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

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

England built and the Suez Canal we bullt 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 is exactly admitting British ships
free to the Suez Canal.
The advantage British shipping 1t has made
the British the of the Eastern trade
has carried the British flag to all the Asiatc and African ports
and has vastly enriched the British people
Naturally England regards in suez only
right proper ships of other nations in the trade
are psuaized ships enabled charge low freight
rates. and mOnopOze the ports and Liver
pool prosperous With the profits from their Eastern steam
ship British hopOwners have been enabled to build fleets
for and South American traffic and to gain prac
tical monopoly Of the
It was the immense conferred British shipping
by the uez Canal that first led the French to undertake the
building of the Panama Canal And it the purpose Of the
French after they built canal it for the advan
tage Of their own commerce.
But the French failed Panama and the United States
taking up the work, carried it out successfully
American people willingly bore the great cost of
struCton They looked forward the day when the canal
should build up American shipping the American flag
to the seas build up the and the interior by increased
commerce and lower freight rates.
England clnging firmly to her monopoly at suez
objected violently any advantage the American
Canal.
The first protest came the Canadian Pacific Railroad
owned England The directors of the road fOresaw mme
date lowering of freight the minute water competition
opened
Their protest was echoed by the British shpOwners They
American competition the which they had
to regard as their exclusive property.
particular attention paid by Americans to this
CANT British attitude first 1t seemed natural enough that
Britain should be dspesed at the prospect of greater
American In the past American any important
very much about British dissatisfaction which
began with Revolution and has continued ntermittenty
ever since.
But to the patriotic Americans the President
the United States although pledged by the party platform
which he accepted open Canal ships suddenly
took the British view of the controversy,
Thus the present situation brought about The Pres-
dent joined by Ehu who always opposed the peo
pie of the United States and by Andrew Carnegie who has
fond dream of uniting the nations under the British flag
Encouraged by this support the President carried the fight
into the House forced the Congressman
in that body to desert their leaders and follow his lead
Fortunately it will be nearly months before the
fgh-whch will place in the Senate The American PEG
pie thoroughly aroused They have tamey sub
mitted to Great Britain and they never will
And to demand them OUR Canal their
own terms when they refuse to all other nations equal terms
her canal piece arrogance of which only the British
could capable and which must be answered by the Senate in
sturdy American fashion