Arizona republican., 1914-05-26
The Colombian Blackmai Il

BlackmaH is crime submit black1na is cowardly But what shall of the individual or the nation which encourages blackmail of itself with evident resh2
 The national administration is desirous of en- terins into treaty Colombia one of the terms of which shall he that this country shall pay to Colombia the $35 000 GOO for the loss of Pananla-' thus giving something than color to the old libel that this government melted the releI- lion of Panama in 1906 and, secretly aiding tn, Panamanians, insured the establishment Of the new republic from which we secured the canal 7np. We could give $25o0ooto to Colombia on no other theory. The payment q that. or any other sum to Colombia would he an admission Of national crime against that country.
 This is the first heard It was charged soon after the rebellion by the continental railroads and their agents who haG in vain. exhausted thef opposition the construction Of the canal It charged by those democrats who were partisans rather than patriots. and poli- ticans rather than statesmen. Among the foremost of the partisans and politicians Mr Bryan whose public life has been of obstruc ton and who in year has been proved incapable Of con struction.
 The facts regarding the crime are briefly these Colombia chose to hold up the American government doubtless melted by the American uanscontnentaI railways and their foreign bond holders. Panama. northern and progressive prov ince of the republic, dcsirous of the construc- ton of the canal all the Pacific provinces of Colombia Were, and it's resentment Coombias policy of obstruction took the form of rebellion, which naturally enlisted sympathy. What pression given that sympathy has been a matter of dispute. but stands undisputed that small progressive and prosperous republic resulted in bright contrast with the turbulent tyrannical mother republic. u has been officially denied that this government extended more than it's sympathy to Panama in that struggle for freedom progress
 It is certainly for President Wilson and Mir Bryan that sympathy was active ma terial and eftectual after their rebellion in which the beginning they have encouraged the constitutionasts ny every possible means. A special envoy the president was sent to browbeat the de facto ruler the country. Other special enyoys were to aid and abet the constitutionalst leaders, of whom murdering bandit The dangerous and unheard of expedient of lifting the embargo on for the sole benefit the was resorted to and lastly the Tampico incident avidy seized upon for the further crippling of the Mexican gov ernment.
 The recent course of Colombia has been such to invite concessions from this country. When Secretary of State Knox, early in 192 proposed to visit that republic in the course of friendly tour of South American countries he was officially in formed by the Colombian minister Washington that '.n his opinion the visit Mr Phiander Knox would not he welcone' and he afterward declared that he authorized by his government make that statement Two years before that the United States legation Bogoa stoned and Cnited States Minister Northcutt narrowly escaped injury In August of 1912. American Consul MacMaster assassnated Bogo1a after several frutess tcmpts his life
 Ii is proposed by the administration 0 humiliate ti,. United States and piacate this friendly and disorderly republic by present ,f s2a,000,60d. Tn. proposition. uf course. has from Mr. Bryan, whose public life from the day he became famous by his meaningless "cross of goia and of thorns" speech, has been series of folles and failures. Here have another true, Bryanesque. cheap political trick. costly to the try. and to the democratic party! large and respectable majority which the foreign policy Of disgusting The American people. regardless of party will stand policy unA nerican They must the supneness and weakness which has characterized governments dealings with foreign nations during the present administrations