Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-04

troops or sailors. At Colon Command
or Hubbard acted with entire Impair
TALLY toward both sides, preventing
any movement whether by the Colon
hIans or the Panamanians which would
tend to produce bloodshed."
n. Y. EVENING POST QUOTED.
The president then quotes from an
article In the New York Evening Post,
under date of Panama Dec 5, In which
in an interview a native Panamanian
Is quoted as saying
I'VE were willing to encounter the
Colombin troops at Colon and fight It
out but the commander OF the United
States cruiser Nashville forbid Supt
Shaler to allow the railroad to trans
port troops for either party
BLooDsHED WAS PREVENTED
ut thus clearly appears" says the
president. that the fact that there
was no bloodshed on the isthmus was
directly due--and only due--to the
prompt and firm enforcement by the
United States of It's traditional policy
During the past 40 years revolutions
and attempts at revolution have sue
ceeded one another with monotonous
regularity on the isthmus and again
and again United States sailors ana
marines have been landed as they we're
landed in this instance and under SINH
lar instructions TO protect the transit.
one Of these revolutions resulted In
three years Of warfare; and the az
gregate Of bloodshed and misery caus-
ed by them has been incalcuable. The
fact that In this last revolution not
life was lost, save that of the man
killed by the shells Of the Colombian
gunboat, and no properti destroyed,
was due to the action watch l have
described. We, IN effect pollced the
isthmus In the interests OF Its lnhabit-
ants and OF our own national needs, and
for the good OF the entire civilized
world Failure TO act as the admins
tration acted would have meant great
waste Of life, great suffering, great
loss Of property: all OF which was
avoided by the firmness and prudence
with which Commander Hubbard car
rled out his orders and prevented either
rarity from attacking the other The
action was for the peace both of Colom-
bIa and OF Panama. II IL earnestly TO
lc hoped there will be no unwise con-
duct On our part which may encourage
colombia TO embark on war which
cannot result in her regainng control
OF the isthmus, but which may cause
much bloodshed and suffering.
INJURIOUS INsINuATIoNs,
81 hesitate TO refer TO the injurious
insinuatlons which have been made OF
completely by this government In the
revolutionary movement In Panama
They are % destitute OF foundation as
OF propriety. The only excuse for my
mentioning them Is the fear lest I'M
thinking persons might mistake for ac-
ouiesce the silence Of mere self-respect.
/ think II proper TO say, therefore, that
no one connected with this government
had any part In preparing. melting or
encouraging the late revolution on the
lsthmus Of Panama, and that save from
the reports Of our military and naval
officers, given above, no one connected
with this government had any previous
knowledge of the revolution except such
as was accessible 10 any person OF or
binary intelligence who read the news
papers and kept up a current acqualnt-
ance with public affairs
REVOLUTION WAS UNANIMOUS.
"By the unanimous action OF It's peo-
ple, without the firing of a shot-with
a unanlmty hardly before recorded In
any similar case--the people OF Panama
declared themselves an Independent re-
publc Their recognition by this gov.
eminent was based upon state or
facts In no way dependent for Its justl-
licaton upon our action In ordinary
cases. have not denied, nor do | wish
TO deny. either the validity or the pro-
prlety OF the general rule that new
state should not be recognized as m
dependent until II has shown It's ability
TO maintain It's independence. rms
rule Is derived from the principle OF
non intervention, and as q corllary OF
that principle has generally been ob-
served BY the United states. But