Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-13
Square Deal
For Everyone
President Wilson's Admins
tration To Deal Fairly
With All

non. EuWAIO AeatluBI NOnBLeeb
man-at-Large from Colorado, is re-
printed in today's News, for the
season that it contains food fol
thought, regardless of your pOliti'
cal faith.
"Crooked dealing Is just as re-
sponsible in a nation as in an indi'
vidual. That's the new and start
ling doctrine laid down by President
Woodrow Wilson in recent state
documents aud definitely defined
and emphasized in his new famous
Mobile speech. Hereafter Uncle
Sam is to be ION the level" at least
during the present administration.
And another thing, quite as i'm
portant--he is going to stop bull
doing his neighbors in South and
Central America.
For more than a century every
Fourth of July orator in the country
has eulogized the Monroe Doctrine
and has told how it was formulated
for the purpose of protecting the
helpless Spanish-American repub-
lies from the greedy land grabbers
of Europe, but whenever Uncle Sam
felt like it he helped himself to such
portions of his wards property as
aroused his cupidity.
Take our treatment of Colombia
as an example.
When President Roosevelt de-
cided to purchase the partially COM
pleted Panama canal from its French
owners he found large sized cloud
on their title to the right of way.
The Republic Of Colombia insisted
that the FTenchmen had not carried
ent their agreement and that they
were not in position to make a
conveyance.
Teddy promptly financed a revo-
|, luton in the state of Panama, a.
part of Colombia, aAd having e..
tablished an opera bouffe republic
on the is.hmus, proceeded to nego-
tiate for the right of way. Of
course he got it on his own terms.
II France, OF any other nation had
attempted to do the same thing,
American men and warships would
have gone to the rescue of Colombia
We would have felt that our nation
al honor had been attacked and no
sacrifice of blood and treasure would
have been too great to resent It.
But when we desired to do little
land-grabbing on our own account
oh, that was different. The Mon
roe Doctrine could not be invoked
against Uncle Sam.
OF course, 1.-The time an attempt
was made to show that the people
of the state of Panama planned and
executed the revolt. This pitifuI
pretense has been thoroughly ex-
posed by impartial investigators anc
we now know that the revolution
was Matched in Washington and car
ried through by the power of Amer
lean gold and American guns. The
so-called Panamanan patriots were
merely puppets purchased to do thu
work,
To make bad matter worse, it i
now established that the scandalou
transaction was not only moral,
wrong, but it was the worst kind o
bad business
Colombia would have sold US
right of way, and probably for mucl
less than the revolution and subse
/, quent negotiations cost us. AS
matter of fact, we are not We
through paying, for Colombia has
claim against US. The Taft admin
istratiop sought to settle it by turn
ing ouer $lo, 900, 900, but this wa
rejected and the present administra
ton is now dealing with the subject
However, that was not the most re
grettable development of the i'm
broglio. The story of the spoilatio
Of Colombia by the "Big Bully G
the North" has spread throug
South and Central America and ha