The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-16
SAYSP ANAMAD[A
Is GREAT SW|ND[E
WRITER, WHO FLAYED ROOSE-
WELT, SAYS UNCLE SAM PLAY.
ED THIEF IN TAKING CANAL
ZONE FROM SOUTH AMERICAN
REPUBLIC.

New York, March 16.-Colonel A.
s. Bacon, who in the past set forth in
a trenchant way various iniquities to
which his attention was called, has is
sued neat little booklet under the
title of "The Woolly Horse" in which
he discusses at length certain matters
which, the Colonel believes, are of
vital Importance to the people of the
United States.
1t was Colonel Bacon who took an
active interest in the Panama canal
story, which has brought an official
hornets nest about the ears of Joseph
Pulitzer, and will, Roosevelt hopes,
ultimately land that editor in dark
and deep dungeon.
1t was Colonel Bacon also, who re-
Gently swatted General Funston Tin a
literary way) and denounced his cap
ture of Aguinaldo, that once famous
Filipino insurgent general, declaring
the whole story to be fabrication.
1t was also Colonel Bacon who hand
ed Mr.. Roosevelt few verbal iolts in
the matter of the Battle of San Juan
Hill, and who caused serious disuui-
etude in the hearts and minds of the
former presidents admirers by de-
claring that Mr.. Roosevelt had not as
much as seen a Spaniard on that
memorable day of July 1, 1898.
Colonel Bacon has rejuvenated and
revived most of his writings in his
booklet, ''The Woolly Horse" but the
most important article in the volume
is the leading one, which is captioned,
Panama; A Revel in Crime
The colonel bastinadoes Uncle Sam
most numerically for the manner in
which the property for the big ditch
was acquired.
"Mammon reigns," he says MARS
is dethroned; Mercury is the prime
minister. The god of war is the ser
want of the god of greed, and the god
of cheats and swindlers rules them
both.
"The warriors, the statesmen, the
poets and others of the learned pro-
fessions Of a generation ago have be-
come the hirelings of the tainted
check book
There is very little good nowadays.
The memory of the Panama scandal
will come back to haunt us like
Banquos ghost" Colonel Bacon be-
lieves it will come back, not show
ing gaping wounds inflicted by
traitors knife, but Haunting aloft
the memory of the victims that were
swindled, the poor that were robbed
and the dishonor that stalked ram
pant. 1t will bear testimony, too,
Of the browning calumny in which
the United States figured when it
wrested in a most dishonorable way
from Colombia it's lands and manu-
featured a revolution.
That is not all that this ghost will
do. 1t will bring back the memory
of those slain and of those who
caused the slaughter. And the future
is equally black. This is what the
Colonel predicts:
America has bought a rat hole,
into which its millions will be poured
indefinitely The income from the
canal, if ever completed, will be
trifling return on the enormous in
vestment, and it's principal benefits
will accrue to those foreign nations
which monopolize the carrying trade
of the world.
But Americas greatest loss is the
loss of self-respect, and the confidence
and affection of her sister republics,
in having become partner in the
greatest swindle of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, and, while
claiming to be the protector and the
great and good friend of our weaker
neighbors, being willing to turn OPP
pressor the moment one of them
stood up for its rights"
In reaching this peroration, Colonel
Bacon devotes considerable space to
William Nelson Cromwell, and If that
astute lawyers ears are not red it is
because he has not yet heard about
THE Woolly Horse"