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D. E. STITT, Editor.
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FRIDAY, JULY 20. 1912.
PANAMA CANAL BLUFF.
The Puna mn Canal now comes
in as a matter for contention be
cause of its completion in the
near future ami the influence it
will have upon foreign ami do
mestic traffic.
It wouM seem that since the
United States government had
bought the canal and purchased
the territory and the rights be
longing thereto, that she should,
according to the rights govern
ing property ownership, have
the right and privilege to exer
cise such authority over her
possession as best suited her
purposes, but it appears that
other nations take a different
stand in the premises and it is
possible that trouble may arise
from that which should prove a
blessing to the world in general.
In the first place objection is
made against the government
fortifying the canal, and in the
second instance objection is
made because of the House of
Representatives having passed a
bill exempting coastwise trading
vessels of toll in passing through
the canal.
The United States govern
ment purchased her rights, and
paid a big price for what the
French had done, and secured
the rights to the territory, then
went to work to complete the
task of opening a water-way for
ships from one ocean to the
other, and paid out hundreds of
millions of dollars in prosecuting
the work, and why should not
her people have the benefits that
will arise therefrom?
The Millenium is not here
yet; nations have neither beaten
nor consented to "beat their
swords into plowshares" nor
"their spears into pruning
hooks;" neither have they
learned to war no more, but on
the other hand they believe that
the more destructive their guns,
warships, and other inventions,
and the greater their prepara
tions for attack and defence the
greater is the prospects of peace.
Since this is the condition,
' not only of one nation, but of
all of them, then, why should
the United States invest her
millions of wealth in the big
ditch and leave it in a condition
for the first nation, which may
covet it, to seize and appropriate
it to its own purposes, or to be
seized by some power or powers
'in conflict with this nation, and
in either case only to be re
gained at the cost of much blood
shed and money.
As to the other proposition,
since this nation has collected
millions of dollars from the
people to pay for the canal, those
who have borne the expense
should have the benefit.
However, there are other in
terests, and it is charged that
institutions in our own country,
such as large railway companies,
are influencing Great Britain
to protest against lotting Ameri
can vessels through free of toll,
because of the competition in
freight rates which must neces
sarily come with the opening of
the canal.
Then, too, there are outside
interests; Japan objects because
of the fear of not being able to
compete with American vessels
which may pass through toll
free, ami as there will be a toll
of II .." a ton difference it will
amount to quite a sum when
vessels, carryingmany thousa nils
of tons, pass through, and as!
avarice is a green-eyed monster
there may serious conditions
arise as, perhaps, it will have a
tendencv to ruin business of
foreign nations in competing
with American vessels for ocean
trallic.
Times and conditions are
changing; the question which
Cain asked his Creator has a
world-wide meaning today Hnd
national interests, local interests
and foreign interests are so re
lated that the welfare of all is
more or less involved by radical
departures from existing con
ditions. The principle bound up in
the golden rule should be ad
hered to, and only when men
will do unto others as they would
have others do unto them, will
universal peace and prosperity
ensue.
Nevertheless, national and in
dividual rights, with the assump
tion, "It is mine and I will do
as I please with it," is yet so
strongly inculcated in the minds
of the human family that it is
only the most conservative that
are willing to yield their position
or that can see blessings in peace
and prosperity to ensue by
carrying out the principle of the
Golden Rule, and generally
speaking the motive is, "Hold
your own and add to what you
have," while often the purpose
is much stronger and may be
summed up in the sentence,
"Do the other fellow before he
does you," but peace and pros
perity will not come to the
world until righteousness covers
the earth like a mantle.
ARE MAKING INQUIRY
One of the most prominent
things discussed and held u
for public inspection is the enor
mous expense attached to a cam
paign for a presidential nomina-
tion. If presidential candidates
had to bear their own expenses
there would be none to seek that
office but the excessively wealthy
class, and just suppose that J,
Pierpont Morgan or John D.
Rockefeller were to ask the nom
ination, or any other of their
class and type of men, what
would be the result? Why, they
would be turned down very
quickly; the people would be
afraid to trust them because of
their interest; they have shown
that they will use the public to
build up their own interests and,
hence, there could be no safety
with added power entrusted to
them. Nobody would believe
that they were spending their
money for the good of the pub
lie. Well, it is pretty much the
same as it is and the public is
beginning to want to know who
pays the campaign expenses;
what the object is and what re
turn is expected for the money
expended.
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Why Not, Indeed!
Many people were puzzled
when England entered a pro
test against the United States'
proposal to pass its ocean trallic
free through the Panama Canal.
They could not understand why
England should interpose in a
matter which after all seemed
one of purely domestic concern.
But they had their suspicions
that something was back of it
all and that the incentive for
the protest came from the out
side. And it did, of course, it is
now believed, through the Ca
nadian Pacific interests because
of financial pressure exerted
from this side of the line. More
than ever before we are begin
ning to learn the' community of
interests which welds together
the financiers of the world.
In the matter of tariff for pass
ing through the canal every
nation will be put upon pre
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be no favorites and nofavoritisin;
but that the country which
poured out $400,000,000 to build
the great enterprise should not
have the privilege of saying that
its own vessels should pass
through the canal without
charge is ridiculous on the face
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