Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
DOLLIVER ON PANAMA
PARTICIPATES IN DEBATE AT
MoNTCLAIR, N. J.
Supports Administration - Repudiates
Suspicious of Trickery-President
Has Sagacious Counsellors.

A dispatch from Montclair, n. j.. last
night says: At the regular monthly meet
ing of the Montclair Outlook Club this even
ing the Panama question was discussed by
Rev. DR.. Newman Smyth of New Haven
Conn, and John p. Dolliver. United States
Senator from Iowa. The discussion was in
the form of debate. Dr. Smyth criticising
the governments action in interfering in
Panama. while Senator Dolliver defended
the policy of the United States
DR.. Smyth declared that patriotism should
INT the whole Panama question out of pol
ltlcs by referring 1T to a tribunal. The re-
pupncan party could not refuse some heal
Ing act IL IT is to reaffirm next June the
plank In its platform of 1855 against the
immoral doctrine of the Ostend manifesto
that might makes right" The democratic
party could make no claims for cOnscience
sake If it failed to go on record for soma
immediate settlement of the Just dues of
colombia. Secretary Hay would afford an
example OF his own golden rule of dipIo-
macy III he crowned his ilIustrio,,s ga raar
by granting Gen. Reyes an appeaI IN Tba
hague tribunal in behalf of a defenseIass
people, or accept his offer even to suhnnit
ms case 10 commission of our own SUI
preme Court. The President owed II to The
Judgment of history on his adminis,ra ti ino
10 let TINS cause be indicated or iudped In
the highest court 'Nueeo III
senator Dolliyer opened his argument bv
saying that he was glad that DR. Smytb
had lifted the question above the ,a n,S VI
political strife. He said: VI
A Question of Facts.
have been in politics for a long time
a"u ioi the e'me being l have had enough.
: oeere 10 De understood as differing from
IT. Smyth only In part, for with what he
says about nations being able to settle din
ft,I
do not object to settling the difficulties
with Colombia, and il l thought the Irnitaa
states was In the wrong 1 would wish tn
settle them. but l do not believe this conn.
try to be in the wrong.
Dr. Smyfh says that we should arbitrats
out DO not see why we should make a cara
against ourselves and then submit it to ar
blttation IL VIII take long time to CON
vince me that this country is in the wrong
In taking the steps she has in dealing WITH
the trouble in Panama. l will treat this
question as nearly all complex questions i'm
the world are treated, as a question of
facts. Nn VI
Il had dim fear that something was
wrong when the question was first brougbt
up as TO whether the United States was do
ing the right thing In Panama but these
1ears have been taken away by fact This
IS the Oldest question with which the Tinted
States has had to do.
The Lord made America with that nov
row isthmus with the express purpose that
some day man should dig ditch through
IT, we d1dn I realize how great an adyan-
tage this ditch would be TO us until the trim
of the Oregon in 1883. Then we saw of how
much value 1t would be to have a canal
across Central America. Instead of turning
our attention TO the isthmus eyerybody
thought that the route through Nicaragus
was the proper course, instead of seeing
that the Panama route was better
I'm 1915 we got treaty with New Gram
ada. az that time composed of Panama.
Colombia, Ecuador and venexusla, by