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EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE Monday, llav 30, 1910. EL PASO HEUALD Established April. 1S81. The B Paso Heraid includes aiso. by absorption and succession, The Dally News, The Telegraph. The Telegram. The Tribune. The Graphic. The Sun. The Advertiser. Tho Independent, The Journal. The Republican. The Bulletin. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS A?D AM12IU NEWS P. PUBLISHERS' ASSOC. Entered at the Postoffice in El Paso. Tex., as Second Class matter. Dedicated to the service of the people, that no good cause shall lack a cham pion, and that evil shall not thrive unopposed. Bell Business Office 115 Editorial Rooms 2020 Society Reporter 1019 Advertising- department 116 IIERALD ( TELEPHONES, j TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Herald, per month, 60c; per year. ST. Weekly Herald, per year, ?2. The Dally Herald is delivered bv carriers in El Paso. East El Paso, Fort Bliss and Towne, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at 60 cents a month. A subscriber desiring the address on his paper changed will please state in his communication both the old and the new address. COMPLAINTS. Subscribers failing to get The Herald promptly should call at the office or telephone No. 115 before 6:30 p. m. All complaints will receive prompt atten tion. w GUARANTEED CIRCULATION. The Herald bases nil adverti sing contracts on a guarantee of more than twice the circulation of r . Thcs Association of American 4 Advertisers has r the arcuiation of this t- . r L. report cr sucn exaoiszuca is on uic si ui New York ofsce of the Association. No other figures d crculafcon guaranteed. any other El i. Paso, Arizona, ' New Mexico or j y west Texas pa- r per. Dally average exceeding 10,000. The Value ANSAS CITY has 2500 acres in has added five miles to her wonderful system of parkway drives. An un published report from the engineer in charge contains this significant para graph: "You cannot realize the benefit the city derives from its beautiful parks and drives second to none in this country. Our visiting population is estimated at from 100,000 to 200,000 people each week, and the pleasing impression these people carry away with them to be talked of all over the country brings travelers to our doors from all over the world, and the indirect cause of all our glory is our parks backed by a class of citizens who ant thebest of every thing at all times for Kansas City. They know what the city needs to maintain a class of its own, and they all work for its interests, and go out and get it, no matter what it costs in time or money. No city claiming any progress can do without parks. It is their greatest asset in pleasure, health, and profit, increasing the value of the property, and insuring a large income to commerce." Besides the park scheme proposed by Mr. Kern back of the rim of the mesa, El Paso has three main park projects to consider seriously within the near future. One is to establish a boulevard along the rim of the mesa from the reservoirs around the point of Mt. Franklin to Fort Bliss, affording a magnificent view of the valley ana mesa for hundreds of miles. Another is to secure land adjacent to the canal through Chihuahuita and make a park of the canal rightofway some two miles long, planting that strip in grass and trees for the benefit of the 20,000 Mexican population of this city. Such a park would be in easy walking distance of every dweller in the Mexican section, and it would unquestionably tend to reduce the terrible death rate among these people. The third is the proposition to extend the street parking system already inaugurated on Rio Grande street and Magoffin avenue; the first cost of this is comparatively small and Ee maintenance is not burdensome en the property owners. With miles and miles of these street parks we should find a decided change in our summer climate. It would be cooler, the winds would be broken, and all vegetation would thrive better than now. None of these plans involves any great expenditure. They will give more pleasure to more people than wouia a large outlying park at this time. o Two good jobs go by appointment of president Taft to Democrats in Texas. Tnis does not seem a very good way to encourage the establishing of a strong Re publican party in the state. Moreover, the Democrats give the president no credit for such an act, for they ascribe it to mere cunning rolitrlcs instead of to goodwill, broadmindedness, or a fitting sense of nationality in the executive office. o Meanwhile our valley fanners are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars every year because they do not organize to take full advantage of this local market. Prime valley produce goes begging, while El Pasoans are buying California stuff not nearly as good. We do not need to wait until the dam is completed in order to get the benefit of our valley farming. A good deal is produced right now on the 50,000 acres in cultivation, but it is not sold to the best advantage and our local market does not get the maximum