| Show Till ISTHMIAN CANAL New N I York Mall lall and Express If the commission decides positively positive and finally for tor the tho Nicaraguan route the tha th Nicaragua route It will undoubtedly undoubtedly edly be That will relieve us UK of nil all ne nc necessity necessity of ot dickering with the French company or negotiating over OYer complicated C Gated cat ll relations with Colombia aid It will be the tho death knell of the Panama scheme at least l allt for this generation gen It will make effective the new treaty with Great which seems sure i ot of prompt ratification and clear the tho way 3 for tor action upon the waterway for which the world has been waiting so o long Milwaukee Wisconsin It n t is I said that t tho commission will re report report port the existence nce of ot n a 1 combination of or railroad and steamship Interests to tIe de defeat feat tea t the canal project It 11 is generally known that transcontinental rail railroads railroads roads have bave persistently l opposed the Isthmian canal project nud and of ot late It has been Jeen that lint the floundering Panama canal company compan would like to delu delo delay action In the tho th hope that it might eventually unload Its financial finan elephant upon the tha United States nl at d a good profit but It has hart not been a 1 matter of ot com common common common mon knowledge that the Suez canal company has hart also been boen a n factor In the Iho opposition Tho The steamship lines which are arc included In the combination said to halo havo boon been reported re ort 1 by the th Isthmian canal commission fire either cither owned by bythe bythe the transportation lines linen which control freighting by hy way wy of ot the Isthmus or hold paying contracts that they are aro loth to relinquish relinquish Boston Doston Dos ton Herald The Tho area arel we greatly need easy ens ac acv access acee rem cess ee to Is the tho Ih west wo t roost coast CO lt of ot South Hauth America Australia New Now Zealand and th M s to C and for forthe tho the purpose of ot trade development nt in these quarters the tha Panama route muto rou to would be much h more convenient than Ihan the Nicaragua un route It Is to lo be 00 regretted re regretted regretted that the question cannot bo be bocon considered con In an Impartial manner and prejudice should chouM exist In the minds of or members of ot Con cress The proposition Is la In its broad broadest broadest est eat sense lien Pi n a business question und rind If It the United States Is to build n a canal it should endeavor to construct It 11 as 0 a n canal company would along those thoe lines hues or at nt that place where the lie traffic torn to which It was built to accommodate would bo be best served |
