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no single instance have the statements of 

 these sensation mongers and the in- 

 terested complainants behind them 

 proved true. The only discredit inhering 

 in these false accusations is to those who 

 originate and give them currency, and 

 who, to the extent of their abilities, 

 thereby hamper and obstruct the com- 

 pletion of the great work in which both 

 the lienor and the interest of America 

 are so deeply involved. It matters not 

 whether those guilty of these false ac- 

 cusations utter them in mere wanton 

 recklessness or folly or in spirit of sinister 

 malice to gratify some personal or polit- 

 ical grudge." 

 Thus speaks the President. 



A notable specimen of this scandal- 

 mongering literature was laid before the 

 country a few days ago from the pen of a 

 man who had spent twenty-eight hours 

 and ten minutes on the Isthmus. The 

 ten minutes are important, for a person 

 of such extraordinary powers of obser- 

 vation and production can collect an 

 enormous amount of material in that 

 time. He landed at Colon on November 

 30 at 10 a. m. and sailed away on the 

 same steamer from Colon at 2.10 p. m. 

 on December 1. In those twenty-eight 

 hours and ten minutes he accumulated a 

 fund of exact knowledge sufficient to en- 

 able him to draw a general and sweep- 

 ing indictment of the President, Secre- 



