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Show STARR'S VIEWS 0.1 THE PANAMA CANAL SAYS IT IS UNDERTAKEN SIMPLY AS WAR MEASURE. Declares It Would Never Better Commercial Com-mercial Interests and Would Be a Burden. ' Chicago, Jan. 28 "If the United States wants to build the Panama canal, ca-nal, It should present to the people the only legitimate reason for tho work, and that reason Is that 'It In undertaken 6imply as a war measure' meas-ure' " So said Professor Frederick Starr in an address last night attacking tha government's method of carrying ont Its Panama canal policy, He declared declar-ed that the canal would never better the commercial Interests of the country coun-try and would alwayH be a burden. "The canal will not be ablo to compete com-pete with tho Tehuantepec railroad," he said. "Thl railroad Is in the center cen-ter of Mexico, and connects the Atlantic At-lantic with the Pacific. It can transfer trans-fer merchandise cheaper than the canal ca-nal will." Professor Starr called the proposed Pau-Ainerican railroad a "Utopian dream which never could be realized." He asserted that a railroad from Alaska Al-aska to Cape Horn was simply an air castle. |