Show I Io BETA AY Y I IX IN X C J. WORK No o one will wH charge members of or congress conr con con- gress with gress-with r s with n a purposed d Intention intention to 10 delay delay de de- de- de lay work on on the lie great Panama canal And Ant yet et all al the delay must be charged to the policy that has obtained In the management of or the tho matter In time the upper upper up up- tp- tp per and lower houses houseR of ot congress The Tho very VIT Cr first t thing that should be lie be mined Is Js the tho sort ort of or canal that the country wants No o work of or preparation tion ton can go o forward without th the emlIn end In view It I I is impossIble to even en be be- gin gum to tn do anything with wih advantage when the time builders do n not nt t know whether er 1 1 the time canal will wi finally be he ordered tere as asa asa a sea level construction or 01 one with witha wih a number of if f locks That decision ru must t be made mad by ly congress s. s And Ant It i should be he made at once Too much munch time has lias alrea already y been ben wasted Much mone money has hns been spent Ii in work that ma may or mn may not be u use c- c fill ful More than two years ears of oC time has been consumed In investigation of charges that have haye been plo e proved Untrue untrue untrue un un- true and trials that have ha proved ro ed farcical far far- deal cical in lU the weak eak testimony offered Any ny man with wih the freedom ree om of or the yellow clow newspapers has been leen permitted permit permit- ted to lodge oll e sn sensational accusations against t one or another of or the tho officials off off- dais who ho ha have been heen in trusted position posh posh- tion ton and the these e charges have been heen df Into formal Inquiries by ly congles con con- gress gres And no progress has been boon made madl meantime In the one ono Important matter mater of oC determining what typo type of waterway is s to be constructed No o peculation even of a wholesale character character character char char- acter could have so harmed and delayed de do- laet the enterprise as has the time policy IWUC of stopping to Investigate the thc petty stori stories s of paid scandal mongers The ThE world waits on action acton at Washington Wash asim ashIngton ash ash- ington in this matel matter The he biggest enterprise ever eve I attempted by civil ci 1 en engIneers engineers en- en halts hals while little men from flom the he safe fe citadel of a Ne New ew York newspaper newspaper news new paper office hurl sneaking Insinuations at men better beter than they And congressmen who ho have had a natural wish to preserve the nation from dishonest ills dis ls- ls honest officials have listened to time the charges charge ha have appointed committees and have ha spent pent time hearing bearIng empty t testimony when there thele was much more moie real need of making the Ow one decision and then going forward There will wi be he charges of oC hood boodle Ie In connection with wih this canal construe construe- ton tion That Is certain Nothing can n prevent pre ent St St. No Xo matter who ho of the work and no 00 matter how clean cleanth th tim m I n 0 I t Ia t i i r nl rett ent may be hc there will vIll wi be he ch charges of dishonesty Some men make male a living liv liv- ing log mal making such charges The hl higher her herthe the lie object to whom they aim the more salable their product The nation is too big to pay par any attention to them The need of oC the canal canal- canalIs is too great to permit scandal scandalmongers scandalmongers scandalmongers mongers to stand as disturbers of oC traffic Con Congressmen emen and senators should get ge together at nl once and decide decide de de- hedde he- he cide the one cue thing timing that awaits decision the th the type of canal canal anti and then let Jet the tw work go forward orwal as Amei Americans leans are aru In Inthe Inthe inthe the habit of sending forward their big enterprises Dig the canal and In e investigate t at aft aft- nr- nr erward |