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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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olicy of an inter-oceanic canal owned and con-trolled by the United StatesGovernment. For many rea-sons of an historical and moreor less sentimental nature,they would have preferredthe Nicaragua route. They have been abundantlyjustified in viewing the French project of sellingout to the United States with suspicion and dis-trust. If, therefore, the Panama route shouldwin in the end, it must be on its sheer merits andin spite of the plea that our Government shouldnot have involved itself in any negotiations witha private European company, but should havedealt solely and directly with the Government ofColombia, securing an outright acquisition of theIsthmian route, including full sovereignty over thewhole or a part of the Colombian State of Panama.On its face, the French charter had already beenforfeited, and the circumstances of its alleged ex-tension were said to be irregular. If, however,the physical conditions render the Panama routedecidedly preferable, the tangle regarding rights,
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SENATOR JOHN C. SPOONER, OF WISCONSIN. (Who has been more prominently identified witli the leading subjects of legislationin the Senate, during this session, than any other man.) claims, and franchises can, of course, be straight-ened out. There is no reason to think that anyman with a particle of influence in either House ofCongress, or in our executive government, is plac-ing himself in a suspicious attitude by favoring thePanama route, any more than there is reason tosuppose that the geologists have been bribed toinvent stories about Nicaragua volcanoes. Presi-dent Roosevelt will not buy out the French com-pany in case of the adoption of the Spoonersubstitute until all doubts and difficulties of alegal and diplomatic nature have been completelycleared away. Although the House voted forthe Nicaragua route, its vote was intended, notso much to settle the route question finally as toshow its disposition to have an interoceanic canalbuilt by the Government without further delay. 14 THE

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