Panama and the canal . plans and poor engi-neers made the canal grow very slowly. Waste and extrav-agance were seen on all sides. Yet glowing stories of greatprogress were sent home to France. Newspapers were DISHONESTY bribed to make false reports. For several years the Frenchpeople were deceived. The canal was soon to be completed,they were told, and they continued to furnish huge sums ofmoney for the work. r/u/Y. —De Les-seps was not, per-haps, an intention-ally dishonest he was an oldman and unfit toguide so tremen-dous a work. Manymen who workedwith him were dis-honest and by them
Panama and the canal . plans and poor engi-neers made the canal grow very slowly. Waste and extrav-agance were seen on all sides. Yet glowing stories of greatprogress were sent home to France. Newspapers were DISHONESTY bribed to make false reports. For several years the Frenchpeople were deceived. The canal was soon to be completed,they were told, and they continued to furnish huge sums ofmoney for the work. r/u/Y. —De Les-seps was not, per-haps, an intention-ally dishonest he was an oldman and unfit toguide so tremen-dous a work. Manymen who workedwith him were dis-honest and by themhe was only in Francebut also in Panamalar2;e sums of monevwent into the pock-ets of those in power. It is said that fully one third of all the money raised waspractically stolen from the treasury. This spirit of corrup-tion made its way down from the higher officials through allclasses even to the lowest. Every form of vice flourishedon the Isthmus. Disease, waste, and theft went on for seven years. Of. >/;^ hy ir>i. l-I. Ra French Machine Working on aCanal. iANK IN Panama 122 $400)000,000 course, much good digging was done, but at the end of thattime not over two fifths of the whole work was four hundred million dollars had been raised. A
Size: 1443px × 1732px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidcu3192401401, bookyear1910