benefit from its location in the midst of a rich producing section. San Diego's Panama Exposition SAN DIEGO, CAL.r had a big meeting the other day to further the plans for her Panama exposition. San Diego is about the same size as El Paso, but she is working harder for her bread and butter than we are- One speaker at the big meeting said that he had lived in San Diego for 26 years and that now for the first time in history the people were united and pulling together. It is a big job that San Diego has tackled, but it is obvious that she is going to put it through with credit to herself and to California. The San Diego exposition is not going to be a world's fair, but it will be devoted especially to an exposition of California and southwestern products and the products of the Latin-American lermblics. San Diego has adopted the very wise policy of not undertaking some thing she does not feel sure of finishing. The plans will be started on a compara tively moderate scale and left to develop as time and money warrant. o A careful diagnosis of El Paso's case will indicate that there is nothing the matter with her, unless it be lack of self assurance. This is the one thing that outsiders would not suspect ns of, and yet it is a fact that as a city we have sort of lost our nerve and do not respond to the ordinary stimulus of good naws and good business. o El Paso's fair is still in the air. The amount needed to insure its success is small, and this city ought not to allow the occasion to pass- All the great valuejpf the advertising last year will be lost if we skip a year now. El Paso cannot af ford to fail on this proposition. Where El Paso Can Heb SHE best people to seek to interest basin are those who already have extensive interests in California, Mexico or the Pecos valley. Already some of the most influential oil operators of California and Mexico are interested in El Paso in the cement company. It is pos sible that some of these men could be induced to give financial backing to the ex ploration of the Alamogordo field. It is a big and expensive undertaking, and should be thoroughly done. This city and section are not able to carry the financial burden of adequate exploration but we can undertake to interest some of the large operators in the field with a view to thorough development. El Paso's proper mission in this connection is rather to attract capital and experienced oil men to the field, chan to try to back the work herself. o Annual losses by fire in the United States equal the total value of all the gold silver, copper, and petroleum produced in this country. For every dollar spent in new buildings 50c goes up in smoke. Loss by fire is an absolute loss and insurance is merely a sharing of the burden. o . Automobile drivers in this city seldom go to excess, but the best way to pre vent offences against the speed law is to enforce the law rigidly at all times. The fact seems to be generally overlooked that the streets belong to pedestrians and that horse drawn vehicles and automobiles are allowed to use the streets only by sufferance. Their first care should be for the safety of pedestrians always. Auto 1115 2020 HERALD TRAV ELING AGENTS. Persons solicited to subscribe for The Herald should beware of impos ters and should not pay money to anyone unless he can show that he is legally author ized by the El Paso Herald. - VTT-T-v-TT"' -3 examined and certified to i publication. The detail j - ..- - CI. ...L1 &f t ALUJJX Secretary, j Of Parks parks, and during the year just passed she in the oil prospects of the Sacramento UoZAi U NCLE WALTS HE hausfrau 'has the shanty snug, coining hcane: of dust there is nlfi- rnntTilTiiTif. irlows nnon x , e-- -t , worked all week from him to sun; the haus-lrau s work is never done but dad is coming home; her hands axe hard SATURDAY from doing things the bread she bake. the elothes she EVENING wrings! 'but as she does her work she sings, for dad 13 coming home. She'll see him in a little -while, and he'll reward her with a smile, for dsid is coming home, and all her weariness will fly, as evanescent as a sigh, before his loving, gentle eye, for. dad is coming home. The little kids can hardly .wait! They're out there watching by the gate, fcr dad is coming home! And he will draw the youngsters near, and exorcise each childish fear, and tell the yarns they like to hear their dad is com ing home! These humble liomes where love abides, where Trouble takes its grip and hides, when dad is coming home! They are this nation's greatest prize; so let there still be joyous cries, and happy hearts and smiling eyes, when dad is coming home! Copyright, 393 0. by George Matthews YEARS (From The Herald of The city council met last night and Messrs. Buchanan ,and Look were ap allowed the city pay roll for May, pointed a committee by the hotel corn amounting to $17Sy.69. Dr. hite re- j mittee la: night to secure an option turned an inventory of the pesthouse. ! on a hotel site, San Francisco street 1 Aldermnn Stewart recommended the re- sumption of the old gambling licenses. Alderman Frank Del Buono