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ADVISORY COMMITTEE
UNASSAILABLE is the logic of the
position held by the Los Angeles
good roads advisory committee,
expressed In Mr. Butler's letter to the
supervisors: "The committee ...
cannot consistently see how It should
be called upon to approve one member of '
the highway commission and not have
the privilege of passing upon the other '
two, and I am therefore directed to say :
to you that unless the three names are
submitted for approval or disapproval -
to this body, we decline to act In the ;
matter. I am further directed to ask
you whether or not you will submit to
this body, for approval or rejection, the
three members of the highway com
mission."
The good roads advisory committee
owes a duty to the public, and has
never been instructed that any compro
mise or half measure will take the place
of that duty, and never will be In
structed to that effect. If the members
of the advisory committee did not insist
that the supervisors keep complete
faith with the public by consulting the
committee on all appointments, as well
as on expenditures, the committeemen
would be condoning the offensive atti
tude and actions of the Solid Three. If
the supervisors wish to concede one
point to the advisory committee, they
should remember by this concession
they have acknowledged the committee
Is ln the right and the Solid Three in
the wrong, and should accept the situ
ation with the best grace possible, and
bring forth fruits meet for repentance
by giving the advisory committee the
representative public position and
authority with which it was Invested
by the people.
THE DESERT
SOME day the desert may be con
fluered. Some day.
At present It lies at the doors
of our civilization, like a great, tawny
monster, vast, silent, cruel, and wait.-;
for victims. Week after week the des
ert takes Its toll of the human race.
More grewsomely and tragically ro
mantic than any story by Poo or Ste
venson is that of an unknown, unfor
tunate wanderer, who died on the
burning sands nea-- C*iexlco. Bitten
by a rattlesnake, ne lay solitary, help
less, agonized through Indescribable
hours.
Will the day ever come when man
will conquer the desert? Surely it is
of more importance than tlw conquest
of the air, especially as air conquest
seems to produce blocd-thirst among
the spuriously civilized nations.
Is it not worth while to conquer the
desert, to devote as much time, Inge
nuity, money, heroism to this task as
to the Invention and development of
airships for military purposes?
The conquest of the desert legions of
the earth will add thousands of acres
to fertile or habitable soil. It will alle
viate the social stress and pressure.
And it is men's work; giants' work.
Let us hope that ere many years have
come and gone the great deserts of
North America and North t frlca will
*c only memories.
GREATER LOS ANGELES
DURING recent years the population I
of Los Angeles ha* been Increased
by many recruits from the great
harbor cities of the Atlantic. To these
men It is hardly necessary to "talk .
harbor." They understand exactly j
what a big harbor means, not only to j
the coast, but the back country. Their j
experience In other maritime centers;
has taught them the consolidation of,
Los Angeles with San Pedro and Wil- j
mington ls a vital necessity if the
metropolitan area dominated by Los
Angeles Is to attain to Its full growth
and to conditions of greatest efficiency.
To such as they. General Arthur Mur
ray stated a self-evident proposition
when he said: "Consolidation of your
cities is the only thing to make your
harbor what It should be. It ls neces
sary, If you are to realise the establish
ment of a harbor of the character you
can build here—AND YOU MAY HAVE
ONB OF THE GREAT HARBORS OF
THE WORLD. But the thing to make
this is to consolidate as you are plan-,
ning, and WORK TOGETHER for a
public harbor."
Consolidation means a consolidation
of Interests as well as of government.
The only argument against consolida
tion that would be worth listening to
would be founded on proof it was
against the interests of Los Angeles.
This ls absurd and preposterous on the
face of it. The antl-consolidationist
who talks as if Los Angeles should
pursue an existence and plan a career
without reference to maritime condi
tions or the completion of the Panama
canal Is talking like a madman. More
over, the antl-consolldatlonlst who neg
lects the faat that, as Mr. Call has
said, "the people of the Greater Los
Angeles area are all held in commercial
bondage by the railroad trust under
existing conditions," has the spirit of a
slave and not of a freeman.
