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Show CANAL WILL CHANGE HAP OF COMMERCE Trip From Pacific to Atlantic Atlan-tic Will Be Shortened 11,000 Miles, BIG BENEFIT TO U. S. PRODUCERS r Ships Will Sail From Up. per Mississippi to All Ports of World. BY rXEDESIO I. HA SKIN. ITLEBHA, Canal Zone. When tbe isthmian barrier succumbs at laat to the unrelenting attacks of tbe American eaaal digger, there will begin tbe most rapid change in the commercial map that baa been wrought in centuries. Not sine Columbus,' sailing aaroaa the Atlantic At-lantic in search of a western passage to India, discovered a new -world instead in-stead of a new waterway, has there been such a transforming event in tbe field of commerce as will be tbe opening open-ing of tbe Panama eanal. Cities that today are mere way stn-tiona stn-tiona on tbe international routes of trade will. grow into rich world centers where the new roads of the commercial map will cross. - On the other hand, cities cit-ies which today glory in trade supremacy su-premacy of international recognition will see themselves - displaced, their prestige lost, their hopes of tbe future i dsabed to esrtb. Ths read just merit will not be the matter of a day or of a year; even a generation may pass before the change reaches hslf its proportions; but the ultimate changes wrought will certainly cer-tainly be greater and more world en toiupsssing thaa any one can now predict. pre-dict. - ' The capture of Constnntinople by ths Turks wns directly responsible for the discovery of the new world. It cut off the cities of tbe Mediterranean from rommuoicstion with -Imlin and sent Columbus Co-lumbus westward in1, quest of another Iiasssge which could nut be obstructed y tbe Moslem tyrants of the eaat. Draws Countries Closer. . . . . At lest tbe Pansma caaal is to afford af-ford that passage and to bring the whole earth Into a entailer compass. yOf eousse. the United Htates will be first to realise tbe vast benefits of tbe csnsl. . It will double the efficiency ef the Americas navy and will add to ear military prestige throughout tbe world, it will enable the national authorities to concentrate tbe naval strength of the country in a way that will make any nation, think mora than twice before riaking a war with America. Tbe benefits immediately accruing to the people of the United Ststes will be ss greet in a commercial way aa they will be in the matter of military advantage. advan-tage. As tbe espture of Constantinople caused ths upbuilding of many notable regions through the consequent trana-formation trana-formation of international trade routes, so will the Mississippi valley, the world 'a greatest granary, - begin to grow and develop even beyond the wonderful won-derful records of the ps'st. It grain and meat producta. loading bv way of gulf ports, can go to the ends of the earth with little outlay for expensive rail transportation. Win Oat Down Transportation. is even possible thst the great awAening incident to the opening of the eanal may hastes the day when the lakea to the gulf waterway will be an ueeomplished fact, and when ships may load at Chicago. Detroit and other lake points and sail directly to all porta of tha world. Then, too. upper Mississippi river points, like 8t. Paul, may be brought within water eommunicatioa with th outside world, and the United Rtatee will bcg'in aa era of commercial development surpsssing even the wonderful won-derful growth of th decade just closed. Pittsburg may then be able to aend ita vast output of manufacture by water; wa-ter; Kanaaa City will feel the atimo-lua atimo-lua of the new waterway and the Pacific Pa-cific coast, long cut off from the rest of tbe country by the high mountain barriers bar-riers which bsvs been only partially ovoreom by the railroads, will now. nnd its resources within marketable distance . of the eastern states which have needed them, but kav beea denied them by the necessarily high rail freight ratoa. Will Half Soutt America. , Can ads, too, will feel tbe stimulus of ths csnsl. No longer will her great crope have to find their sole outlet over railroads that must cross the backbone of a continent; .but, pursuing the avenue av-enue of least resistance, they will be able to ahip to all parts of tba world bv wav of tbe gulf porta. South America will get the next greatest share in the benefit of the eanal. Already ita west coast countries and cities are getting ready for the boom to buetneas that is to follow. Brought tbousanda of milea nearer to nil western trade centers, so close that their raw producta aad Americsj manufactured man-ufactured products eaa be exchanged with advsatnge, there will be a growth of trade thst nlresdv hss nwakesed the lethargic 8outk American to the poesi ' bilities ahead. And these possibilities well may be considered bv th buaineaa men of th United States. Toils v Amrrtcu buys n large perrent-ere-of the product of ttoota America; but whea rloutb Americana have money to spar they spend only one dollnr out " of eight with as. The other eevee go to Enrope. Th American exporter will find himself quickened by the history making ebaage tbe eaaal will prodne. aad if ke.goee at it i a earnest be can revere tke proportion. . Hew Zealand Hearer London. Australia aad New Zealand will ex . perieaee perhaps a greater chaag in ' their trad routes tbsa any countries outside- of th Ameriraa. The An traissiaa commerce now is largely carried car-ried bv wer of 8ux. Th opening of the Pansma eanal will -place New Zea land 12ii0 miles nearer to Iosdoa thaa It now is. sod eastern Aeetrslisn ports (iluntinaed oa page ) . 