invasion
which would menace free transit,
guaranteed perpetually by the United
States under the terms of the historic
treaty OF 1916. The department Of
Panama, having by the act of it's own
citizens become a republic with con-
troll over the isthmus, the sovereignty
of Colombia ceasing, our govern
ment by all precedent, as shown by the
president in his late message, has talk
en- up it's prescribed obligations; has
recognized the republic Of Panama,
has, by d treaty now before the SEN
ate for ratification, pledged it's pro-
lection Of the isthmus, and has, in
every respect, undertaken the duties
of warden of the free transit of the
isthmus. It would be interesting to
see Morgan attempt to prove that the
action of our government was "a most
wretched, q most abominable and q
most horrible transaction" AS a
matter Of fact if it was that the Mica
ragua canal and Nicaragua had with
drawn from a federal republic and the
United States was by treaty made the
warden of free transit, there would
never have been heard a note of COM
plant from Senator Morgan.
Senator Hoar's resolution is based
upon his theory that the administra-
ton has been basely huggermugger-
ing and conspiring to bring about the
Panama revolution, for the purpose Of
controlling the situation and expedit-
ing canal construction; that officers OF
the government have engineered the
whole movement, and the date
of the uprising was accurately known
to our government, which had prear-
ranged every step in the program. If
Senator Hoar's theory, on which his
resolution is based, were true and
capable of verihcation, the alleged ac-
dishonorable and even "abomina BILE, -
as Morgan says. The distinguished
senator from Massachusetts, during
his "ant-imperialist'' campaign
charged our government with many
grave crimes in connection with the
occupation of the Philippine archi-
pelago. He described Americans as
living under a regime Of rapine and
inhumanity practiced in the Philip
pines, and repudiating every item ir
the code of International honor. He
gave his entire sympathies to Aguin.
aldo and the Filipinos and denounced
his own government in and out of the
senate chamber. Now he steps for.
ward disparaging and discrediting the
adnlinistra tons acts with reference te
the isthmian canal and the republic
of Panama. The purport of his reso
luton is that the president is in pos
session of facts damnatory of the adj
ministration, which he has deliberate
" Withheld.
It's a grave charge against the head