The Congress has wisely provided that we shall build at once an isthmian canal, if possible at Panama.
The question is simply whether or not we shall have an isthmian canal.
It is, without question, a most able and comprehensive dissertation upon the subject, and forms a most valuable addition to the truly voluminous literature of Isthmian canal construction.
The Government of Great Britain has by a treaty ratified in 1901 waived the treaty right which it formerly enjoyed to share with the United States the control of any trans-Isthmian canal.
A Commission was accordingly appointed by Congress to inquire into the best route for an Isthmian canal "under the control, management, and ownership of the United States.
But at this time it was generally thought that Lake Nicaragua provided the best route for a trans-Isthmian canal.
The most important provision of the new treaty was that authorizing the United States to construct and to assume the management of an isthmian canal, either directly or through a company.
This was the first official interest taken by the United States in the construction of an Isthmian Canal.
They decided, therefore, that "the most practicable and feasible route for an isthmian canal to be under the control, management, and ownership of the United States is that known as the Nicaraguan route.
For many years no progress was made with the idea of an isthmian canal.
During that war interest in the question of an Isthmian Canal waned in America, and immediately after it the sympathy which France had given to Spain made it advisable for the Canal Company to postpone its propaganda.
The spectacular journey of the Oregon around Cape Horn revived the demand for an isthmian canal.
The dangerous voyage of the Oregon in 1898 completed the conviction of the United States that an isthmian canal must be constructed, and that the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was no longer adequate.
After a vain attempt to persuade Great Britain to abandon the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty respecting an isthmian canal, Frelinghuysen had disregarded it and acquired a complete right-of-way from Nicaragua.
Bunau-Varilla, one of the most zealous officers of the French Company, who had devoted his life to achieving the construction of the Trans-Isthmian Canal.
But it became clear that an enterprise of such far reaching political importance as a trans-Isthmian canal, should be under governmental control.
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