The morning call., 1893-10-27
NICARAGUA CANAL.
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Mr.. Doolittle's concurrent resolution
authorizing a committee of twelve mem
bers of Congress, six from each house, to
visit Nicaragua and Investigate everything
connected with the canal, is worthy of the
prompt attention of Congress. There is
DO doubt but that British capital is seeking
investment in that canal. The control OF
the Nicaragua canal, which for years to
come must be the only waterway between
the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. would,
IN combination with other British projects,
prove a very serious blow to what is
termed the manifest destiny of the United
States. Some months ago Henry B. Ather-
ton of Nassau. n. H., delivered an address
on the manifest destiny of the American
Republic, from which we extract the fol-
lowing:
Great Britain has a military railway from
Halifax on the Atlantic TO Port Moody
on the Pacific, intended TO be used In
military operations against this country.
and on that account built in a great
measure from the imperial treasury. She has
free entry for her fleets to the ST. Lawrence
through which flow the waters of the great
lakes. From her fortress at Halifax she could
let slip swarm of armored. cruisers that Ia
and lay our unprotected seacoast under contri-
button. She has similar coign OF vantage OH
the Pacific at Esquimat. English dominion is
exerted over the Bermudas, the Bahamas, ia
maica, The Belize, British Guiana, Trinidad,
Barbados, ST. Lucia and the Leeward Islands.
Bermuda. three days out from Charleston and
New York, is equipped with Notifications which
are described In the Colonial Year Book as the
most perfect and formidable in the world A
submarine cable connects the fortress at Ber-
muda with Halifax. Ii was laid only two years
ago and ii cost S1,500,000. a sum ten times
greater than the exchanges between the group
and Canada. In the reef-inclosed harbor at
Bermuda. Great Britain has a shipbuildiDg
plant, drydock that will lift her heaviest sea-
going battle-ships, coallng station and vast
system of earthworks mounted with the heav-
lest guns. Since 1867 Great Britain has I'm
mensely strengthened the garrison at Kings
ton and created an entirely new one in the
harbor of Castres, st. Lucia. Taking Halifax,
Bermuda, Kingston and Castries together, a
chain OF offensive Notifications is constituted
within three days reach of every American
Atlantic seaboard city. Each Is mounted with
guns Of the most effective modern type. Each
is capable OF equipping vessels for sea a: an In
stanrs notice. A cable connects them all with
each other and with London.
1ue pOoSooSion VI the hdWdldu 1SlduuS
and the Nicaragua canal will complete the
Gordon of iron with which the United
States is surrounded. There is danger
that this Government may arouse from its
apathy when too late. The disinclination
to profitably invest one hundred millions
NAV involve US In the expenditure OF
thousands of millions within teny years. As
the New York Sun remarks. Hawaii will
either be ours or Great Britain's. That
journal predicts that if il is not ours with
in year it will be Great Britain's before
the century ends. The canal is part of
the chain, and the administration that per-
mits that worlds highway to escape US
will be held up in execration.