Le Panama et le canal de l'illustration et de prose .. . En AMÉRIQUE DU SUD 403 nos voisins contre toute agression égoïste exceptour propre. Il est de la plus haute importance thatthis sentiment être dissipé, et il n'est peut-être plus immédiate du début de cette tâche que byreaching un tel accord avec la Colombie comme shallindicate à d'autres gouvernements d'Amérique du Sud de faire ourpurpose la justice exacte chez nos voisins, qu'ils soient petits ou grands et puissants et faibles. Avec tous les pays d'Amérique du Sud le com-merce du Canal aura tendance à nous amener à se rapprocher de l'usine de nitrate d'ailleurs maintenir deux

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Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . IN SOUTH AMERICA 403 our neighbors against any selfish aggressions exceptour own. It is of the very highest importance thatthis feeling be dissipated, and there is perhaps nomore immediate way of beginning that task than byreaching such an agreement with Colombia as shallindicate to other South American governments ourpurpose of doing exact justice among our neighbors, be they great and powerful or small and weak. With all the South American countries the com-merce of the Canal will tend to bring us into closer besides maintaining two nitrate plants in Chile doesa prodigious business in explosives with the variousstates—and not mainly for military purposes only.The United States Steel Company has a vanadiummine in Peru where 3000 Americans are working.The equipment of street railways and electric-Hghting plants in South American cities is almostwholly of American manufacture. Even withoutthe systematic encouragement of their home govern-ment, American business men have begun to make. PANAMA RAILROAD BRIDGE ACROSS THE CHAGREb relations and to multiply the possibility of inter-national dissension. Moreover, the growing interestsof United States business men in those countriesform national outposts on which we must ever keepa friendly eye. It is ridiculous to urge upon indi-viduals the task of stimulating and extending ourforeign trade if the government is to be whollyindifferent to their efforts. It is known that thegreat beef packers of Chicago have considerableplants in the Argentine; that a famous iron manu-facturer of Pittsburgh has in Chile what is believedto be the largest iron mine in the world; that theStandard Oil Company has its agencies throughoutthe continent; and the Du Pont Powder Company inroads upon German and English commercial powerin South America, and the opening of the Canal willincrease their activities. Today our Pacific coastis practically shut off from any interchange of com-modities with Brazil

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