The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-01-08
Says There Was No Compllclty ON Part
Of This Government I'm Revolution
#-Charges Colombia with Greed
All Interests Demand Canal.

lsthmus. The enort 10 secure tIeaty
same footing with the effort to secure =
trsfsyd nndfs aHy o1s,necsf
':. vas explicitly provided that the United
sss: :SoS PG Ss s aRa t gsssSt
eaS SPsn 19a tni h xss untea states thus
msd CT sy Of ef th hs
s worid. IT The guaranty included as mat
ter Of course the building Of the canal
sp as te an s
would be the veriest travesty on right ana
> Justice to treat the governments an IN R Gst.
great highways Of the world, and justify
nne hue a Of Il Trade ' and travel belong to them
and that they choose to shut them
Position of United states.
Colombia the Hay-Herran treaty three
things WERE therefore, already settled;
"One vas that the canal sh quo t De
permitting the. attempt to be made by
private enterprise, the time for permitting
any Or TO bar work
was past. The United States had assumed
in connection with the canal certain re.
SS 6 he e MT sn xxo Fl IT'S
lively demanded that there ERE, t Snoula ar,, no
B sssH IN wss sete the that the
or improper delay, 1t was no less clear ar.
SSer SaSTn in osf but
Of generosity with the people through
whose land we might build IT: The HE'LL Hay y,
the direction OF an over-generoaty to-
wards the Colombian government; In our u!
Sa1st to 2 BE- ety
mands what that nation was he1plessly
unable to enforce from US against o o
: administrator for the terms Of the Hay
Herran treaty were for having granted too
much to Colombia, not for failure to grant ~
treaty was FORMULATED, was there com:
qs has It so nat eht to
sysrything :, that she could BY any color Of
Nor Is thu tact to be lost sight Of that
spondins to the pecuniary demands Of Co:
is9 M seE III %s csSa H
/. the act Of the congress Of June e, 1877 90 !:
BY has to
Colombia, for the purposes Of the canal
perpetual control Of = certain strip Z, Of q
ths c ana tnas q Be-
include Jurisdiction to make Police 1 ana
saa 1Buns q. and % s. ssrsed
Tor their enforcement. These were con-
ditions precedent prescribed by the con-
stipulations were embodied in the treaty
It has been stated in public prints The, that
objected t t. these
light OF what has taken place. this alleged
N 1e De tSe treaty
Of RECURRING a cessfon Of Colombia's SOW
ereignty over the canal strip expressly expressly
Ter soveTslsnty oxsr il me tTsaty, IL this
respect simply proeeeded on IN AL lines , on 3n
United states, subject to the paramount pun
s stantial ol control o over the canal and the
immediately adjacent territory. has been
s treated as 2 fundamental part OF any ar ar;
formed an essential feature Of ali our
plans. and Its necessity i fully recognized
II @ presaes th.t .yyeh
s pls, SUI only in it.lseisia-
p aGe Of e (WHICH Were Sniversslly seeoe-
mixed" During all the years Of negotiation
and resty
the United States Of control oyer S The e. e.
Construction Of a canal by way Of the
lsthmus Of Panama; nor were We adyise e.
during the months when legislatlon OF ~
t wsn ee @Siek t embodIsd woSd render r.
gotiations with COLOMBIA limp im2racticanc
With { less degree Of control than was
stipulated for in the Hay-Herran treaty
p %as treaty at lftaas
sss sa III to Ssz
transit Of the worlds traffic across the
That the canal itself was eagerly. e.;
the people 81 this locality no less eagerly
lean control. are shown by the unanim-
lie: Furthermore. colombo, after having
tests and warnings when i was in her
power to accept it, has since shown the
esy ns . t. saS
In the official circles Of Colombo, on No
Es%nss bososs saying sRe that se
= ernment Of the United States would land
troops TO preserve Colombian soveFeSn1y
by virtue Of vested constitutional authoI-
ti %1a, q the dR' canal treaty ss signed; o.
Il the government of the United states
ppo 9eiers; lGiatno' new and friendly mem
bers-next May to approve tne. .t e T.
f aMnx Of eae Question that the government
United States proposed PROP nt treaty
r. Colombia, which our people regarded
as erring. If at all, on the side Of over
generosity, which was hailed ,, With &C. =
locality through (which the canal was to
pass, who We're most concerned az TO IN me
new order of things. and which the 60
ionbiau authoritloD now recognize - %