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WAR ON THE FERRY GOUGE
PUBLIC sentiment in this region will be
heartily back of t&e fight, definitely begun
la Camden yesterday, ag-lnst the increased
ferry charges. Mayor Ellla In his message
to the Council of our New Jersey neighbor
Timorously reiterates some palpable facts.
Everybody knows that the ferries have
keen immensely profitable and that the croos
tlver traffic i increasing prodigiously. The
20 per cent increase allowed to the railways
by th" Interstate Commerce Commission Is
arrogantly exceeded by the one-cent flat
"iiise In passenger fares nnd higher rates for
utos for the Delaware passage. The first
class In arithmetic can figure out that the
percentage of increase Is thirty-three and
a third.
The law under which the railway rates
throughout the country have been raised
opins the way for redress in case charges
for service In any locality arc proved execs
slvo when compared with the earnings of
tte operating company. Philadelphia should
o-operate energetically with the municipal
administration of Camden and its Chamber
of Commerce in presenting this clear case of
'extortion to the proper autho-ities. There
is no apparent necessity whatever for the
four-cent 'nre.
The battle that is on might be considered
capital bridge propoganda were It not sim
ply auothcr invasion into the realm of the
trite and obvious. The ferry companies are
aturally making the most of our lack of
a vital public improvement. We arc behind
the, times and the situation Is becoming
painful.
Without the bridge there is no guarantee
that even the adjustment of one uncomfort
able crisis will protect the public from sub
sequent exploitation.
SETTLED AT LAST
SECnnTAItY COLUY'S proclamation set
tles the suffrage issue. Thirty-six states
have ratified the constitutional amendment
and havo sent the certification to the secre
tary of state.
The secretary's proclamation is an an
nouncement that the constitutional require
ments have been complied with nnd that the
amendment accordingly becomes part of the
fundamental law.
If other states ratify It will be merely to
put themselves on record and not to assist
in the change of the constitution. There
are but four states in which no action has
been taken. They are Vermont and Con
' necticut in the North and Florida and North
Carolina in the South. The amendment was
Rejected by th" Legislatures of Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, r,eor
jia, Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana,
all regularly Democratic except Delaware.
Now the work of preparing to accommo
date the new voters at the polls can go
ahead without delay and the work of in
forming the women about the method of
voting must begin in earnest.
COAL PRICES
rplIK order of the attornej general on Mon
- day to all 1'nittsl States attorneys to
inquire into the conl-price situation has
bee,n followed by a full in prices in Haiti
more. It has been charged that in that ity
prices have been boosted by a combination
of local dealers in bituminous coal The
dealers seem to have derided to rush to cover
before the federal attornev catches thm.
The anthracite situation waits on the pub
lication of the report of the commission,
appointed by the President to settle tho
witgc controversy. The commission finished
taking testimony two or three weeks ago,
and after tonsldering the evidence It wrote a
aeport vhlch it submitted to the President
yesterday. The President will study the
document nefore making it public. If it
grants the demands of the miners the con
sumers will not be able to get coal at lower
prices than thoso which now preoil
GEDDES SUPPLEMENTS CARSON
HAMPTON L CAKSON'S presidential
address before the American liar Aoso
elation in St Louis whs a scholarly dis
mission of tb! evolution of representative
government. Iji the course of it lie reminded
Ills audience that the I'ulted States is not
a pure democracy, but a representative
democracy.
The distinction is one of which the advo
cates of the Initiative anil referendum do
pot seem to be aware. They have sought to
introduce pure democracy into our govern
mental fabric to supplement the represen
tative system. The representative xystera
has worked pretty well Indeed, it has pro
duced better results than any other Hi stem
'ith which the world is familiar.
The experiments m pure diuocrucj' in the
western stutes have been fan leal. Thick
pamphlets hac been is.siieil containing the
JUtva which the people were Vailed upon to
consider. The arguments for and against
fliem have been printed along with the draft
of the laws, lint the voters hate not read
the pamphlets and they have rarely voted
on the proposed laws. They have been con
tent with tho representative system uilder
which they have delegated to others the duty
of Kttldyiug the questions nt issue mid pass
iwtthc ue.vc.'tMiry Matuti's
"Olr. Cfljjjon's uddrctu was admirably sup.
plemcntetl by the address of Ambassador
Ocddrs, tvho taU thnt tho Unitcrti States and
Knglnnd wen) (he two crent nntlons in the
world nttciuptltiR to apply Lincoln's doctrine
of a government of and by the people. Ue
admitted Hint wo were much further ft'ii
vanccd in that direction than the ItrltlMi,
for ho doubted whether many Englishmen
really comprehended what popular govern
ment is n Lincoln described it.
