Show I i iONLY DECLARES CANAL IS ONLY WAR MEASURE CHICAGO Jan If If the United States wants to build bund tho the Panama canal it should present to the people pen peo plo pIc the tho only legitimate reason for tho the work and that reason is I that it is undertaken simply as a war m measure So said Professor lor Frederick Starr in in an address last night attacking the governments government's method methol of Carr carrying inc on its Panama canal policy Ho lie declared that the thc canal would never better the thc I commercial interests ts of tho the countI country I and would ouM always be hc a burden Tho Thu canal will not bo ho able ahle to compete com corn pete peto with the railroad ho he sai said This railroad is in the thc center o of Mexico exico an anti and connects the tho Atlantic with tho Pacific ft It can transfer merchandise o cheaper than the thc canal will Professor or Starr called the thc proposed Pan American railroad n a Utopian dream which never could ho bo realized Ho assorted that a railroad d from Alaka Alaska Alas Ala ka kit to Capo Cape Horn Born was I s simply imply an air air castle |