VIEWS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
I THE PANAMA CANAL. j THE PACIFIC FLEET. [United Peess Association. — Con- ' eight.] NEW YORK, Thursday. President Roosevelt, addressing ten thousand persons at St. Louis, after emphasising the enormous importance of improving the facilities for transportation across the Mississippi, stated that the construction of the Panama Canal was proceeding apace. At the I present rate of progress the actual dig- | ging would be completed within five or l six years. „ Unless America was preI pared to abandon the Monroe Doctrine I and the Canal, and be content \yith the role of a weak and timid nation, she must steadily build and maintain a great fighting navy. He referred to the departure of the fleet for the Pacific iv December, and implied that it was on a training cruise. If the present dual form of Government prevented the con--1 trol of great corporations eugaged in inter-Stale business, then the constitu. tion must be amended; but it would bo better to first to try to effect a broad interpretation cf the existing powers.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 October 1907, Page 2
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