The problem before America In to make
IN representatives renlly fit for their task,
nntl the problem before England is to infljie
them really representative of the people.
The Itrltish have been governed by privi
leged elapses for no many centuries that It
Is difficult for those classes to appreciate the
right of the rest of the people to have any
share In public iiffohs. They nre makjnc
progress, however, ns the rNe of a humble
Welsh attorney to the premiership indicates
and as the earlier decision to pny a salary to
members of the House of Commons empha
sized. Hrltlsh parliamentary authority rests
today upon a much larger foundation than
it did when Tennyson wrote of it as "broad
based on the people's will."
LABOR AND THE SOVIETS
ARE DRAWING FAR APART
German Radicals, Like the British Trade
Unionists, Are Disgusted With the
Spectacle at Moscow
A CCKKDITED emissaries of radical labor
opinion in Germany, like the hard
thinking delegation assigned by British
trades unionists to obtain a prlvnte view of
ovictistn in operation, have just returned
from Hussln in a mood of disillusionment
and despnir.
They found no Moses.
They found no promised land.
They found desolation nnd failure and un
believablc injustice and the shadow of ap
proaching disasters that will bring fresh
miseries to the least fortunate of all Euro-1
pean peoples.
The world owes something to these men
who now have tho courage to be frank with
the world and with themselves. They wanted
to see what was behind the claims and counter-claims,
the false pretensions and the
false testimony of revolutionists, statesmen,
visionaries, agitators, exploiters and lounge
lizards of the reactionary embassies.
What they found on their pilgrimage
would seem unbelievable If it appeared in a
book or on the stage or anywhere but in
real life.
Suppose that a lively group of Greenwich
Villagers should suddenly manage to oust
Congress and obtain control of the govern
ment of the United States, of all the money
and of all authority ; or suppose ngaln
that spiteful nnd undisciplined children
should establish themselves in the plnces of
authority nnd, through the medium of gov
ernment, seek vengeance on the ndulf world
for nil the real and imagined wrongs of child
hood, and you will have a notion of what is
actually happening to almost 200,000,000
people in Itussia.
Let us begin, for the sake of argument, by
assuming thnt the founders of bolshevlsm
actually intended to befriend the masses.
Tho German kaiser believed that he could
improve the world by owning and bossing It.
So did Napoleon. Assassins who shoot in
the dark often insist that they are messen
gers of the millennium.
There Is organized slavery In Russia on a
scale never before dreamed of in tho 'world.
To maintain a system of rule opposed to all
the normal trends of the human mind, Soviet
leaders have conscripted labor nnd denied
b.v ruthless force the expression of free
opinion. They have taught that no man or
woman has a right to have hopes or nsplra
tions that are not the common lot of the
humblest and the most Ignorant. They de
vised elaborate mechanisms of government to
prevent the free play of humnn thought and
human energies. They did this in order that
all men might be equal !
The human desire to do, to achieve, to
accomplish, to adventure was outlawed with
all the force of a ruthless tyranny.
In Russin more than 00 per cent of the
population cannot read. Communication 'is.
carried on by menus of the spoken word.
Russians are credulous and sensitive. The
i evolution gavp t" nlmost every peasant an
independent right to a bit of land nnd a
limited right to the harvest. The Bolshevists
at Moscow have convinced the people that if
the present government falls the land will be
taken away from them. And yet the Moscow
lrgime is opposed openly or in secret by
more than two-thirds of nil the people.
The reason for this is simple but inter
esting. With his first harre.t- the Russian
peasant felt for the first time like a free
individual. lie had worked and he may have
worked harder than his neighbor. It seemed
unfair to ask that he should pool tho fruits
of his labor "for the good of the state."