recom- mended that the city sell the reserva- tion property and use the proceeds for the construction of a school building, but on motion of alderman TV. M. Coldwell, the matter was referred to the board of education. George Bovee had a severe fall from his bicycle at the track this morninr. bomeone naving loosened the handle Dars or nis wneei.. : c?t- hv v. Paso. Pupils of the Sacred Heart school j H. B. Stevens was appointed admin gave an entertainment 3'esterday. j istrator of the estate of the late Alice Will Ritchie has sold his San Antonio ! Abbott In the probate court this morn street chop house and intends to take i ing. a ionjr vacation. .. ..c.av pu.uut, tio.iii j.u. j, h cm '" of com""isjin at Rogers last nigiit and the train had to be pulled In by tne yard engine. Rev. C. J. Oxley was the preacher at the gospel' ten,' meetings last night. The price of beer In Juarez has risen from 5 to 10 cents. With the IN THE SAME CLASS? From Phoenix (Ariz.) Democrat. The crazt snreads. Th srnvprnnr'nF i Tennessee has pardoned several mur derers, and the governor of Minne sota has even pardoned a poet. c A DECIDED DIFFERENCE. From Globe (Ariz.) Daily Silver Belt. New York's race tracks are being transformed into suburban home dis tricts. Both promote the race, with a difference. o EI, PASO A WINNER. From Tucumcari (X. M.) News. El Paso will have a fair this fall. $8000 has been raised so far for the fair. A subscription has been offered conditionally. Xo doubt the Pass City I will meet the conditions, as she never misses anything. o HERALD NOT COMPLAINING. From Globe (Ariz.) Daily Silver Belt. I The Prescott Courier was a mighty good newspaper, but really theie was not , room in Prescott for two good newspapers, and the failure of one was the natural result. In cities the size of El Paso two newspapers have a struggle for existence. o REASON FOR NONPASSAGE. From Douglas (Ariz.) Daily Interna tional. The passage of the statehood bill will be the end of the official career of every Republican now holding a territorial office. The Democrat are quite ready for the fray and will make a clean sweep of the new state. o NOT A NEWSPAPER GRAVEYARD. From Xogalos (Ariz.) Daily Times. El Paso has had a rather checkered experience in the newspaper line. If we are to judge from the announcement, which appears at the head of the edit orial page of The Herald. "El Paso Herald, established April, By Walt THE little green tents where the soldiers sleep, and the sunbeans play and the -women weep, are covered iwith flowers today; and between the -tents walk the weary few who were young and stalwart in 'sixtv-4wof when they went to &ie war away. The little green tents are built of sod, and they are not long, and they are not brood, but the soldiers have lots of room: and the sod is part of the land they saved, when the flag of the enemy THE LITTLE darkly waved, the symbol of dele and doom. The little GREEN TENTS green tent is a thing divine; the little green tent is a country's shrine, where patriots kneel and pray; and the brave men left, so old, so few, were young and stalwart in 'six?ty-two, when they went to the war away. RENO, NSV.. TO HAVE $116,000 Y. M. C. A. C. G. Titus, Formerly of El Paso,vC!oridiicts Highly Successful Cam paign. C G. Titus, formerly general secre tary of the El Paso Y. M. C. A., has just closed a 10 day campaign for the Reno, Nevada, building, with $116,000 subscribed. Reno is a city of about 15,000 people, and it Is pretty free in j its way of Hiving, having considerable gambling and more than a fair share of vicious institutions. But it also has a splendid lot of business men and public sentiment had come to demand the proper establishing of the Y. M. C. A. in the community. Mr. Titus had figured that the city could raise about $75,000 for site and building. While the campaign was In progress, senator Nixon sent word that If Reno raised $S5.000 for the building he would donate a $30,000 site, the very site most coveted by the committee. This offer gave a great Impetus to the campaign and the 10 days ended with more than the required amount signed up. A noteworthy feature of the cam paign was the warm cooperation ex tended by Roman Catholics; many of the strongest workers and largest con- tributors belong to this denomination. ed roern from kitchen sink to parlor rug, tor dad is no sign or trace; and everything is in its her face, for dad is cominsr home- She s Cikm ", Adams. &&&V&. AGO to this date, 1896) being the location chosen. Engineer Orsono of the boundary commission leaves tonight for Mexico J City to confer with his superiors. He will return to El Paso in two weeks. Over 50 couples attended the High school ball at the courthouse last night. Mayor Campbell has received a let ter from A. H. Chambers assuring him of the appreciation of Sherman resl- j tlents for the help iy.cn the stricken Messrs. Tustin. Millchamp and Feath-, eriy, oi xne grana army, win go to me cemeteries this evening at 4:30 to dec- orate the graves of dead comrades. Scavanger Xesora states that next Monday he will start on the annual dog catching