glsfr. -Roosevelt is evidently determined that his political Opponents shall,
like the Greeks and Trojans, "know the Morel:tee " now that Achilles is returned. When the ship *bieh took him to America on Thursday reached port he at einett made a statement on the handling of foreign affairs by President Wilson and. Mr. Secretary Bryan, which Was quite in ilia best style. He began by denouncing the Colombian Iftdemnity Treaty as "making a belated payment of, black mail with an apology to the blackmailer," and wondered why iltr.'Wilson td-Mr. Bryan; while they were about %slid nbt
restore Panama to Colombia and abandon the Canal. Mr. Roosevelt's handling of the Mexican question was also vigorous, and, we are bound to say, appears to us unanswer- able. Dealing with the question of arms, he pointed out that the United States Government had usually permitted the free ingress of arms into Mexico. "Occasionally, however, it has undergone spasms of understanding that these arms might ultimately be used against our own troops. Then it has pro- hibited the landing of arms, sometimes wobbling back again to its original position, as when it took Vera Cruz in order to prevent the landing of weapons and munitions of war, and shortly afterwards permitted the very same arms and muni- tions to be landed." The delegate's at Niagara,- we may add, have signed a Protocol, but it remains to be seen whether anyone will be a penny the worse or a penny the better for this literary act.
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