Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-06
England Uses Her OWN Canal
to Build Up Her Own
Commerce

And Mr. Wilson Blandly Proposes to Permit Her to Use
OUR Canal for the Same Purpose.

England built and owns 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 feet the master of the Eastern trade 1t
has carried the British flag all the AatC and African ports
and has vastly enriched the British people.
Naturally England regards her in Suez as only
right proper The ships of other nations in the same trade
are penazd British ships enabled to charge low freight
rates. monopoze the trade The ports London and Liver
pool are prosperous With the profits from their Eastern steam
ship lines shopowners have been enabled to build fleets
for the American traffic and to gain
tical monopoly Of the seas
It was benefits conferred British shipping
by Canal that first led the French to undertake the
building of the Panama And the purpose of the
French after they 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 the great of
structon They looked forward to the day when the canal
should up American shipping restore the American flag
to the seas build the and the interior by increased
commerce and lower freight rates.
But England clingng firmly her monopoly at susz
objected violently any American advantage in the American
Canal
The first protest from the Canadian Pacific Railroad
owned in England The directors of the road fOreaw mme
date lowering freight rates the minute water competition
opened
Their protest was echoed by the British hpowners They
fOresaw 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 at seemed natural enough that
Britain should be dspeased at the prospect OF greater
American the past American in any important
Office has worried much about British dissatisfaction which
began with the Revolution and continued internationally
since.
But to the of patriotic Americans the President
United although pledged by the party platform
which accepted open Canal ships suddenly
took the British view of the controversy.
Thus the present situation brought about The Pes
dent was Joined by Root always opposed to the
pie Of the States and by Andrew Carnegie who has
fond uniting the nations under the British flag
Encouraged by support the President carried the fight
into the House patronage hunting congressman
in that body to their leaders and follow his lead
Fortunately will be nearly months before the next
fght-whch will place in the Senate The American peo
pie are now thoroughly aroused They amy sub
mitted to Great Britain, and they will.
And to demand to turn over to them Canal their
terms when they refuse to all other nations equal terms in
their piece of arrogance of which only the British
could be capable which be answered by the Senate in
sturdy American fashion