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Show THE Twcdflv. August 19, 191A iin AnOverwhelming Influence next Some time about January will pass through a small ship Small, that Canal. the Panama -- for this twentieth century; big stow m its enough, however, to of caravels fleet whole hold the crossed i the Columbus in which he when occasion the on ocean stubbed his toe on a continent in ex?s-- ! t that he didnt dream was it. It tenee thereby discovering try-oof sort : a trip, ill be just - an)j will not mark the formal opening of the big ditch. Indeed, bv October 1st or thereabouts it will probably be possible to sail from ocean to oeean, though by that time the full permanent been attained depth will not have in the ditch. But what is this canal going to da for ns. and to us! is the question folks are now asking. Taking up the political side, it ' seems to me that our old friend Manifest Destiny has pretty definitely decreed that the United States must take in the whole country as far south as the Isthmus. Not because I like to see it done or think it 'good for this na. tion. I dont. Looking at Mexico as it stands today, its hard to understand how. any American can contemplate with much satisfaction the responsibility ' ol straightening out and running it. Looking to Central America, there is assuredly little of temptation in the prospect of taking it under our national wing. Yet that is just what is ahead of Bryan has just negotiated, the Wilson administration hacks, and this country is going to rati fy, a treaty with Nicaragua under which the United States will in effect become the guardian 'of Nicaragua. In return for this we get assurance that no other nation will grab Nicaragua or secure the privilege of building a competing canal by the Nicaragua route. When a democratic administration goes that far it is complete proof that.Manifest Destiny is on the job running things with a bigger horse-powthan ny political party can bring to hear in opposition. We may like it or not, but it is coming. England didnt want to take Egjpt; but Englands government became owner Of the controlling stock in the Suez Canal, e and the canal was the great on the road, to India ; there. fore Egypt must be at least. ?England doesnt fancy keeping a vast fleet always in the Mediterranean; but the Mediter- ranean guards the canal, and England must always be equal to any other power in the Mediterranean. So it is with the Caribbean; we may not yet quit realize it. but the Carribean is our Road to India; it is our Mediterranean. We must and will be absolutely dominant there. Therefore our foreign policy, especially'' as to Latin America, will be directed to assuring that no rival shall ever endanger our primacy at the eanal or in its neighborhood. It may be genera- is ut -- us.-M- : r. er toll-gat- quasi-Britjs- h, WOlThatltihing! Stepped Instantly Try 2M0; Skin Troubles Vanish. a 26c Bottle Today and prove it that0riy, A reniedy tor sfeln torture emile end everybody say itoo-raXI you Lave that terrible Buy y! tions before we will place Mexico in such a relationship as we have extended to Cuba, Santo Domingo. to Nicaragua; but whenever exigency demabds we will bo to the limit. That is settled. The Canal Will Transform -tho Railroad What does the canal mean to m Coin menially T W ill It really make over the trade routes of the world! For roy own part I hate inclined to agree with those who on studying this question have concluded that the canal wih have vastly more effect on our domestic trade routes than on for. We will ship eign commerce, niore goods between our. Atlantic and Pacific, oasts than we will ship to and, from foreign .countries. . Until a few years ago the trans. continental railroads opposed. the development of watfr traffic between the Atlantic and pacific, in all possible1 ways. They controlled the' old Panama Railway, and Pacific Mail Steamship company; their affiliated financial interests largely dominated coastwise shipping on the Atlantic. They wanted the traffic for themselves, and succeeded in well-nigstopping the use . of the ocean highway fromcoast to coast, that it is naturally much the cheaper. But in the last few years their opposition has been much lessened. One reason is that national public policy has instituted regulative measures that made it difficult for them to employ the old methods. Another doubtless is that the volume of the traffic has grown so immense, ly that the railroads could get all they could handle without the necessity of fighting so bitterly against the water routes.. How great has .been this increase in ocean-goin- g business is indicated fact the by that, iu 1906, 560,000 tons went, from coast to coast by water around the Horn, through Magellan, or via the Tehuantepec or Panama routes and in 191,1 the tonnage was 1.104.000 tons. That is, the business had doubled despite that the Panama Railway was capable of handling only a small part of the business offered to it because it was almost to the limit of capacity in the construction of the eanal. The possibilities of traffic he, tween the east and west coasts ot this country, via the eanal, cannot yet he suspected save by