For commercial, industrial, social,
educational reasons and for the sake of
creating conditions that will provide
the greatest good for the greatest num
ber In the old fashioned true blue
American way. Greater Los Angeles
will be established, and the railway
trust smashed, and the prosperity that
will follow commercial freedom will be
the greatest and most general in the
history of Southern California.
SPAIN
BARCELONA, the center of Spanish
revolutionary disturbances, is also
the center of Spanish industrial-
Ism. If the ranchers of Spain were in
sympathy with the people of the manu
facturing, mining and shipping dis
tricts, there would be a strong prob
ability that with the aid of the Carlist
legitimists King Alfonso might be de
throned. But It must he remembered
Alfonso's opponents are divided not
only Into two industrial sections, rural
and metropolitan, but into two political
camps between which there is no love
lost.
In one hostile camp are the Carlist
legitimists, the Jacobites of Iberia, who
would like to see the fall of Alfonso in
order that the "Tory" royalists might
come Into their own again, wresting
power from the "liberal," or constitu
tional royalists. In the other hostile
camp are the representatives of another
force that must be reckoned with, an
ever increasing number of "industrial
ists," men and women who are Repub
lican on Socialist Hneß. They wish to
have all the various rival royalists sent
about their business, and to establish
in Spain a Socialist Republic—the first
of its kind,
Alfonso's hope of safety and of con
tinuation in his kingship lies in the
unbridgable gulf between the royal rev
olutionaries and the radical revolution
aries. With a wise, crafty counselor—
a skilled, practical politician of a type
well known in the United StateAl
fonso might play one Inimical wing
against another and retain his throne
and his salary. But Spain is Platt-less
and Herrln-less. If Alfonso should bo
dispossessed, Spain's troubles will only
have been begun, for the Carlist
legitimists will rally every reactionary
force, every representative of privilege,
every concessionary, in the endeavor to
crush out radicalism and suppress So
cialism. This will have the effect of
massing all the radicals— matter
what "isms" they may advocate—under
one banner, and the history of Cuba
will be repeated on a larger scale in a
prolonged civil war. And the military
leader of the conservatives will be none
other than "Butcher" Weyler.
SPOOK FLUMMERY
DESPITE the fact the raid of the
take spook seance was success
ful and convincing, some of the
hide-bound believers in Spiritualism
who attended the meeting which was
rudely disturbed by various prosaic and
practical officious and official persons,
were heard to say the spirltmongers had
been duped and tricked by the sons of
Belial who had Interrupted the
psychic pow-wow. This shows that
Barnum was correct when he said peo
ple dearly love to bo fooled; nay, more,
that when disillusioned they are apt
to turn on the dislllusioner and (so to
speak) rend him limb from limb.
No one regrets more keenly the suc
cess of the raid than the newspaper
representative who was engaged In it.
If he had been enabled to return to
The Herald office with the statement
the spirits had really appeared unto
him this newspaper would have an
nounced with enthusiastic Joy the lat
est and most Important of all scien
tific discoveries.
We would have opened up wireless
communication with the spooks and
would have put Horace Greeley on our
consulting editorial staff and asked
Ben Franklin to Inspect the printing
presses and give us some new wrinkles.
But, alas! lt fell to the lot of our
representative to be disappointed; to
witness another tawdry example of the
wretched mummery-flummery which
must be as disgusting to bona fide
spooks as it ls to human beings.
<&S ANGELES HERALD; ■ SATURDAY -MORNING; JULY 31, 1909.
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HISTORY'S LESSON '
MR. HIGH HORN'S "History of the
Legislature" (of 1909), is really
a skillful analysis rather than a
bald historical review . In his preface
Mr. Hlchborn says his purpose was
not only to show WHAT was done at
Sacramento last winter, but, what is
far more Important, HOW it was done.
