Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-06
England Uses Her OWN Canal
to Build Up Her Own
Commerce
And Mr. Wilson Bandy 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 the suez Canal and pay the tolls BUT
ENGLAND PAYS BACK ALL SUCH TOLLS IN REBATES TO
THE BRITISH VESSELS THAT PAY THEM.
This of course exactly the admitting British ships
free to the Suez Canal.
The advantage British shipping 1t has made
the British commercial feet the master of the Eastern trade 1t
has carried the British flag all the Asac and African ports
and has vastly enriched the British people.
Naturally England regards in suez only
right and proper ships of other nations in the trade
are penaized British ships enabled to charge low freight
rates. monopoe the trade The ports of London and Liver
pool prosperous With the profits from their Eastern steam
ship British shOpowners have been enabled to build fleets
for the American South American traffic and to gain
tical monopoly Of the seas.
II was the immense benefits conferred British shipping
by the suez Canal that first led the French to undertake the
building Panama Canal And the purpose of the
French after they built the canal for the advan
tage Of their commerce.
But the 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
struCOn They looked forward the day when the canal
should build up American shipping restore the American flag
to the seas and up the interior by increased
commerce and lower freight rates.
But England oinging firmly her monopoly at suez
objected violently any American advantage in the American
Canal
The first protest the Canadian Pacific Railroad
owned in England directors of the road foreaw mme
date lowering freight the minute water competition
opened
Their protest echoed by the British shpOwner They
American competition the which they had come
to regard as their exclusive property
No particular attention paid by Americans to this AFRO
CANT British attitude first 1t seemed natural enough that
Britain should be dpeased at the prospect of greater
In the past American in any important
office very much about British dissatisfaction which
began with Revolution and has continued internationally
since
But to of patriotic Americans the President
of the United States although pledged by the party platform
which accepted open Canal to ships suddenly
took the British view of the controversy.
Thus the present situation brought about The Presi
dent was Joined by Root always opposed to the
pie United States and by Andrew Carnegie who has
fond uniting the nations under the British flag
Encouraged by this support the President carried the fight
into the forced the patronage hunting Congressman
in that body their leaders and follow his lead
Fortunately will be nearly months before the next
6gh-whch will take place in The American PEG
pie are now thoroughly They have tamey sub
mitted to Great Britain, and they never will,
And to demand to to them OUR Canal their
own terms when they refuse all other nations equal terms
eir own canal piece arrogance of which only the British
could be capable which be answered by the Senate in
sturdy American fashion