1 (CAN AL WILL CHANGE MAP OF COMMERCE (Contioued from nacre 1.) . . . will ba ka near to England by way' of Panama a by way of Saec Bote Australia Aus-tralia and New Zealand wiH- be tba distance dis-tance from Liverpool to N'ew York closer to the Atlantic porta of the United Unit-ed Mates. No one who has heard aa Australasias complaia of the lontt delays, de-lays, and. the excessive freights that in terrene bet ween him and hta'Americaa' shores can doubt that the closer pros imity to American markets will ba welcomed wel-comed in that faraway land under the southern cross. ilow much trade ultimately will e throneh the canal no one may guess. The AueK canal started out with half a million tons in 1s70, reaching 10.000,-000 10.000,-000 tone in a quarter of a century and doubling that ia the following score of rears. '. " ' . Sues a Money Maker. The dieidekda have been huge, averaging ave-raging 25 par cent a rear.' Tolls have to be reduced constantly to keep down the profits, and now tha company is considering the advisability' of enlarging enlarg-ing the canal or constructing another parallel to it. " Tha ' transcontinental tonnage now handled by 'the railroads, which ultimately ulti-mately wiH go by tha canal, ia heavy. Likewiee the nmonnt of commerce which now goes around Cape Hora or through tha (traits of -Magellan is very large. - Add to this tba tonnage that will, tinder s readjusted commercial map, 'pas through from Europe and Asia, and it will aggregate an amount frobably is excess of any other canal's Cheat record. But' even then there is of her Tonnasw Tn hw ronsidef rd. When the South and Central American republics re-publics are 'given atabla gevernmrtta. by one process ar another, capital will flow into tbstn in Tast golden streams, and'the-eaut"wl11 M ji -tohnaffa of proportions probably eqnali'nfr that now existing. Built on a scale that will ae-.omturfdate ae-.omturfdate a total of 30.000.000 tone, it well mar be assumed that it 'will he fnanr s long year before additions will be nedeM4t Pnaa, 'bJt jt "tie' is torr of canal operation' repeata itaelf. it la probable that such a tine mar code earlier tha men think. Boom In Ot ties WUI Fall. - If -it rloea coma, however, with an S9O.06O.OOO a year income from ita operation. ope-ration. Uncle' Bam would scarcely jib jtoi iu ma.ion any iqaiunnu- enlarge menta commerce may demand. The canal probably will bring Into heina two important commercial eities at ita two ends, and although they will bear the old name, of Colon snd Panama, Pana-ma, they will be in fact new eities. The chief business of three towns wHI ha to cater, to the needs of the shipping that will seek -the paasage of the -canal, and their present cosmopolitan eharse tor will ba intensified. Unfortunately, the immediate future of these towns is gloomy. The. immense im-mense amount of money expended bare for construction work baa brought about boom prTcea for ayerything. When the construction work ia finished, snd in the years before the business of the canal naa ao adjiieted itaelf to Support other linea of trade, one wonders what the people of Panama and Colon will do to atare off bankruptcy. Bhortis,OceA to Opaaii Trip. Tha chief interest in the canal to the American citizen attaehee to the fact that it will Ted oca the distance by water wa-ter route from Atlantic to Pacific ports by about eleven thousand miles. A vessel of the speed of the battleship Oregon, to whose wonderful trip around Jtane Horn the Panama eapal ia a monument, can make the trip from ocean to ocean in nineteen days when the canal is open, whereas it now requires re-quires siity eve days for. tba Journey around the born. ".The Land Divided; the World United Unit-ed "ia tha legend on the eeeutckeen of the eanal diggers. In - leas than four years front now the canal will ba finished, fin-ished, the world will ba smaller, and the entire commercial viap of the globe will be ready for revision. Built to serve the whole human race In general and the people of the United Statea in particular, the Panama canal will perhaps do mora than any other one agency to hasten the day of the "federation ef the world in tba parliament parlia-ment of man." It will promote peace, aid commercial intercourse and add immeasurably im-measurably te American prestige and American usefulness. |