To this end the several measures are
divided under three heads, namely,
those dealing with moral, with political
and with industrial Issues. Instead of
scattering on all the measures intro
duced, or even a considerable part of
them, the principal Issue of each
group, that which meant the most to
the people, and upon which the ma
chine centered its efforts, has been se
lected for detailed consideration. Thf
history of those thus selected for con
sideration shows the machine—or, If
you like, the system—at Its work of
passing undesirable measures, and of
blocking the passage of good measures.
We quote from the preface: "If the
story of the session of the California
legislature of 1909 assist the citizens of
California to understand how this Is
done; if it give them that knowledge
of the weakness, the strength, the pur
pose and the affiliations of the senat
ors and assemblymen who sat in the
legislature of 1909, of which the ma
chine managers have had heretofore a
monopoly; If it point the way for a
new method of publicity to crush cor
ruption and to promote reform, the la
bor of preparing this work for the
press Will have been justified."
Mr. Hichborn's history is of great
value, not only to the voters who wish
to take an intelligent Interest ln affairs
of the day, but to students of govern
mental systems in actual operation.
No doubt political students In all parts
of the country and of the world will
be highly edified when they read of
the manner in which freedom was de
graded and prostituted and free insti
tutions were outwitted and misused ln
California.
PEACE
il
ICHOLAB MURRAY BUTLER says
V the idea of two cultured peoples
■a-* like the British and the German
quarreling and tearing each other to
pieces is revolting, and the mere
thought of it ought to dismay the civ
ilized world. We think the civilized
world Is refusing, to be dismayed by
the thought because it is refusing to
take it seriously. A collision of the
kind indicated by Mr. Butler has formed
the subject for fantastic, hypothetical,
sensational articles which any man with
a skill in words and a knowledge of
superficial facts may construct.
It Is very easy to create a panic
anywhere at any time. Persons who
have brought about a war nanlc in the
United Kingdom, and are now attempt-
Ing to infect the United States with it
are reprehensible and irresponsible, and
occupy with relation to world-society
and "all people that on earth do dwell"
exactly the same position that the gal
lery Idiot who yells "Eire!" occupies to
the audience. They are nuisances.
The cordial Franco-British-Canadian-
American reunion at Lake Champlaln
is being advertised to the anxious Ger
mans as a certain Indication there is a
secret understanding between the
friendly nations represented at the cel
ebration, and that this secret under
standing bodes ill to Germany. What
nonsense!
Dr. Butler says: "It Is the plain duty
of the friends of both the United King
dom and Germany—and what right
minded man Is not the warm friend
and admirer of both these splendid peo
pled—to exert every possible Influence
to promote a better understanding of
each of these peoples by the other, a
fuller appreciation of the services of
each to modern civilization, and to
point out the folly, not to speak of the
wickedness, of allowing the seeds of
discord to be sown between them by
any element in the population of
either.*" V • .'.
Voters, How About the Barrier Builders?
DR. BURDETTE
C WIZENS of Los Angeles, Irre
spective of church or creed, unite
•ln congratulating Rev. Dr. Rob
ert J. Burdette on having completed
sixty-five years of useful life. We
have no doubt many of our readers
will be astonished to learn that "Bob"
can count so many birthdays. He has
drunk of the fountain of perpetual
youth: Is not old, but young: and
young will ever be.
No matter how many years may be
added to his life, they will be years
of youth, and not of age. His heart
Is young, and the thoughts of his heart
are young, and "as he thlnketh in ',
his heart, so is he."
The people of Los Angeles are Justi
fied In holding to the belief Dr. Bur
dette is a young man. Wo hope he
may live to see many more birthdays,
and to enjoy many more years of
useful, youthful activity ln lovely Los
Angeles.
Kind o' queer, Isn't lt, to read of
lawyers appealing for mercy for their
clients on account of the power of
whisky over the clients? And of men
with criminal propensities or with
rankling grudges consuming liquor un
til their courage ls at the sticking
point, and then murdering someone?
And to realize' the provocative, whis
ky, Is on open sale, while the weapons
with which to commit crime can be
purchased without difficulty?