Food is the greatest need of the hour in
Russia. So the peasant who once believed
that private property was an offense before
heaven was the firnt to hoard such goods ns
he was able to acquire. The cities needed
food for the industrial workers whom Lenlne
had organized after the fashion of the bees
to labor and ask no questions. The farmers
refused to contribute and production in the
factories declined and starvation walked in
populous communities. Then began the sjs
tem of seizures and arrests, and Moscow
conscripted more thousands and put them
to work in the fields under military disci
pline. The psjchnloglcal reaction that made a
potential "capitalist" out of every peasant
was as clearly evident in the high olficial
quarters of the Soviets as it was among the
Illiterate. When the Bol-hetlst visionaries
were pQor and safe from temptation they may
have been sinrere enough. But their first
contacts with money, their first taste of power
wholly corrupted most of them. Nowhere
in the world is there n privileged class fur
ther removed from the life of the masses
than the one that is running the affairs of
Russia from Moscow.
When the Bolshevists first ncquircd power
any man who may hae been trained in a
way of life that took him a little apart from
the crowd was marked for punishment nnd
disgruce. The janitor in n hospital had as
mil' h or more authority than the senior sur
geon. The rich of nnother day were turned
out in battalions to sweep the gutters for
their meals. The theorists who bad lived
fur eurs in the murky attics of New York,
Paris, Berlin and Vienna rolled meanwhile
in luxnrj and forgot their fellowship with
the proletariat.
The most skilled technicians of industry
weie treated as crlnuuals until, after four
teen mouths of confusion in all the nutiouul
centers of production, the Soviets took them
out of the street-clfutiing gangs, out of tho
kitchen mid out of tho clay pits and begged
them to "give their talents to the state."
The question that obtrudes after a read
ing of the untl-Bolshevist reports formally
rendered by British and German radicals re
lates to the sorry quality of stu esmanship
which has persisted in European countries
to defeat Its own ends in Russia
Whcic will It lead to at the hist?
Wilbiu u mouth tin tide of labor senti
ment iu Lurope has turned powerfully
t
LIO LEDGER PHILABLPHIA,
EVENING PUBI.
against communist theories. The Russian
experiment is approaching its close. It is
shown to havo been conceived In ignornncc
nnd perfected in hatred. The radical of
British jr German trades unionism Is the
la?jt man who likes to think of bcliig reduced
forever to the dead level of nu ox in, n-hcrd,
Lnbor In some of Its moods may bo wrong
headed. But In most countries it knows
through experience the force nnd value of
the principle of free speech, free thought and
free discussion. Tflat principle, cssentlnl
to human freedom, Is denied and rejected by
the SovIetst5ecausc they fear It.
A government thnt tells newspapers what
thcyfinay and may not say, that regiments
Its workers and gives tficm no right to- ob
ject, that Ignores the normnl ilcsjro of a
man to hope nnd nsplre, thtt exalts false
hood as a factor In its dealings with other
governments nnd that alms to eliminate every
spark of Independent human ambition is hot
the sort of government that even the radi
cals In western nations can tolerate. Their
minds move In an opposite direction.
The two delegations representing organ -l7cd
labor in Britain nnd Germany feel thnt
it will not bo wrong'for the nations of the
world to fight bolshevlsm as It has developed
In Russia. But they feel, too, that nations
which fight the democratic tendencies of
these times under the pretense of fighting
bolshevlsm nre riding to a fall. And no one
In his senses will question the wisdom of
thnt belief.
THE COX BOMB WAS A "DUD" -
rnilE bomb which Governor Cox throw into
the Republican camp last night was a
"dud."
It did not explode.
A'll he had to offer wus a memorandum
which he said had been secured from the
headquarters of the Republican Nntlonnl
Committee In Chicago containing a list of
sums with the names of various cities
attached, the total amount being about
SS.000,000, not $10,000,000 ns he has been
saying !
He had no proof that there was any inten
tion to raise these sums or that the commit
tee had seriously considered the memoran
dum. It is cxplnined today bjr those familiar
with the facts that the list which the gov
ernor's agents got hold of contained some
tentative figures prepared by John F. Blair,
who had been aiding in raising War Camp
Community and. other funds to indicate on
the basis of the war service contributions
of the cities what could be raised for po
litical purposes.
That is all there is to it.
Governor Cox did -not attempt to prove
thnt any sinister influence had made any
contributions, nor did he offer the slightest
evidence that any of the money nlready
raised has been used corruptly. Yet that is
what he has been trying to make the people
believe.
Chairman Hays insists thnt ?3,000,000
is all that the Republican National Com
mittee is trying to raise, and he announces
thnt the name of every contributor will be
made public, so that the country can judge
of the sources from which he money comes.
