Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . man as shown on the Canal Zone. Around them will gather the socialists, the unionmen who think for themselves and all other upperclass workingmen. Do not mistake my will be no Coxeys army movement, no gather-ing of the riffraff of failures seeking to rob the toilerof his gains or the investor of his dollars, but earnestmen, whose weapon will not be the torch and thedynamite bomb, but the ballot. By their votesand the enormous following they can rally to theirstandard they will force the government to takeover the public utilities, if
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . man as shown on the Canal Zone. Around them will gather the socialists, the unionmen who think for themselves and all other upperclass workingmen. Do not mistake my will be no Coxeys army movement, no gather-ing of the riffraff of failures seeking to rob the toilerof his gains or the investor of his dollars, but earnestmen, whose weapon will not be the torch and thedynamite bomb, but the ballot. By their votesand the enormous following they can rally to theirstandard they will force the government to takeover the public utilities, if not all the large corpora-tions, of the country. They will force the adoptionof government standards of work, wages and costof living as exemplified in the work on the Canal. In other words the influx of workers will lead directlyto paternalism. Let us, however, consider this bogy of socialismfairly. Before proceeding to a more detailed accountof the manner of life upon the Canal Zone let meoutline hastily the conditions which regarded super-. THE FIRE FORCE OF CRISTOBAL ficially seem socialistic, and with a line or two showwhy they are not so at all. Our Uncle Sam owns and manages a line of steam-ships plying between New York and Panama, carry-ing both passengers and freight and competingsuccessfully with several lines of foreign-built largest vessels are of ten thousand tons andwould rank well with the lesser transatlantic them Congressmen and Panama Zone officials arecarried free, while employees of the Isthmian CanalCommission get an exceedingly low rate for them-selves and their families. The government alsoowns and conducts th-e Panama Railroad, whichcrosses in less than three hours from the Atlanticto the Pacific, while the privately owned railroads 328 PANAMA AND THE CANAL of the United States take about seven days to passfrom one ocean to the other. This sounds hke amighty good argument for government ownershipand it is not much more fallacious than
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