Historians will record the fact the
Alexander administration was dis
tinguished for the part it played in the
progress of Los Angeles: but no ac
tion will loom larger in the review or
will count for more in the summing up
than the establishment and appoint
ment of a Humane commission.
Los Angeles bank clearings for the
week show the largest gain recorded
by any city in the state. Los Angeles
is the most flourishing city in the civil
ized world. And 'when It becomes
Greater, it will continue to hold its
leadership and will extend it to sea
as well as land. < /
Horticultural commission reports in
another year Los Angeles county will
be freer from Insect pests than any
other In the state. Good work! Other
counties must follow the example of
Los Angeles if they wish to avoid the
inconvenience of a quarantine.
Los Angeles weather is seasonable
and reasonable. In the great cities of
the east, poor people are sweltering
and suffocating and rich people are
fleeing to the mountains and the sea
side.
"The earth hath bubbles, as the
water hath." Anti-consolidation ru
mors are the most bubbly of all.
Good Government clubs and Good
Government will flourish in Greater
Los Angeles.
A Mean Man
"Her husband Is a brute."
"As to how?"
"Got her to help save up for an automobile,
and then put the mone ylnto a house."—Kan
sas City Journal.
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Quite So
Boms of us have more liberal views when In
New York than we display when at home in
-Kansas City Jonrnal.
—— A ' » N
Explaining to Oliver
My sense' of sight is very keen,
My sense of hearing weak.
One time I saw a mountain pass
But I could not hear Its peak.
—Oliver Herford.
Why, Ollie, that you failed in this
Is not so very queer.
To bear Its peak you should, you know,
Have had a mountaineer.
— Boston Transcript.
Or, Ollie, you'd have heard its peak,
And need not have stood near,
Or strained yourself at all, If you
Had Just had a glacier.
—Houston Post.
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QUESTIONS BIBLICAL
STORY OF CREATION
LOS ANGELES, July 27.— [Editor
Herald]: Tour correspondent ln these
columns, basing their authority on the
Bible, have failed to give us a very
good account of the origin of evil. It
seems evident that If we follow the
Bible story of creation to Its logical
conclusion It places the Indictment for
the creation of evil against God him
self, and this takes us back to the be
ginning of things, creation, so-called.
There are two propositions before the
world; you can take your choice. The
first is that the universe was "created"
out of nothing in a very short period
of time by an infinite, alj wise, all
everything else, God, who always ex
isted on nothing, and that "all things
were created perfect," some eight or
ten thousand years ago, more or less,
and the forces then operating are no
longer active.
The other theory Is that matter al
ways existed, and through the great
laws of change the universe grew,
evolved, and Is still changing, building
up and tearing down, the same forces
now operating as always. Science says
evolution explains the universe, or. In
other words, the universe explains It
self If we study Its manifestations.
It Is more in accord with what we
know of life and matter to suppose that
the mass of the universe—gas or
solid—always existed, and that through
the great law of change It evolved Into
Its present form and condition, than It
is to believe that nn Infinite God, who
always existed on nothing, should
create It out of nothing. If he existed
for all eternity, why did he wait until
10.000 years ago before creating things?
What was he doing all this time? Now,
I challenge tho whole creation theory
for the following reasons:
First —There is no evidence anywhere
ln the universe of anything having
been created. All things, from the
atom to man, nre evolved, developed or
born from the smallest divisions of
matter.
Second Perfection, which Is essential
to all orthodox conceptions of the uni
verse, Is not evident. If there were a
perfect God, we would expect to see
a perfect work, but such does not exist.
Take man, for Instance, said to be
made ln "God's own image," the high
est of the "creations," etc. There Is
nothing about any of them to suggest
perfection. The eye, one of the most
acute organs, it serves the purpose,
you say, but it Is a prettye poor piece
of mechanics. Why, a lense maker
who could not do better at lense mak
ing could not do business twenty-four
hours! That is not all. The creator
is not only a poor mechanic, but a
most extravagant one. In order to
perpetuate the species of codfish it is
necessary for the codfish to lay a mil
lion eggs. Ts there infinite wisdom ln
wasting 999,999 little lives to secure
one?
