Panama fever (87 page)

223     “from approbation to suspicion and from suspicion to decided opposition”
Skinner,
France and Panama
, p. 208.

223    ”History will say of me”
Miner,
The Fight for the Panama Route
, p. 233.

224    ”We pointed out”
United States Congress House of Representatives,
The Story of Panama
, pp. 278–79.

224     “greedy little anthropoids”
Anguizola,
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
, p. 226.

224    ”If Colombia should now reject the treaty”
Miner,
The Fight for the Panama Route
, p. 285.

225    ”The only party”
Anguizola,
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
, p. 223.

225    ”President Roosevelt is determined”
New York World, June
13, 1903.

226    ”Any amendment whatever or unnecessary delay”
Miner,
The Fight for the Panama Route
, p. 308.

226     “Make it as strong as you can”
Pringle,
Theodore Roosevelt: A
.
Biography
, p. 311.

227     “the foolish and homicidal corruptionists in Bogota”
Bishop,
Theodore Roosevelt
, vol. 1, p. 278.

227    ”I know, for having heard him say so, how intensely he wants it”
Jusserand,
What Me Befell
, p. 252.

228    ”We might make another treaty, not with Colombia, but with Panama”
New York Herald
, August 15, 1903.

228    ”It is altogether likely there will be an insurrection on the Isthmus”
Bemis, ed.,
The American Secretaries of State and their Diplomacy
, vol. 9, pp. 163–64.

229    ”a thousand offers in the direction of assisting the revolution”
United States Congress House of Representatives,
The Story of Panama
, p. 362.

229    ”The United States would build the Panama Canal”
Ibid., pp. 359–60.

230    ”Revolutionary agents of Panama [are] here”
Collin,
Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean
, p. 249.

230    ”All is lost”
Bunau-Varilla,
Panama
, p. 291.

231    ”I have no doubt that he was able to make a very accurate guess”
Miner,
The Fight for the Panama Route
, p. 359.

231     “I held all the threads of a revolution on the Isthmus”
Bunau-Varilla,
Panama
, p. 297.

233     “If I succeeded in this task the Canal was saved”
Ibid., pp. 329–30.

235     “If you will aid us”
United States Congress House of Representatives,
The Storyof Panama
, p. 390.

235     “There was nothing that did not show the greatest cordiality”
Espino,
How
Wall Street Created a Nation
, p. 106.

237     “resumed their independence”
Mack,
The Land Divided
, p. 463.

237    
“Viva La Republica de Panama!”
Star and Herald
, November 11, 1903.

238    ”a second Boer War”
New York Tribune
, November 24, 1903.

238    ”it is preferable to see the Colombian race exterminated”
Anguizola,
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
, p. 276.

239    ”revolution of the canal, by the canal, for the canal”
Birmingham Age-Herald
, November 7, 1903.

239     “It is another step in the imperial policy”
Pittsburgh Post
, November 7, 1903.

239     “hot-headed and immature”
Little Rock (Arkansas) Gazette
, November 7, 1903, quoted in Graham,
The “Interests of Civilization”?
, p. 49.

239     “It begins to look as if nobody can touch that Panama ditch”
Salt Lake Herald
, quoted in
Literary Digest
, November 27, 1903.

239     “stolen property”
New York Times
, December 29, 1903.

239     “The thing is done, there is no way of undoing it”
Houston Post
, November 12, 1903.

239    ”The world must move on”
San Francisco Chronicle
, November 18, 1903.

240    ”The country ought to be ringing with the protests”
Graham,
The “Interests of Civilization”?
, pp. 127-28.

240     “Mr. President, I am glad you did not start the rabbit to running”
Quoted in
New York Commercial Advertiser
, November 12, 1903.

240     “I did not lift a finger to incite the revolutionists”
Collin,
Theodore Roosevelt's
Caribbean
, p. 267.

241    ”It is reported that we have made the revolution”
Jusserand,
What Me Befell
, p. 253.

242    ”Mr. Secretary of State, the situation harbors the same fatal germs”
Bunau-Varilla,
Panama
, p. 358.

244     “What do you think, Mr. Minister”
Ibid., p. 366.

244    ”Remember that ten days ago the Panamanians were still Colombians”
Weisberger, “The Strange Affair of the Taking of the Panama Canal Zone,”
American Heritage
27, p. 75.

245    ”As for your poor old dad”
McCullough,
The Path between the Seas
, p. 392.

246    ”inflammatory, unnecessary and offensive”
Collin,
Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean
, p. 281.

246     “very satisfactory, vastly advantageous to the United States”
McCullough,
The
Path between the Seas
, p. 392.

246     the new treaty was many times worse for Panama, as Hay later admitted
Cullom,
Fifty Years of Public Service
, p. 383.

246     “We separated not without emotion”
Bunau-Varilla,
Panama
, p. 377.

246    ”I greeted the travelers with the happy news!”
Ibid., pp. 377–78.

247    ”What do you think of the canal treaty?”
Mallet private letter, November 25, 1903.