crusade. Metal market: Silver. GS l-4c; lead, $3; copper, 10 3-Sc; Mexican p&so?, 53c. Exchanges 1SS1. The El Paso Herald includes also by absorption and succession, The Dally Xews, The Telegraph, The Tele cram, The Tribune, The Graphic, The Sun, The Advertiser, The Independent, The Journal, The Republican and The Bulletin." W-h-e-w! o BARLEY'S SILK TILE. From Xew York Commercial Advertiser There is mourning in Texas. It is to be feared that the Texans who don't love him will be more firmly persuaded that senator Bailey is a min ion of Standard Oil. He appeared this week under a silk hat, and thus seemed to confess that "Washington corruption had fully seized him: It was in the virtus of a slouch hat, a frock coat, and a cambric tie that Bailey came to the capital and set up the business of defending the consti tution. He loathed what is called a dress suit and almost every wearer of it. He suspected the soundness of view and the character of those who weakly yielded to fashion. Step by 3tep he has departed from his sartorial Ideal. The wide brim is gone, the cambric tie, and the spreading coattails. He has been seen in the evening in waiter's garb, and " now he has desecrated hs brow with a shiny stovepipe. Texa wholly disillusioned, no longer has hope, and will not be surprised to learn that he who was once her son anl proud, to wear her uniform has ac quired a chapeau that can be shut up and put under a seat. Bailey still defends the constitution, but the old jounce and vigor are de parted. His sartorial falling away Is the sign and reflex of inner changes. How can Texas longer trust a man who is latitudinarian in habilimeuts and affronts her most precious prcsjj- dice Mason & COUSIN OF TAFT LOSES LAW SUIT Jury Returns Verdict for City of El Paso in $5000 Damage Action. Twelve good men and true could not agree with Mrs. Nellie Taft. a cousin of president Taft, who alleged that she had been damaged in the sum of $5000 as a result of the change of grade in Durango and Sonora streets. In the 41st district court Monday morning the jury in her case against the city of EI Paso returned a verdict for the defendant, after being out only 40 minutes. It was alleged that the change In the grade of the street had thrown her residence below the level of the srteet, but witnesses testified that the marketable value of the land was the same after the grading had been done as before. It is expected that this decision will be taken as a precedent in other cases which have been filed against the city for similar cause. FOOD INSPECTOR RAIDS DAIRYMEN .VXD BUTCHERS San Antonio, Tex., May 30. Eight butchers and three dairymen are de fendants to charges filed here this morning by assistant state food in spector Hoffman. The hearing Is set for Wednesday. It is charged that sausage sold contained an injurious preservative and that milk was adul terated with water. . China Is Torn By Internal Discord; Anti-Foreign Riots .Frederic ) J. Haskin 1 SOME PAST AND PRESENT HISTORY . Xo. 1 Trouble in China. T" E seriousness of the present :i ration in China, recalling the Boxer rebellion of a decade ago, is attested by the -iact that the United btates minister in Pekin has made a formal request for a naval vessel to be sent up the Yarig-ste river to protect Ameri can interests. This, taken together with the offer of Secretary Knox to aid the Chinese government, brings the Chinese situation again into general notice. The center of the actual disturbances has been Changsha, the capital of the province of Hitnan. Anti-foreign riot ers in Changsha burned the settlements of the Christian missions, and when the missionaries took refuge in the governor's yamen, or palace, the riot ers also burned that building and wounded the governor. The trouble was stopped only when two British gunboats steamed up the Yang-ste kiang from Hankow, two hundred miles below. Hankow and Changsha are the two great cities of central China, and they dominate the Yang-tse ailey. Always a Disturbance. The Chinese empire is so vast in area and so great in population th?.t there is always some disturbance somewhere in China. It would :e as manifestly unfair to take the Chang sha riots as a basis for a statement that there is a general anti-foreign up rising in China as it would be to say that the recent street railway strike in Philadelphia indicated a general condi tion of anarchy throughout the United States. But unfortunately the Changsha riots do not stand alone. The anti-foreign feeling in Canton, the metropolis of south China, has been increasincr stead ily for two years past and Is now al- ,' most as intense as it was a decade ago in the time of the Boxer rebel lion and the American boycott. The present anti-foreign agitation in Can ton began with popular dissatisfaction caused by the efforis of the Portugese government to encroach upon Chinese territory in deliminating the boundar ies of the Portugese colony of Macao. This was aggravated greatly when a Portugese on the British steamship -batshan kicked a coolie to death. Consnls Take a Hand. And now, the latest development, the