The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-10
PRESIDENT IS
 UNREPENTANT Has Not Changed Views on Panama Canal. ANENT GREAT RAILROADS Must Look Differently Upon
 Inland Cities. Buneau-v -varilla suegusts solution Of Problem to French Academy of
 science--An Important Re-
 port Prepared
ANENT GREAT RAILROADS

Sterling, Colo, May 9.--President Roosevelt, in his speech in Denver. con- cluded as follows his comment on the Panama Canal project:
 Tt Is perhaps unnecessary for me to say that I am perfectly aware that many most admirable gentlemen dis- agreed with me in my action toward the Panama Canal but am in an un- repentent frame of mind. The ethical conception on which acted was that I did not intend that Uncle Sam should be held up. But without regard 10 that, when the canal comes into opera tion, I think it will have a very imports ant regulatory effect in connection with the trans-continental commerce of the railroads. I think when such is the case, these great railroads will have to revise their way of looking at the il- terests of certain inland cities
 "As I say, these gentlemen don't un- derstand me. l understand thoroughly the argument from their standpoint. and see that they can in all sincerity hold the position, and while do not think that anything I can say could have any effect in making them alter that position, have considerable hopes for the effect on the Panama Canal Let me repeat what I have told you be- fore-my views as to what l regard as the most important matter of inter- national legislation, that in the imme- diate future will be before this people
 Must Have Proper Spirit.
 'T wish to say again that important
 though legislation Is. 1t is nothing like
 as important as the spirit in which we approach it. If we approach it tu tha spirit of demngoguery. if We permit ourselves as a people to be deluded tn- to the belief that permanent good Will come to Us as Il mass if we attack un- justly the proper rights of others De- cause they are wealthy, we small ua ourselves just as much damage as U permitted an attack on those who are poor, because they are poor. In times | past republic after republic nas exist | cd in this world, and has gone down to | destruction sometimes because the re- | public was turned into government ! of the poor who pIundered the riohs ] sometimes because 1t was turned inta5
 a government of the rich who exploited 1 the poor. and made no difference to tha | fate whatever of the republic when | form it's fall took. That fall was Just l as certain ia one case as in the other We have the right to look forward with confident hope to tho future of this republic; twill not and shall not become the republic of any class, eith- CT poor or rich. because 1t will ana shall remain as its founders intended it to be. and it's rescuers under Abra- ham Lincoln intended 1t to be, gov WhSAC GNCAJ AheA@f e.~l-t
 so long as he did his duty to his neigh-
 Dor, was given full rights, gua-anteed
 justice and has had justness exaeted from him in return.
 Buneau- variIIa's Plan.
 Paris, May 9.-The Academy of Science today heard a communication from M. Buneau-Varilla, formerly Panama Minister to the United States upon the solution of the Panama canal problem by the new method of combin- ing a lock canal for the immediate de- mands of commerce and sea level waterway for the ultimate require- ments. The communication says lock canal will be sufficient to meet present requirements whereas sea level waterway will be necessary only when the trafic is three times that ok suez canal, thirty years hence.
 A lock canal ample to meet all pres en requirements can be built in -Four years. This would have a summit level of 13O feet and be so constructed as to be readily transferred into sea level waterway The transformation would cover seven years additional work without any interruption of traf- fic for tine work of transformation. M. Buneau-Varilla added that the transit of the canal and the work of transformation would proceed as inde- nedently as If in different hemispheres. The transportation would not be ob- structed one minute for the disposal of dredging material.