The work on the Panama Canal is being done with a speed, efficiency and
entire devotion to duty which make it a model for all work of the kind.
No task of such magnitude has ever before been undertaken by any
nation; and no task of the kind has ever been better performed. The men
on the isthmus, from Colonel Goethals and his fellow commissioners
through the entire list of employees who are faithfully doing their
duty, have won their right to the ungrudging respect and gratitude of
the American people.