The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-02
DUBOIS ON PROPOSED
TREATY WITH COLOMBIA
Under Taft Administration
Takes Issue With Views En-
pressed by Roosevelt.
GIVES REASONS FOR SUPPORT
Disputes Claim That Document Is
matchmaking Agreement, and
Thinks That Claims Against This
Nation Justify decentralization.

fiallstead, Pa, July LIN a state
mont issued here Tonight dealing with
the proposed Colombian treaty, James
I. Dubois. who was United states Min
lister TO Colombia under the Taft adj
nlhistration. takes issue with the
views recently expressed by Colonel
Roosevelt. and explains his own rea
sons for supporting the treaty. Re
EardinS his differences with Colonel
Roosevelt on this subject. Mr.. Dubois
expresses regret at opposing "a great
leader whose fortune | dcvotedly fol-
lowed for ten years. and states that
no man Will tolerate the thought that
any of Colonel Rooscvelts acts was
inspired by tainted motives. but no
man is always right"
Negotiations for treaty during the
Taft administration failed. he says, be-
cause his instructions, out of Excess
SiNe care not to impugn the motives
of President Roosevelt In taking"
Panama. failed TO give Colombia suf-
icient justice. The pending treaty,
lie believes, should be heartily APP
proved by the American people.
Taking issue with Colonel Roosevelt
regarding the character of the pub
lie men in Colombia, Mr.. Dubois de-
clared that they compare we'll with
the public men of other countries in
Intelligence and responsibility. instead
of being "blacl<mailcrs and bandits"
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KNEW OF REVOLUTION
Quoting Mir. Roosevclts declaration
that the people of Panama were Il unit
in demanding tho revolution, he says
"a handful of men, who we're to be the
direct bencficiarlcs of the revolutions
conceived it, and not tho hundredth
part OF the inhabitants of the Isthmus
knew of the revolt until an American
officer, In the uniform of the United
states Army, raised the flag OF the new
republic"
The claim made by Colonel Roose-
Welt that the Colombian treaty is a
olackmailing agreement is dealt with
by Mr.. Dubois In his Interpretation of
the document.
while negotiating for a treaty,
made the Colombian authorities un-
derstand that under no circumstances
would the United States apologize to
any nation for a political act-that
was our unwritten law, that never had
been and never would he broken. In
purely informal conversations, I sug-
gested that Il chivalrous expression OF
regret that our friendship had in any
way been married, might later he en-
bodied in the treaty as II balm for the
wounded feelings Of q once friendly
nation. which had been humiliated be-
fore the world, whose credit had been
destroyed in foreign countries. whose
ed, and whose persistent appeals for
arbitration had been ignored
The opposition to this feature, on tho
ground that IL is an apology, is not
just, and is not in the true interests
of the United States"
CLAIMS Of COLOMBIA
SHOULD ne MET BY u. =.
Dealing directly with article Ill. or
the treaty, providing payment to Co
lombia. which Colonel Roosevelt at
tackled nv blackmail. Mr.. Dubois de-
scribcs the claims of Colombia for the
unpaid annuities on the ccssion Of the
rans-Isthmian railroad company, the
rcvcrsionary rights In the Panama
itailrcad and PanaIna's portion in the
Colombian national debt. all of which
in his opinion. should be met by the
United states.
Though Colonel Roosevelt asserts
that all Of the civil rights, titles and
necnniary interests Of Colombia passed
To Panama at the moment of actual
separation, Mr. Dubois declares that
these rights had been virtually rec