Bisbee daily review., 1903-12-08
PRESIDENT ROOSEvELT'S ATTEMPT AT BREvITY.

With a great splutter and advance notices sent forth, the Nation was to be astounded with a message from the president to Congress that was to be the shortest handed the law-mak- ing body by any president at any regu- lar session. When that is said, all has been said, worthy of attention out side the labored explanation of the ex- ecutiye upon the infamous Panama deal, to which he and the a6ministra- tion have been a party since the thiru of November last.
 If it had been previously announced that in connection with the fact that it would be the shortest message, it would also be the weakest ever pro mulgated, there would have been the utmost truth in the statement. With the complete text of the message in hand, a very full synopsis of which is given in the Reviews news columns this morning. there will be found but
  the people of the country enlightened nor any satisfactory recommendations upon which to base any action by the legislative body at Washington.
 Upon the subjects of the trusts, the executive is as dumb as the proverb- ial oyster, and the matter is passed up rn hn riot of another amount, to the s500,CJ0 previously appropriated and placed in the hands of the Attorney General for dispensation. Until the president mentions the fact that the United States has an Attorney General, the people will almost have forgotten that there>is such a person as MT. Philan- der C. Knox in existence and that he possesses the office Of Attorney Gen. eral Certain it is. that the trusts do not know that such an office, or Of icer, exercises any functions. In the administration of affairs insofar as the postal frauds, the Indian scandals, the II the Philippine war;" etc, Mir. Roose- welt might have saved the time of congress. by saying nothing whatev- CT, for that is just what his message covers on these points-simply noth- ing.
 It is not until he arrives at the sub ~T rI l-, L. I, anything to say of any moment to the Nation whatever There he again confirms, what is painfully coming to the knowledge of the people, from even the strongest of Republican jour nals, the evident fact, that he doth ex- plain too much. The message at this point, is labored attempt at justifi- cation of the administrations course on the Panama Canal business, upon which the public is becoming fairly well informed by this itime. This portion of the document is filled with subtle sophistries and arguments, which in the light of transpiring events, makes the case and stand of the United States in the matter weak. CT than ever. From the Presidents s own explanation of the course of the administration, it becomes more and more plain, that the United States through the power she possesses as a nation, has acted the part of the bully, has covered her eyes with a cloth through which she could see, and tao itly connived at what is a deal, pure and simple, emanating from the mon ey bag power" of Wall street with wires running to the Capital of the nation. No fair minded person, lay ing aside partisanship, but who must concede that the action of the Pana. maians was nothing short of 'seces. sion," and not revolution, at which the present administration connived, and backed up that connivance with an intimidating show of strength, through her navy and presence of arm. ed forces, upon the flimsy pretext that for "57 years the United States has interfered in neighbor's quarrels." Simply because the United States wants canal across the Isthmus of Panama is no reason for a great na- ton such as the United States, to take advantage of self-evident conspira- cy upon the part of Panama, and wit. the haste of burglar covering up his booty at the approach of the police man, rush in unseeming haste to rec ognize a new republic, constructed for no other purpose than to avail itself