Is M. de Lesseps a canal digger or a grave digger? "The canal management vainly endeavors to suppress the causes of death. Men die and are quietly put in a hole along the track. Dozens of the laborers have died already, and dozens more are sick." - Press dispatch from Panama : Ferdinand de Lesseps hebt mit Schaufel und Spitzhacke ein Massengrab aus, in das Särge gelegt werden / Th. Nast
