History of the United States . , he proposed to construct a railway across the Isthmus chief engineer of theof Tehuantepec (the narrowest part of Mexico) that panama canal would transfer ships and their cargoes from ocean to ocean. Imagine anocean-going steamer of to-day being thus transported. In the case of thePanama canal, important history is still being made, just as interestingdetails may be learned with regard to its past. 5. As the engines and instruments of destruction become more terrible,the serious contemplation of war is almost enough to prevent any civilizednation from engaging i
History of the United States . , he proposed to construct a railway across the Isthmus chief engineer of theof Tehuantepec (the narrowest part of Mexico) that panama canal would transfer ships and their cargoes from ocean to ocean. Imagine anocean-going steamer of to-day being thus transported. In the case of thePanama canal, important history is still being made, just as interestingdetails may be learned with regard to its past. 5. As the engines and instruments of destruction become more terrible,the serious contemplation of war is almost enough to prevent any civilizednation from engaging in it. Day by day modern civilization becomes morecomplex. There is more to lose by war, just as its agencies proportionatelygain in their power to destroy property and to snuff out human lives. Peacemovements are, therefore, becoming stronger; and even if an occasional clashof arms apparently sets them aside, it is but for a time only. For the promo-tion of the cause of international peace a great palace has already been built. 37cS FROM SPANISH WAR TO PRESENT TIME at the Hague in Holland, a country which by its very smallness is consideredsafe from war, and thereby is also saved from the enormous cost in moderntimes of preparing for the possibility of war. 6. It is remarkable that the declaration of war against Spain should havepassed Congress on April 19, the anniversary of the first bloodshed in theRevolution, as well as of the first bloodshed in the War of Secession. Aninteresting incident of the war with Spain was the remarkable trip of the battle-ship Oregon from San Francisco around Cape Horn in order to join Sampsonsfleet in the West Indies. The declaration on the part of the United Statesgovernment that it would retire from Cuba after setting it free from Spanishcontrol was ridiculed in every country of the civilized world. Few believedthat the United States would live up to its promise. 7. But the greatest achievement of the United States government in con-nection wit
Size: 1345px × 1858px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublisherphila, bookyear1914
