Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-25
ROOSEVELT RAps WILSON.
Says Policies Are Laughing Stock Of
Other NationsrDefends Perkins.

Says Policies Are Laughing Stock Of
other Nations-Defends Perkins.
New York. June %. - Theodore
Roosevelt, who returned to America
upon the Imperator. last night vigor-
ously defended George w. Perkins
chairman of the progressive national
executive committee. whose resignation
as chairman was demanded recently
by Amos Pinchot, who declared that
Mr.. Perkins aff1liation with certain big
interests made him unfit to hold his
position.
when they read Perkins out" said
Colonel Roosevelt, they will have to
read me out, too.''
The colonel reiterated that he would
not be candidate for the governorship
of New York this fall.
In a lengthy statement issued, Col
onel Roosevelt declared that the pay
ment Of $25.oo0,000 to Colombia for
having secured the right to build the
Panama canal as provided for in the
pending treaty, would be merely the
payment Of belated blackmail
In his statement. Colonel Roosevelt
said:
THE payment Of $25,0o0.0O0 to Co.
lumbia. together with the expression OF
what is in effect an apology for our
having secured the right to build the
Panama canal, is merely the belated
payment Of blackmail with an apology
to the blackmailers. If this proposed
treaty submitted by President Wilson
thru MI. Bryan, Is right. then our
presence on the lsthmus Is wrong. In
such case. Papama should at once Be
restored to Colombia and we should
ho oh
the place. bag and baggage. There
should be no halfway measures. II
we, as a nation, have been guilty Of
theft, we should restore the stolen
goods. If we have not been guilty Of
theft, we should not pay blackmail.
1.-The handling Of our foreign affairs
by President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan has been such as to make the
United States figure Of fun in the in
ternational world. This proposed CO.
lumbar treaty caps the climax and II
ratified. will rightly render US an object
Of contemptuous decision to every great
nation"
The statement then set forth what
was done under the Roosevelt admin
istration in the Panama case. 1t said
that in 1903 when there was doubt
whether the United States should
choose the Nicaragua route or the Pan
ANA route, "the government of CO.
lombia was exceedingly anxious that
we should adopt the latter, and offered
to arrange. and did arrange a treaty
with US to prevent our going into Mica
ragua."
The United States acted In good
faith, the statement said, and Its ac-
ton was conditioned on the promise Of
Colombia.
For four hundred years." he said.
''there had been conversation about the
need of the Panama canal. The time
for furthr conversation had passed, the
time to translate words into deeds had
come. II had followed President Will
sons policy Of 'watchful waiting It
would have insured half century Of
additional conversation and the canal
would still be in the dim future. And it
is only because the then administration
acted precisely as 1t did that we now
have the Panama canal"
Colonel Roosevelt in mentioning the
proposal of the Colombian government
to confiscate the property Of the
French government in Panama, for
which the United States had offered to
pay $4o,ooo,0oo, said it was simply a
scheme on the part OF Colombia to get
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