The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-28
Not Yet.
Courier Journal.

The Democrats IN Congress
NAV as well understand early as
late that the Administration
scheme to gobble up Panama and
to build the Canal is already
what the French call un fait ac-
compli, an accomplished fact.
They should waste no time on
fruitless obstruction. They are
reduced by the quick-actlon OF
the President to the dilemma Of
identifying themselves with the
Transcontinental Railway Ring
in opposition to any Canal at all
postponing indefinitely the dream
of a waterway to the Pacitlc-or
of sustaining wrong way OF do
ing a right thing, the RESPONSE
bility not theirs, but the Admin
istration's. On this line they can
appeal, successfully as we think,
to the people.
By his proceeding the Presl-
dent has reversed hundred
wears of honorable international
policy and assumed powers no
|, Constitutional authority can ap-
nroye and no Constitutional ar
gument maintain.
The further he goes the deeper
> will be his regeneration. 10
- reach his present attitude he has
>, flagrantly violated every primer
u pie both of equity, as between
- friendly Nations, and OF good
faith with his own people. Ills
II youth, his impetuosity and his
personal cleanliness have lifted
him in public estimation out OF
the category of the consciously
corrupt. the deliberately venal
n But, conceding that his hands
'e are clean as far as the F'renct
. Companyis concerned, his course
~ of conduct can never be rescuet
te from the just suspicion of cOllu
ID sion with the schemes OF tina
company, first to corrupt tn
n. American Congress into the set
ting aside of the Hepburn-Mo
gan bill in favor Of the Spoone
81 Act, and then, in case OF the re
s. calcitrancy of Colu MI ia, to cor
s. rupt the authorities Of Panam
I'd intOa secession artfully cOntrive
n and carefully planned and ampl
u financed by a Syndicate of Par
he sian Stock Gamblers, whose Fl:
.e. cal Agent is actually serving 6
NJ the Plenipotentiary of the Ma
as Of Straw set up on the lsthmr
Ill. to save the day for the Fort
nd Millions of good American &c
Inv lars carried by the Sooner Ac
and jeopardized by the rejectie
ed of the Hay-Herran treaty.
The claim that the act of spo
rO alton and war has the sanction
the great European powers IS u
F. worthy the consideration of /
L. telligent Americans. At mo
the Powers declare that it is
by bushes of theirs. Naturally, no
ever, they look on with an ecu
de nimity touched with cynical So
I'd isfactiOn. It is the United Stat
that leads the way and sets t
example of ruthless robbery.
ST. is the United States that ste
w down from it's lofty pedestal a
high pretentions of justice a
lot honor to become a very tn
lot. among the Nations and a snes
mi thief at that. 1t is the Unit
G. States that, suddenly convert
from a blatant friend of hum;
ks ity, becomes a canting hypOcrl
with one fell swOOp abrOgatil
des having secretly slain, the Nom
dI Doctrine, which the President
least, and not six months a.
,;no swore to love, honor and OBJ
1t is in short, as far as Engla1
ical Germany and France see
Nor the United States, which at |
cuts away the mornings of
All publicanism, scattering tie hol
ly, home-spun teaching Of
, Fathers of Democracy to
four winds of heaven, and Swll
1es. into the open sea of feudal +
negative and imperial gre