The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-06
british CTIticIsm OF Colonel RooSe
NrIt's Views about the lanai.

british ITIticIsm Of colonel Roo~e.
volts Views about the anal.
", are moved 10 laughter bv the
remarks 81 the WcSimiasfrr GGEs1s OF
London IN criticism Of Colonel ROOsE-
SELTS uttsranc'- ~ Omaha Concern-
ing The. fprtitcatiou IL the Panama
Canal bv the American Government.
our mirth will he shared bv everybody
canal history ten years old
The London newspaper apparently
thinks that the Colonel N now for the
first time springing on IN" world a pro-
pnsal IN fortify the canal and TO control
il IN the military sense for American
interests a proposal which the GdSetfe
regnrds a. violation Of international
undertakings pcCuliarlv objectionable
TO Great Britain. since IL was only by
its consent 10 the abrogatlon Of the
BIIwer-C LAYTON treaty that the United
states was enabled to continue the con-
StrIction OF the canal Tn" WosfmiH-
sfCr Gazette goes on 20 saw:
ndrr the terms - the sEreenen, the neutral
l,a'Iou 80 ne ransl vss ~ he guaranteed. Nv.
KoosTvFir. proposals are direct rejection
- that neutrality and would mean the ieATtag
~ q the agreement That the STATES should
have some military control - purely Anctican
NOT. appears reasonable. but 70 would then be-
hpo,e america 20 secure the alteration % the
agreement BY ordinary diplomatic methods aud
no. ny tho repudlaucn % tts engAgements
Mr ROOSEVELT tells rs that DOT to fOrtify
the canal would Involve the Unl,ei states In the
Contempt % the world. But that should have
been rhouEEl % earlier
II was thought ~ earlier. The West
min si6T G0sshF mixes many things and
mixes them absurdly The first Hav-
Pauncrfote treaty. Of February 5. 1917,
De- gned 10 remove the difficulties put
bv the CLAYTON Bulwer treaty 81 $50 m
the way 81 an American construction 81
an intcroceanic canal across Near
aqua or elsewhaTe was opposed by
THT SI'N from tho hour i's provisions
became known. II was Oppressed by Us
because that proposed treaty, besides
fixing the canal at the inferior route hy
wav 81 Nicaragua. would have tied this
nations hands for all time. First. by
establishing a joint guarantee or con
troll If neutrality, IN which We should
have been merely one Of several part
nor-. and. secondly, by depriving us
forever ri the natural right 10 protect
our property and IN fortify the canal.
II necessary for that purpose. II the
first Hay- Pauncefote treaty had been
rat ned NJ Washington the canal would
have been a canal through Nicaragua
n"utralized canal not American in
the full sense ~ the word, n Jointly
guaranteed Internal onal highway. nm
der the immediate management Of this
Government practically a. an agent or
bailif' ~ tho martini" nations. And
Vet We -honld have paid every dollar
II IN" cost
Among those Americans who cam"
earliest and most vigorously 10 the sup
port Of TnF SIS IN its opposition 10 tho
disastrous s"lf-committals Of IN" first
HAY Pauncefot" treaty was the gentle
man whom the Wo5mp~isr Gd,efiS rc-
Dukes for not having thought Of all this
before Colonel ROOSEVELT was Gov
"rnor a, Albany eleven wears ago when
b" dictated tho srbJoIn"d paragraph for
Publication ~ this journal
most earnestly hope that th~ pending treaty
-Hr~~rrIns rhr rs'hulan canal viii not n- r,tns,I
grIrs, amended 90 a, - provide inst tsr canal
aH~u ruUi shall 20 wholly under th- ron tr,i ~
no u.t~i N'r'rs allie In p~sre AMI war tn.
.s~r- m ~" stt,I 10 ,.,s from the standpoint
- p.T -r, power han from the stand point ~ m.
Ip..1c uu'r.l,
That - not a word I"ss or more than
Colonel RDOsFvFIT - now saving 10 the
surprise aud horror OF orr London con
'rrnl .orarv " TIs vital The treaty
wa- 80 amended The contemplated
surrender Of independents control and
o' tho right 20 defend WAS never con-
rludei ~" second -Paunc"fOto
treaty. RAJ fed bv the senate on Deccin-
b"r ~ 1891. and on D"Ccnb"r ~ br
Nr ROOSEVELT. then brcome President
convention first PROPOSED ia essential
particulars II eliminated entirely the
il"l oi a Io;nt control. either Jointly
with Great Britain or Jointly with all tho
mar.'.u" roworS tn" Inlfcd States
made I'-''If solely rcsaOn,ibl" for tn.
r"u'rah'v ~ tho canal, aud conSc-
qucnt.y the United States became ths