Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-06
England Uses Her OWN Canal
to Build Up Her Own
Commerce
And Mr. Wilson Blandy Proposes to Permit Her to Use
OUR Canal for the Same Purpose.
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England built and the Suez Canal We built the
Panama Canal and believe own it.
English ships use Canal and pay the tolls BUT
ENGLAND PAYS BACK ALL SUCH TOLLS IN REBATES TO
THE BRITISH VESSELS THAT PAY THEM.
This of course is exactly admitting British ships
free to the Suez Canal
advantage British shipping is enormous 1t has made
the British commercial the of the Eastern trade It
carried the British flag to all the Asac and African ports
and has vastly enriched the British people
Naturally England regards her in Suez only
right proper The ships other nations in the same trade
are penazed British ships enabled to charge low freight
rates and monopze trade The ports of London and Liver
pool prosperous With the profits from their Eastern steam
ship lines shopownes have been enabled to build fleets
for the American South American traffic and to gain prac
tical monopoly Of the seas
1t was immense benefits conferred British shipping
by the suez Canal that French undertake the
building of the Panama Canal And the purpose of the
French after they built canal it for the advan
tage Of their
But French failed in Panama and the United States
taking up the work. carried it out successfully
The American people willingly bore the great cost of
sruCtiOn They looked forward the day when the canal
should build up American shipping restore the American flag
to the seas up and the interior by increased
commerce and lower freight rates.
But England cnging firmly monopoly at Suez
objected violently to any advantage the American
Canal
The first protest came from the Canadian Railroad
owned in England The directors mme
date lowering of freight the competition
was opened.
Their protest echoed by the British shpowners They
oresaw American competition seas which they had
to regard as their exclusive property.
No particular attention paid by Americans to this
CANT British attitude first seemed natural enough that
Britain should be dpleaed at the prospect of greater
American In the past American any important
Office has worried very about British dissatisfaction which
began with the Revolution and continued internationally
ever since
the of patriotic Americans the President
the United States although pledged by the party platform
which he accepted open Canal to ships suddenly
took the British view of the controversy
Thus the present situation brought about The Presi
joined by Ehu Root who always opposed the
pie the United States and by Andrew Carnegie who has
fond dream uniting the two nations under the British flag
Encouraged by support the President carried the fight
the House and forced the patronage hunting Congressman
that body desert their leaders and follow his lead
Fortunately it will be nearly months before the next
fght-whch will take place the Senate The American peo
pie thoroughly aroused They have tamey sub
mitted to Great Britain, and they never will.
And to a demand them OUR Canal their
own terms when they all other nations equal terms
their canal piece arrogance of which only the British
could be capable and which answered by the
sturdy American fashion