illustration of white man's rule, [86], [87]

Merchant Marine, necessity for creation of, [27];

American commercial supremacy without help of, [29]

Panama Canal, antiquity of project, [4];

President Roosevelt's insistence for, [19];

use of, by South American shipping, [21];

drawing traffic from east of Singapore, [21];

vast Eastern area to be served by, [21];

destined to make America trade-arbiter of world, [23];

prediction of cost of construction and maintenance, [23];