the expert and the prophet. The average .American now living will see the population of this country almost double. Traffic- increases in .;- h - ,4c-spit- e - greater ratio than population; this country, a much greater ratio. Therefore, if the railroads dont get all of it, the water a in routes via the canal must get a tremendous business. Can , they get and hold it! Manifestly thev can and will. The railroads will not be permitted to strangle can-na- l competition. They cannot with it in cheapcompete possibly ness. for water . transportation is vastly the cheaper. You. might say that, if that be true, the business will all go to the canal and nothing be left for the railroads. Quite the contrary. The railroads will have less hush ness across the continent, hut the will haul a vast tonnage from interior, points to the coast, there to bejoaded on boats for.the cany al route.. The railroads will ulti-matel- become distributors inter-mounta-in X0 - W 1 to, TtaTwHMsItekh ttl7 mmi ii m la i rafVnI?acllaMe Itching, scorching, heat, rash, tetter, trritetelna' PrtcllIy or,, "flamed skin, blotches, blackheads, you WU1 mar. eLa V results ot ZEMO. J8 a clean antiseptic solution, not vani,h..gre.a8.ithe 1 totment. Itching flrst application; this U ahnin.af guaranteed or money re- the baby, too It "'mediate relief in aU skin d calP itching vanish, trfISdJ-yearwith ecsema. Fin. ally It cured me at .was 15 naontbs sound ZEMtTVJ ago. aom?irfc bleM,ns" Mra. S Eason, ZEMotfo?i?rdragg's,te7ery where sell direct nJ f5c ,a sealed bottle, r sent pf price by E, -,W. r.08e v2. CiDe ?ecePt Co- - 8t- - Laia. Ido-oold and guaranteed in Logan tnr tor-an- B Center Street, Drug Co, 14 W. and feeders for the trunk-lin- e business of the canal. The West is Independent ,In this connection it is interesting to observe how largely the West has become independent oi the East, and how largely the Middle West supplies the Far West with whaf it consumes. Just one illustration will suffice. In 1908 a detailed analysis -of tilt origin of traffic received at' Reno. Nevada, showed that seventy-fiv- e per cent, of it came from points no farther west than Chicago. The fact is and it is somethin we dont realize as yet that the Middle West is a great manufacturing country, Reno is t.vpl cal of the West t it buys about all the manufactures it uses, and yet it finds about everything it needs without going east of Chicago. At present the region from Chicago west the whole central-valle- y is 'discriminated country against in transportation rates. Tt has no water competition. But it is going to get that competition. The canal will provide i; and once it is provided, the great interior agricultural region will get better priees for what it sells, and will buy what it consumes at less prices. The Southern States are fast becoming great agricultural producers. They will develop a big traffic with the orient,- - th west coast of the three Americas, Australia and Polynesia, , simply because they will suddenly find TRI-WEEKL- JOURNAL, LOGAN. UTAH Y PAGE THREE that they can ship to those markets by water routes that will he freed from domination by the rail routes., Let me make this point plain. Load a car of freight at Boston or New York, and fcsk the rate on n to Omaha, and also the rate to San Francisco. You will very likly be toid that the rate ts the same to both places. That is' although- Omaha is less than halfway across the continent, it" costs as'raueh to ship to it as to send the same goods clear across! Why! Because at Boston or New York the shipper has the option of using the Vrater route, of shipping via Tehuantepec or the Horn to San Francisco; but he has no such competitive route for shipping to Omaha or any other far interior point. So the traffic is charged all it will bear, and Omaha pays for fifteen hundreo miles of transportation the same price that San Francisco pays for thirty-threhundred miles! Not only that. Load a ear at Boston for Spokane, and another for Seattle. .Seattle is four, hundred miles farther: yet the rat, from Boston to Spokane will bh higher than to Seattle.. Again, why! Because Seattle js a coast point and has the option of shipping either by rail or by water. Spokane has. no such- - option. Almost invariably you will find that regions which pay the highest priees or get the smallest packages are those which have no Water competition. The canal will equalize fates; It wiU make the big Middle West ft fair chance, because it will CQmp$ a general readjustment of traffic conditions. I' Our Home Trade Js Host Switchboard operator who answers your telephone has a mission in life her mission is to senre you. She has at her finger tips the most modern telephone equipment in the1 world. Quickness, accuracy and courtesy are her essential qualifications. Frequently she is called upon to act quickly in emergencies when courage and presence of mind are required. It is as essential to good telephone service that each Bell, Telephone operator should be healthy and happy as it is that every part of the equipment of that great intercommunicating system should be in good working order. In the Bell system, 70,000 operators make connections which