consuls of the various nations sta tioned at Nanking, on the lower Yang ste, have reported to the diplomatic corps at Peking that the situation in that section of China is verv disquiet ing, and that there is evidence of an organized anti-dynastic and anti-for-elgn movement. Taken together, these reports indi cate that anti-foreign agitators are mnking themselves felt in every sec tion of China except the northern prov inces. It was in these that the Boxer rebellion reached Its high tide, and it was in these that the punishment dealt by the allied troops of the great powers was severely felt. It is the hopelessness of resistance rather than love for the foreierner which Vpphc the northern Chinese quiet. RIee Famine. The people of the upper Yang-ste valley have suffered for two years on acco'unt of a rice famine. They have been starving, and the political no tions of a starving Chinaman do not differ essentialy from the revolution ary ideas of a starving white man. It is difficult for the Chinese to under stand why the viceroys, governors and other public officials should continue to gather the taxes, which are paid in rice, and should continue to hold vast stores of this tribute rice for the use of the government when the people are starvng. The government ordered the cessation of exports of rice from the province, but foreign Influence was sufficients- powerful In tho interest of trade, to cause several oSi0"e,mc"ts f this P-ohlbltlon. The -v Wl it was tnus depleted bv reason of foreign commercial activ ity and forehjrn political influence. The Wily Chinee. The people have no direct means of attacking the government, but they have found by experience that foreign governments are quick to resent the destruction of foreign Dronertv. and j they know that the foreign powers win joia me government officials to strict accountability. Therefore, it oc curs to the Chinese mind that the quickest way to get rid of an objec tionable official who is stingv with his stores of rice, is to destroy foreign property in that official's jurisdiction. Hence the burning of missions and the attacks on the property of foreigners. Thus far, the riots this year have been attacks upon property only, and not upon life. Tho danger is, however, that the la tent nnimosi'v for i I f-r'-.vfnr tiju awakened by purelj- local conditions cannot be curbed even by the. leaders of the movement. It is natural for the Chinese, when dissatisfied with the government administration, to give ear to the arguments of those agitators who oppose the continuation of the rule of the Manchu dynasty. It is equally natural for the Manchus, which is to say the imperial government, to attempt to divert an anti-dynastic movement into an anti-foreign out break. The Boxer Rebellion. The great Boxer rebellion began as an organized movement for the over throw of the Manchu dynasty. The late Empress Dowager, as the head of j the Manchus, cleverly captured the movement ana cnanged it into an open war on foreigners in behalf of the imperial throne. The disastrous results of the Boxer rebellion, including the sacking of Peking and the violation of the Forbidden City, worked a great change in the attitude of the Chinese mind toward the Western civilization, but it did not increase the Chinese re gard for occidentals. Since the Bcxer war, hundreds of Chinese newspapers have been estab lished in all parts of the empire. The great majority of these (papers are vi olently radical and they "afford a vehi cle for agitation never before available in China. On account of the wonder ful growth of the Chinese press, it is now possible for a political movement to spread " quickly over the empire. This Is a new and important element of danger. Anti-Dynastic Movement. That the recent anti-foreign riots have resulted In an anti-dynastic movement Is proved by the fact that a huge organization has been effected in the neighborhood of Nanking. The members of this organization art wear ing a distinctive badge, and they make their anti-Manchu aim public by cut ting off their queues. The Chinese queue is the symbol of submission in flicted upon the Chinese people by their Manchu conquerors, and to cut off the queue Is a sign of open and defiant rebellion. A fow decades ajro nnti-forfile-n feeling in CInna was directed against occidental institutions rather than against individuals. Railroads were torn up, telegraph lines were destroyed, newspapers were taboo, electricity was under the ban, and no good Chinese would use any thing of occidental manufacture. Now adays, the Chinese government is building railroads, Chinese merchants are investing in Chinese companies for the purpose of railway extension, the government owns a telegraph system which is being extended with great rapidity, newspapers appear in every town and are served free with press dispatches sent over the government wires by government agents, Pekin is lighted by electricity and the coolie is smoking American-made cigarets. Competing: "With the West. The Chinese have mac up theSr minds, apparently, to make use of the material advantages of western