The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-01-28

fort of its common laporers as has
the Government of b United States
on the Isthmus, and nowhere else on
earth have the sanitary rules been
SO rightly enforced, with such sue
cessful results.
In addition to making the Isthmus
a healthy place in which to live and
work, we have accomplished many
other AID scarcely less difficult tasks
We have established a system of gov
eminent for h preservation of law
and order with the result that, not
withstanding we nave a mixed popula
ton drawn from all quarters of the
earth, serious crime is unknown, and
arrests are mainly for petty offenses
and violations of the sanitary laws.
We have erected for employees OF
all kinds towns and villages, varying
in population from 100 to 5000, com
posed of buildings constructed in &C
cordance with the principles of SAM
tary science, provided with modern
sewerage systems, and with abun-
dant supplies of pure water. We have
enthusiastically mean of refrigerat-
ing plants on the Governments steam
ers, a cold storage plant at Colon, and
refrigerator cars on the Pauama Rail-
road-a continuous line of fOod supply
between the markets of the United
States n the dwelling and eating
places of every employee on the 18th
mus
We nave established commissaries
1ld mess Houses hi placed it with
in the power Of every employee to
obtain good food, cooked and uncook-
ed. at cost prices plus the actual cost
of transportation. We have nearly
completed the task of converting the
Panama Railroad. which was a de-
crepit single-track road, twenty-five
years behind the times in personnel
and equipment and without terminal
yards or docks, into a double-track
road with modern personnel and
equipment, terminal and switch
ing yards that would be a credit to
any railway anywhere, and docks and
piers with modern hosting and un-
loading apparatus adequate to the de-
mands of greatly increased traf
fc. We have converted the city of
Panama, which was withon pave
ment or sewers or water supply, ia
to the best paved, best severed, and
best watered city in the northern half
of South America. We lave supplied
the city of Colon n its neighboring
town of Cristobal with an abundant
supply of pure water, i've paved its
main street with a model modern
brick pavement, and are raising and
covering the surfaces of it's other
street with crushed rock. We nave
assembled the larger part of the great
plant with which the canal Is to be
constructed. and we have completed
the engineering plans upon which the
work is to be carried forward.
There are other features connected
with the construction of the canal
which materially affect the United
States. First, there is the added slim
to trade caused by the purchase
of supplies entering into this work;
and second, the reduction in freight
rates 4 increases in ocean tonnage
which have resulted from this enlarg-
volume of traffic afford better OPP
portunity to our manufacturers Inc
producers than las heretofore existed
for establishing closer trade relations
with the South American people.
Under the Governments policy of
all our supplies from Ameri-
producers. WE are adding approx
$12.O OO, 900 per year of addi-
tional business to the industries of the
United States yer and above what
would have had if the construc-
ton of the canal were not il progress
III pun VI HIdICl AdlS anu oup
plies for use in the construction of
the canal and the competition on the
part of railroad and steamship lines,
brought about in connection with the
delivery of these purchases, have
reductions in rates from the
United States to the Istnmus and at
same time have added consider
ably to the volume of ocean tonnage
going thither. Within the last year
important steamship lines sailing
under foreign flags have established
sailing between New York
and Colon, while through lack of ade
luate facilities over so per cent of
the COMMISSIONS supplies has been
in tramp steamers.
With increased steamship facilities
the ports of the United States
TO the Isthmus nj awakened feeling
On the part of our manufacturers and
merchants as to h possibilities in
way of trade development ia the
American countries, there is no
eason why the volume of trade be-
.wee1 the United States and these
should not be very largely
increased each year, so that by the
lime the Isthmian Canal is completed
he people of the United States will
ready to reap all the advantages
which it has in store for them.
The trip of Secretary Root has done
/ great deal toward removing from
he minds of South Americans false
IDEAS n prejudices concerning the
attitude of our Government and peo-
Die toward their Government and peo-
,les. | think the people of those coun
ries now realize that the only desire
re have in regard to them is to aid
heir efforts, political and commercial,
o secure a more enlightened and sta
de government and a larger measure
If material prosperity. The statement
been made. however. that but 5
Der cent of the population of the earth
io-day exists south of the equator.
IND IL per cent exists on the west
of South America The ques-
ion has been asked. therefore, wheth-