Third — If a creation occurred we
might expect to sco a model or pattern
or nt least ' some sameness In the
"creations," but they are not there; no
two of anything are Identical; Individ
uality forbid*
I will not bore the readers with
further argument but to state that
anyone with a working knowledge of
science and a little comon sense ought
to s.e the uselessness of a. creator.
Our left scientists tell us there is no
definite plan or purpose visible In the
universe. Evolution does not need a
plan. Conditions were not made for
life, but life means response to con
ditions and the survival of the fittest.
My purpose In attacking this old
superstition, which is the mother of
all our present evils, Is not an Idle one,
for the Institutions of society today rest
on or at least are profoundly Influenced
by this old Idea of origin and destiny
of things. I hold, therefore, that It Is
fundamental to human existence and
happiness to have a scientific under
standing of life and existence, the
which ennot be had by a belief in the
plan. This Is the Ignorance which Is
the "root of all evil," and the saddest
part is that it is Ignorance clonked In
authority. DR. HUMANITAS.
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SHOWS GREAT IMPROVEMENT
IN PROHIBITION STATES
ONTARIO, July 28.—[Editor Herald]-
I see by Mr. McMullln's latest letter
that he is a man who would not hold a
man and pour booze down him in case
he was strictly opposed to it. But ha
plainly shows a disposition to allow
THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
IV—GERMANS IN THE ORIENT
Frederic J. Haskin
SINGAPORE.— The warmest topic of
the period In Singapore Is the
question of how much of the
vast sea borne trade between Europe
and the Far East will eventually fall
Into the hands of the Germans. Be
cause of their faculty for finding the
opportunity, and making the most of
It, the Germans are often spoken of as
the Yankees of Europe. Every Ameri
can business man knows how success
ful the German-American citizen Is In
the United States, and to what quali
ties his success is due. With the same
unremitting pqrserverance and self
sacrificing devotion to office hours and
the details of business that charac
terizes him In America, the Ger
man In the Orient Is making a fight
for a lion's share of trade, and he Is
getting It. ...
In America where he competes wltn
others equally as willing to get up
early In-the morning and sit up late at
night in the prosecution of com
mercial campaigns the German wins
laurels. In the Orient at pres
ent he competes chiefly with the Brit
on who can hold ids ground by rlgats
of squatter sovereignty since the days
when the English, succeeded the Portu
guese and Dutch as the largest traders
east of the Red Sea. V ' -
Singapore, as "the second doorway or
the world's trade." is not new In Im
portance, but it is of increasing signif
icance because Of the rapid develop
ment of Malaya, and because railroad
building between the Ural mountains
and the Pacific will, in the future,
open to the world's commerce large
markets now Inaccessible. The in
creasing Industrial and commercial ac
tivity In India will also he a factor In
bringing : lore ocean commerce through
"the second doorway."
Until recently the paramountry of
Great Britain as a trader in the^east
was nn established fact, and that sne
would remain in possession of her trade
was unquestioned. Conditions unex
pected ten years ago by students of
the commercial equations of the Orient
have developed and the English are
anxiously asking one another to what
extent the German advance will go.
If there' is one word that will ade
quately tell the secret of Germany s
rapid acquirement of an Important part
of the business she ls seeking, that
word is "adaptability."
The British method has been, his
torically, to Invade a foreign country
peacefully as a merchant and, eventu
ally, to annex the country. to the em
pire or gain concessions of territory
sufficient to constitute a firm foothold
and create a sphere of Influence well
calculated to Insure the dominance of
the English commercial houses and
the English marine. The German
method is to learn conditions ln the
market and seek to meet them better
than tho English have done.
After a preliminary survey, followed
by a closer study of existing oppor
tunities and the possibility of creating
new ones, the German begins his cam
paign by a devotion to business that Is
abhorrent to the sport-loving Briton,
whose club is hardly less important in
his estimation that his counting room.
The Englishman has office hours and
keeps them. The German has none.
