The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-08

This great enterprise of building the inter-oeeanic canal cannot be held up
 to gratify the whims, or out of respect
 to the governmental impotence or to the
 even more sinister and evil political De-
 culiarities, or people who, though they
 dwell afar off, yet against the wish Of
 the actual dWellers on the isthmus as-
 sert an unreal supremacy over the ter
 ritory. The possession of a territory
 fraught with such peculiar capacities as
 the isthmus in question carries with it
 obligations to mankind. The course of
 events has shown that this canal can not be built by private enterprise or by
 any other nation than our own; there fore it must be built by the United States.
 PANAMA.
 Every effort has been made by the
 government of the United States to
 persuade Colombia to follow 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, and
 Colombia. by her persistence in repuls- ing the advances that have been made, has forced us, for the sake of our own 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- tries of the world, to take decisive steps to bring to an end condition of affairs which had become intolerable. The new republic of Panama inme- diately offered to negotiate Q treaty with us This treaty I herewith sub
 init. By it our interests are better safe guarded than in the treaty with Co., , lonbta which was ratified by the sen- ate at it's last session. It is better in it's terms than the treaties offered to us by the republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. At last the right to begin this great undertaking is made availa-
 ble. Panama has done her part. All that remains is for the American con- i gress to do it's part and forthwith this republic will enter upon the execution of project colossal in it's size and of well nigh incaIculable possibilities for the good of this country and the nations of mankind.
 By the provisions of the treaty the !. United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the re- public of Panama. There are granted 1 to the United States in perpetuity the
 use, occupation and control of strip 1 ten miles wide and extending three nautical miles into the sea at either terminal. with all lands lying outside of the zone necessary for the construc- tion of the canal or for its auxiliary
 works and with the islands in the Bay
 of Panama.
 1 The cities of Panama and Colon are 1 rot embraced in the canal zone, but the
 United States assumes their sanitation and, in case of need, the maintenance
 Of order therein. The United States en- joys within the granted limits all the rights, power and authority which it
 would possess were it the sovereign of the territory to the exclusion of the ex-
 ercise of sovereign rights by the re- public. All railway and canal property rights belonging to Panama and need ed for the canal to pass to the United 1 States including any property of the respective companies in the cities of
 Panama and Colon: the works, proper ty and personnel of the canal and rail- ways are exempted from taxation as we'll in the cities of Panama and Colon as in the canal zone and it's depend encies. Free immigration of the per- sonnel and importation of supplies for the construction and operation of the canal are granted. Provision is made
 for the use of military force and the
 building of notifications by the United
 States for the protection of the transit.
 Tn other details, particularly as to the
 acquisition of the interests of the New
 Panama Canal company and the Pan-
 anna railway by the United States and
 the condemnation of private property
 for the uses of the canal, the stipula-
 ton of the Hay-Herran treaty are
 closely followed while the compensa-
 ton to be given for these enlarged
 grants remains the same being s10.000,- 900 payable on exchange of notifications,
 and, beginning nine years from that date, an annual payment of $250,000
 during the life of the convention.