Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-12-13
THE PANAMA CANAL.
French Company Offers q Good Title
to Its Property.


The congress has wisely provided that
We shall build at once an isthmian eaEal.
quire, good title from the French Panama
Canal company, Negotiations o,,s ARE are Eow
to our building the canal This canal will
BE he ONE of shs
ing feat than has yet been accomplished
should be carried out as a continuing policy
without regard to change of administra-
Stances which viii make it a 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
also as improving our military position It
T be Of to sns fo be
hoped that all of these countries will do as
na and nav w nvss to
commerce and Improve their matsrial con,
order are the prerequisites. of successful
development No independent nation in
hooves each one to maintain order wit hin
55 e a9d to When s IS
done, they can rest assured that. be they
from IRONS outside interference. More and more ore
the increasing interdependence and COM
homie 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 a cable from a point on the
BY way of Hawaii. A statement of con-
dition ; or terms upon which such UGH cor cor
operate a cable was volunteered
inasmueh as the congress 81, was shortly t1d
had been the subject of. consideration by
n me wi q a n
pli e,t until the congress had first an
ing the matter in exactly the same con-
Msanwhils i aPP snis that the GEN.
promptly proceeded with Separations for
laying its cable. 1t also made applica--
Of to taHen by the ~ to
Nero. for the purpose of discovering a
ease ss f Sgn vita
cess to these soundings it could complete
required to take soundings upon its own
account Pending consideration of this
sirabIe to attach certain conditions to
the permission to examine and use the
In Consequences of this solicitation of
the cable company. certain cond tons
dent was Wiling to allow access to these
soundings and to consent to the landing
alterations e or ADDITIONS thereto imposed
by the congress. This deemed prop
er, especially as it was clear that a cable
connection of some kind with China, a
foreign country. was part of the COM
pany's plan. This course was moreover,
in accordance with a line of precedents,
including President Grants action in the
case of the first French cable, explained
to the congress in his annual message of
December. 1875. and the instance occur
ring in 1879 of the second French cable
from Brest to St Pierre, with branch
to Cape Cod.
These conditions prescribed, among
other things, a maximum rate for COM
mercial messages and that the company
should construct line from the Philip
pine islands to China. there being at
present, as is well known, a British line
from Manila TO Hong-Kong.
The representatives of the cable COM
pany kept these conditions long under
consideration. continuing: in the mean
time, to prepare for laying the cable.
They have. however. at length acceded
to them, and an a1l-American line. be-
tween our Pacific coast and the Chinese
empire, by way of Honolulu and the
Philippine islands IS thus provided for.
and is expected within a few months to
be ready for business.