The Cairo bulletin., 1905-07-09
BIGGEST HUMBUG
OF THE AGE
Former Interstate Commissioner
Yeomans SO Declares
THE PANAMA CANAL
7 CANNOT BE COMPLETED
RAILROADS BACK OF A
SCHEME TO DISH THE
GOVERNMENT.

Sioux City, Ia, Jnly 81 Wallace
was right when re resigned as chief
engineer Of nc Panama Canal Conn
mission" said J. p Ycomans, Of this
city, in beginning sensational inter
yeiw today.
Mr.. Yeomans was relieved by Roose-
welt six mondhs ago. aftsr having
served more than decade on the In
ter-state Commerce Commission. Goa.
Timing, he said:
VILLAGE made fool Of himself Try
ing 70 tell WAY All he should have
said was. ! have had enough Of PAN
anna and | resign II is no place for
any one to want to stay. Before was
moved OFF the Interstate Commerce
lCommiss on il was intimated 10 me
chat | would be yaInahle man iii
Panama. Nc Panama for not faY 4
Thousand d@llaFs minute / dsdnt
come % This world 10 die; cama 10
Hive.
Biggest Of All tlambuss.
The Panama Canal Il the biggest
lhumhug Of the age / have I'D hesi-
Etancy IN saying that III nay opinion
there will never be canal hniIs there.
No impoFtanr AmerIpan eaf ineer, who
WAS not paid for Ii. agar hazarded the
Il opinion that there would be d canal
there. The last monthly report of
work dome shows thar II will take
It0 years. to finish II. The weeds
grow IN enc end faster than they carry
tho dirt ont or the other.
No englneay hps eyer found rock
III s.saaas had in tsisa cel
bra Gut, where the United States has
done the most of It's work. There nas
been y cnt of a50 feet there, ana thirty
inches nf rain falls In shirty hours
down those hanks Does anyone sup.
pose that the alluvlal SOL won't wash
down III there TO make d mud canal
too thick for government dYadgs-
bOnt to keep afaat I'M
THE Nicaragua canal wa4 feaaible
and for that reason It was Abandoned.
! was member Of a syndicate prapar-
cd to bnild canal therefor sl20,0e0,-
000, which would have carried 27.00l,-
900 tons Of merchandise annually.
We We're prepared tn slo the work fiji
fpnr years. This loolsed tno much
= like a canal ana the great Influences
behind the present transcont.nental
transportation husiness suddenly ceas.
led opposing the canal projoct AMI
I lpushed the clanor over Ia Panama.
\ The men who run our big railroads
y know what Panama III.
! Nicaragua Route Is Feasibie.
= by the Nicaragua route as project.
4 cd ship could leave New York Har.
Dor and arrive In San Francisco in
n eighteen days, No freight tia ii Ii now
N scheduled TO 70 overland inside n
" tweniy-three days. That what struck
Y In Nicaragua project. Red tape. ciYi
y service reform and yellow eyfS vii
do the rest.
Y Do you suppose Congress will 80 on
n putting np money for gsavestones and
y Gu nine down there? Tam clad / an
mot in II. Everybody down there wants
to do what Wallace did or what tht
boss OF the whole works Is doing NJ
y In New York and run Il by proxy
Why should Shonts or Wallace bi
4 chosen to dis \ canal anyway The,
fs never did d piece of work Ill thesl
- lives of this SORT or anything calnmlaf
% cd to equlp them for doing IT, Ever,
AZ man elected SO far to do The wogl
2. has been D cked from trRnscontinent
" al railroad Would YOU rick Il compe
re tltor to build 4 competing business
v They may bd aIi right but none of i
~ looks like d canal 20 me-
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