Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-12-05
THE PANAMA CANAL.
French Company Offers Good Title
to Its Property.

to Its Property.
The congress has wisely provided that
II p snaib eu at Panama The attorney gen
eral reports that we can undoupt9dly &C
a Ganel g eompan s rS Hegotations now
bending with Colombia to secure her assent
be ore of the greatest engineering feats of
the twentieth century; greater engineer,
during the history of mankind. The work
should be carried out as continuing poilcy
Without eg shou Id be begun I unaer
stances which will make it matter OF
. pride for all administrations to continue
The canal will be of great benefit to Amer
lea, and Of Importance to all the world It
will be of advantage to US industriaily ana
also as improving our military position. II
will be Of adyantage to the sstin RE 6 oa
ho TpA that all Of these Countries viii 60 as
some of them have, already done with sig
Commerce and improve their ma erial con,
dtions by recognizing that stability anS
ane 5he BE nation in
America need have the slightest fear of
hooves each one to maintain order within
its own borders and to discharge Its just
9ore. they can rest assured that. be they
strong or weak. they have nothing TO dread
the them increasing 1 int and COM
plexity of international political and eco.
nomic relations render it incumbent on all
civilized and orderly powers to insist on
. the proper policing Of the world.
The Pacific Cable.
During the fall of 1901 a communication
was addressed to the secretary of state.
granted by the president to corpora
ton to lay cable from point on the
California coast to the Philippine islands
by way of Hawaii: A statement Of con
poration would undertake to lay and
operate a cable was volunteered.
Inasmuch as the congress was shortly
to convene, and Pacific cable legiSla ton
had been the subject of consideration by
to me Wise to defer action upon the ap-
plication untA the congress had first an
S ouTned Without tax taking any a acton leS
ing the matter in exactly the same con-
dition in which it stood when the con-
i gssle that the c9 Sad
laying its cable. 1t also made applica.
ton to the president for access to and
Nero. for the purpose of discovering. a
practicable route for a trans-P spa
cess to these soundings it could complete
its cable much sooner than If 1t were
account Pending consideration of this
subject, 1t appeared important and de
e 1G to esane and nse
soundings. if it should be granted
We're Terminated. Upon which the presi
dent was willing to allow access to these
soundings and to consent to the landing
and laying of the cable, subject to any
alterations or additions thereto imposed
by the congress. This was deemed prop
er, especially as it was clear that cabl,
connection of some kind with China,
foreign country. was part of the com
panys plan. This course was moreover
in accordance with a line of precedents
including President Grants action in thu
case of the first French cable, explained
to the congress in his annual message O.
ring in 1879 of the second French cabl,
fron, Brest to St. Pierre, with a brancl
to Cape Cod.
These conditions prescribed, anon,
other things, maximum rate for com
mercial messages and that the compan,
should construct a line from the Philip
pine islands to China, there being a
from Manila to Hong-Kong
The representatives of the cable com
pany kept these conditions long undo
considerat ton, continuing, in the mean
time. to prepare for laying the cable
They have, however. at length accede
to them. and an all-American line be
tween our Pacific coast and the Chimes
empire, by way of Honolulu and tn
Philippine islands is thus provided for
and is expected within few months t
be ready for business.
Among the conditions is one reservin
the power of the congress to modify O
repeal any or all of them. A copy of TIL
conditions is herewith transmitted.
OF Porto Rico 1T is only necessary t
foy that the prosperity of the island an
the wisdom with which 1t has been gov
erned have been such as to make it serv
as an example of all that is best in in
sular administration.