. Review of reviews and world's work. herefore, consequent dangerthat they will endeavor to attack him under coverat Washington. There are evidences that theyhave commenced their insidious good people of the central West, especiallyof Illinois, who have known him intimatelythrough a long period of years, must stand byhim in the fight that may yet be made upon himby those who are actuated only by selfish andpersonal interests. In justice to Chief Engineer Wallace as hestands before the American people, and to cor-rect some of the newspapers, which have un-faiily assailed him for
. Review of reviews and world's work. herefore, consequent dangerthat they will endeavor to attack him under coverat Washington. There are evidences that theyhave commenced their insidious good people of the central West, especiallyof Illinois, who have known him intimatelythrough a long period of years, must stand byhim in the fight that may yet be made upon himby those who are actuated only by selfish andpersonal interests. In justice to Chief Engineer Wallace as hestands before the American people, and to cor-rect some of the newspapers, which have un-faiily assailed him for advocating a sea-levelcanal, and which have quoted him as saying thatsuch a waterway would cost $300,000,000 andoccupy twenty years in construction, I desire tocall attention to the fact that Mr. Wallace hasnot yet advocated either a sea-level or a high-level canal, and has not yet submitted any finalfigures as to the cost or time of stories and criticisms emanate from thestatement he made before the Congressional. rs^^ • Soc(T»ro •M B I MAP 8HOWIN(i THK LOCJATION i>f THL PANAMA CANAL, 164 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REI^IEIVS. committee when they questioned liim dui-ingtlieir recent visit to the Isthmus. If this officialreport, later on submitted to Congress, is care-fully read, it will be noticed that he himself didnot make any final estimate or express any de-cided views. He simply informed the commit-tee what were the estimates and the conclusionsfor a sea-level canal that could be based on thefigures of the former commission, respectivelyof $300,000,000 and twenty years. It is due tothe conservative character of Chief EngineerWallaces methods to state that he will not com-mit himself on this point until he has made suchcomplete investigations and experiments that hewill be sure of his premises and his deductions. 11. -A SEA-LEVEL OR HIGH-LEVELCANAL ? Possibly the greatest general problem, andthe one that awakens the most popular interest,is w
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