The Democratic candidate has revealed
himself ns a common demagogue. Such
hearsay would not Btnnd two qncstions
under cross-examination in n court of law,
which is clearly the reason why Cox has
dodged going before the Senate Investigating
Committee. If he enn do no better than
this the Republicans will not need even the
comparatively modest sum of $.1,000,000 to
pay the expenses of the campaign. Intelli
gent men and women cannot be Induced to
support for the presidency a man who
tries to bluff his vny into office by Tnra
mnnj methods of bombast nnd bluster.
BUNK THAT BLIGHTS
AS WAS inevitable, Franklin D. Roose
velt's reckless assertion that the United
States, if a member of the league, would
control the votes of twelve Latin-American
republics, has reacted unfavorably upon the
sensibilities of a group of notions whose
good will we nre continually professing to
cultivate. John' Barrett, until recently
president of tho Pan-American Union, re
ports thnt one of the members of this asso
ciation hns requested a verification of the
Democratic vice presidential candidate's re
marks. Several Centrnl and South Ameri
can diplomats are also seeking the same In
formation. There should be no difficulty about obtain
ing it Mr. Roosevelt in his Butto speech
was boastfully contemptuous of our Western
World neighbors, whose national pride Is
keen nnd whose knowledge of the light
headed extravagances of our political cam
paigns Is far from profound.
It will not be easy to convlt.co these na
tions thnt Mr. Roosevelt was densely igno
rnnt of the covenant of the League of Nn
tlons, which certainly does not place a dozen
La(in-Ainerican couutrlcs in ,a position of
abject subjection to tho United States. Far
more probable Is It that they will interpret
his fustian soberly and as an' index of im
perialistic policy in this hemisphere. The
consequences of such an impression are not
calculated to inspire advocates of Pun
American good feeling with cheer.
Mr. Roosevelt, It may be assumed, did
not foresee all this ns his impetuous tongue
led him to heights of bombast. The mouth
pieces for partisan bink are not usually
celebrated for their powVrs of analysis and
reflection. For this reason foreign policy
is by far the most dangerous of all the
topics upon which they touch. The Inac
curate rot of which Mr. Roosevelt delivered
himself in Montana has left the mass of
citizens in this republic undisturbed. We
are used to such performances, nnd when
they relnte to domestic subjects the outcome
is more-often amusing than harmful. But
the hasty, not to say mendacious, absurdities
of tho late assistant secretary of the navy
arc taken seriously in vast and imrortatit
regions below our sotfThcrn frontier.
ANOTHER WILSON'S MIND
IT IS to be hoped, though the likelihood is
slim, thnt James Wilson, who had the
distinction of serving sixteen years In presi
dential cabinets, has left an autobiography.
McKluley. Roosevelt and Taft were his
"chiefs." In the sphere o(f statesmanship
it would be hard to find personalities more
diverse. Tho former secretary of agricul
ture, who died In his Iown homo jeslerday,
unquestionably enjoyed engaging opportunl
tiis to make n comparative study of presi
dential temperaments.
Secietary Wilson's relations with the no
table trio ore said to have been continuously
harmonious. Whose mind went with which?
That is the alluring question. Was Mr.
Wilson u chameleon reflecting the poise of
McKiuley, the vigor of Roosevelt and the
geniality of Taft, or were these three Chief
Magistrates, otherwise so disparate In char
acter, alfko in permitting such nu expert as
Mr. Wilson to work out his program In his
own wny and with their full confidence? In
the light of subsequent conditions, the no
tion is somewhat startling
Iteci nt unfanilllarlty with such nu in
rungi'incut breeds, however, auj thing but
coiitquipt.
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WE'OUT-VERNE JULES TppY
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New Marvels of -Radio Transmission
Are In Every Paper We Pick Up. .
A Doctor Wrjo Treated a Patient'
Three Hundred Ml let Away
SCARCELY n day has passed during the
last two or three months without seeing
recorded hi tho newspapers some new marvel
achieved by the comparatively youufi science
of wireless transmission.
The new United Stntes high-power sta
tion in Frnncc opeus with o power that en
circles the globe, with a radius of 12.000
miles each way: the old battleship Iown
starts on a, cruise during which she will
not have a humnn being nbnard, nil of her
functioning being controlled by rndlo energy
from another ship; Mine. Mclba sings and
her voire is henrd for thousands 'of miles;
Signor Marconi, the Inventor, riboard his
vacht off the Italian const, dances Swith his
guests to music nlnycd in London and trans
mitted by wireless through the marvel of
the audion valve and sound amplifiers; n
merchant of London, Betiding a representn-
tlvc to Paris by airplane, receives news
that changes his plans, and communicates,
with his agent in- the air by radio telephone
and gives orders thnt mean n greatly en
hanced profit on the undertaking.
