| Show DREAMS COMING TRUE In his bin reminiscences quotes from roin Goethe ft a rather Xh remark remarkable remarkable able prophecy part pert of ot which h he baa been beet fulfilled already and part of which will willbe willbe willbe be under headway head before the th end of the present century At at Goeth s a distinguished company w was a listening lI to the poets l Ulian conversation He was waa peak speak speaking peakIng ing tag of the great undertakings by which man had changed the face of nature natu and am had remodeled son 6 of the gee geo geographical graphical features of or the earth Humboldt said Goethe has indi indicated I with great local knowledge set sev several eral cial points where by DY making use uee of some rivers flowing Into the Gulf Golf of Mexico one might perhaps connect the oceans for tot commerce even more ad adV f vanta than at Panama Th de de j of ol all this is reserved to the fu future future futura ture tura and so a a grand spirit spilt of enter enterprise enterprise prise So much is Ie certain tin that if a a cutting be possible po ei of such a character It as a would allow stripe ipe tipe with any kind of cargo ergO and ud of every even the greatest e t slat size to pass pus through such a canal from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific ocean there would woud result for tor the whole of or the civilized world else I for the not civil civilized civilIzed part of mankind the t e most moat meal incalculable in 1 i advantages I should however be astonished if It the United States were wore to let slip the opportunity of or getting such a work into their own bands hee One may foresee that that youthful coun coen country try with its it pronounced tendency toward the west went will have Seised upon and aDd poOi Xi ed thirty or forty years even the wide ide stretches of or land beyond the th Rocky mountains mountaha One may also foresee that along all an this coast of the Pacific where nature Has al already alread already ready read created the most moat spacious adous and andt most meat t secure harbors there will WilI grad gradually gradually nally arise rici very important commercial towns towne which will become the Inter Intermediaries of or a great t intercourse be between between between tween China ChillS and the East Indies IndIe on the one side and the United States Stales on the other But Thit in that case it wilt will be benot benot benot not only desirable but almost a 8 matter matter of 01 necessity ty that merchant vessels ve els as aswell aswell well w ll as shall maintain ln in a amore amore amore more rapid PM communication than has so far been possible ihle po by the wearisome me dl disagreeable and costly navigation round Cape Horn I repeat then that it is absolutely imperative for the Unit United United United ed States to effect a 8 cutting from the Gulf of Mexico to Pacific And I am am h certain that they thoY will win achieve that aim I should like to live Uve to see it but that is not possible po in my case cue Secondly I should like to live to see effected joining at a join of o the Rhine with wit the th Danube But that were another ADOther gigan gigantic g gigantic tic undertaking and I doubt K Its being carried c out more especially e when I contemplate the smallness of the means that Germany can elm po e of 01 And thirdly thir iy I should d like the English to be bein bein beIn in possession 08 of a 8 canal of or Suez These Them three things I should like Uke to live Jive to see see and nd it tt would be really worth while hile to how hold out here for sake Mke an another another another other fifty ft years year What W t he be predicted would be done by bythe bythe bythe the An has either been com corn or begun although uCh he did not flee to see Bee it Jt t What he feared hi his own country would woul not do because b use of the militarism which saps 8 1 her strength th and disheartens her energy y ha has baa not been done But the Germans are making wonderful wo strides hi in commerce of late and aria it may DaY not be long before ore the Rhine and the Danube will form a atran transcontinental tran waterway for Europe Yet this is of lees tew commercial import importance rt anee ance than are an the canals of 0 Suez and Panama i |