civili sation, for the purpose of competing on a more nearly equal basis with the western nations. They have before them the object lesson of ths striking success of Japan. It must not be forgotten that the present era of enlightenment in Japan had Its beginning with a small band of revolutionists who conspired to overthrow the Shogun because he had made treaties with the Americans and other foreigners; and to restore to ac tual power the Mikado, who would drive the foreigners out of Japan and again seal up the ports of the country against commerce with the despised barbarians of the outer world. It was when these young Japanese revolutionists felt the force of foreign power at the bombardment of Shimon oeski that they realized it would be Impossible to expel the foreigners. They then decided to learn all that could be learned of western civiliza tion, to superimpose that knowledge upon their own civilization, and boldly to undertake competition with the powers of the western world. Miracle of Politics." The greatest man among that group of Japanese revolutionists met his death at the hands of an assassin in Korea only a few months ago, known to all the world as prince Ito, the mightiest empire builder of the 20th century. The Shogun who was over thrown by that revolution now rides his bicycle about the streets of Tokio and his son, prince Tokugawa, pres ident of the Japanese house of peers, a few weeks ago sat with vice president Sherman and held the gavel over the United States senate. This miracle of politics was accomplished in less than forty years. And yet the Japanese does not love the foreigner. China is in convulsion, the Chinese are ripe for revolution, they are be coming progressive, they are adopting the material things of western civili zation, and they do not love the for eigner. If the Chinese government is not able to cope with the present agi tation, it may be that the torch which fired the Wesleyan mission house at Changsha will kindle the flames of national patriotism and will make China a nation indeed and in truth. All Nations Interested. All of the principal nations of the earth have a more or less direct in af fairs in China, and all of them are con cerned with the present manifestation of anti-foreign agitations In the Cele stial Empire. England owns the Island of Hongkong, th& entrepot of southern China, by virtue of the war waged against the Chinese for the perpetua tion of the opium traffic. The British also have a naval station at We-hal-wei, as well as more or less Intangible claim to a predominant sphere of Influence in the Yang-tse val ley. Germany has a foothold in the Klaochau peninsula and Is tenacious of its rights of extra territoriality in the foreign settlements of Shanghai and Tientsin. France governs asolutely a large portion of the Indo-Chinese pen- ! insula and claims ever increasing rights In southern China. The French nation, as the protector of the Chris tian religion in Asia, also enjoys cer tain exclusive privileges based on grants to the church of Rome. Even Portugal, whose stir of empire set centuries ago, is an important fac tor in the present situation in China, since it is asserting certain territorial claims with that same arrogant disre gard for the rights of the inhabitants of the country which always has been manifested by European nations when dealing with Asiatic peoples. Portugese Paved the Way. The Portugese were the first Euro peans to establish commercial relations with the Asiatic nations by means of water communication. They were first to introduce to the Chinese mind the existence of a western world, and they served also to make China known to occidentals- The English language draws upon the Portugese for such words as "mandarin." while even "China" and "Canton" are Portugese corruptions of the native names. The Portugese established themselves at Macao, in the Pearl river not far from Cantou, about the time that the first English speaking people on the conti nent of North America. At that time, Portugal was the most powerful mari time nation In the world. All that re mains of the great Portugese empire on the eastern coast of (Asia is the tlny settlement at Macao, which Is noth ing more or less than an oriental Monte Carlo. But more important than British, German, French or Portugese interests In China, are those of the empires of Russia and Japan. While the western -World Is concerning itself with the so lution of vexing economic problems presented by the complexity of what we are pleased to call modern civiliza tion, the Russian, half western and half eastern, andVhe Japanese, half orient al and half occidental, are yet devoted to Imperialism pure and simple. Russia's Efforts. Nothing In the recent history of mankind compares with the careful and steady determination of Russia to make for itself an actual imperial homo on the eastern shores of Asia. The slow but sure Russian advance across the plains of Siberia, the settle ment of colonists by the hundreds of thousands on the very borders of north ern China, the construction of the great transcontinental