Show FORESIGHT ehnle to 10 control Ni camana canal mild britain suez canal it Is not generally known that goethe oresar not only the construction of the suez canal but of the nicaragua canal as well and foresaw also that the fornier former would have hare to become the possession of england ind and the latter the possession of the united states A writer in the london spectator translates L from Ee hermann tile the following report P t of Go goetges Gooth ethes cB con conversation at a di dinner in his house Ilum boldt said goethe has I 1 indicated a dt I 1 with great local knowledge beveral bevo points where by making use us 0 of 0 f some rivers flowing into tile the gulf of mexico one might perhaps attain the ob object j act in view even more ad advantageously v antab than at panama the decision of I 1 all this Is reser reserved ted to the future and to a grand spirit of enterprise so much Is iq certain that if a cutting be possible of such a character as would allow ships with any kind of cargo and of every even the greatest size to pass through such a canal from the gulf of mexico to the pacific ocean there would result for the whole of the civilized world also for the not civilized part of mankind the most incalculable advantages I 1 should however be a astonished shed if the united states wore were to let slip the opportunity of getting such a work ork into thel own rown bands one may foresee that that youthful country with its pronounced dinou aced tendency toward the west will vill have seized upon and peopled within thirty or forty years even tho wide stretches of land beyond the mountains one may also foresee that along all this coast of the Pa pacific clile where nature has already created me d tile the most moet spacious and most secure harbors there will gradually arise very important commercial towns which will become the intermediaries of a great gre at intercourse between china and tile the east indies on the one side and the united states on the other but in that case it will be not only desirable I 1 but almost a matter of necessity that merchant vessels as well as men of war shall maintain a more rapid communication than has so far been possible by the wearisome disagreeable and costly navigation round cape horn I 1 repeat then that it Is 13 absolutely imperative for the united states to effect a cutting from the gulf of mexico to tile the pacific ocean and I 1 am certain that they will achieve that airn aim I 1 should like to live to see it but that Is not possible in my case secondly I 1 should like to live to see effected a joining of the rhine with the danube but that were another gigantic undertaking and I 1 doubt its being carried out more especially pec ally lally when I 1 contemplate tile the small lessof tile moans means that germany can dispose of and add thirdly I 1 should like the english to be in possession of a canal of suez these throe three things I 1 should like to live to sceano see and it would be really worth while to hold out here for their sake another fifty years literary digest |