The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-08-13
COMMERCE Will
BRING PEACE
GREAT NATIONS EXTENDING
MANY MILLIONS TO PROMOTE
BUSINESS INTERCOURSE.
CERMANy'S BIG CANAL
Will Be Seventy-Five Miles Long
France to Build $22,00o,ooo Canal
and Tunnel--ln Class With
Panama Canal.

/ Washington, Aug. 1l.--ProsaiC
2 commerce is more likely to bring
about world peace than all the SO
/, called peace congresses that may be
! held at The Hague from now till Ga.
, briefs trumpet sounds. This is the
belief of those who have studied
the question Their theory is basel
on strange grounds, but it IS thor
oughly plausible 1t is simply that
the expenditures being made or in
contemplation BY the great nations D.
the world for the advancement al
commerce are growing SO enormous
that little or nothing will be left with
which to wage wars.
I Much of this expenditure is found
in the present world wide policy Of
waterway development. The United
States is pouring millions into the
Panama Canal and is contemplating
AN outlay of more millions in bet
terments to its rivers and harbors at
home, Commerce demands it, and
commerce is mistress that brooks
no refusal. The other commercial |
nations also are busy along the same
lines, driven by the same necessity
and reports of gigantic undertakings |
are becoming so frequent as to oc
casion but passing interests.
Two projects, however, were re
ported this week that so to show how
important this form OF work has be
come. One Of these is in France
while Germany is about to undertake
the other, Both correspond iii great
measure with number of waterway
development schemes under consider
alton In this country, ANA for which
the American people, aroused by the
National Rivers and Harbors Con
sfess, have been camoring during
the last few years.
The French project contemplates
the construction of a canal to con
meet the valley of the Rhone with the
port of Marsielles. The work viii
.ost $15.200,000 and as the hills SCI
lrating the Rhone from the city are
90 high to be surmounted by locks
he French government viii tnnnell
through them This tunnel, meas
lred by the amount of dirt excavated
will be the largest in the world. Il :
gill be seven kilometers, or 4 Is !
niles in length and is expected tt
est nearly $7.0O0000
The German work is even more ),
igantic 1t contemplates a new shin
anal between Hamburg and Bremen
'hich will be seventy five miles in
sngth. The waterway will mean ar
immense saving of time in the pas
age Of ships between the two towns
he present route for vessels In thu | ]
iter-city trade is down the .EIbe, via
uxhaycn, into the North Sea, and
len up the Weser to Bremen. or vice (
ersa. Not only does this lengthy
)ute eat up time but is exposes
yer vessels to the dangers of tn !.
pen sea.
The new waterway will directly =
onneet the Elbe with the the River -
'umme, which flows past Bremen
he River Este viii be one OF the
nks used. and it and the Wumme
III be deepened. a canal connecting
le two being dug so that ii will pass !
Csc 10 the towns of Tolstcdt and !.
-
This very project was first discuss =
sccvnty years ago aud has come :.
, for discussion internationally ever :
nee. Each time i. Was abandoned =
cause of lack OF funds The gov -
nment needed the money for the
pport Of its army establishment
ID commerce had 90 accept the in
table Now commerce is Of more
lportance than the army, and the Ia
Drks Of peace of greater interests n,
an preparations for war.
Thus IL may be seen that com p
cree is the hand-maiden of peace
, carry out the metaphor, the Ma n,
NAL Rivers and Harbors congress ~,
the discourager Of armed camps ~,
rough its powerful advocacy Of All
lterway development in this coun- D.,
T. At present It is seeking to make ar
work more effective by increasing 40,
membership, which is already r;s