The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-30
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North American ports 10
coast Of South America m tar
as Caliae, and slso from CttiIf 1k MMk%$5
leo ports as far az Coqnitnb0 ~
par1fao. HtffsetIfer the fFeAehf f94RS
from Europe to Valparaiso and {1Nk
other ports of Chile Will hi xTNGf1SSsS
affected is deemed do1btAMASg
Much Will, of course. depend IN tH4&s
tolls fixed for transit through tfa1 NM
nal which. by h treaty OF 1891 b4ES83
tween Great Britain and the uJiltHNS& 4
States, are to be, like those ak SH41S8
equal between all nations. g%S4s
Tho Largest Question 81 Alls
The most interesting, because IN
largest, and also the most d01ht11tzA
and complicated question ts ss ~ skkS5$a
result upon European commences k6 thSf8s
Far East-Japan, China. New Zeaiaj&4
and Australia. 1t lis the most c0fn@sAs
plicated. because many fnctora Gtxf3xs&ss
into it. some OF them political I'M welNaH
as commercial 5S &z
Here the canal viii coulpete withSa
the Suez canal route, and Gas respnnEMS
Australia in particularly with the GxrNSA
of Good Hope route, and it will Al8fF4
compete with the steamship lixs4 \
which now ply from Australia All4$
New Zealand 10 England round CAp4E
Horn. From England to all the ANAkSS@e
~traiasian and east Asiatic ports, e1Fxa
cept those of New Zealand, the 6x1eaeH
route viii be shorter h that 6Xssa
| Panama. From New York. however,
the route by Panama to Sydney AHcltsN5
land New Zealand1 Shanghai VIII q
be shorter han that via Suez, while
TO Hong Kong and Manila 1t Will Id
Of practically the same length.
It is generally supposed that tbs
Panama tolls will be lower than thosds
| now imposed at Suez Commerce. H<9
other things, changes more quickly i4
our age than it did In any prevf0f1N
age, yet years may eiapsa before thu
full results Of the opening OF the cs4
nal disclose themselves. Some OF ttla
commercial as well as the political
consequences which have been due nd
the making OF the Suez canal were
altogether unforeseen. IL a dozen %
the most important experts were. fnS
19t4, to write out and place In the In
brary of the British museum and tina
library of their r~espeetfvaS
I forecasts bearing on this EubjecEH
sealed up and not to be opened tilAs
A. ID. 1000. they might make curious
reading In that latter year.
Mans Greatest liberty With Natures
The chief Impressions which tha
scenery of the Igthnus makes on tha
Traveller have already been ~if1dfcafedss
! but tho strongest impression OF all III
II AlAGf 4 0tA~ SsNS@FH fffS %&NAT ~ $50 t%&
can be ~foreseen. Of any large change@s
which man is likely to try to work
upon the surface of The earth. TuTa-
nels longer than any vet made may
be bored through mountains Dr car
ried under arms of the sea The
courses OF rivers ma be diverted-
| Reservoirs vaster han any We know
may DO constructed to irrigata arid
tracts or supply electric power tn
| cities, and bridges nay be bulls to3
span straits like the Bospllorus, IN
railroads. like that recently opened
in Southern Florida, be carried
through the sea along d line OF reefs.
But nowhere else do there remain two
4 continents to be divided, TIVE oceanss
j to be connected, by a water channel
I cut through n mountain range.
There is a tale that when the plan
II for digging a canal at Pananla
Il first mooted, Philip the Second ofs
4 Spain was deferred from IL hy the
t~argurnent, pressed by his clerical ad~s
J ,vtsers, that il the Almighty q wish
ed the seas to be Joined. he would
fhave Joined them. just as, according U6f
. H~erodotus, tha people az Knidus M@ra
|, deferred by the Delphic oracle froItas
cutting through the istfInua aionE
which their Persian end could
. advance by land to attack them. If
Zeus had wialaed the place To be an
III tStaHG, Sasd tlS uEhEfes AS WUAAA HAN@s
made # one. But when an aEA at
rived in which commercial and scten-s
tiic views OF nature prevailed against
eerlesiastics. it became certain tfaak
here q canal would be some time oE
ether made. Made 1T now has beAk3.s
, 1t ia the greatest liberty Man has evax
taken with Nature.
ely special arrangement with Itl
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