Bluefield evening leader. [volume], December 09, 1908, Image 3

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I TEMPEST IN
II TEN-PIN ALLEY
—
The rabid altercation be* ween tii ;
(resident, on lTie one ban 1, and
(leBsrs. l.uffan and ®nv ;h, the dlt
>rs respectively of th«> New York
Sun and the Indianapolis N »ws, on
ao other hand, will tend rather to
ronfuse han to enlighten :(he g *n
rai public. This Is d sMnctly un
ortunate. "ven thus late the truth,
‘he whole truth and noth ng bat
lie truth to<utiling, let us any. the
'an am a matter—though long ago a
llosed chafer—might be tuned to
n>me moral account and made to
erve the ends of retributive Just co
incauwe it involves one of ’ll.9 very
greatest stock-jobbing deals ever in
ill the world brought to successful
ichievement.
The president is clearly d olngen
iouh when he says, as to the money
mid by the government of the lin -
ed States to the French company
’or .its rights, c’a ms and assets in
Panama: ’The United States did
lot pay a cent of (he $i0,000,000
o any American citizen.’
"The fact has been oTfirkilly pub
s-ihed again and aga- n that tho gov
ernment paid $40,000,000, and that
it pad this $10,000,000 direct to
:he French government, getting a
receipt of the liquidator appoint d
by tho French government to re
vive the same.”
"The United States government
has not the slght'st know lodge as
io the particular individuals among
wlhom the French governni-nt dis
tributed the sum. The mere suppo
sition that any American received
rom tho French government a
rake-off’ Is too absurd to be dis
cussed. It Is an abominabio false
hood.” I
"So far as I know, thf re was no
lynd cate; there certainly was no
syndicate In the United States that
to my knowledge had any dea’lngs
w th tho government, directly or
ndirectly.”
In tfliis wo say the president !«.
’.isingcnuous. Ills phraseology '*•
misleading. From It one iiilgut In
fer that the matter Jay t.et n *ne
government of the Un ted State*
and the government of France.
Such Is not the fart.
Tho story Is briefly as follows:
After th‘* complete failure, collap e
and bankruptcy of tho orig r.al I)e
besseps Canal Company, Invo’ving
Immense srandal and widespread
loss to the rtbarebold* rs, mainly,
if not exclusively Fromh—the af
fairs of the company lei gated to
ho French courts of law a new
eoTitimny wag organ zed In Paris to
|/iircf>a*e and take over the holdings
of tho old company. There were
many delays and a t,r»at deal of
lit gat'.on. Hut, fina'Jy, this was ac
complished. It Is alleged tihat the
now company imkl the ol 1 company
sixty millions of francs, or about
•welvo millions or dollar-. For Mich
i urn 'he new company got the rew
1 u > of t'.’.e limited framh'se grant
ed the o i company by the Itopab'ic
of Colombia and wliatev r property
■l;o oil company had l.i Panama, or
olsewhoro; mostly obsolete rnacfhJn
ery and a few sink hobs, an was
befileved by many In olllgrnt people
conversant with tlie situation and
has be*en often charged.
The old coirt/any was wiped out,
lock, jrtock and barrel. New bond*
were Issued by tha new company
Obv oun’y, undeniably, the purpose
of the “promoters" wan to *11 the
newly acfpilr-’d properties and
rightn to th.* United States.
The president »* the now compa
ny came over with an offer of one
hnndr d an 1 fl'ty million*—In
round number* more or less, which
ho rod tread to a hundred mill ons,
still mors or less —we are wr ting
without tho exact figures merely to
give the ‘ssenUal farts -but, re
ceiving lltto encouragement, lie
went away again. h.*n Mr. Kd
ward I.ami)re, secretory of the new
company. came over with a rovlaed
offer of $40,000,000, wh'ch—the*
legal rights of the now company
having be* n establ shed —was final
ly accepted and ;he .money pa d
over to tne liquidator in Am ri«-a
we would say receiver—appointed
by the French court to distribute -it
and jo to wnd up the whole affair.
The French government, as a
government, was nows’ involved.
It was not a ne.got ati n between
two governments. It was a dea'l be
tween tho government of tflie IT nit -
*-d States and a Fr ‘nch company, or
syndicate, In litigation before the
French courts, Anally a French
court o' liquidation to wh'ch the
money was paid.
OS'ow the niov ng splr’t, the ready
hand, direct In g and cngin.ering the
transaction in the United States was
Mr. William Nelson Cromwell. The
activi ties wh ch had organized the
lew company, taking over the
rights of the old company In Paris,
were transferred to New York and
Wash'ngton in order to compass
the sale to th • government of the
United Slates. Forty millions is a
good deal of money. if the new
company only paid twelve millions
for that wdilch it proposed to sell,
and did actually sell, for forty mill
ions somebody, or bodies, made a
profit of twenty-e ght ".nillionH, WUh
Mr. Cromwoll, an American, tin the
ead, the field of operation tho con
gress of the United States— a vast
sum mi issue- it is by no means in
coiwelvablo- certainly It Is not “an
abom nalblc falsehood”—to surmise
tliat not one, but many. Am 'rleans
got some of the profits acerultiR
from the Inflation of twelvo mil lions
into Torty m Ilioi.s. It is simply
dls> URenuous In the president to
qualify his d n al by lnterpolatlnR
the words “French Rovern incut."
and by repudiatiiiR an Amercan
“syndicate,” which did not ex si,
nor need to exist.
