Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-20
THE N|CARAGUAN CANAL
Was the Topic for Discussion at Sara
togs, N. Y, Yesterday

BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONFER
ENCE ON THE FOREIGN POLICY
OF THE UNITED STAT ES.
SPEECHES MADE FAvORING THE
IMMEDIATE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE CANAL BY THIS GOVERN
MENT-POINTED OUT THAT IT
WILL BRING NEW YORK AND
SAN FRANCISCO TEN THOUSAND
MILES NEARER EACH OTHER.
GREAT THINGS PREDICTED FOR
THE FUTURE.
Saratoga, N. Y, August 19.-The
National Conference on the foreign
policy of the United States was
opened here to-day with an address by
Henry Wade Rogers, of Chicago,
chairman of the committee of arrange
ments. Mr.. Rogers said that the con-
ference was called to consider some Of
the most momentcus questions in the
history of the republic. lie spoke OF
the war and returned prayerful thanks
for the peace now at hand. While
many serious problems to be consid-
cred.
He referred to the close friendship
between the Americans and British
which would promptly lead to inter-
! national arbitration and finally to uni
versal peace. The speaker spoke fav-
orably of the Nicara guam canal, which,
! he argued, would shorten the dis
| lance by water to San Francisco by
| 10000 miles. A reference to the trip of
| the battle ship Oregon ELECTED hearty
applause. Mr.. Rogers said that the
principal problem before the p"esen;
conference was that of territori"' Ca
pansion, on which manv distinguished
! men of national reputation holu
WIDELY DIVERGENT VIEWS
,.,;.o<fv he referred to the positions
respectively held by the expanslonists
and the anti-expansionists. whether
we should AMI ex the colonies that are
lost to Spain or control them by gar
net bag governments is problem thai
has become the most serious one tc
| Americans, who should ponder wisely
| over it in CIDER to not make a mis-
take Commercial interests urge tha
we adopt colonial system, said Mr.
1 -n~aars, but business alone ought no
~ control cur conduct. %. ,-,.,,,,,
was taken up. and Warner Miller, of New
York, took the platform. He briefly spok
| of his persistent advocacy of the canal
| Events of the past three months demand
| ed its immediate construction. and he be
| lieved all Americans were now universally
! in favor of it, as is also all of Europe
| He spoke of the numerous surveys made
| of every proposed route to pierce the
| isthmus and said the route by way of the
! Nicaragua canal has received the great.
| est consideration as both feasible and de-
| sirable. Mr.. Miller gave the history oil
| the Nicaragua route. beginning with the
administration of Gen. Grant and contin-
| uing down to the present time. Had not
| the canal treaty been blocked by antagon-
have already been built and now in actual
operation. financial distress for "a num-
Der of years also hindered the work Dis
tinguished Senators have for years urged
the building of the canal. but Congress
did not act favorably upon it. The Near
aguan route is looked upon as the most
feasible and far preferable to that of PAN
anna
THE CANAL CAN BE BUILT
for from 500 coo to 100000 as shown
by statements made by experts Is the
canal desirable? That the canal would
reduce the distance between New York
and San Francisco ten thousand m les is
alone a sufficient answer in the affirma-
tive. The railways and canals of the
country have made all sections accessible
and available and hav- increased the
wealth of the United States. Railways
have been built in advance of the popula-
ton and have carried emigrants 20 the
western lands. where there is now d
teeming population developing broad
acres.
Mr.. Miller referred to several canals
that have materially aided in opening I'D
the country. The Nicaragua canal would
alone save us ten thousand miles and
would be a great outlet for those States
on the Pacific coast. Tie continent is
gridironed with trans-continental roads,
but these do not alone afford the advan-
tages that could be secured by canal
1t is a question of cheap transportation
and the Nicaragua canal would solve the
problem. Within ten years after the
completion of the Nicaragua camel the
population of the Pac fic States will have
increased TO ten millions. One of the best
results of the Spanish-American war is
that it will compel the building of the
Nicaragua canal.
The entire morning session was Ge-oted
to discussion of the Nicaragua canal,