' All of these arc the high lights of radio1
progrcss-the sensational things that mnrk
fresh developments in n sclcnco that is
fraught with almost infinite possibilities for
the future.
But, with the ordinary installations that
arc now found on board the most unprcpo
sessing looking tramp ships, wonderful things
nre being done nlmost dally wltbout being
recorded In the papers for the simple reason
that the wireless operator has como to look
upon them as all a part of the day's work
and only mentions them casually in conver
sation with his friends.
THERE hns recently returned to Phila
delphia an operntor who made n long
voyage nnd whose ingenuity was the means
of saving the life of a woman passenger in
rather, an unusuul way. He was on n cargo J
ship, hound north from .Montevideo for
Liverpool. At the Uruguayan port a friend
of the captain had asked him to take a
woman and ber little baby with them nnd
the captain had consented, though both
women and babies arc unpopular on board
the average tramp.
Two days out from port the woman be
came seriously ill, The captain did what
he could for her with the books of medical
lore ordinarily supplied to merchant ships
and with tho small stock of remedies which
the vessel carried.
But the woman grew steadily worse and
developed a fever so high that tho captain
became alarmed. They were then near the
island of Fernanda Norohna, off the tip of
Brazil, a convict settlement that has no
Inhabitants except the prisoners nnd their
guanN, and the master of the ship sent a
message to the station on the islnnd asking
whether they had a doctor and whether 'the
ship would be allowed to nut in there. But
the answer came back that there was no
physician on the igjaud.
TnE captain.wns nt his wits' end, for the
woman's condition was most grave nnd
he had no medical knowledge to cope, with a
malady whose nature he did not understand.
In this predicament, the operator came to
him and said, "Captain, I nm in wirecss
touch with a pnssenger ship, about three
hundred miles away nnd thev hove a doctor
on board. I have cot him into the wireless
room nnd he sayf, if yor. will describe th6
woman's symptoms to bin and tell him wjiat
you have been doing former, he will advise
you."
The captain nt once went into tho radio
cabin with the operntor nnd lie nnd the dis
tant physician spent nenrly two hours ex
changing questions nnd answers, advice and
information. At tbv end of that time the
skipper had a prescription which hccould.
fill from the ship's medicine chest and lull
details of the treatment required.
The next night, the operntor once more
got into touch with the doctor on the other
ship and the captain reported the patient's
temperature, pulse and other symptoms.
Another prescription and further instruc
tions for treatment nnd diet followed "nnd
so, for five consecutive nights, the physician
on the liner held a consultatiou with his
patient nnd at the end of thnt time she
was well enough to be out of bed and about
the decks.
rpiIERE is no isolation nt sea any more.
J- Every night the ether is vibrant with
the news of the day and officers nnd crew
of i the dirtiest tramp ship know nt break
fast each morning what is goiug on In the
great world which they have physically left.
From Washington nnd Key West the uavy
sends out! a dally Butumary of the news, in
ndditiou to weather reports and informa
tion of all reported dangers to navigation;
n similar service is broadcasted from Poldliu,
England, from the Eiffel Tower, Paris, from
the Canary Islands nnd the coast of Africa
and even from the far-off Falkland Islands,
nway down at the very bottom of the world.
On the Pacific, conditions nre the sumc nnd
even tho ships of tho Norwegian whaling
fleet that go each year down to the South
Shetland Islands, almost off the coast of tho
Antarctic continent, can get their dally
newspaper if they are equipped with wire
less instruments to receive a fairly long
wave. v
EVERY day of our lives, we In Philadel
phia walk" through thousands of vital
messages teeming with the happiness and
sorrow, the joy and tragedy, the failure or
success of our fellow men. We are not con
scious of it; the mystery of the ether wave
Is beyond the power jp our senses to feel,
but, though It remains a mystery still in
its very essence nnd identity, we know never
theless what wo can do with it nnd wo nre
doing marvels undreamed of even iu thu
fnr-visioned imagination of Jules Vcrno.
