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Excerpt from The Conflict of European Nations in the Pacific
The completion Of the panama-pacific Canal opens the fourth chapter in the history Of the Pacific Ocean. Since the Asiatic and American peoples seem to have had no regular intercourse across the Ocean, even if occasional fishermen may have been blown from shore to shore by the winds, the first chapter opened with the coming Of Europeans almost simultaneously to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean from both east and west, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. For about two hundred years the Ocean re mained a Spanish lake, disturbed only by the intervention Of ad ven turers, explorers, and pirates Of other nations. Then came the second chapter, the chapter Of con¿ict between the nations Of Europe, which closed when the spanish-american countries, the United States Of America, and the Dominion Of Canada occupied the American coast-line Of the Ocean. The third chapter covers the greater part Of the nineteenth century, during which Europe made spasmodic efforts among the islands and in China to secure a foot hold, and the power Of New Japan arose. This epoch now ends. The completion Of the Panama Canal has brought Europe into closer touch with the Pacific Ocean; the Old isolation Of the American coast of the Pacific has come to an end; and new problems have arisen for merchants and politicians alike.
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