Show THE DARIEN OR SAN BUS ROUTE We thought very likely it would come We mean the proposal to cut the Isthmian canal by the old Darlen route Some time back we made a summary of tho points claimed in favor fa-vor of that route It Is less than thir ty miles between tidewaters on each side > there is at each end of the proposed pro-posed routes a harbor so superior to the harbors of any other route proposed pro-posed that their advantages are infinite Infi-nite in every way The route Is abso lutely straight there la no raging torrent tor-rent to control it Is a rock cut all through with a tunnel through the mountains that come almost to the coast on the Atlantic side but for tho most of the distance It Is a rock plain It is without locks ra tidewater canal Senator Scott of West Virginia offered a resolution yesterday calling for the examination of this route before the final determination of the routo of tho canal and Senator Morgan chairman of the Senate committee on interoceanic canals assured him that tuil this route called in Senator Scotts resolution the San Bias route was being inquired into The apparent objection to the route was explained by Senator Morgan Mor-gan as nullifying the Panama route wasting the money already spent there and Destroying the value of tho Panama Pana-ma railway We dont think the railway rail-way item Iso much hfQrce but It as claimed the Darien or San Bias route can be built for about the same money as would bo needed to complete the Pan amacanaland would cost comparatively nothing I to operate or maintain being a straight tidewater cut and with superior harhor at each end the waste would not be In letting the expenditure expendi-ture made at Panama go but In keeping keep-ing on with that cut We have a good deal of faith In the Durlen route it was the highway of the Spanish trade with the Orient for centuries It Is the natural route and the shortest short-est by somo eighteen miles It is famous fa-mous as the scene of the great Scottish Scot-tish effort to control the isthmian trade an effort that might have been successful but for the shameful antagonism an-tagonism of the English court and the London merchants The old exploders explod-ers were pretty apt to hit on the easiest eas-iest and best routes It Is not unlikely that they have done so In this case |