The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-02-18

the forty thieves in the open, with
thirty OF forty millions more In the
dark, one would think In all conscience
enough to satisfy the rapacity even Oh
"a Bunau-Varilla. But we are coolly
informed by no less an authority than
Little Vanilla Bean himself, safely en-
sconced in his palatial home in Paris
and luxuriating amid his ill-got mil
lions. that, having robbed US right and
left, he took postobit against any
rights OF reprisal, through the swindle
known a. the Eay-Bunau-Varilla
treaty.
Tt will be remembered tha, after the
Par. ma Canal Company If France had
sold ~, it's worthless assortni sntOf POTS
t.ni rans and mid heaps On the 18th
lnrs and had worked upon us equally
yaireIess concession from the Republic
g. Columbia, we had, in order to save
IT,. face, to set no bogus Republic Of
Panama, at the cost OF tue National
honor, the public faith and credit, and
many additional millions Of cash.
The evil genius of the piece was Lit
tie Vanilla Bean--or, to give him his
official and proper cognomen, M. Phil
lippe Bunau Varilla. From first to last
he was the whole show. He had benin
Panama with De Lesseps. He wit
messed the awful collapse, and, il re-
ports be true, contributed to it. The
organization OF a new company to
take over the holdings of the old COM
p9ny with the purpose of SELL
ing them at profit to the
United States was his concep-
ton. He claimed to be an Engineer.
He was in reality a Promoter. He
proved before the end a lightning
change artist as well. The Republic
of Panama was Pigment Of his i'm
agination and the creation Of his
agency. Whilst his co-conspirators
were pulling off the Revolution" on
the Isthmus, Little Vanilla Bean was
at Washington pulling the wool over
| the eyes of the Roosevelt Administra-
ton, which not only loaned him the
means Of dismembering the Republic
| OF Columbia and Of setting up seces-
sional fy-by-night Republic Of Pana-
ma, but actually recognized him-a
French citizen and manager of the
stock-jobbing French company-as the
Ambassador of this fraudulent affair,
entering into treaty stipulations with
| him, which he now has the audacity to
proclaim to his credit and our detri-
nent.
After all that We did lor him and all
that he did to us he owed US at least
immunity from further attack. He
could well afford to be silent and to
make himself invisible. But his vanity
exceeds his discretion and he rushes
into print to tell us that, having loot
ed our strong box, he put a paddock
upon our hands that binds US forever.
The occasion for this fresh outburst
he finds in recent suggestion of Ad-
mira1 Robley d. Evans, to the effect
that, when the canal is completed, it
should be free to the American coast
ing trade, tolls to be paid only by the
vessels of other nations. That is to
say Admiral Evans proposes the re-
vision of the treaty concluded between
England and the United States on No
vember 10, 1901-the Hay-Pauncefote
Treaty-and the cancellation of the
clause which assures to every nation,
without distinction OK flag, equal treat
ment in transit rates. The Admiral
argues that, owing to the enormous eX-
penses incurred by the construction
of the canal, it must appear to fair
minded people all the world over that
it ought to be free TO the United States
upon the other nation for passage be-
tween the American ports in the At
lantic and those in the Pacific. The
sole obstacle, he declares, is the treaty
with England, and adds THE same
Powers that made the treaty will make
another that will correct the faults of
the present one"
So this little Vanilla Bean, with all
the eXultation Of the slight-of-hand
man who has successfully turned the
trick OF exchanging his lead for his
victims gold and gotten away, but is
too conceited to keep in hiding and
hold his tongue, eXclaims:
Admiral Evans is mistaken. There
j. very fortunately another obstacle to
paralyze this sophism. Foreseeing
that an effort would be made later on
to obtain the revision of the treaty be-
tween England and the United States,
which is binding only on those Powers,
proposed to Mr.. Hay during the dis
cussions of the treaty of concession of
the canal the incorporation of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty into that very
treaty. The treaty of November is,
1903, between the United States and
Panama, the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty,
which forms the incommutable law
of the concession and of the exploit
alton of the canal, sets forth in arti-
Gle is that "the canal shall be open to
the nations in conformity with all the
stipulatiOns Of the treaty entered into
by the Governments OF the United
States and Great Britain on November
Is, 1901 So the United States could
not, even with the consent Of England,
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