Show PROGRESS OP OF WORK VORK O OX ON THE TIlE L. All the time when the tho rest ret of ot us have been busy with a a. national election the tho Government haD hau bc been n busy with the digging digging- of tho the Panama canal The work worl has been going goluS' forward rapidly There Thele has been a a. decrease in the prevalent sickness ness a decided improvement hi n the sanitary conditions In lit the camps camp and In the cities on either coast The Tho men ha have c grown rown acclimated and located They provo prove an Interest in their in-their their work such as Americans cyer everywhere everywhere every every- where evince The canal is becoming to them a a. ahome ahome home Institution a a. thing in which to take a national national na na- na- na tlona Ir Because it is a Lib big wok the tho omniscient muckraker muckraker muck- muck r raker ker has been busy on the canal He h has s been boon telling the world that there Is IB a a. great deal of graft in the enterprise and that favorites or tes of ot P President Roo Roosevelt are r reaping a rich harvest hal from the finances of the canal expenditure It 1 Is a big work But nothing In all al the tho world has had lees less opportunity for tor graft That is the tho universal universal universal uni uni- uni- uni versal declaration of ot all men who rIo have had had- oPPortunity opportunity opportunity to know Tho The A American nation is pledged to the tha early COmil Mon Hon of the canal nal and C every Cry ry atom of ot power available is being used for tor or the prosecution prosecution pros pros- of ot the work ork It will be completed cJ in perhaps five v moro more years arl In many places progress has progress been found more easy than was wac expected President Taft will almost see seethe seethe the completion of the canal In his lu-his his first term In aJ all human probability he will open tho the great water i waterway y with imposing ceremonies early earb in his second ud term And the tha waters of or the two great oceans will bo be bol l d tog together lher linked through the energy and ability of or ortho tho the American people It is a work of which ever every citizen o of the tIto great republic Is Justly t proud roud |