furnish clear tracks for 26,000,000 telephone talks each day. THE - e Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station '- F THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE -- AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY .. Important Take the one item of lumber, which means so much to the farmers. Oregon fir for, . SSE - Mid-West- ern say, Illinois - must be ; hauled about two thousand miles by rail, under present conditions. When the. canal is open it, will, be put in a boat and taken to New Orleans by water. , Then it will go up the Mississippi, or a , railroad paralleling the Mississippi, from sixto nine hundred miles. The eost of that water-ra- il trip will be very much less than of the trip which is now necessary ; con. sequently the farmer will get his lumber very much cheaper, because, freight is the biggest item in cost of lumber hauled- - such distances. Again, 'there is the indirect effect on the agricultural population of the great central valley. It was shown a moment ago' that most of the freight coming to Reno originates on or west of the Chicago line. Yet that freight pays just as much to get to Reno as if it originated in New England. When the canal is opened and the general readjustment of rates has become effective the freight from Chicago common points to Reno will go at lower rates than the freight from New , England. It is very common for writers and lecturers to paint 'glowing pictures of the imperial develop, ment of our foreign commerce which will follow the opening of the canal i I hope they are right ; ;but I decline to excite myself about all that. Our domestic Commerce is so vastly more important to us than, foreign, commerce ever can be that foreign trade doesnt deserve to be considered. Perhaps the canal will also greatly augment onr foreign trade; but there is not much evidence of it thus far. It was recently stated in Washington that seven great steamship lines were building new vessels for the special purposes of the canal trade and that every one of these lines was a European or Japanese concern! If any American company is building ships in anticipation of this business the fact has been advertised very little.- - Some time ago effort was made to finance an American-owne- d line of vessels, absolutely free of railroad ownership and domination, and it was finally set down as about imposst. all-ra- il 3a r That is why there is .a determined effort to induce the Government to build ships for this ble. coast-to-coa- business. st 4 It CREEK, Logan Coal Co. PHONE 13 Ed A. Austin, J.A, Hulme, , . ..... President Yiee-Pre- Secy-Trea- . K VIA after all, he temporary. The canal-win emancipate transportation force from any thraldom that may have been exercised in the past Judson C. Welliver, in Farmland Fireside. C -- - 4 v - 1 -- "V Union Pacific System LOTS OF BROKEN EGGS Very low round trip fares to Denver, Kansas City, Washington. Aug. 13. More than 140, 000, 000 eggs were broken or reported to the railroads as broken at the New York freight terminals in the last year, it is estimated by,, the United States department of agriculture. The figures were supplied by tht railroads, whose traffic managers real and say the false, now approximates 9 per cent of all the eggs shipped to New York. Claims for broken eggs, the railroads say, have become an intolerable burden, leaving the road no margin of profit. The roads are fighting .many of the claims. They have appealed to' the United States officials, and the federal grand jury at New York is now investigating an alleged plot by which the roads haveMost $2,000,-00in the last few years by bogus claims for broken eggs. A number of large commission houses are in the plot, it is said. The commission men hired men to -- ff St. Louis, Omaha, Chicago, Minneapolis and many other points. Dates of Sale: T2 Angpst 1, 9, 10, 11, 16, 22, 28; September 10, 11. "Limit: l egg-breakag- e, ! October 31st., 1913. See any, OREGON SHORT LINE agent For further details. The Union Pecific System e Reaches Omaha and Points East "THE DIRECT -- WAY" 0 Excursion Rates instruslip sharp ments into several crates ( in each carload of eggs. arriving egg-breaki- Tickets on Sale at all Utah Stations Daily to September 30. It was d tack that caused the trouble. When Mrs. Peter St. Louis of Cameron underwent her third a 7 To Los Angeles X TACK IN APPENDIX. Barron, Wis., Aug. 13. ' brass-heade- all Return Thro San Francisco Without X Additional Cost Write for Information and Literature Or Call on O. S. L. Agent -- d T. C. Peck, G. P. A. J. It Manderfield, A.G.P.A. Salt Lake x A Scientific Achievement. CASTLE GATE, PEACOCK ROCK SPRINGS' HIAWATHA, BLACK HAWK, Hyrumt Anderson, Excursions fcml the doctors located a The tack in her appendix. head was so corroded that it was almost as large as a pencil. Mrs. St. Louis does not remem. her when she swallowed it. KINO, . is re- that nobody will try to put government ships out of business by cutting rates or giving rebates. Nobody seems sure that privately owned ships would have a fair deal. All that, however, would, alized brass-heade- CtEJ ' I s. s. 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