Show MR MB lu TATT r A AND TIlE THE OA AlJ It Is easy casy for tor critics to lo sit in X Now Nw w York and complain that something is wrong with tho the Panama canal It is not very difficult for tor them to tako a a. trip down to tho the isthmus and some soma back with pictures of ot Imperfections Imperfections- as if Jt New York were perfect But bettor men and women realize that a mighty work Js Is 5 being accomplished accomplished down there that there are aro some unfinished bits of ot road and some timbers Umbels in a a. construction of ot I such magnitude The They realize another thing thinS Tho The people employed cd on the canal aro are far tar from home and homo home delights They arc aro as ns earnestly interested in tho the canal canalas as humans can bo bj In anything Th They have ve talc taken en a n. pride In their work 1 and andas andas andas as their detachment from America becomes a settled habit the character r rot of ot the American citizens employed there is being realized realised in earnest Interest Interest in interest In- In terest in the tho canal The They are making tho the canal canol with all the tho love tho the old carvers of cathedral stono stone put into their silent son songs s. s Ever Every American on tho the Isthmus is stirred with pride in the mighty enterprise with jo Joy In having a a. share in its accomplishment with resolve to do ItIn Itin it itin in tho the least pos possible time And every cry word of or tho the carping critics is a n. stab stabat stabat stabat at those heroic fellows away down there thero in fn the tho tropics who are arc UnIting linking the oceans together together and and doing It well because th they are arc Americans and love lovo their theil work S Mr Taft has lias watched them them and and it itla Itis itIs Is la not the first time Ho He is Ie familiar with their theil achievements Ho He knows how much of themselves they nr are aro giving shing to lo the thc their national enterprise how great a n. share of or success depends on tho the spirit with which those men are working and he tells thorn they are arc doing well that the they havo have accomplished pushed wonders that they are arc heroes every one of ot them S And he ho makes makes' it Jt clear b. b by urging tho the doubling of ot numbers and tho the hah halving ing of ot tho the time required for con con- If It the canal can bo be built in four tour years Instead of ot seven so he wants it done And those men inca have havo caught his truo true American spirit have forgotten tho the wounds tho the carping critics inflicted and havo have thrilled tho the whole Isthmus with Uh renewed purpose to finish the canal within Mr r. r Tarts Taft's first t term tOrm rm if It that can bo DO done It Is the better way Talk 6 of fraud when there thero is no fraud only shames tho the gossips Talking of ot failure only makes failure possible And the tho con- con slant refusal to believe any good thing gets nothing for the sceptic excepting the applause o of fools Cools and anti tho the contempt of ot truo true Americans |