Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-23

"The isthmlan canal represents what
Is probably 70 be the greatest engineer
ing feat--the greatest feat Of the kind
of the twentieth century, Before We
start upon the construction OF the canal
certain questions OF detail and OF our
relations with the people owning the
soil have 10 be settled When this has
been done, the first question will come
upon choosing the commission which Is
to supervise the building of the canal
Here, again, we have TO deal with an
enterprise so vast and SO far-reaching
In It's effects that but one thought is
permisslble-how to get the very best
men in the nation, the men Of the high.
est engineering and business and adj
ministratlye skill, who will consent to
undertake the work. If possible
should like 10 SEQ these men represent
different sections and different political
parties, But these questions are Sec
ondary. The primary aim must be to
get men who, though able to control
much greater salaries than the nation is
able to pay, nevertheless possess the
patriotism and the healthy ambition
which will make them willing to put
their talents at the governments SER
vice.
IN THE FAR EAST
80 much for what has been done in
The occident In the orient the labor
WAS more difficult II IS rare indeed
That a great work, a work supremacy
Wcrth doing, can be done save at cost
moi only Of labor and toll, but of much
puzzling worry during the time of the
performance. The nation that achieves
greatness like the individual who
achieves greatness, can do so only ut
the cost Of anxiety and beWilderment
ana heart-Wearing effort Timid PEG.
lle--people scart Of faith and hope, aud
good people who are not accustomed
TO the roughness Of the life Of effort
are almost sure to be disheartened aa1
Gismayed by the work and the worry,
and overmuch cast down by the short
comings, actual or seeming, which in
real life always accompany the first
stages, even Of what eventually tmr
out TO be the most brilliant Victories.
DEALING WHIT PHILIPPINES.
"All this is true OF what has hap
pened during the last four years In tire
Philippine Islands The Spanish war
Itself was an easy task, but II left us
certain other tasks which were muc'
more difficult one Of these tasks was
mat or dealing with the Philippines
The easy thing to do-the thing which
appealed not only 10 lazy and selfish
men whose thought did not drive then,
down TO the root OF things-was TO
leave the Islands, Had we done this, a
period of wild chaos would have super
Nened, and then some stronger power
would have stepped in and seized the
Islands and have taken up the task
which we, In such a case, would have
flnched from performing. A less easy
but Infinitely more absurd course would
nave been to leave the Islands our
selves and at the same time to assert
that we would not permit anyone else
Ia interfere with them. This particu.
lar course would have compelled all the
possible disadvantages of every other
course which was advocated 1t would
have placed us in "A humliating posi-
tior, because when the actual test care
II would have been quite out Of the
question for us, after some striking
decd Of savagery had occurred in the
islands, TO stand by and prevent the
re-entry Of civilization into them, while
the mere fact Of our having threatened
thus 10 guarantee the local tyrants
and wrongdoers against outside inter-
ference by ourselves on others would
have put a premium upon every species
OF tyranny and anarchy within the isl
ands.
Finally, there was the course which
WAS adopted--not an easy course, bus
one fraught with danger and difficulty
as is generally the case In this world
when some great feat is to be accon
plished as an Incident TO working ont
national destiny We made up our
minds to stay in the islands: TO put
down violence; TO establish peace and
order, and then TO introduce a just
and wise civil rule, accompanied by a
of self-goYernment viii IN
should increase as RAPIDLY as the ISL
anders showed themselves fit fer It
Wen, It was certainly a formidable
task but think OF the marvelouslv sue
cessful way In which IL has been ac-
TRIBUTE TO OUR SOLDIERS.
"The first and vitality important fea.
was the establishment of the suprem-
acy of the American flag, and this had |
70 be done by the effort OF those gal |
liant fellow Americans OF ours 10 whom
SO great a debt is due. the officers AID !
enlisted men OF the United States army,
regulars and volunteers alike In a
succession OF campaigns. carried on IN |
unknown troplc jungles, against an elu- |
sive and treacherous foe vastly out |
them, under the most al
verse conditions Of climate. weather |
and country, our troops completely !
broke the power Of the insurgents. !
Smashed their armies and harrled the |
broken robber bands into submission
In its latter stages the war against
,ur rule sank into mere brigandage; |
md what our troops had TO do was TO
lunt down the parties Of ladrones, It
yas not a task which II was humanely
possible to accomplish in month or