Siberian railway, the attempt to secure the control of Korea, all have been a part of this national, but half conscious, program. But Russia did not count on the rise of Japan. When the Jappanese real ized the hopelessness of their ancient policy of entire isolation, and adopted the material things of occidental civ ilization, there was born in them the imperial instinct. They came to know, as a people, that their only hope for success in competition with the great powers of the world was In their abil ity to establish- themselves upon the mainland of Asia. Decadent Korea was their natural quarry. The Japan ese statesmen knew that once Russia was firmly established in the posses sion of ice free ports in Korea n- northern China, that the imperial am Abe Martin Miss Fawn Iippmcut has refused P deny er confirm th' report o' her engage ment t' a Vincennes feller. She says, however, that if he shows up fer th' weddin' she'll gladly talk fer publica tion. Tiber's too many folks with grand opery appetities an' gallery incomes. bitions of Japan were doomed for ever. Japan Jealous. For this reason, Japan waged war on Russia, and was the victor in the most tremendous struggle at arms of all history Ten years before. Japan de feated China in a war and nad obtained wieSSi0n f the Liatung peninsula, -nlth Port Arthur commanding an northern China. The concert of the powers forced the Japanese to e ?w tLChIna the tutorial fruits of that victorious war. Then Russia,, through diplomacy, obtained Port Ar- t' l6aSe- The result of the Russo Japanese war was to take Port Arthur away from the Russians, give it to the SouZeSe' f "I t0 make JaPaa the ab solute master In Korea. -i. tit the thng" not dic'dea by the Russo-Japanese war was the fate of Manchuria. Manchuria, a great empire, possessed of wonderful agricultural re sources, remains today the rich stake Nominally. It is owned by China and is part or in- Chinese empire. Actus n is controlled in the north by Russia and in the south by Japan. The treaty of Portsmouth, which was the result ot presicent KoosLeSs efforts U. v the war between Japan and Russia, guaranteed in terms the continuance of the Chinese sovereigntv of vlar. but left the railroads of the conntrv to be divided between the belligerent Jan anse and Russians. It did not take long for the world to realize that the parchment professions of the treaty of Portsmouth were but promises of pie-crust. It became evi dent that the possession of the railroad amounted. In effect, to the control of the territory. China at Merer f Poirera. Ten years ago China -rras placed at the mercy of the powers by reason of the Boxer war and the imprisonment of the legations in Peklnin Th. mt troops of the European nations, tha ',T,'nited States and Japan marohPA nn the Chinese capital, drove the court into txilc. looted the Forbidden Cin and terrorized ail northern China. Fol lowing that campaign, the United States bv John H.v.-. sectary of .:te oo -the lead in the effort to save ' China, from partition. The powers agreed t. Hays proposal, which guaranteed the maintenance of the administrative en tity and territorial integrity of the Chinese empire. It also committed all the powers to the "open door" policv Since the close of the Russo-Japanese war and the consequent division of railway control in Manchuria between bt. Petersburg and Tokio, there has been a disposition to kn Qn ve nations out of Manchuria. The "onen aoor is open only on paper. Actually It is closed except to those nations owninsr the railways. Hindering Development. Although the treaty of Portsmouth provided expressly that nothing should interfere with the development, by the Chinese, of the resources of Manchu ria, It remains a fact that Japan and Russia have .prevented he building of railways in Manchuria by the Chlns government havo rventd Wc ' i nese from constructing a railway line in their own territory." Not only have Tehv done this, but they also havf stopped railway construction proposed by the Chinese and financed by Brit ish and Aemerican capital. As matters stand today, Japan and Russia effec tually have shut out all the rest of the world from Manchuria and northern China, and there is every reason to be lieve that they intend to keep -what they have. For the time being the Russian and Japanese interests with regard to China are almost identical and the two nations, so lately at war, will stand together in claiming their "rights. The Position of the U. S. Only one of the great nations of the world makes no claim to special privilege in China, holds no Chinese territory, seeks no exclusive sphere of Influence. That nation Is the United (Continued on Page Eleven.) GRANDPA TALKS. Hovr many people Is there In EI Pnso, srrnndpnvr." ''Well, sonney, ter hear the hooiters talk I'd reckon there was about 73,000. bnt the eensns folks say there nlnt over 33,000, nad if yn nik me pussonnlly. I'd reckon there was 'bout "miff ter fill the opry house, and 'bout half a' them M come down from Ysleta. Tcnrs ter me like nearly everybody nowadays n-as either groin' or coiuia' or waitim fo a train." f