Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
Panama Pecksniffs and the
Shipping Trust

taken last week by the United States
n the Panama question.
Busy people unravel the intricate prob
diplomacy perhaps puzzled understand
why morality should for the moment
find it's passionate devoe the ranks of privilege They
honesty nd simple good faith should be
claimed monopoly of those who have conered other
of the good things of life.
Why stand-pa senator's whose conscences have
for this rough wordCrane, Gal
nger Lodge Oliver Penrose and
dreadfu shocked by the proposal that American ships should
go free of tolls through American waterway
people of the United States al-or mostly
fools they prepared pure
py that has ranged the andpat senator's such solid ranks
against tolls
Cleaned of all the sanctimonous humbug that has been
subject the plain is of that the Pan
Stateus the Erie canal does
Americans who espouse the supposed right England
and other foreign countries the canal equal
merely people with
But the strength of this preposterous opinion
bacstairs influence the International Ship
ping Trust and its allied financial interests.
present controversy question of tolls should
awaken the American people certain broad fact of modern life
that wildly illustrated
ISTENCE OF A VAST INTERCONTINENTAL COMBINATION
OF SELFISH INTERESTS THAT KNOWS NO PATRIOTISM
BUT USES ALL GOVERNMENTS FOR IT'S OWN PRIVATE
ENDS.
hysterica cutlery against policy
waterway organized hyp
ocrisy o this combination.
Engshmen Frenchmen Germans they free
from this influence readily that Americans right
the Panama canal to themselves They admit,
they the thing they
in place.
The talk of obligation under the Clayton Bulwer treaty
and the ayPaeefoe treaty the canal if did
the following considerations:
FrstNobody would dare question right stop work
the Isthmus and destroy all that
which certainly would be the if property right
absolute.
SecondThere existing consideration could possibly
induce the United States this agreement
with England any other country bind way
that the nda and sandpat newspapers say
bound by the Pamceoe treaty They therefore,
theory got diplomatic fix
get
This For great did, ever will or
ought submit unfortunately bargain that wholly
sided and has bargains respected
only erv and dccaden Among serespectng
treaties always abrogaed when they mutually
advantage.
Trd-Tbe history Clayton Buwer and yPauncefoe
treaties absolutely usfes the action taken the
Sxt-two years ago, when the Clayton Buwer treaty
Slight offer us because of its
claim of poectorae the Mosquito Indians and
or less shadowy rights in certain Central American territories The
suspension Of those rights formed the bargain
made by Secretary Hay with The treaty
of 1850 then abrogatedus the treaty of 1901 might
be abrogaed if it while o do so.
The vitality Hay treaty when we
acquired sovereignty strip build the
canal, NOT THROUGH FOREIGN AND NEUTRAL TERRIFIC
RIES But THROUGH OUR OWN LANDS.
careful study of the history of the long controversy with
England about the neutrazng of
isthmus will show that the claims of England had steadily
ened and had nearly reached the vanishing point WHEN
WERE SUDDENLY REVIVED THE OTHER DAY BY INVIS-
IBLE INFLUENCES. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAS
THEN MADE THE TOOL OF THE PRIVATE POWERS THAT