The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-15
APPALLING REVELATIONS.

APPALLING KEW
The apologists and friends of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, when they hear DEM
ocratic speakers and writers declare
that he is unsafe" put on a tragic
air, fit only for the footlights, and say
defiantly: name the thing that
makes him unsafe" And as there IS
nobody to reply, the partisans applaud:
and go home thinking they have dis
proved the charge.
The browning act of Roosevelt's
crimes against the constitution and
sacred treaty rights was the course he
pursued in the whole Panama transac-
ticn. In it he showed a defiance of
sacred obligations due to an Ameri-
can Republic, disregarded the Con-
Stitutional method of declaring war,
and gave countenance and support to
the handful of International scoun
drels who affected to set up the Pan
anna Republic. The whole transaction
was one that showed a rashness and
a contempt for constitutional limita-
tions and the love of exploitation that
shocked the lawabiding thoughtful cit
liens OF America.
Hon. Jno. T. Morgan, of Alabama,
Who knows more about the whole mat
ter than any other one or one hundred
living men. has written a series of pa
pers on the Panama Canal, embracing
a history of the Isthmian Waterway
from the beginning TO the present
time. They are appearing in the
louisville Courier Journal, and Col.
Watterson thus eptomizes the story
that Senator Morgan tells with elab
crate detail:
"They throw flood of light upon
the darkest chapter in all our Internal
tional relations.
THE Thoughtful American who reads
them may trace step by step how the
Transcontinental Railway Trust for
twenty-five years defeated all efforts
to interfere with its monopoly by
means of canal between the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans: how, unable to FUR
Their impede the idea of a canal, it
PLAYED the Panama route against the
Nicaragua route; and how, finally.
the government Of the United States
was mulcted of fifty millions III pur-
chase money and many hundreds of
millions in obligations incident there
to- ell under the mysterious power of
q Ring of Partisan Stock Gamblers,
either in common cause with the
TranscortinentaI Railway Trust, or
else outbidding and outwitting It.
THE story is shocking in the last
degree. But the part played i'm it by
The Administration of Theodore Roose
welt was infamous in the last degree.
Fifty millions is great sum of mon
T1,rt1y IF
to a group of French capitalists who
bought the debris of the De Lesseps
Company as a speculation. That is.
they bought a wreck to sell it to the
United States. They did sell it, and
their profit was not less than twerty
millionS-some say tWenty-siX, or
twenty-eight millions. But this was
not all. They sat w in Panama a lot
Of dummies, through these seeded
Panama from Colombia, established
what they called a Republic aud got
ten millions more for this, their own
creation, from the United States
through the connivance and agency
Of Theodore Roosevelt In other
words they financed job of the very
West. Theodore Roosevelt first
winked at it, then recognized it, and
has since protected it with armed,
force, paying to it out of the Treas
ury ten millions of dollars. The
NiIolc ouslIltSo WIS q Sledl from SliTl
to finish.
Its Chief Manager was an attorney
by the name of William Nelson Crom-
We'll It's intermediary was one
Philip Buneau Varilla. Cromwell
pccketed millions. Vanilla masquerad-
ed alternately as an Engineer of the
Canal and as Fiscal Agent of the Com
pany. Then he turned up as Ambas-
sador from the Republic of Panama
Now he is enjoying the fruits of his
pillage in Paris. Cromwell and Va
r;la alone were able to subscribe Il
million of dollars to the Roosevelt
campaign fund; but there will never
be any way of finding out for ghe
Gray Wolves at Washington keep no
books, whilst the bucket-shops OF
Paris are inaccessible.
Never was there so infamous and
lawless transaction heard of III the
annals of American corruption. beg
caring Credit Mobiler and Pacific Mail
in prodigality and shameIessness,
whilst putting upon the record OF our
international relations a blot which
History will fully reveal and time can
never efface.
THE plain narrative of the Grand
old Senator of Alabama is simply APP
palling.
IN the News and Observer of last
Sunday, Mr.. III. Y. G.. Allen, formerly oil
Wake county and now of Dallas Tex
wrote North Carolina sent more
troops to the front than any other
State according ia population-140
COO. By mistake it appeared as IA