If there Is sufficient work to do he may
be found In his office at midnight. He
pays little attention to holidays, and
his liberal Ideas as to how the Sabbath
should be spent do not prevent him
from doing a little work on the seventh
day as well as the other six. He cares
little for tennis, does not play cricket
or football or spend his time at the
faces. When he is not actually at work
he Is planning for tomorrow.
• • •
After offlce hours the English busi
ness man drives to his club or the race
course, or goes home and dons his lawn
tennis suit or riding toggery. After
dinner he puts on his smoking jacket
and spends the evening in resting from
the rigors of a day of business and
sport combined. He Is conscientiously
following out what ho considers the
best plan, and ls not consciously over
looking chances to increase business.
He believes with the duke of Welling
ton that Waterloo was won on the
cricket fields of England, and believes
as firmly that strenuousness ln the
tropics Is fatal. That one must, by
proper exercise and rest, keep physical
ly fit Is a maxim he does not violate.
That the rule of. moderation ln work
Is a good one for the Individual all
physicians and philosophers agree.
That the violation of the rule nets
business to the German nation, possibly
at the expense of the bodily welfare of
the Individual, Is plain, and the dif
ference between the German and Eng-
lish outlook upon the commercial fu
hlm to drink, even though ho takes the
bread and meat out of his child's mouth
with which to get it, rather than to
interfere with his personal libeitles—
tut what about the personal liberties
of the dear child ho starves in order to
get the drink? ,
You say you "urge temperance," Mr.
McMullln. I knew a man ln Aurora,
Ind., who said thirty or forty glasses of
beer a day wouldn't hurt a man; but
for a man to make a hog of himself—
he didn't believe in it; he believed In
temperance, too.
No, you think the evil of drink can
, never be overcome because history says
lt has failed ln the past.
Rev. E. E. Folk of Tennessee, a very
able man, thinks differently. He said
before a state gathering not long since
that "The whole south will be prohibi
tion territory within five years, and the
entire Union in twenty-five years." "It
will not be many years until we will as
soon think of returning to slavery as to
booze gelling."
In your former letter you said that
drunkenness was far worse throughout
the south since the adoption of prohibi
tion than it was before. In the city of
Knoxville, Term., during the year end
ing November 1, 1907, before prohibi
tion, there were 5144 arrests made. The
following year, under prohibition, there
were 2602—a decrease of 2542. For
drunkenness alone during same length
of time there were, for the year pre
ceding prohibition, 2743; and for the
first year of prohibition only 1303— de
crease of 1431. And the number of mur
ders decreased from thirty-eight during
the last year of the licensed booze sys
tem to fourteen during the first year
Its sale was prohibited.
Here is what a booze paper has to
say: "It is not the Anti-saloon league
nor the preachers nor the fanatics nor
the women who are routing the saloon
ln state after state, but the votes are
being cast by men .who drink wine, beer
and whisky." This was proved by
the vote cast in the mining districts of
Illinois tit the first election under the
local option law. We never counted on
knocking the saloons out of the mining
districts, but to our surprise the miners
declared themselves in favor of a per
sonal liberty to spend their money for
the benefit of their families Instead of
the saloon keeper, brewer and distiller.
In Birmingham, Ala., we find that
there were 11,812 arrests made during
the year preceding prohibition, and 7333
the first year of prohibition, a decrease
of 4479 In favor of prohibition; and to
refute what you have said about there
being more drunkenness ln the south
under prohibition, Mayor Ward said
ture is that one is optimistic and tha
other somewhat apprehensive. .
Aside from his determination to win
by, "stlcktoltlveness," the German
makes an energetlo^ effort to find out
Just what is wanted by the buyers ln
the.market he invades. And he manu
factures goods to meet these require
ments, it makes no difference to him
that somthlng else, possibly something
better from the European standpoint,
or superior from the point of view of
any one who Is capable -of sound
judgment, is sold in the German cities.