Conrad's Son In the War
JOSEPH CONRAD Is the most reticent
of writers, nnd it is rnrelv that his read
ers catch n glimpse of his private life. Even
his friends know very little about the great
novelist's doily experiences. When John
Powell, the American composer, was in
London this summer he counted It n rare
privilege to spend a day and night with
Conrad lu his picturesque home at Bishop'
thorpc, not far from Canterbury The two
friends had not seen ench other sinco the
war, and Powell was anxious to know the
fortune of Boris, the writer's son, who en
listed In 1014. when he was not yet sevet
teen yenrs old. The boy came through
safely. Conrad told Powell, although he
served at the French front throughout the
war. Twice in the autumn of 1018 be was
practically buried alive. A few weeks be
fore the armistice was signed Boris and his
men were in a peasant's cottage when a
shell burst, smnshlng through to th'e cellar.
They were rescued burelv In timo to escape
suffocation, but young Conrad was unhurt.
Only n short time after this he was hurled
,in n ditch under heavy (Ire. This time he
wus wounded nnu sent to tue hospital and
wns not released until after armistice, day.
a
Members of the army flying expedition
from New York to Nome have arrived at
their destination nfter being in the air fifty
six hours. It would take as long as that to
get to Denver in an express train. But the
flyers stopped on the way. They plnn cross
ing the Bering strait to Siberia. They are
not likely to be In tho air more than twelve
or fifteen hours on the trip to the coast of
Asia. Then, when flying has been perfected
so that it can he continuous, we may ex-
Eect to travel to Siberia in seventy-two
ours from the Atlantic coast. We all are
more ready to believe this possible now than,
we were to believe that n man could lly
fifteen jenrs ago.
The novf assistant secretary of the navy
to succeed Franklin Rooscvuit is a grand
nephew of Andrew Jackson's naval secre
tary. Mr Daniels cites this fact as one of
the man's qualifications. But Assistant
Secretnr.v Woodbury will havs to live up tJ
tho reputation of his distant kinsman before
tue rest 01 tue country, wm,c,ciaim nira,
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FjmU'$v AtJGUST 27,
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NOW.MYJDEA IS THIS!
Daily Tallts With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjpcts They
Know Best
DR. WILLIAM P. WIL80N
On Mexico's New Era
MEXIC
in the
EXICO is at the beginning of a new era
e opinion of Dr. William P. Wil
son, director of the "Jommerciai .Museum,
who has spent much time in that country
nnd Is familiar wltjj every part of it.
"The latest reform movement, or revolu
tion, if you want to call it that, is a genuine
one," said Doctor Wilson. "Mexico is nt
last' in line for real progress. Her govern
ment is in the hands of strong men men of
good intentions, patriots, and men of vision,
progressive ideas, force Mind initiative, and,
furthermore, men who nre determined to
carry out their ideals for a better Mexico.
"A genuine movement is on foot to secure
general education for its people, strengthen
the country financially aud economically, re
place its railroads destroyed in Its many
revolutionary battles and construct others
and promote trade relations with this coun
try, so that its vast resources may De de
veloped for the benefit of both countries. f
"Such men as Provisional President De
la Huerta and Secretary of the Treasury
General' Alvarado nre strong men, born
leaders and constructive statesmen. They
have the strength of a Diaz, but are more
sincere in their democratic aims and have
all of tho honesty of Carrnnza without his
Jack of diplomacy and radical and high
handed 'methods. What is more, the people
of the country are back of them.
"Although not generally known, a dele
gation of lfiO of the most prominent busi
ness men in the country recently paid a
visit to Mexico to study conditions there
and sec the future prospects for amicable
business relations between the two coun
tries. Views were exchanged between rep
resentatives of the two governments, and
the revelations to both were surprising.
Lay Foundation for Trade
"It really wns an epoch-making visit and
probably did more to bring about the pres
ent condition In Mexico than any number
of events iu n number of yenrs. The ground
work for future nniicablu business relations
wns laid and the blow for the present gov
ernment wns really struck nt that time.
"Mexico has iu the past been exploited
to the point that it is a wonder that she
trusts any one The strange part of It is
that she invited her exploiters there in the
first place. Needing financial ojd from time
to time, the government sought outside
capital and gave valuable concessions for
small amounts. The result was that ns they
grew some of the Interests which hod been
Invited in became embarrassing visitors to
the country.
