...this country is a canal under American control." Garfield, succeeding Hayes, added his word: "It is the right and duty of the United States to assert...authority over any interoceanic canal across the isthmus as will protect our national 18, 1903; ratified by republic of Panama Dec. 2, 1903; ratified by the...

...9, 1889. declaration made would not be explicit. And it was not. In his inaugural he said, " We will urge no narrow policy, nor seek peculiar or exclusive privileges in any commercial route." This is wholly in accord with the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. These words are followed, however, by others...

...the attention of the Government, with a view to a thorough protection to American interests. We will urge no narrow policy, nor seek peculiar or exclusive...and maintain such supervision and authority over any 566 interoceanic canal across the Isthmus, that connects North and South Amercia, as will protect our...

...attention of the Government, with the view to the thorough protection of American interests. We will urge no narrow policy, nor seek peculiar or exclusive...assert and maintain such supervision and authority over an inter-oceanic canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our...

...give to the tillers of the soil the best lights of practical science and experience. * * * We will urge no narrow policy, nor seek peculiar or exclusive...believe it to be "the right and duty of the United Srates to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any interoceanic canal across the...

...attention of the Government with a view to a thorough protection of American interests. We will argue no narrow policy, nor seek peculiar or exclusive privileges...any commercial route ; but, in the language of my predecessors, I believe it to be ' the right and duty of the United States to assert and maintain such...

...attention of the Government with a view to a thorough protection of American interests. We will argue no narrow policy, nor seek peculiar or exclusive privileges...in any commercial route; but, in the language of my predecessors, I believe it to be ' the right and duty of the United States to assert and maintain such...

...attention of the Government, with a view t» thorough protection to American interests. We will urgemo narrow policy, nor seek peculiar or exclusive privileges...in any commercial route; but, In the language of my predecessors, I believe1 it to be " the right and duty of the U•lited States to assert and maintain...

...possession and the supervisory control of any artificial means of interoceanic transit, and declares it to be the right and duty of the United States to insist upon and assert this right against the projectors and prosecutors of the contemplated enterprise,...

...possession and the supervisory control of any artificial means of interoceanic transit, and declares it to be the right and duty of the United States to insist upon and assert this right against the projectors and prosecutors of the contemplated enterprise,...