Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-04 | Page 12 | Necessity of Building the Isthmian Canal

SITY OF THIS TB ISTHMIAN A if CANAL AI AINe No Ne Jungle Ie great pet material work which Ins h to be undertaken on this eon con continent is of such buch consequence to the American people as the building of a canal caul across the isthmus connecting North and South America Its import importance 4 ance bt to the nation is by no means urn lim limited Umit it d merely to its material effects upon our 0 business u lne s prosperity and yet with view to these effects alone it would te he teto beto heto to the last lut degree important for us im iw immediately mediately to begin it While its ben beneficial i effects would perhaps be mo mot t marked upon the Pacific coast and the tile Gulf GuU and South Seuth Atlantic states it would also 80 greatly benefit other oUter see sec sections tIis ena It is emphatically a work which It 1 is js for fr the interest t of or the entire coon coun country try to begin and complete as soon as asp a I p it is te one of those thise great woi works ka t only a great nation can und i t with prospects tr of success s and which when done are not only perma permanent permanent nent neut assets in the nations material in interests but standing monuments to its constructive co ability I am glad to be able to announce to you our negotiations on this sub BUb suba Met a t with tf Great Britain conducted on both boUt skies sides in a spirit of friendliness d tl mutual good wilt will and respect hae have resulted in my Jay m being ing able to lay before the senate a treaty which if ratified wilt wIlL enable us to begin preparations for t an isthmian canal at any ny time and which guarantees to this nation every right t that it has ever asked in co tion with the canal In this treaty the theoM theold oM old Clay treaty so long tee rec recognized as inadequate to supply the theba ba base e for the construction and main maln maintenance maintenance t nn e of a necessarily American ship canal is abrogated It specifically p pro 0 vides that the United States alone shall do the work of building and assume the responsibility of e safeguarding the canal and an shall regulate its neutral use Ulle by byall byall byall all nations on terms of equality without tn t the guaranty or Interference of any nation from any quarter quartet The signed treaty will at once be laid be beo fer rere fere the tae senate and lid if It approved the theco 1 congress co can then proceed to give ef of effect feet r to the advantages it secures secure us by providing for the building of or the canal