The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-28

Spectators. That the act max
ing this contribution was cor
ruptly rushed through Congress
is believed by all intelligent men
who were upon, or near, the
scene of action and had any
means of ascertaining what was
passing there. That the Ad-
ministration knew in advance
what was going to happen on the
Isthmus and was in direct COM
munication with the Agents of the
French Company working up
the so-called Revolution IS
proven by every feature of the
case: the Naval arrangements
cooked and primed; the perfect
clockwOrk between Washinton
and Panama.; the instant pre-
sence of Bunau Vanilla, the tis-
cal Agent of the French Com
pany in New York, at the Nation
al Capital; the prompt recognl-
ton of the fiction of a Govern
ment, with this person as it's
representative, in violation of all
precedent and all usage. These
things leave US no room to doubt
that everything had been cut
and dried.
They account for the delay OF
the President in carrying out
the mandatory clause OF the
Spooner Act. They explain the
fraudulent intention of that
clause. And, if the President,
progressive in usurpatiOn, goes
= on and constructs that the Spoon
. er Act giving him power to build
. a Canal under treaty StipulatlonS
- with Columbia gives him power
to build it under treaty stipula-
tiOns with Panama-Oy the sim
l. pie process of inserting the WORD
Panama wherever the word CO.
Il lom bia appears in the enabling
= act-then he will have laid just
" grounds for his impeachment
and removal from Office, owing
~ his immunity thence to partisan
~ majority in Congress.
These things ought to mean
l. deal to the people and we thinl
that they will. 1t cannot be tina
they are bereft Of the sense o
National honor. 1t cannot 81
*, that they are lost alike to tn
:" traditions and the teaching Of a
I: the statesmen Of the formally
period, when it was sought t
rear in the New World q Reput
% lie which should cure the evils .
III despOtism and feudaliSm an
80 give lessons Of prObity an
~ virtue to the Old. If they ar
81 may they also be Indifferent
w. the bills they will have to pa.
VII beginning with Forty Millions
>. a Company of French StOc
III Gamblers, and ten millions NOR
w to a band of filibuSterS and fire
49,: hooters, preten ding to be 20
49, eminent in Panama, but own
'7' their existence first to the none
of the French Company and the
:" to the bandit policy of the A
'a ministration at Washington?
We waive the Monroe Dc
trine That is gone already. '
' waive the hatred of the Lat
~ Americans. Their love w
=, hardly worth having. But,
' buying into French lawsuit,
'iNe breaking into a French tragee
and scandal, we not only ma
., ourselves party to wanton
vasion of natural and inter-
tional rights, abhorrent to eve
honorable American sensibili1
but we begin a career of outl
90 and aggression, which, befo
we have gone very far with
will beggar even the record
~ the DeLesseps crime, unexa
pied as that was since the da
'' of John Law and the South S
~ bubble. Be it never fOrgOttt
49, be it always remembered, tt
A'o there was no need of all TT
that we had an alternative
wv Nicaragua, which nobody COZ
the =. L;h ,ol,