"Carranza, in his efforts to get for his
country what he considered its due, went to
extremes and levied taxes ko heavy that iu
many cases they were confiscatory. The re
sult was n discussion that has led to a great
leal of misunderstanding about the coun
try. "The country, loo, Is comparatively safe
I hove traveled over all parts of the country
tit various times und have yet to find the
need for discharging n firearm In self
defnesc. Mexico City, in fact, at the pres
ent time, is a safer place for the average
person than our own city. Whereas we
have hold'ups aud banditry almost every
day nnd night here, this form rff crime is
practically unknown in Mexico City.
Mexico is the iHost magnificent tropical
country in the world. Its wcnlth Is tin
bounded. Here we find 'nil kinds of min
erals, rich coal deposits, cotton In great
quantity, some of the finest tobacco in the
world, equal to the best Havana; coffee,
fiber matertnls, including henequen, from
which nenrly all our rope and twine- and
brush materials are made; gold, sliver, cop.
per, not to mention its enormous oil fields
and some of the most valuable of woods,
such as mahogany and many of our much,
sought hardwoods.
Wonderful Trade In Sight
"The export of mnny of these articles has
hardly begun owlnir to the; onuetHe,! Ad
ditions which hare hitherto existed in the
country. I here is nn enormous amounrjif
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Latin-American countries has developed to
a greater extent than any other countries
in,the world.
N "Located right alongside of Mexico, it is
out natural that we should get a great deal
of her trade. Even prior to the wnr we wcro
supplying about one-half of Mexico's im
ports, while our European friends wcro sup
plying the other half. With the circum
, stances of the war their facilities for sup
plying the class'bf merchandise required by
Mexico were naturally minimized, and ns a
result the United Stnteu in nmv minnlvlno
about 85 per cent of the merchandise ira- f
ported into Mexico and taking about 00 per
cent of her exports.
"Still nnother renson for the large trade
between Mexico and this country lies in the
fact that Mexico has n tropical or sub
tropical climate, while the climate of the
I nitcd Stntes Is that of tho temperate zone,
and as a result the Interchanges of tropical
products on the one hand for temperate zone
products, and especially manufactured goods,
on the other hand, nre very large.
"In the Inst ten years the import trade
of tho United States with Mexico has In
creased from $53,-100,000 to $KJS,nOO,000,
while her export trade has jumped from
$01,200,000 to $1-13,700,000. One big fac
tor in the trade relations between the coun
tries lies in the fact that they are so acces
sible to- each other and thnt shipments can
be made In a short space of time.
"One further renson for the gains in
recent yenrs of our share of the trade of
Mexico is presumably due to the very largo
and stendlly increasing amount of Ameri
can capital invested in that country, which
before the war was estimnted at over a bil
lion dollars nnd wns recently estimnted by
Senator Fall, of New Mexico, in a speech
in the Unled States Senate at two billion,
or far in excess of that from any other
couutry.
Insurrections Dying Out
!'It is a fact that the sales by the United
Sttes to our 15,000,000 neighbors In Mex
ico last ear were more than to tho 300,
000,000 Inhabitants of India or the 400,
000,000 of China.
"The insurrection hnblt In Mexico has
nretty well died out in tho last few months.
fvVith the surrender of Villa and several
other bantlit leaders, tho principal obstacles
to the formation of a good and stable gov
ernment have bneti removed. Of the.J5,
000,000 inhabitants of the country, about
12,000,000 ore Indians or of tluit origin,
many of thcin descended from tlto old Aztec
and other tribes. They nre, however, sus
ceptible of civilizntlon and sclf-govoniment.
"There hove been n few flaroups in the
wny of incipient rebellions, notably among
the Indian tribes of Lower California, but
they are pretty well under control. The In
dications are that with a little help and
encouragement Mexico will soon take itb
place among the stable ami constructive
nations of the world."
A FEEBLE PROTEST
TN THE pulsing, throbbing city
J- In the summer iu the city,
He is slnving, tolling, striving,
Putting by the most he can,
To be married iu the autumn
To a girl that's ruther witty
Very pretty, rather witty.
As she lies on the vcrnnda
Overlooking sen and heather
And comments upon the weather
And that creature known ns Jinn.
For though man must make the payment
Not in nature is there payment,
As the she-bird In half mourning
Fetches worms to-the male.
While he quite unaffected
Struts around in gorgeous raiment
Very blatant, gorgeous raiment.
