Show V A. A 11 J I I CHINESE LABOR ON OS TIlE THE TiE CANAL r Without doubt the government go Is definitely going forward In tho the work worl t of or digging the canal at the I Isthmus I I V j V of or Panama President noose Roosevelt's ls l's slogan Get bu busy y and and dig dig the tho canal can- can V al all aJ Is being expressed In effective c 1 J. J C c I operations More th than n two thousand V J L V Chinese Chines coolies cooles have ha c IH been en asked for q V their labors to begin besin Jan 7 1 I 1007 07 and 4 I V thereafter more thousands are arc to be bo S 'S j supplied by hy tho contractors until J J fifteen thousand have been set sel to JS J V work It I means actual construction l l It means business t. t V It I never ne er has ha seemed to us that there J Is 15 good warrant on ott 01 the thc part of those J V who oppose the employment ment of ot Chinese Chin Chin- LX V. V ese ee on that work It I Is not In violation vie vio r lation JaHon of or any law anti and It Is not In violation vio vie lation laHon of or any ans' right or Interest o of the thel l laboring men of or the United States No Amelic American laborer wants tho the Job joh VC No American laborer could stand Blond the theYs' theYs I Ys' Ys I H. H V climate and h do t the tho 0 wor work J t. t 0 Only nl a aA A j type of ot Inured by descent and amI s r habit hahl to tho the hardships and the privations Pu- Pu V and t the o hulneS of ot 4 the place could make mako the in the Ue Construction f V l slightest advance V ton S i 1 of that canal canal As s the they proceed with wih th the work the sanitary c conditions will willbe wi r VV V he be better beter By the tile time tho the canal Is finished the tile canal zone zono will wf bo ho as at r In tho the temperate V healthy as any place V zone an and It will wi not flot be the graveyard 1 If of or a host of good American laborers l V either cither I the 1 r S j And the government has so 80 he hedged ged about the the terms with Hh contractors as a V VV V 1 r V V V V VV V V if t v J j id T- T A tf 3 to Inhuman treatment of oC prevent to plo an any aU the laborers even en e though they bo be They he will wi be given gl better better hettel bet het- ter tel lodging antI and bettor better food than the they have hu e ever er c been accustomed to In their own Owl countr country will wi be laid better belter an and will vIli wi bo be given givon medical attendance attendance- which they never enjoyed at nt home home home- and will wili wJ bo be returned to their own country countr when tho the work thc they alone could successfully accomplish shall have havo ha e been finished Nothing greater In all al the tile constructive construe construe- tive tivo enterprises of men has been so stupendous In conception so enor enor- In requirement so 8 splendid In assured service to mankind as Is hi that canal Men marvel at the tile pyramids and anti well wel tIle the they ma may Each of those massive e piles ples Is a miracle of oC mens men's ment act I activity But lut the tile purpose underlying their plans plaits was vanity It I was an expression ex ox- pre slon of personal pride e. e It I was tho aggrandizement of ot a king Icing an and In H Its whole history from front the first touch of ot excavation through tho tIle years cars o of construction and anti the centuries of history his his- for moment has of ot tOy tory never ne Cl or a ono one tho tile pyramids spoken the tile message of or uplift for the human race The king icing Icing Is dead I Ills hi dynasty his hiser er very cry race has perished from the face of the tho earth arth HI Ii Ills monument remains buIt but bu buti It i Is thronged with thousands wh who llo know him not who ho care cre nothing fo for him and who ho can cnn find in all al their lives no single Influence for goo good which he lie or his Ills pyramid work voi-k have hav left leC to the tho world V Against that example o of great In Industrial In- In result lesul will wi stand the canal employing moro more Initial units of pow pow- cr er and conquering a vaster vater en engineering difficulty performing an ai Immeasurably r l I greater constructive ta task k and yielding to the tho children of ot mon men mOi for t t arc to come a II limitless e benefit ll 4 i wit jt bIg a lo to C It I t Is Js too to permit captious us I I criticism It I Is too worth worthy to be halted haled halt halt- hal hal- ed Cl with protests against details of or ad- ad nl- nl ministration Only one thing should be c considered b by an any American and that hat Is the tile substantial building and the lie ear early completion of the tile Panama canal And It I Is tho the dut duty duty duty-as as as It I should be bo the tIle proud privilege privIlege privIlege-of oC of evry ev- ev cry Cl ry man In the nation naton to do 10 this tilts much In i helping Keep Jeep out of tho the wn way of or ortho the tho 10 people at work Members of tho the Merchants' Merchants and lt association are prompt I record their appreciation of the services of ot Utah women In advancing ad th tho cause of the makers and sellers of oC goods In the state Of OC cour course c tho tile women onen are arc helpful It I Is thc they who con rol control the buying and the using and tho the estimating o of goods Tho They can and they do 10 exert a a stron strong influence on tho the tho business of Utah Ulah And nd tho the formal form recognition of or their services b by th the merchants and manufacturers Is Iso o a graceful and a a 0 commendable tiling thing J |