OCR Text |
Show Secretary Shaw has signed the warrant war-rant In behalf of the French Panama Canal company which calls for forty million dollars. It is a big- sum of money to be called for by one little slip of paper. The transaction Involved Is also a big thing, one of the biggest In the history of mankind. It is a transaction trans-action which will redound to the honor and advantage of the United States through all tho coming ages of the world. And the changes it will make In the commercial routcs.of the earth, through the building of the canal, no man can now foretell. |