. Review of reviews and world's work. ting attention to the Panama project do netnow seem to have succeeded well enough to makeit likely that this favorite American project willbe delayed much longer. The For half a century there has not beenNicaragua SO favorable a moment for our takingCanal. ^^^ -^^^ ^ decisive way the NicaraguaCanal. Our finances justify it, our commerceclamors for it, and the inlernational questionsaffecting our undisputed control of the projectcould now be disposed of in a prompt way and onhonorable and satisfactory terms. If territorialexpansion is to be justified upon c
. Review of reviews and world's work. ting attention to the Panama project do netnow seem to have succeeded well enough to makeit likely that this favorite American project willbe delayed much longer. The For half a century there has not beenNicaragua SO favorable a moment for our takingCanal. ^^^ -^^^ ^ decisive way the NicaraguaCanal. Our finances justify it, our commerceclamors for it, and the inlernational questionsaffecting our undisputed control of the projectcould now be disposed of in a prompt way and onhonorable and satisfactory terms. If territorialexpansion is to be justified upon commercialgrounds, then expansion ought not to he acci-dental and haphazard, but ought to be deliberateand statesmanlike, with well-considered reasonsand plans. We have increased our territory andinterests in the Atlantic and in the Pacific of late,and we have put ourselves in a position whichdemands for the sake of practical as well as theo-retical symmetry the out-and-out acquisition bythe United States of either the whole or a part. of Nicaragua, and the construction by the UnitedStates Government of the Nicaragua Canal uponsoil belonging as fully to the United States Gov-ernment as that of Florida. Here is a projectworthy of the ambitions of American reopening of the Panama question and theendeavor to stimulate American interest inPanama are simply part of the programme of
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