This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...and that within a few months, there will be an abundance of pure water to supply a city of half a million people. The grounds are kept in excellent condition, the buildings are handsome and substantial, aid the plant is unsurpassed by any in existence. Our Duty As we push forward to the building of an Isthmiam Canal in the tropics we should not forget certain historic truths: First--In all time, ancient and modern, no work of any size has ever been done in or near the tropics except by slaves under the lash. Second--The Isthmus of Panama is near the heart of the tropics and has one of the very worst climates in the world, both as to heat and as to disease. Third--The Suez Canal lies far to the north of the Panama latitude, has a far better climate, was a comparatively easy work. Yet in building it the lash swung all day long and the wretched slaves died like flies. Had Egypt not then been furious despotism, the canal probably could not have been built. t Panama. Fourth--All the labor for Panama must be imported, will therefore be unacclimated. In digging the part which we have now bought the French imported their labor, practically enslaved it, with difficulty resisted the scandal and outcry caused in France by the pestilence-like mortality--the slavery was winked at, as in the case of Suez. If we can keep laborers alive at Panama, can keep them at work without enslaving them and driving them to their tasks under the lash, we shall achieve a wonderful triumph. Our contracts with the sub-contractors must have very carefully-drawn labor clauses, not as to hours or wages, but as to slavery and the lash.--Exchange. Indiana State Fair. The State Board of Agriculture has brought the State Fair of Indiana up to a high standard and it now ranks as a national instit...