The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-01-11
HON. JOHN A. MARTIN
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB
BANQUET LAST NIGHT

BANQUET LAST NIGHT
Mexico will have stronger govern
ment in the end If she is left to fight
out her revolution by herself rather
than to have the United States inter.
fere and make her build up stable
government under our supervision" is
the opinion of Honorable John a Mar.
tin of Pueblo, who was the principal
speaker before the University Club
at their monthly banquet at the Mil.
Ter hotel last night Mr.. Martin only
spoke on the Mexican situation brief
ly while he devoted most of his very
interesting two hour talk to the build.
ing of the Panama canal of which he
had made a very close inspection and
study while that mammoth project
was under construction.
Mr.. Martin is deep thinker and
was in the congress of the United
States long enough to gain the knack
Of viewing things with a national and
International scope.
His vocabulary is extensive and his
word pictures of the Panama canal
were gems of linguistic beauty In
touching on various topics of current
history the speaker displayed won
derful range of inside knowledge
Mr.. Martin declared that be would
rather have done what Col. Goethals
did in building the Panama canal az
ter many men had failed than to be
president. He said that in the centur.
les to come the work of Col Goethals
will stand as a monument to this
mans wonderful genius for organiza.
ton and construction while to have
been president would only mean that
he would be classed as one among
many.
While Mr.. Martin was on the Pana.
ma canal during its construction as a
member of the congressional inspec-
ton committee he noted three remark
able things among the $4,000 employ.
rs. The first was that all of them
from the lowest to the highest. con
siGered Goethals a great and wonder.
full man. The second was their abso.
lutte loyalty for the work and the third
was their ill-concealed note of anxi ETY.
as to what the result of their work
would be when they had finished
whether the canal would be a failure
or not Mr.. Martin stated that this
last feeling came about thru the
many predictions of failure made by
many men who had been connected
with the canal at various times.
The speakers recital of the forma
tion OF the banana Republic and how
its formation made the Panama canal
possible was very interesting If there
had been no Panama republic there
would be no canal today was the as
sertion of the speaker. Re said that
sometime We as nation ought to re
pay Columbia in money as far as pos
sible for the damages she sustained
as a result of the Panama revolution
and the consequent foundation of the
Republic. He said that it was his
opinion that We had not treated Col
umbia exactly right in that transac
ton but that we could not have done
otherwise If We wanted the canal.
Mr.. 4. Cowie of Penrose delighted
the members with many clever Scotch
songs for the rendition OF which he
has made quite name for himself
He was roundly applauded and was
kept singing for half an hour. Mr..
Blake Warner pleased also with his
steel guitar selections.
Mr.. w. E. Galley and Mr.. W. r.
Gregory were unanimously elected to
membership.