New Britain herald., 1914-07-02
KFS ISSUE WITH
 lNEL ROOSEVELT
 6b0B Explains Reasons IO| Supporting Colombian Treaty.

AAA1AiSSSobNi, A'e1., uly H.--1il d SIdlC- ment issued here last night dealing With the proposed Colombian treaty, James T. Dubois, who was United States minister to Colombia under the Taft administration, takes issue with the views recently expressed by Colonel Roosevelt and explains his own reasons for supporting the treaty. He also analyses the treaty at some length. Regarding his difference with Colonel Roosevelt on this subject, MT. Dubois expresses regret at opposing "a great leader whose fortunes I de- vctedly followed for ten years" and states that mo man will tolerate the thought that any of Colonel Roose- velt's acts was inspired by tainted motives, but no man is always right
 Negotiations for a treaty during the Taft administration, failed. he says, because his instructions, out of excessive care not to impugn the mo- tives of President Roosevelt in "tak- ing' Panama, failed to give Colom- bia sufficient justice. The pending treaty, he believes, should hardly be approved by the American people.
 JIpholds Mems Characters.
 Taking issue with Colonel Roose- welt regarding the character of the public men in Colombia. MT. DuBois declared that they compare we'll with the public men of other countries in intelligence and responsibility. In- stead of being "blackmailers and ban dits," quoting MT. Roosevelts declara- tion that the people of Panama were a unit in demanding the revolution, he says. "A handful of men who G,.- the revolution. conceived it and not the hundredth part of the inhabi- tants of the isthmus knew of the re- uniform of the United States army raised the flag of the new republic"
 Regarding the acting president, Marroquin, whom he quotes Colonel Roosevelt as describing "an absolute and uncontrolled dictator" MT. Du- Eois says:
 "He was helpless and hapless old man, placed in the midst of great national unrest and disorder at the close of the most disastrous civil war in the history of Colombia. He was not in accord with the congress and the congress was alive with discord and five millions of innocent and help less people saw the true interests of their country destroyed by the selfish disputes of less than 100 men. If Theodore Roosevelt had realized the true situation in Bogota at that hour, he would have reinforced his patience with sympathy for that helpless people who had been, for a hundred years, our best friends south of the Rio Grande.
 Hits Blackmail Claim.
 The claim made by Colonel Roose- welt that the Colombian treaty is a blackmailing agreement is dealt with the document.
 While negotiating for a treaty I made the Colombian authorities un- derstand that under no circumstances would the United States apologize to any nation for political act that was our unwritten law that never had been and never would be broken. In purely informal conversations, and in my official memorandum, I sug- gested that chivalrous expression any way been marred, such as any real gentleman would freely grant to another, might later be embodied in d treaty dS udlIIl loI lIe "ouIlueu feelings of 8. once friendly nation which had been humiliated before the whose credit had been de- stroyed in foreign countries, whose borrowing ability had been annihilat- ed and whose persistent appeals for arbitration had been ignored. The opposition to this feature, on the ground that it is an apology, is not just and is not in the true interests of the United States. If the Anglo Saxons are to live in harmony with the Latins on this continent, they must treat them with absolute justice, just as we shall exact justice from them"
 Claims Should Be Met.
 Dealing directly with article three