Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-10-21
ADVENTURES
ON THE CANAL
President Roosevelt Talks of the
Great Enterprise and Its
DetraCiors
AN EFFICIENT NAVY
Is Necessary to Take Care of the In
tsrests Of the United States and
Other Countries On the Isthmus.

Jessup, Ga, Oct 21.-President
Roosevelt will spend today and Sun.
day IN Florida. Jacksonville is the
opJectlVe point today, his train being
scheduled to arrive there at 1O:30.
From that hour until 4:30 the MON.
ents are crowded with ceremony and
entertainment. St. Augustine, where
the President will spend Sunday, will
be reached at o'clock tonight
President RooseveIts Speech at Jack
sonvile.
Jacksonville, Fla, Oct. 21.-The
Presidents party arrived at TO-:
o'clock this morning. After the par
ade President Roosevelt was taken to
the Seminole Club in the principal
square OF the city where he spoke to
thousands of cheering people. He
said:
Here in Florida, the first of the
Gulf states which | have visited upon
this trip, | wish to say special word
about the Panama Canal. | believe
that the canal will be of great benefit
to all our people, but most of all to
the states Of the South Atlantic, the
Gulf and the Pacific slope. When COM
pleted the canal will stand as a monu-
ment to this nation; for it will be
the greatest engineering feat ever yet
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a good thing for the world as a
whole, and for the people of the 18TH
mus and of the northern portions of
: South America in particular. Because
OF our especial interest in it, and be-
cause OF the position we occupy on
this hemisphere, it is a matter of
special pride to us that our nation, the
American nation, should have under
taken the performance Of this world
duty. A body of the most eminent en-
gineers in the world, botn Americans
and foreigners, has been summoned
to advise as to the exact type of canal
which should be built. At no distant
date | hope to be able to announce
what their advice is, and also the ac-
tion taken upon their advice. Mean
while the work is already well under
way, and has advanced sufficiently far
to enable me to announce with certain
ty that it can surely be accomplished,
and probably at rather less expense
than was anticipated. But upon the
last point, as well as upon the question
of time, no positive statement can be
made until the report of the commits
sion of engineers as to the exact type
of canal has been received. The work
is as difficult as it is important; and
it is of course inevitable that from
time to time difficulties will occur
and checks be encountered. When
ever such is the case the men of lit
tie faith at home will lose that little
faith, and the critics who confOund
hysteria with emphasis will act after
their kind. But our people as a
whole possess not only faith but reso-
luton, and are of too 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, will infict any
permanent damage, or cause any seri-
GUS delay. The work can be done, is
being done, and will be done. What
has already been accomplished is a
guaranty as to the future.
Many Mere Adventures.
When any such work is undertaken
there are always many mere adven-
turner's who flock to where it is going
on. and many men who think they are
adventurers, but who are in reality
either weak or timid, follow in their
footsteps. some of the first class will
now and then cause trouble in one
way or another. But every care will
be taken to detect any misdeed on
their part and to punish them as soon
as the misdeed is detected. AS fol
the second class they will cause
trouble chiefly by losing heart, return
ing home, or writing home, and raising
a cry that they are not happy and tha
the conditions Of life are not easy, OF
that the work is not being done az
they think it ought to be done. NOW
these men stand just as the stragglers
and laggards stand who are ever u
be found in the rear of even vlctorl
GUS army. The veterans OF the ClVl
War who are here present will tel
you that the very rear of an army
even when it is victorious, is apt u
look and behave as if the victory Wer'
defeat. And just the same thing Il
true in any great enterprise in civi
life; there are always weahlings VIII
get trampled down or lose heart, an
there are always people who listen t
their complaints. They amount t
nothing one way or the other, so ia
as achieving results is concerned; an
their complaints and outcries nee
never detain us.
Building Of the Isthmus Canal Carrie
on With Disregard to Political
Consideration.
I call your attention specifically t
the matter Of health on the Isthmu'