Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-07
UNITED STATES DUTY.
Would Have Been Weakness Not
Recognize New Republic.

t'nder such circumstances the govern
ment of the United states would have
been guilty OF folly and weakness,
amounting I'm their sum TO crime
against the nation had II acted other
wise than 1t did when the revolution ot
Nov. 3 last took place in Panama. This
great enterprise Of building an inter-
oceanic canal cannot be held up To
crafty the Whims, on out Of respect TO
the governmental impotence or to the
even more sinister an devil political
pocularitics, Of people who. though
they dwell afar off yet, agalnStN the
wish of the actual dwellers on the 18th
mus. assert an unreal supremacy over
the territory The possession Of ter
rltory fraught with such peculiar capa-
cities as the isthmus In question car
Iies with II obllgatio 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 1t must be built by
the United states.
COLOMBIA WAS OBDURATE.
Every effort has been made by the
government Of the United states to
persuade Colombia to follow n 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 end
Colombia. by her persistence insrepuls-
ing the advances that have been made,
has forced us. for the sake Of our c'rn
honor, and OF the interest and well-be-
ing. not merely Of our own people but
OF the people of the isthmus of Panama
and the people of the civilized coun-
at q 40 .snptI IN taHa decisive stems
to bring to an end a condition of af-
fairs which had become intolerable.
PANAMA OFFERS A TREATY,
The new republic of Panama imme-
diately offered to negotiate treaty
with us. This treaty | herewith sub
init. BY Il our interests are better safe
guarded than in the treaty with Colon
bia which was ratified by the sena G
at it's last session II Is better In It's
terms than the treaties offered to US
| By the republics OF Nicaragua and Cos.
| to Rlca. At last the right TO begin tbs
great undertaking Is made available
/ Panama has done her part All thal
remains is for the American Congress
to do its part and forthwith this re-
public will enter upon the execution
of a project colossal in It's size and Of
well llRH lilNdtfuldRl' ii'NiHbilNi'H ~
the good Of this country ana the nations
of mankind.
INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEED.
BY the provisions Of the treaty the
United States guarantees and will
maintain the independence of the re-
public of Panama. There is granted ia
the United States in perpetuity the
use. occupation, and control of a STRIP
10 miles wide and extending three nau-
teal miles into the sea at either ter
minal, with all lands lying outside OF
the zone necessary for the construction
of the canal or for its auxiliary works
and with the islands Of the bay of Pam
ANA.
PANAMA AND COLON.
The cities of Panama and Colon are
not embraced In the canal zone, but the
United States assumes their sanitation
and. I'm case of need, the maintenance
of order theren the United States en-
Joys within the granted limits all the
rights. power, and authority which II
would possess were it the sovereign OF
the territory to the exclusion of the
exercise Of sovereign rights by the re-
public. All railway and canal property
rights belonging TO Panama and needed
for the canal pass TO the United states
including any property Of the respective
companies in the cities OF Panama and
Colon: the works, property, and per-
sonnet of the cana, and railways are eX-
empted from taxation as well In the
cities of Panama and Colon as in the
canal zone and It's dependencies Free
immigration of the personnel and I'M
portaton Of supplies for the construc-
ton end operation Of the canal are
granted
Provision is made for the use of mill
tary force and the building of forth
cations by the United States for the
protection of the transit
OTHER DETAILS.
In ether details, particularly as to
the ACQUISITION Of the interests of the
New Panama Canal company and the
Panama railway by the United states
and the condemnation OF private prop
erty for the uses Of the canal, the stip-
ulations of the Hay-Herran treaty are
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