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Show A CANAL RATE WAR. Intimations are made that the Suez 1 anal managers will begin a rate war against the Panama Canal when it is opened ' for traffic; that a will reduce .t- toll- 111 order t-o keep its business, hut pretending that the reduction is made as a strike hack at OU 1 ougres- sional legislation with regard to the ca nal, The Sue. Canal tolls be"retofqre have been much bighcV tbayn th6se,"proposed ; for. the Panauia Canal;' but' now ih- Suez ''anal will reducTelta rates-to, or a little below, those carried in the bill tiiat has just been passed by ( oiircs.". i'.m 11 tnat uill the Pre-Vdeul and the executive ottieir of the t-auul r.oue are given a ftpod deal p( discretion, and if the Sue- ('anal' managers really want .1 rate wai with onr (ipverment-owued canal at I'anania. it- will he easy -to K-.nmmodate K-.nmmodate them. The outcome' of' B 'car like that, where a canal 'company PO uiatte'r how Btrpngly backed, uii-denakes uii-denakes to make financial wur against 1 a RTOflt nation like the l.'nitcd States 1 i:;i il- unlimited resources, cannot bo n matter ot any doubt. A gOlm rn.inv Ajmeflcaaa are in favor ot having '.free tolls! through 'the Pan ama Canal as an original proposition. If the Sues Canal management undertakes under-takes a fight against the Panama Canal, Ca-nal, 'the sentiment for absolute free tolls through our Tsthmian Canal will grow tremendously, and it will not take much to convince the people of the 'United States that the best thin-r they can do, is to give everybody free pass age across the isthmus. Nothing more suicidal for the Suez anal could possibly be imagined than for its managers to undertake a canal war against the United Stale?. |