The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-05-08
TEDDYS DEAL
FOR COLOMBIA
One of the Most Question
able in History.
FAIR SPECIMEN OF HIS WORK
Characteristic of a Reckless
Adventurer Thirst
ing for Fame.
SOME ROOSEVELT 'POLICIES"

long years, the South once more
represented to France and England
that, having fully demonstrated
her ability to protect life and prop
erty by her regularly organized
Government, she was entitled, un-
der the customs and laws of ma
tons, to their acknowledgment OF
her independence. This they were
in the act of doing, which, If done,
would have unquestionably result
ed in the dissolution of the Union,
but the North pleaded that they
were not justified so long as the
South was unable to break the
blockade and keep her ports open.
So the recognition was delayed and,
in the meantime, the Confederacy
collapsed, and the Union was saved
by the merest accident. (Stick a
pin at four years, please.)
After the waTship Oregon, with
decks cleared for battle, made her
startling voyage of $4,000 miles
around Cape Horn, nothing honor
able could have kept the United
States from digging a ditch across
the narrow strip of land connecting
the two continents and dividing the
two oceans in the Western Hemis-
phere.
With eager ear always to the
ground, St. Teddy, the Truthful,
discovered the sibilant swash of
this popular demand and with char
acteristic vehemence and haste, at
once got tremendously busy. But
when his terms of agreement on
Neutrality-suspicious. reeking with
graft and treachery-were submit
ted to the Colombian Congress, it
refused to ratify them. This was
the biggest kind of a chunk in the
wheels of a very large and ambi-
tious scheme, but you just simply
can't keep Saints like his nibbs, the
resourceful and blatant, and his
friend Cromwell, down. A maxim in
criminology is, Seek whom the
crime profits"
Somebody's as INSCRIPTIONS as en-
terprising, then undertook a most
dastardly and Infamous job. and
soon We began to hear what proved
to be inspired rumors of a revolu-
ton in Colombia and sixty days be-
fore there was any sight OF an out
break-when our warship reported
''all quiet, no sign OF revolution
sixty days before there was the
slightest pretense of an organiza-
ton to protect life and property or
that could have broken a blockade
of jo-boats, this reckless charac-
ter recognized the unborn republic
of Panama, treated with mock
plenipotentiaries and commenced
the marvel of modern engineering.
If such a Mad Mullah had worn
the crown of England and France,
when Fort Sumpter fell what
would now be the political maps OF
the world? Can't We see the tre-
mendous danger with such a heed
less bull in our priceless china
shop? With commendable pride
public sentiment is committed to
the spirit of International Arbitra-
ton. 1t is a good stride in world
advancement and promises to spare
untold treasures and 'bloodshed.
Now helpless, hapless Colombia,
from whom a giant with a giants
sheer, brutal strength, has roped
large boundary of her sacred do
main, unable to redress her cruel
wrongs by force of arms, impover-
ished by the horrors of rebellion
.instigated by trusted neighbor, in
the name of Square Deal" asks
us to submit to international arbi-
tration. Was ever a country reduc-
ed to such embarrassing and igno-
minious circumstances? And to
whom do we owe this outrage upon
a sister republican outrage that
makes honor vince and hang its
head in shame-but a reckless adj
venturer who knows neither fear
nor scruples?" II we yield to her
prayer, as every instinct of honor
demands, we shall be convicted of
perfdy as hard to believe as to
bear. II we refuse, We brand our
honor with a Scarlet Letter" and
prove to the world that all our
canting and mounting about ma
tional honor and international ar
bitration is the very essence of
sneaking. unmitigated insufferable
hypocrisy.
And yet, some there ere who
would risk four years more--which
may mean forty-of this fretful, in
tolerant, domineering, contuma-
cious, power-mad. passion-rent