Show FUTURE DEMANDS FOR CANALS There is but butone one Su Suez z canal because there ther is is' room room for but one There Phere is but one Kiel Kid c canal connecting con con- onn on- on n ct ng the the Baltic Baltic with the North sea and n no other no-other other other is needed But the American isthmus has room and routes an and will have business some day for three or four canals and no doubt the next century century cen cen- tury will see more than one actually in busy and profitable operation Sooner or later we are sure siire suret t to have ha both a Panama and a Nicaragua canal canal and and it not itis-not is not beyond the bounds of possibility that a vast traffic between Eastern and Vest Western ern N North orth Ai err I ca will refuse to fo go o f for r tr transit so so o far south as either I Ithe the Panama or 01 Nicaraguan routes The Tehuantepec I p pec pc c line has h had d man many strong advocates dvo ates in the past and is likely to find others in the future The greatest greatest greatest great great- est argument in its favor favo is that is-that that by it our commerce b between tween east and west coasts could be conducted without leaving lea our own watery For since the thea a acquisition of Porto Rico and the practical control of of- Cuba the Gulf of Mexico has become to all intents intents intents in in- tents and pu purposes poses part of the waters of the United S State a ate ate- a southern counterpart to our northern lakes |