Show THE NEW CANAL It is both proper and appropriate appropriate that the United States should build a new canal linkIng link link- linking Ing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans If the project is bandied han ban handled handled died intelligently most of the cost cost of the canal can be re re- gained in charges for passage TilE THE OLD canal is now to too o small to accommodate several hundred ships built in recent years and cannot accommodate accommodate date some of our larger war ships In addition to its physical limitations there are other reasons reasons rea sons why the the present canal should not serve the United Unite States forever THE TIIE HISTORY of or our acquisition acquisition acqui of the canal is not all al that it might be In 1903 the Colombian Colombian Co Senate was delaying g ratification of the pact giving givin g gg us rights to construct a canal canalin cana I in Panama then a Colombian Colombian Colom bian province Suddenly there was a revolt t in Panama US U.S. warships prevented prevented pre vented Colombian troops from suppressing it Within weeks we had recognized the new government and signed a pact giving us rights to build the canal IN RECENT years Panamanians ians lam have felt increasingly that they should enjoy more benefits from the canal and I that the United States had enjoyed enjoyed en joyed a special arrangement negotiated in unusual circumstances circum rheum stances long enough |