But 'twos just the somo old story
(Take the female chimpanzee chasing nuts
. up iu n trco)
'fill the moukey lost his tall.
Oh, the woman pays, I'vo heard It;
But the woman ploys I'd word It,
While the man Is striving, toiling,
Putting by tho most ho can
To support the pretty creature
In tho stylo her parents teach her
And they certainly did tench her.
So the moral slmnlv itoch i
jjoii ti marry some one" daughter
hi ppou iter as you ougliter
liicukL'c:i. aiiotuer man.
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W)at Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What famous detective discovered evl-
dencos of a plot to assassinate Abra
ham Lincoln on his wny to be lnati'
gurated for the first tlmo In Washing
ton, In 1861?
2. What Is oxide of hydrogen7
3. Name a famoun naval battle In which
, the victor lost Tils flagship.
i. Which Is the largest island in the East
Indlffi7
6. What In tho rule for fixing- the date of
tho November election?
6. Who wrote the historical romance
"Thaddous of Warsaw"?
7. What Is meant by carnation tints In
painting'?
8. What kind of an animal Is a yak?
9. In what century was the great fire of
London?
10. Which heavenly body has more effect on "
the tides, the sun or the moon? ,
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The- word madam
lady. i
literally means mj
2. Talesmon are persons duly summoned by
mJ1"-1.' .t0 servo on Jury duty.
Tii?. Inhabitants of Finland belong to th
Finnish or FInno Ugrlc branch of th
Mongolian race, In which are Included
. Rl8o the Laps, Ehsts and Livonlane.
4. Tennesseo is called the "Volunteti
State."
C. Septemher 17 Is called the birthday of
tho constitution of the United States
because on that day, In 1787. tho felleral
convention which drew up tho fund.
mental charter of our liberties com'
pletcd Uh work In, Philadelphia and
adjourned.
6. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote "Little
Lord Fauntleroy."
7. rrlma facie evidence Is that which soenu
likely unless It can be explained away.
8. Onymous pootry Is poetry of which the
authorship I8 Known In distinction from
anonymous poetry.
9. A meter Is longer than a yard, contain
ing 39,37 Inches.
10. The first permanent English settlement
In Virginia was -made by tho Enjllta
In 1807.
Well, something got ratified, anyhow I
The junk seems to be about all there it
left of injunction.
t
The thirl Red line
metaphor, but a fact.
Is no longer
Germany, observes Senator Edge, !
greatly 'in need of help.
But who Is to
blame?
When it comes to a question of sum
mer breezes tho weather man may get
fresh ns ho likes.
"Millions for the bridge, but not one,
cent more for ferry tribute!" might fit the.
case of the Jersey commuters.
Political parties are Unquestionably the
monnrchs of indirect advertising. Most of
their timo is spent in talking about the other
fellow.
Without- going into details It may it
said that civilization will not breathe com
fortably until tho Polish frontiers havo be
come tho bounds of discretion.
Ministers of stnto selected a wife for
PfIiikk flnril nf rtnninnln Anil vet DO 0M
has thought of storting an agitation to hi'
sure self-determination for royalty.
One of theso days the Pcnnsylvanl
Ferry 'Company may have reason to re
member what happened when the I i""'c
Service Corporation of New Jersey lut re
duced onc fares on the Camden troney
system. .
Lieutenant Commander Venablo, U. 8.
N., who ran his destroyer out to sea in orarr
that he might welcome nnd honorably o
the ship, that brought bis fiancee back home
missed one glorious chance. He dldn t mi
a salute.
ft Vrnnklln t. TJrmoe.olt who SO aUHf
declared thnt tho United States could con
trol n dozen votes of the -Latin republics is
tho League of Nntlons, Is ever """'S
bv South Americans, the old song, 'sj; ,
what I used to be, It's what I am today, ,
mnv tnWo nn n new mill somewhat elODSr V,
rassing significance.
Now that women have the vote at. en
terprising young woman has 'reftl,l,i.
nounced that they ought o!o to have poll 111.
rai goos, pno tins nnpuru u, ".- , im I
..muff, .use; fur Ibn Mnvor and she wants l4
to use a HhVer because 'that f ""'.."..Ii J
kind she knows how to drive, This J' ajj
the kind of a revolution tne ww -'-.
"!!rt'I,iork Vvt'uiDK Buu. expected to brln about 1 .(. $
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