The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-12-21

Harriet Lane with aid and supplies, had
she been met in Charleston narbor by
British man of war witt orders that no
troops would be allowed to disembarll?
There would have been such an explosion
in the land that the echoes would still
be in the air. Babies would leap out of
their cradles roaring with indignation
against the insolent brutality of England
And this act is Il parallel. We Search
history from the Pentateuch to the pres
ent. and We find no act so dastardly, so
cowardly and unjust on record Had the
great Mckinley been in the presidential
chair, the United States would have
escaped this ignominy. The strenuous
gentleman III the white house seems 70
have outgrown decency Upon what
meat doth this our Caesar feed that he Is
srrowp So great? Since David stole the
poor mans lamb for slaughter 'ei'ieiii-
Der no equal atrocity.
Roast for Roosevelt
II cannot express TO you how TINS STROKE
hes crushed me. In week ! nave "9c"
n wear. \ few evenings ago q fneet'"7
was held in the plaza, offering support
to the government in repellhS inns sle"l
OUTRAGE. The meeting was orderly ana
not a word OF insult Was offered me
great Offender
standing on the roof of my mousse a'io
looking down on the mass of these poor
aggrieved people. listening to thelr ORD
TORS ana their national anthem, my sym
oatnies went out to them even to tears.
Instinctively. / remembered now. JUST
forly-tWo years ago, | stood VAIN my
fellow towns,nen on the village green.
listening to the burning eloqucnce OF your
distinguished orators. launching forth
words melting all 10 spring forward III
defence OF our country and our flag AEd
now, that same country comes forward
In aid OF a friendly country'S dlsInelh-
bormeat l wished Colombia had naval
force sufficient TO have embarked hef
troops and moved on Colon, sending every
inpediraont in her way. to Davy Jones'
locker l see that the interior department
IS proceeding criminany against the
"land thieves Of the northwest. Char
ity begins 1T home" AMI attention should
he turned 10 the grand past master OF
that ait IN the white house.
~ Thick 30 one who knows me, VIII
DOUBT my Americanism. In So l drew
the first enlistment paper OF the great
uprising and one day previous to the
presidents proclamation had thirty names
on that paper pledged TO 90 lin defense
OF the union. And with my life in
my hand stood four years fight
ing for that flag. And l think no one
VIII question my rcpubHcansm. From
Lincoln to the present time. it has been
my adding faith as the conservatog Of
our great country When the great Amer
ican-tha brilliant Blairo-was beaten. l
am not ashamed to say. / wept aloud
But we have fallen on darker lines What
a ster from the president Of great ma
ton to a flibuster stealing a land plot
The republican party should dsayow This
h.fs nous act II can not afford 10 go be-
fore the people as an abcttor OF larceny
was quite Of the opinion Of senator
Hanna that no convention Of this year
Should endorse Roosevelt fer next. Many
things can happen IN a year. And surely
a thing has happened If the con. ention
next June should be CONFUSED of men so
lost 10 honor and justice as to put his
strenuous" majesty forward. and this
Don Cuixote should accept he should be
swept by whirlwind Of Indignation into
an abyss OF political infamy so deep, that
the angel Gabriel would have to eau tor
achievements to "toot' HIM up to the
resurrection Fiat justiha ruat coelun."
Feeling of Antagonism.
In BarranGuilla, C0lomDIa pNncipai
commercial port. on the coast foreign
interests are almost entirely German,
there being few Americans here. This
German element, the controlling power in
Colomblas export and import trade. IS
united in its disappro al Of the action Of
tn, states on the isthmcs, 1t being feared
that the strong opposition TO Americans
aroused thereby IN Colombia. will extend
to all foreigners. OUTSIDE Barranquilla
American interests IN Colombia are con-
fined almost entirely to the large gold
mir - OF Antinquia aud 10 the Cawa-
gsna railroad in the DEPARTMENT Of Boil
var. Although a Wild spread anti-Amer-
lean sentiment has n arifested itself
throughout the republic during the past