There iniRbt have been fifty
Americans In the Fruch syndicate,
or none a' all, the fact remain hr
(hot the I’nlte.I States did through
th* 'nstrunientallty of Mr. William
Nelson Cromwell and his associates
pay forty nmlions of dollars 1o a
French company, for a worthless lot
of pots and pane and sink-hoes, n
Panama, and for “rights” which
proved no 1 rlRhts" at all- /but for
which thereafter we had to pay ten
rni’lions more to a ItepuMc of Pan
ama, set up hy the same con'ract'ng
parties, with tea mill oris more on
top of that for operating expenses,
sixty millions In all, w th nobody
Visible, xcejrllnR Mr. Cromwell, Mr.
l>ampro and Mr Ph illppe Hunau
Var'lla, rlaknlnR to r present the
French company.
The broad qurst on Is
merc'y
muddled by calling Mr. Uougin;
Robinson, tiie president » brother
in-law, and Mr. Charles IV Taft, tin1
preiddont-elect's brother, t«> aicoun
Wo know of no reason why each
might not hnva put hi-, money n th
bon.is they chos* to buy for a rising
market, one of them, If no beta,
lowing money to Invent. The at
tempt to Impeach the president <r
the president- lee1, in that connec
tion, even f the charge were true,
Id scent farfetched.
When the fight was on toe Cour
ier-Journal took a hand mil r *.!e*
’and of tho la .* Senator Morgan, jf
Alabama. The fraudulent character
of the proceedin'? fromi start to fin
ish was fu’ly exposed and explain -d
'll these columns. In sp te of all
our congr rh parsed the forty in M
ion bill; tho adminrut on recog
nised the 11;,-by-night “Rcpubllii"
of fPannma; again the congress n i
thori/ed two blocks of ten m ll'ons
lit favor of tho new “Ropubl c";
and, failing to arouse the people, or
to obtain an hentie informabion
tlirougli adetjnal - Investigat'oii, Mr
Morgan tneanwh 'e phrs'ng from
tho s- ne, we let it go at that ami
dropped It altogether.
Cot us eay In this connection that
we did not suspect the ad'mlnist r„>
t'on of guilty compllei:y wTh any
of the* stock-Jol b ng schetn h wh'cu
emanated from theso procee.fl a kb.
The stock Jobbers took advantage
of tH arnb tions. The senate com
mittee thwarted Mr. .Morgan at ev
‘ ry point In h!s effort to get t n
truth from Mr. W 11 him Nelson
Cromwell. Here, at least if the
president eared to < n er upon a rnn
tiioversy, lie would have iho New
York Sun for a backer. If not an
organ; if or Mr. Luff an and Mr
Cronrwell were understood to be
very good friends.
Tho Indianapolis News seems to
haV5 been without a Iviwm. nt In
mak ng a personal cane where proof
was not only lacking but Impossible
Tho pr-sklent may very well deny
tho disappearance of ncrlrnlnatin.;
documents which could never haw
been in tho jK>wieBKion of ‘.he gov
eminent. Wo milHt and we do ac
cept Mr. Robinson's and Mr. Taft'n
d< nials. Tho only thing at th g iate
day wh'ch he coul 1 wish othcrwls
Is the apparent Intimacy between
Mr. Wiliam Nelson Cromwell, »m<1
tho national R.-publican organ I/.a
Horn during tho recent presidential
campaign.
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“THE suit
Under the caption, “Tho I’r
l -Ien»t Amenltos," tho Sun said o II
torially Monday:
“The editor of the Sun presents
his compliments to Mr. Iloovov It,
and acknowledges his s.>nsMiillty In
rojpact of tthe attention wit cli Mr.
ItooHove: has been good enough
to pay li in in his letter t , Hon.
W Lkmi Dudley Fo.ilke, of Indiana.
*'Xot\v'tiistniiding ;!»• directness
of Ills challenge, the editor of the
Sun derl ms a controversy with Mr
Roosevelt lie is by jio means in
different to the implied compi mont
di.-cernlhl • in Mr. ltoosevel /» ti
rade, lut Mr. Roosevelt has
'.(town in 1i:h frequent coll along
w> tli various persona of distinction
that he has an ovorwhe'nTng advan
tage over any resp viable antago
nist in his (Mr. Roosevelt's) com
plete froedoni from any sense of
personal obligation In reapert of
tho truth. Tho editor of the Hun
s Tally alive to the « x‘remity of tho
IneoiiM nienco whl((h attaches to a
personal controversy with a man
who has shown lr inself capaiblo of
suppress'on and perversion of In
dividual correspondence, an act
which in o dlnary Kfo -would, In
the cogn zance of any cl b or asso
ciation of s df-rewpeetlng gentlemen
entail ir s prompt expulsion.
‘ In saying these things we can
not. disguise our dliagrin and liu
niiliat on that the person who Is ad
dressed Is also the preslltnt of the
I'n ted States. It s curious that
Mr. I'odlko is a preferred reposito
ry <f thoge confidences of the pres
ided It wus to him that Mr.
Room velt wrote Hurt memorable let
ter denying that (lie was using the
f deial patronage to ad Mr. Tuff's
candidacy, — letter which at once
took Its place among the most va'
tied incunabula (Vf veracity."
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