The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-16
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occasion to make few wide side remarks about isthmian canals and instantaneous republics, pointed out few of the Sena- tors gems as given below, with the ob- servation:
 Morgan says all those good things without the least movement of the should er-blades; says 'em as though he didn't t care a cuss whether anybody heard him or not. but they certainly make juicy pe- rusfng"
 Then the reader of the Congressional Record and follower ofMorgan marked the following passages and nettlesome quips of the Alabama Senator which are here exeerpted and commended to absorbing minds
 Since this false pretense of benevoience for Cuba has been made to do duty as a mask to screen the secret work of the sugar trust and the owners of sugar es tates in Cuba, who are putting up pleas Of starvation in the name of those island CTS. while they are robbsng the people un- der the discriminative duties that are made virtually perpetual by this measure, the weeping of the crocodiles has nearly moved the whole country to tears. This Is the zenith of the power of the grand republic. It can rise to no higher smpyrean at least above this hemisphere. In this lofty altitude we can prove the virtue of the republic before the eyes of all mankind, or we can set its light as a beacon to warn coming generations that. even in the highest reach of power and advantage, this republlc-the exposure of all eyes-is affected to the core with the sin of covetousness and Is afame with the consequent lust of power that is at tended with the usurpations. .tyrannies and expressions that have marked the course of despots who have disgraced the history Of other nations.
 Touching Canal matters: The forces al the back of this volcanic eruption are not supplied by the free will and deliberate Judgment of the American people. They come from France. They come loaded with an evil reputation that was earned by De Lesseps and his American commit tee. and has become a foul reproach, and has grown into an official character that damns the whole enterprise. This odious reputation given to the new Panama Ca nal Commission of which Admiral Walk ar was the President, can not be eliminated or whitewashed by Presidential approval. Ex-Secretary Olney Quoted: Yesterday met a great Democrat, who has held the highest station. next to the President, in our service, and has won great renown throughout the world for stateSmanship and honorable dealing with other powers and for highest manifestations of what we love to speak of as courageous Amer icanlsm. His venerable head was lowered as he looked upon the ground and said, For the first time in my long life am distressed at being compelled to say that am ashamed of the present attitude of my country"
 Panamas Minister.-one of her citizens was made a minister plenipotentiary to the United States by a selected junta in Panama. that had no more right to ap- point a minister to the United States than they had to consecrate a saint. He being m New York, was commissioned by tele- graph. and at once appeared and was rec ognized by the President of the United States when the republic that he claimed To represent was less than ten days old. He came as a winged messenger of false- hood.
 There is no possible recompense or ref uge that can be conceived or that Bunau- Varilla could demand at the hands of the United States that has not been granted in this treaty. It is the most wretched | transaction that ever took place in the name of a civilized country. stand here and denounce it as that. and the Ameri- can people will sustain every word of that denunciation.
 Everything around us is dark with the threatenings of danger. and Cuba must l be in doubt as to whether our vessels are not after all to be a fleet of warships l would caution them to be on the lookout for our pretended bounty brokers and che songs of the sugar sirens.
 Without the help of the telegraph the republic of Panama would now be a non- entity instead of being. as M. Varilla says it Is, ''the latest born of the Unit d States" and where he would be the imag- nation refuses to contemplate.
 Cuba's independence is now fettered with ropes or chains that bind her to the decks of our warship, as the airship of Professor Langley is fastened to the deck of his houseboat.
 It is notour honest debts that are likely to give us trouble. but our national slns that are crying out for money to drive bargains with corruptionists and stock gamblers.
 Whatever France has done. or will do in this matter will only be to shake off the bete noir of the Panama Canal that has so scandallzed the republic.
 The one monster evil of the times is the general indifference to the duty of obedience to the law and a contempt for It's mandates.
 R. H. Watkins.
 The kidneys ache when they are over