Show THE NE PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY tot HOT long ago the london times hai had RH article on the projected pan amerl ameri tn ao railroad statius that it if such a were to be accomplished the united states would have to guarantee t ine go funds for its construction the ajmes then deduced from this that the bouth american republics would uld irately b become in a measure subject to jo the jve united states the boston herald in considering the possibility of building such a road toys says that 1674 miles are already built in mexico there are at present miles of railroad in operation in south stud central america and many new lines are in process of construction it will require about miles of road to abe constructed before communication aib ii be established by rail between the faulted states and the southern regions of south america the boston kerald herald is emphatic in IB opposition to permitting any european country to have an ownership in ibis projected continental railroad it also says that the difficulties difficult les in its way aft more political than financial or topographical the roughest portion et rf the road would be between oaxaca nd between the latter country and the boundary line of guatemala buat emala there Is ie an undeveloped country and railroad construction there would be difficult however it ts 16 confidently stated by an american engineer who is conversant with the southern countries that a road can be built the whole leng length th of the continent for foe a mile this gentleman gentleman alho 1 says that there is every probability that mat the road will be taken up as an international enterprise by the differ governments through whose coun it would paw this engineer whose name to is conn is very enthusiastic over the proposed highway he has a well written article in the engineering magazine tor for august treating on the road an its possibilities from a commercial and political point of view its accompli h ment would be the some acme of reciprocity while in a political sense it would make every country through which it may pass pan absolutely american in this way he thinks that the monroe doctrine would finally prevail from patagonia to alaska |