Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-12-26

elections were of national signih-
canoe. The President amazed the
country by throwing his influence
openly for Hughes against Hearst in
the contest for governor. National
issues were at stake, he believed.
Secretary Root was sent to Utica as
spokesman for the administration in
o statement attacking Hearst and
backing Hughes. The first third
term" talk began TO be heard at this
~juncture. 1t was said hat the for
tunes Of the Republican party and
the fate of what were to become
known as my policies would COM
pei the President to reconsider his
decision not to u again.-The Edi-
tor.
What the President Saw at Panama
G. U. s. 9. Louisiana,
At Sea, Nov. 20, 1906.
Dear Kermit:
Our visit to Panama was most
successful as we'll as most interest
ing. We were there three days and
we worked from morning till night.
The second day l was up at a quarter
to 6 and got to bed at a quarter to
10, and I do not believe hat in tho
intervening time, save when l was
dressing, there were ten consecutive
minutes when I was not busily at
work in some shape or form. For
two days there were uninterrupted
tropic rains without a glimpse of the
SUE, and the ChagreS river rose in a
food, higher than any for fifteen
years; SO that we saw the climate at
its worst. 1t was just what I desired
to do.
1t certainly adds to ones pleasure
to have read history and to appre-
ciate the picturesque. When on
Wednesday we approached the coast,
aud fhn inn pla-HnRara Mountains
looked clearer and clearer until we
could see the surf Beating on the
shores, while there was hardly a sign
of human habitation. I kept thinking
of h four centuries of wild and
bloody romance, mixed with ab1ect
squalor and suffering, which had
made up the history Of the isthmus
until three years ago. l could see
Balboa crossing at Darien, and the
wars between the S~paniards and the
Indians, and the settlement and h
building up of the quaint walled
Spanish towns; and the trade, across
the seas by galleon, and over land
by pack-train and river canoe, in
gold and silver, in precious stones;
and then the advent of the bucca-
neers. and of the English seamen, or
Drake and Frobisher and Morgan,
and many, many others. and the Wild
destruction they wrought. Then L
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Spanish dominion, and the uninter-
rupted and bloody wars that follow
ed, the last occurring when l became
president; wars, the victorious heroes
of which have their pictures frescoed
on the quaint rooms of the palace at
Panama city, and in similar palaces
In all capitals of these strange, turb-
u1ent little half-caste civilizations.
Meanwhile the Panama railroad had
been built by Americans over a half
century ago, with appalling loss or
life. SO that 1t is said, OF course with
exaggeration, that every sleeper laid
represented the death of n man.
Then the French canal company
started work, and for w or three
years did a good deal, until it became
evident that the task far exceeded us
powers; and then to mise Tculation
and fnefticiency was added the hlhe-
GUS greed of adventurous, trying each
To save something from the general
wreck, and the company closed with
infamy and scandal.
Now we nave taken hold OF the
lob. We have difficulties with our
own people, of course. l haven't a
doubt that it will take a little longer
and cost a little more than men now
appreciate. but I believe that the
work IS being done with q very hign
degree both of efficiency II homes
": and am immensely struck by
the character of American employees
who are engaged, not merely In SUI
~nerirterding the work. hut in doing
ali the jobs that need skill and inter
1igence. The steam shOveis, the d'rt
trains. the machine shops. and the
like. are all filed with American en-