The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-01
PANAMA AS SEEN FROM TWO VIEW POINTS.
The President Paints Pretty Picture; Commits
sioner, Just Returned Says Otherwise.
WEALTH THERE IS VERY GOOD GOOD PLACE TO GET AWAY FROM
Ar Roosevelt Sees 1t. Govern
,,ant Is Guarding Against Adj
venturers, He Says.

m his recent trip through the SCUM
prasident Roosevelt had a good deal
10 saw in his speeches of the Panama
anal The following is an extract
from his speech at Jacksonville:
uora in Florida, the first of the
cn1f states I have visited upon this
+rin wish to say special word
,bou+ the Panama canal. | believe
tbot the canal will be of great benefit
10 ali our people, but most of all to
Ava states of the south Atlantic, the
crlf and the Pacific slope. When
oomnIeted the canal will stand as a
.oonnnent to this nation; for it will be
.be greatest engineering feat ever yet
oocomnlished in the world. 1t will be
GOOD thing for the world as a
whole and for the people of the 18TH
INNS and the northern portion of South
America in particular. Because of
onr especial interest in it, and because
Of the position we occupy on this hem
isnbere, it is matter of special pride
tn MS that our nation, the American
nation, should have undertaken the
performance of this world duty.
A body of the most eminent engin-
GERS in the world, both American and
foreigners, has been summoned to ad-
wise as to the exact type of canal which
should be built At no distant date l
hone to be able to announce what
their advice is, and also the action
taken upon their advice.
The Canal Surety.
Meanwhile the work is already well
underway, and has advanced suffi-
Icientlv far to enable me to announce
with certainty that it can surely be
accomplished and probably at rather
less expense than was anticipated.
But upon the last point, as we'll as
upon the question of time, no positive
statement can be made until the report
of the commission of engineers as to
4 the exact type of canal has been re-
Eceived. The work is as difficult as it
is Important: and it is, of course, in
evitabe that from time to time diff
cUlties will occur and checks be en-
.countered. Whenever such is the case
the men of little faith at home will
lose their little faith, and the critics
swho confOund hysteria with emphasis
Twill act after their kind. But our
people as a whole possess not only
sfaith, but resolution, and are OF too
4 virile fiber to be swept one way or the
other by mere sensatiOnalism. NO
check that may come will be Of more
than trivial and passing consequence,
|wiII infict any permanent damage or
cause any serious delay, The work
can be done, is being done, and will
be done. What has already been ac-
complished is a guaranty as to the
future
Guarding Against Adventures.
When any such work is undertaken
#there are always many mere advent
urerS who flock to where it is going
on, and many men who think they are
8adyenturers, but who are in reality
Neither weak or timid, follow in their
Footsteps. Some of the first class will
snow and then cause trouble IN one
E|ay or another. But every care Will
be taken to detect any mIsdeed on
their part and to punish them as soon
saS the misdeed is detected. AS for
Nthe second class, they will cause
proubie chiefly by loosing heart, re-
Burning home. or writing home, ana
Passing a cry that they are not happy
&and that the conditions of life are not
seaSy, or that the work is not being
Cone as they think it ought to be
Zone Now these men stand just as
Fhe stragglers and laggards stand
AZ HiC over W UG IOuANt Ia O'AO
~ even victorious army.
The veterans of the civil war VINO
are here present will tell you that the
very rear of an army, even when 1t IS
victorious, is apt to look and behave
rs If the victory was defeat. And
past the same thing is true in any
great enterprise in civil life; there
|are always weaklings who get tram
sPIed down or lose heart, and there are
always people who listen to their
complaints. They amount to nothing
.one way or the other, so far as achleV-
sng results is concerned: and their
complaints and outcries need never
seetain us.
Health on the Isthmus.
call your attention specifically TO
Inc matter of health on the isthmus.
Inc climate was supposed to be dead
y and yellow fever, in especial, was
Supposed To ba oOidaroio Vet since