248    ”it sounds very much like we wrote it ourselves”
Bunau-Varilla,
Panama
, p. 427.

248     “stolen in the most bare-faced manner from Colombia”
58th Cong., 2d Sess., p. 871, January 19, 1904.

248     “rising as one man,” “but the one man was in the White House”
58th Cong, 2d Sess., p. 706, January 13, 1904.

248    ”but the beginning of systematic policy of aggression”
Ibid., p. 709.

249    ”I fear that we have got too large to be just”
Ibid., p. 401, December 19, 1903.

249     “You might whip the dog, but would you throw away the rabbit?”
New York Times
, January 8, 1904.

249     “to our future political, commercial, and naval expansion”
Quoted in Graham,
The “Interests of Civilization”?
, p. 126.

249    ”From the point of view of world politics”
Charles Henry Huberich,
The Trans-Isthmian Canal: A
.
Study in American Diplomatic History
(Austin, Texas, 1904), p. 31, quoted in Graham,
The “Interests of Civilization”?
, p. 126.

250    ”the great Frenchman, whose genius has consecrated the Isthmus”
Quoted in Anguizola,
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
, p. 289.

250     “somebody unexpectedly seized my hands”
Bunau-Varilla,
Panama
, p. 428.

250     “great uneasiness caused among my friends by my action”
Roosevelt to Spooner, January 20, 1904, quoted in Collin,
Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean
, p. 306.

250    ”The one thing for which I deserved most credit in my entire administration”
Major,
Prize Possession
, p. 63.

251    ”more to an empire than a Republic”
Graham,
The “Interests of Civilization”?
, p. 144.

251     “Tell our speakers to dwell more on the Panama Canal”
Collin,
Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean
, p. 306.

251     “We stand today, apparently in the shadow of a great defeat”
Graham,
The “Interests of Civilization”?
, p. 150.

Chapter Sixteen: “Make the Dirt Fly”

253    ”In America, anything is possible,”
Hardeveld,
Make the Dirt Fly
, p. 5.

253    George Martin
“Competition for the Best True Stories.”

254    ”is nothing in the nature of the work”
New York Tribune
, January 23, 1904.

254    ”solid inevitability”
Skinner,
France and Panama
, p. 2.

254     “the results be achieved”
McCullough,
The Path between the Seas
, p. 408.

254    ”Old Man of the Sea”
Gorgas and Hendrick,
William Crawford Gorgas
, p. 170.

255    ”I feel that the sanitary and hygiene problems”
Roosevelt to Morison, February 24, 1904, quoted in McCullough,
The Path between the Seas
, p. 406.

256    some 70 percent had the enlarged spleen of the malaria carrier
Gorgas,
Engineering Record
, May 1904.

256    ”he was sure every member of the Commission hoped that a sea-level canal would be built”
Mallet to Lord Landsdowne, April 27, 1904, FO881/8429.

257    ”They have taken all the meat and left the bone”
Mallet private letter, June 16, 1904.

257     “The Isthmus is swarming with Yankees already”
Mallet private letter, June 10, 1904.

257     “Panama without mosquitoes?”
Mallet private letter, June 2, 1904.

257    ”such a God forsaken place where the French have so finally failed!”
Hibbard account, MCCZ, Box 22.

258    ”The rainy season had just commenced”
Karner,
More Recollections
, p. 11.

259    ”There was, I realized, a stupendous piece of work before us”
Quoted in Dock, ed.,
A History of Nursing
, p. 300.

259     “A more prolific source would be hard to imagine.”
Le Prince and Orenstein,
Mosquito Control in Panama
, p. 20ff.

259    ”only jungle and chaos from one end of the Isthmus to the other”
McCullough,
The Path between the Seas
, p. 439.

260    Joseph Le Prince found several trees
Le Prince and Orenstein,
Mosquito Control in Panama
, p. 17.

260     “excellently recorded [which] proved to be of great use”
Sibert and Stevens,
The Construction of the Panama Canal
, p. 11.

260     “a fairly good condition, and were systematically stored”
Wallace, “Preliminary Work on the Panama Canal,”
Engineering Magazine
, October 1905.

260     “Splendid workmanship was shown on these machines”
Sibert and Stevens,
The Construction of the Panama Canal
, p. 13.

260    ”considerable work had been done on the channel from La Boca to Miraflo-res”
Ibid., p. 11.

261    ”vastly more than the popular impression”
McCullough,
The Path between the Seas
, p. 441.

261     The idea of a plan that would render much of the French digging
James Thomas Ford, “The Present Condition and Prospects of the Panama Canal Work,” Institute of Civil Engineers,
Minutes of Proceedings
, February 5, 1901.

262    ”afford convenient passage for vessels of the largest tonnage”
Quoted in Miner,
The Fight for the Panama Route
, pp. 408–9.

263    ”Lizards and gaudy snakes crawled and scuttled”
Waldo, “The Panama Canal Work, and the Workers,”
Engineering Magazine
, p. 327.