Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-01-14
lCoArMUNIcATED.
wAsnInoroE. January II. II

The consensus OF opinion here re.
garding the building Of an isthmian
canal is universal in favor of the
canal among all sorts OF public men,
but they differ radically when II
comes TO the route aud the methods
adopted by thu republican admins.
tration in making the Panama route
the only one over which the cana
can be built. The democrats in Con.
gress are unit in favor OF the canal,
but they do not intend to let the
skullduggery of the present admin.
istration prevail II they can help it,
and / think they can. They are no,
satisfied with the message of the
President which he sent to the
Senate o.. the subject OF Panama, and
they think he has esaded the main
questions asked him, and they will
not stand for il. He has not clear
ed up the mystery surrounding the
movements of this government just
previous to announcement that the
Panama republic was born, and they
either will have the facts or the
Panama treaty will not be ratified,
all the talk of the republican leaders
TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
The democrats want a canal, but
they want it with honor.
They know that the Panama route
is not the only one that there is in that
section of the world, and that the Nj.
caragua route is better than the Pana-
ma; that not somany people Wilde OF
fever while the canal is being built.
and that there is law unrepealed on
the statute books of the nation author
izing the President of the United
States TO negotiate with the repub.
lies for such acanal. Furthermore.
they know that the money has been
appropriated for the Nicaragua route,
and has not been appropriated for
the Panama route. They do not
like the antics of the administration
in this matter, and, Notwithstanding
the instructions given to some
southern Senator'S by their legisla-
lures, they will refuse to obey them
so far as the Panama routes is con.
cerned, because they know that is
not the only chance for a canal, and
they will defeat the ratification OF
the Panama treaty and demand that
the law concerning the Nicaragua
canal be carried out.
We will then have q canal much
nearer the United States, and es.
pecialfy the southern states, than
would be the Panama canal, and thew
viii have rebuked the republican
administration for it's disregard OF
law and the outrageous conduct in
robbing the United States Of Colon
bia of one OF its states. Unless the
President of the United States can
make q better defense Of his position
In this Panama deal that he has done.
the Panama treaty will not be rati-
fed, provided the democrats stand
together as they now say they will
do. We will have q canal and we
will swat the republican administrar
tion in the neck.
#&#
The democrats in the House of
Representatives tried mighty hard
dis week to get the republicans to
agree to an Investigation ofthe post
Office scandals, but they failed. The
republicans refuse to be investira-
ted. They killed a resolution for
the purpose of calling an investiga-
ton OF the Bristow charges by re-
ferring it TO q committee by a slim
vote OF 1O7 to Ill. After it is refer
red to the committee it will continue
70 sleep in the pigeon of the
desk OF the chairman OF the commit
tee.
That should show the people of
the country where the sincerity Of
the republican party lies in this
matter. They know full well that il
the investigation is ever pulled of
it win put more kinds of big repub-
licans in q hole and soap the sides
and pull up the ladder, than any
man now dreams of. That is whv
they will smother the thing in it's
inception. The people may draw
their own conclusions.
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Some OF the republican leaders ON
the floor of the House are repeated
ly saying on their feet that there new
or were more prosperous times In
this country than at present, and that
the working man can get all the work
he wants at remunerative wages.
This is not true. The working man
not only is getting his wages cut by
oil the big trusts and corporations
In the country, but the government
itself is cutting wages. The Boston
Transcript, agood republican paper,
OF December 81 last has an item to
the effect that the men employed in
the Charlestown Navy Yard will
have their wages cut from -. per
day 10 $l.S4 per day, and that there
was sore distress over the matter
and much indignation. The begin
ming OF hard times is not only yisi-
BILE among the laboring men of the
country, but among better paid
classes ofpeople. That isevidenced
by the falling-of ia the attendance
Ut the theatres all over the country.
and BY the number Of actors who
are stranded and hunting for work.
there being fully 200 companies dis
banded in the last thirty days, and