Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-08

ct'ttSs MS LOT over hai1 Cni.tutI t3t
ticntly and in good faith carried OFT
its obligations under tie treaty OF 1916:
second, that wien for the first time ii
became possible for Colombia to do
| anything in requital 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
1 part, even though to 20 SO would have
been to Its advantage and inmeasura-
bly, to the advantage of the state Of
Panama, at that time under its .iuris-
diction; third, that throughout this pc
Rod revolutions, riots and fractional dis
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 I'M
able to put them down or to make
peace with the rebels; fourth, that
these disturbances instead OF showing
any sign of abating have tended to
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 and
assistance of the United States. In
other words, the government of Colom-
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
eminent of the United States would
have been guilty of folly and weakness
amounting in their sum to a crime
against the nation had it acted other
wise than it did when the revolution Of
Nov. 3 last took place in Panama This
great enterprise Of building the inter.
oceanic canal cannot be held up to graf
lily the whims, or out of respect to the
governmental impotence or to the even
more sinister and evil political pecul.
iarities, of people who, though they
dwell >afar off, yet against the wish Of
the ac1aal dwellers on the isthmus as
sert an unreal supremacy over the ter
ritory. The possession of territory
fraught with such peculiar capacities
as the isthmus in question carries with
it 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 Now Republic Of Panama.
Every effort has been made by the
government of the United States to
persuade Colsmbia 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 condition of
affairs which had become intolsrable.
| The new republic of Panama imme-
diately offered to negotiate treaty
with US. This treaty | herewith sub
NIT. BY it our interests are better safe
guarded than in the treaty with Co
lombia which was ratified by the SEN
ate at Its last session. 1t is better in
Its terms than the treaties offered to us
by the republics of Nicaragua and
Costa RIGA. At last the right to begin
this great undertaking is made availa-
Bile. Panama has done her part. All
that remains is for the American con
gress to do its part and forthwith this
republic will enter upon the execution
Of project colossal in its size and of
well nigh incalculable possibilities for
the good of this country and the ma.
tons Of mankind.
! BY the provisions of the treaty the
United States guarantees and will
maintain the independence of the re-
public Of Panama. There are granted
to the United States in pcrpetuity the
USE occupation and conWol of strip
tep miles wide and extending three
nautical miles into the sea at either
terminal. with all lands lying outside
Of the zone necessary for the construc-
ton Of the canal or for its auxiliary
works and with the islands in the bay
Of Panama.
The cities Of Panama and Colon are
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 aud authority which it
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
rights belonging to Panama and need
ed for the canal to pass to the United
States, including any property of the
respective companies in the cities of
Panama and Colon: the works, proper
ty and personnel Of the canal and rail
ways are exempted from taxation as
we'll in the cities of Panama and Colon
n