Show S WHITE MEN MAY DIG THE TIlE CANAL S 5 President Theodore Shouts states that SJ h and e. e S I if Portuguese workmen arc coming to tho the Isthmus In such I r numbers that the Panama canal seems cl likely to be bc becs P cs di ed by white Instead of b by coolie labor It will be a ar ar r little more comforting to know that this 1 is b a fact act than 5 to feel that the white race is under obligations to the 5 Mongolian even for the thc sentimental reason of ot claiming r. r i to havo have had a n. part In the big work S. S From the first it has been beon clear that the Spaniards were ie 1 the best workers on the canal For one thing v k they ther really were workers They were industrious industrious Much I it t I like the Japanese o of our own railroad construction the they 5 5 were faithful and effective e The They did not need so so much i S watching as did dill other men The They had bad Intelligence enough il to do some of the more simple duties without having hn to to-be to be told They Ther were tolerably temperate temperate temperate-as as every everyone S one on the isthmus has hRS to be and the they were unusually j able e to resist the ravages of the prevalent ers fe j i It was made very clear by the commission that If IfS i- i white labor could not be secured coolie labor would S 1 i i 4 1 5 b used The Tho preference was given to w white II 1 to men First Iret v of t the ther 1 of all nil ti the offer was extended to laboring men o Ie Iett r tt I United d States Stales It is fortunate Co for or I the rest of the count country i- i offers offer There not I that th tily r declined the proffered arc are cl enough ough of ot laboring laboring- men men in the United States now The TheS I S S departure of enough of them to dig the thc canal would have JI seriously embarrassed the nation S But when they showed their theil disinclination to go to toS S Tr 1 tho the tho Isthmus efforts effort were made to secure help from the theS ther S r t. t rest of oC th the thc rl world Negroes from rom corn tho tim West cst Indies were Ii 1 secured l in numbers and tried out Contractors furnished fur urr ur- ur S r r ex experimental companies of oC white workmen from fromi i S S v tho ho western peninsula of oC Europe These men proved best And nd It Is like likely the they will be the most Important labor tact factor in lathe th the making of ot the canal S There Thero is a n. fanciful reason for at that t fact l. l This nation met and vanquished the tho power of S Spain In one of her islands The people of oC Spain had hadS S S avery small opinion o of Americans up to that time L Th They y had a much more worse opinion afterward But ButS ut if 1 the they shall place themselves in the position of emS emr em- em S S r tj mg t a betler better I Ides idea or of the A the American than i lap the tho Impassioned periods of ot their orator orators and the theP flamboyant articles of ot th rS r'S can can give them They rhey rhe P J will find tho the Americans effective wherever they go goI go- go I S and fair Calr And It Jt will be a good thing tiling for the Spanish nation nallon In the recent recovery recover of oC that people from the mistaken j p policy CY of oC the colonial rule and tho the vanity and pretense I S of superiority the they need just the corrective that will willS willbe S be administered b by the return of the canal diggers to their native land The whole Spanish nation n will learn something from th their lr representatives temporarily sent 5 f S SS S t to a foreign soil soli And the industry and acumen gathered 1 from contact with a a. Western Vestern nation will permeate the I whole of the Spanish peninsula S y That canal Is likely to be a 0 greater world educator i S than at the beginning the most sanguine could have imagined |