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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Canal to be Fin-ished by 1915âColonel Goethals and His AssociatesâAmericanHotel and Ancon HospitalâAn Acquaintance on a CotâTheImprovement of Panamaâ^Peculiar System of TaxationâTheSpeakers EpigramâDiggin and Dammin and Sticking to ItâWhat Railroads Would DoâThe Work Summed UpâWorkersvs. Agitators. It was an interesting ride across the Isthmusârepletewith traditions of the Spanish and the French. Strange, said one of the American engineers, but wefind the Spaniards the best laborers in the zone. We havesome Italians, and there is no fault to be found with them,but the Spaniards seem to stick; they stand the climate andare able to do the work. I was watching a Jamaican drilling a hole for a charge ofdynamite, when Shanklin came along. Not working very fast, he said. No, I replied, I wouldnt give much for that fellow;what does he get? Ten cents an hour, and I guess he wouldnt work if hedidnt expect to get into the United States. Many of them get over? I asked. 260
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CUIvEBRA CUT, PANAMA CANAIv. Ylli; I^ANAMA CANAt. 263 Not many; were keeping our eye on that. McKinley found an Illinoisian in Maltby, a division super-intendent, whom he introduced to me. Why dont you induce the Southern negroes to comedown here? I innocently suggested, they would put gingerinto these fellows. The answer was unexpected. The Southern people wouldnt let them come. Theydont let the negro mix, but they are not letting him go. Iwish we could get the Southern negro, but you would haveto face a shot-gun to get him. I asked if there were many Chinamen on the zone.Shanklin said there were many in Colon and Panama, andthat they were good business men. We were passingMatachin, approaching Obispo and the Culebra cut, whenI asked Shanklin the origin of the name. Mata-kill, he said, Chin-Chinaman, kill Chinaman. He then explained that about three thousand Chinamenwere left at Matachin by the French when they ceased opera-tions. Tiring of their gardens and of their isolation, thepo

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