New Ulm review., 1909-03-03

had awakened In some future century,
had invaded some Utopia that Is to be.
Every body is well paid, so that there
is no danger of labor troubles. All are
well housed, well fed, protected from
disease and made to behave them
selves. They live in forced state Of
happiness and decency. And they
seem to like it. If there was ever pa
ternalism in this world it is in Uncle
Sans ten mile wide strip across Pana-
ma. Even the supply ships that bob
In and out of the ports on the Pacific
and Atlantic are run by the govern
ment. 1t is as nearly a law made
paradise as can be got UP on short no
tice in such God forsaken climate.
There are schools, churches and even
women's clubs The suffragette has
not yet appeared, but give her time.
All the other luxurieslf civilization
are on hand except gland opera and
| divorce courts These can be depend
ed on to follow the flag. And the beau
| ty of the whole strip is that it is
| American The workmen are of all
cOlors and nationalities, but the hustle
the confidence, the system and the hui
NOR are United States. That is the
reason the canal is as certain to be
built as the world is to turn The peo-
| pie that have made nation out of
raw materials are not going to be
stopped by little forty-eight mile
isthmus. America is to dominate the
Pacific, and the Panama canal Is the
key to the Pacific. The dream of 300
1 years is to come true, and the water
path sought by Columbus is to be cut
from the east to the west Whether
it Is to be done by locks or sea level is
a mere detail. The great thing is that
1t is to be done, and speedily. 1t is but
fitting that this work which is to open
the gate to new civilization should
be done under industrial conditions so
ideal that they themselves seem fore
taste Of that new civilization. Broth
erhood Is becoming ever more of re-
ality in the world, and who knows but
that organized industry is to be one of
the aspects of brotherhood!
! When Goethals Orders.
! Colonel George Washington Goe-
thals the man in charge at Panama,
Is worth story In himself. Rather, he
is worth several stories, and here are
two Of them. Before Goethals' arrival
the civilian engineers had not kept the
strictest discipline. Orders were Civ
j en-. but some Of the subordinates had
other ideas. There was consequent dis
cussion, and maybe the orders were
carried out and maybe they were not.
Well, Goethals gave an. order. An un-
derOficial undertook to show him
how dead wrong that order was. Goe-
thals listened quietly, saying nothing
until the official paused, out Of breath,
and added, II hope you see the point
of my argument"
"But," said the colonel speaking for
the first time, 81 was not arguing. I
was giving orders Please see that
they are carried OUT
They were.
AT another time house was to be
built for one of the officials, and it
l
months delay. The official complained
to Goethals.,
"Get into my carriage" said the
colonel, 'and we will go over and see
about it,
Arrived on the ground, the foreman
was called up and informed that the
house was to be ready for occupancy
on Nov. Is. He started to explain that
it would not be possible to finish il
within year, when something in Goe
thals' eye disconnected him, and he
wound up lamely that he would do the
best he could.
"You did not understand me-" quiet
ly said the colonel. "What said was
that the house is to be ready on Nov
15.''
And the house was ready.
After two or three Of the early canal
engineers and officials threw up thei1
snap of the jaws:
II am going to send a man down
there who will stay on the job until
say he can quit
Hustling at the 1sthmus.
He sent Goethals, and Goethals is
staying. In the two years since be
took charge things have been moving
at Panama. President Elect Taft Oh
his recent visit to the isthmus saw
over a hundred steam shovels in oper
alton, half thousand drills preparing
for dynamite blasts to eat away the
; sides of mountains, track lifters thai
;. moved whole sections Of railway tt
new beds in almost the twinkling Of
;, an eye two dredges cutting their way
into the land from the Atlantic an6
Pacific sides, an immense new spill
;, way being constructed for the Chagres
river, cores being made for the i'm
= mense dams, and all this work Of ex
cavation, construction and preparation
:, going forward with more rapidity thar