The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Chicago Journal Qnd) says:
EVERY self-governing community has
precisely the government it wants and
deserves, neither better nor worse, and
it's government is an exact reflex of it's
character. The Low reform govern
ment reflected only temporary mood,
however. The Tammany domination,
extending over so many years with
very infrequent interruptions, reflects
and describes the real New York"
The New York Journal of Commerce
Qnd.) says: There is no doubt that
gress has strengthened sentiment in
this country in favor Of the Panama
route and predisposed the public mind
to a prompt recognition of the indie
pendence of the state which it trav-
erses. Interest in Nicaragua is APP
parently dying out, while that in Pan
anna is intensifying. Congress will be
in session next week and there may
be interesting developments soon,
which will result in a long step for
ward after the exasperating delays of
the last year. The shortsighted
venality of Colombian statesmen may
bring heavy penalty upon their coun-
try"
The Baltimore Sun Dem.) says: us
secession wicked in itself, or is it bad
only when it removes profitable tax
payers from ones own tax area? This
question arises at Washington, where
it has been decided to accord a be-
nevolent neutrality, not to say thinly
yelled help, to the Panama rebels
the same sort of neutrality that was
given to the Cuban rebels. The mo-
tives of the isthmian leaders are very
Ineligible. Whether their revolt was
suggested from Washington and is en-
couraged thence 1t is premature to say.
The promptness with which warships
and troops are being sent to the scene
is suggestive. We are to land troops,
it appears, strictly. to preserve order
along the line of the Panama railway,
as we have right to do. Whether
we shall do this in a way to paralyze
the efforts of the United States of Co.
lombia to put down the revolt remains
to be seen. The secession of Panama
will at least be a useful hint to Bo-
gotta that the central government can
not too promptly resume negotiations
and turn over to us the franchise we
want for the amount agreed upon in
the Hay-Herran treaty"
The New York Times (Dem.) says
"Our ENHANCEMENT with the Panama
canal undertaking has somewhat
swiftly brought us to the point where
we must either withdraw at once from
the miserable business. or. shutting
our ears to the voice Of conscience and
to the reproaches of civilized man.
kind, plunge on in the path of scan
dal, disgrace and dishonor. The re-
volt of the isthmian states against the
government of Colombia and the set
ting up of a little republic there has
been altogether too openly encouraged
and foreshadowed in this country to
permit any further dalliance on our
part with the abandoned Panama ca
nal unless we have come to such a
pitch of shamelessness that we are
willing to give the world the right to
say that we have, for our own selfish
ends, despoiled a sister republic of a
part of her territory. The overthrow
of the Hawaiian government was ac-
complished under the protection of
American guns, as a consequence of
intrigue carried on with American help
and encoura cement openly given. That
transaction put a stain upon our name.
a blot upon our reputation for inter-
national fair dealing won by a cen
fury of honorable neutrality A stu
alton of like nature and involving a
like measure of infamy has been Gre
ated on the isthmus."