Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-02-27
"oh. I am jus, tired,

Tor a moment. "oh. am Jus, tired,
thats all
Il was Horace Wallace Binney. that
Young American novelist, whose work
has been SO soon forgotten. who
stated one time that foreign opinion
WAS like that OF contcmporaneous
posiority. II foreign opinion Of the
canal Is that of posterity, We may be
assured OF the remarkable quality or
the achievement. for every foreign
engineer who has visited the canal
has gone away with but one opinion,
that IL was the great engineering feat
OF the world
Cocktails credit IN that respect is
not debatable.. but his handling OF
The army Of thirty or forty thousand
workmen with their families Is some
thing that he viii never be given
proper credit for. possibly because OF
the peculiar conditions under which
these people were brought together
ana the fact that as soon as the canal
Is done they will vanish TO the four
corners Of the earth, whence they
came
Benencient tyrant he Is truly His
word Is supreme, his bow Is law, bat
u Is doubtful II there are more than
q dozen men In the Canal Zone, out
side Of the Panamaninns. who dis
like everything American anyway,
who would not sc willing to live al
ways under the government OF
Cocktails
Not long ago an engineer By care.
lessly neglecting signals caused
wreck on the Panama railroad. He
wks tried convicted and sentenced 10
q term OF Imprisonment. The engi-
necrs' union held meeting and de-
cided that the engineer should be
pardOned and notified a representative
81 Colonel GOcthals Of this conclu-
sion Goeihnls himself was at the
time IN Cuba, and when he returned
no WIS met AZ the dock by his repre-
sentative, who told him that the en-
gsneers had stated that unless the
man Was pardoned they would quit
work and tie 10 the railroad and the
canal work. GOethals smiled his sad,
pleasant smile and said nothing. The
Aext day representative Of the engi-
neera' union called on the colonel and
asked him what his decision was In
the matter Of pardonlng the convicted
engineer.
Il don't ace that there Is any decis-
ion for me 10 come 20, replied Goeth-
ale. "You have informed me that un-
less the man is pardoned YOU will so
on strike tomorrow. That Is n def
mite statement OF fact which see no
particular reason should discuss
with You. You simply Informed me
that you were going on strike have
y0u not
''Yes,r replied the somewhat per-
picked labor leader
Well answered Goethals. what
IN the use Of discussing thatg"
THAT Is your answers" asked the
man,
YES" replied the colonel. And then
as the man started to leave the room.
"and by the BY" he called after him.
"iust inform the engineers who sent
you that any man who Is not promptly
az work tomorrow morning az 3
o'clock viii leave for New York on
the steamer sailing Saturday
Every engineer on the Panama rail.
road and IN the Canal Zone was
promptly AZ work the next morning ar
o'clock, and nothing has been heard
about q strike since.
Everything that Cocktails does is
done with the same simplicity, II 10
told OF q young man who went down
70 the zone, ana. like SO many others,
Gen a victim 10 alcohol. that when he
was Informed that unless he changed
his conduct quickly he would be sent
back home, ne replied II am an AM
erican citizen, and will do what | Ike
AZ long as ! break no law" lie drank
too much shortly after this, and the
next day found all Of his belongings
on board a ship sailing for New York;
and himself booked as a PASSENGER