Show BUILDING OF CANAL CONTINUING POLICY OF UNITED STATES The Tho Congress has wisely provided I t t we shall build at once an Isthmian I canal If IC possible at at Panama Panama The rhe At At- General torney reports that we can undoubtedly un un- ly b acquire good title from th the French Frerich Panama canal comp company n Ne Ne' arc nrc now flOW pending with wih Colombia Colombia Co Co- lombia to secure her assent to pur our building the canal This canal will willbe wi he be one of the greatest engineering feats feat's Ct of or the twentieth century a a. a greater en engineering feat feut than has yet et b been en a ac ae during durin the history of oC man man kind The work should be carried out as a n continuing continuing- policy pOley without r regard reg-ard gard Ito to to change chance of oC Administration and i H be begun besun under circumstances which will wi make It a a matter lr of pride for or all al Administrations to continue the I plC policy Of ot Benefit to World The canal will 1 be of ot great reat h benefit nent to America and nd of or importance to all al the world orid It I will be of oC advantage t to u us industrially and also as os Improving ln our military position It will vill wi be of oC advantage an ad ta tage e to the countries of tropical Amer l ica a. a It I is earest earnestly to be hoped that all al of or these countries will wH do as ns soma some of oC them have already done lone with wih signal success and will wH Invite le In to their shores commerce and Improve their material conditions b by recognizing that stability an and 1 order ol-dr are arc the prerequisites of oC uc- uc development de No 0 Independent nation naton In America need 1 have Q the eBl eR Year of oC n aggression from the United States States It I behooves each one to main maln- Lain tain order within Us its Is own borders borde and to discharge e Its Is Ju Just t obligations to for for- eigners When hen this Is done the they can rest assured that he be they thEY strong stron or weak the they have ha c nothing to dread from rom outside Interference More Tore an and 1 more the Increasing Interdependence an and 1 complexity of oC International political and economic relations render rendor It Il In In- cun cun t h on all fB civilized c and orderly powers to Insist on the proper policing of t the world worl 1 Pacific Cable Matter Maler During the fall fal orl Ol a communication tion ton was addressed ged to the Secretary of Sta State te a asking whether J permission would be bc sr granted b by th President to a u corporation to la lay a cable from a point pointon on the California coast to the Philippine Philippine Philip Philip- pine 1 Islands by by way of Hawaii HawaI A statement o of con conditions or terms upon which such corporation would undertake undertake under under- take tale to la lay and operate a cable was volunteered Inasmuch Ina much as the was shortly short short- hortI I ly to convene con and cable cablE legisla tion had been been the subject of con consideration consideration consider consider- b by the Congress for several se eral years year It I seemed to me mc wise vise to defer action acton upon the tho application until the Congress had first frt an opportunity to act The Congress s adjourned 1 without taking nn any action leaving lea the matter mater In exactly the same condition In which It I stood when the tho Congress convened con Meanwhile it i appears that the Commercial Com Corn mercial Pacific Pacific- Cable company had pro promptly ly proceeded with wih vl Lb preparations for laying laying- its Is cable cable It I also made application application ap ap- ap- ap to the Pre President for tor acce access s to and use us of soundings talen by the U.S. U.S. U. 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S discovering Nero for the purpose e of ering a practicable route for a transPacific trans- trans Pacific cable the com company pan urging that with wih access to these soundings it I could coul complete its Is cable much sooner than If It were required to take soundings upon Its Is n account Pending consideration con con- of this subject It I appeared important and desirable to attach certain certain tain Lain conditions to the permission to examine examine ex ex- amine and use ule the soundings if It should b be granted Concessions to Company In con consequence of this solicitation of or orthe the cable company certain conditions were formulated 1 upon which the thc President Pres I ident blent was willing to allow alow access to these soundings and nn to consent to the landing and laying of oC the cable subject subject sub sub- to an any alterations or additions thereto imposed b by the Congress Congress This was deemed proper especially as It was clear that a cable connection of ot cear some kind with wih China a foreign countr country coun coun- tr try was a part of the thc company's plan This course was moreover In accor accordance accordance accord accord- 1 ance with wih a line lne of oC precedents IncludIng IncludIng Including ing President Grants Grant's action neton In the case of oC the first French cable explained explained ex ex- to the Congress in his annual message of December 1875 and the In Instance instance In- In stance occurring in 1879 of the second French cable from froin Brest to St. St Pierre with a branch ito ito- to Cape Cod These conditions prescribed among other things thinS a maximum rate for Cor commercial commercial com corn mercial mes messages that the company should construct a. a line lne from the tho Philip Philippine pine Islands to there being at present ent as Is well known n a British line lne from frol Manila danlia to ng The representatives nt of the cable t es company com corn pany kept the these c conditions lon long under consideration continuing In the meantime meantime mean mean- time to prepare for laying the cable The They have however e. at at length acceded to them and an an American all al line lne be between he- he tween our Pacific c coast and the Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- n nese se empire b by way y of H Honolulu and the Philippine IsI J s c thus provided pro for and Is expected within a few months to be ready for business Among the thc conditions Is one ono reservIng reserving reser ing InS the thc power power Congress to modify modi fy 1 or re repeal cal any ar or tall fall fal of ot them A copy of or the conditions is herewith transmitted I t ted Porto Rico Prosperous Of OC Porto Rico it I Is only anI necessary to say that the prosperity of oC the Island and the ah which It has been go governed ha have hae e been such as to make it serve sene as an example of or all al that Is best bestIn bestIn bestin in insular administration |