The important point is to make the ar
ticle that most readily sells where tho
effort la bejng made to sell it. Tho
British error is to hold that what is
food enough for the purchaser "at
home" should find favor with the
heathen, and that the heathen should
not be catered to, but educated to
know what he should desire.
• • •
Not the smallest part of the German
campaign or aggression in the Orient
is the effort—decidedly • expensive at
present—to win the passenger trnfflo
between European and far eastern
ports and between Europe and Austra
lia. It was a half century ago that 8
famous American traveler an.l writer
of books, voyaging from Europe to In
dia and the further east ln an English
steamer, put down In his journal -the
statement that a certain steam naviga
tion company, "being a monopoly is,
like all monopolies, a mode] of mean
ness." There is still complaint upon
the part Of the traveling public that
the English ships, which until recently
enjoyed a' virtual monopoly of th.*
passenger traffic to the east, have fol
lowed the plan of making dividends
rather than making friends of their pa
trons. Finding In this situation an op
portunity for advancing their Inter
ests, the Germans have left nothing
undone In an effort to court favor with
those who go down to the sea in
ships.
The custom of serving tea at 4 o'clock
In the afternoon is a fixture In England
.md a long established custom on Eng
lish ships. Upon the largo British lin
ers In eastern waters the passengers
may go to tho dining-saloon for tea or
go without it. The German liners not
cnly serve tea on deck, but also servo
at the tea hour foods and beverages
aimed at tho taste of the large part of
the traveling public that does not like
tea. Jn more important things there is
the san effort to meet the demands
of the patrons rather than educate tho
public to satisfy Itself with customs •
that reflect a national Idea of what
should be expected. ! The result is that
the German steamers aro growing In
popularity with the general public, and
by comparison their rivals are suffer
ing In the estimation of many travel
ers. While the proportion of German
name plates upon the doors of Singa
pore business houses Is increasing, the
liners and cargo boats flying the kai
ser's flag are coming out from th-»
European ports With goods ln their
holds and pnsengers In their cabins
that formerly belonged to the English
as a matter of course.
• • •
The facts in the case having become
plain to many thinking Englishman,
discussion of the outlook Is rife In the
east and ln certain quarters "at home."
The English Oriental press and some of
the eastern correspondents of London
newspapers comment freely upon the
fact that trade Is slipping through the
fingers of their countrywen Into the
hands of the Germans—and It may be
said In passing the Japanese and Chi
nese. "Sport ls sapping our genius for
expansion." thunders one well informed
critic, writing from the east to his
home paper. "The flannel type of Brit
on," writes another, "should reflect se
riously whether It is worth while to let
love of clubs -and sport oust us from
the commercial field."
But despite the almost continuous
fire of criticism from their fellow coun
trymen, the methods and habits of tho
Briton in the east are unchanged. The
average clerk in a British commercial
house In Singapore belongs to more
social and sporting clubs than a
wealthy retired business man in New
York. Often, as a result, he Is a bor
rower from a Tamil money lender. ■
While the Germans disregard holi
days, the British have In the orient, In
addition to nine regular "bank holi
days" a, year, holidays declared in
favor of spring and autumn race meet
ings and cricket contests, bringing the
total up to nearly one month in.twelve.
This does not Include the long "home
leave" taken now and then by every
Briton In the orient. Tho Englishman
may live the longer for his temperate
ness In Industry and devotion to sport,
but the Blrtlsh ascendency in eastern
trade, bought at a heavy price in blood
and treasure, ls feeling the effect.
—America ln the Philippines: I.
1-plirtiiiK the I lllplno.
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that 470 of the arrests during the flrst '
year of prohibition were for violation
of the prohibition laws, and should thus
bo added to the decrease figures of that
year—thus making the decrease 4949
for prohibition period.
The revenue collections on beer and
other distilled spirits for the eastern
district of Wisconsin for nine months
ending April 1, last, showed a decrease
of $342,115. This amount will go a long
way in supplying bread and meat to
former drunkardß' children; and the
figures discredit your statement as to
tho per capita Increase of drinking, as
shown by revenue receipts.
One of the^partles sending to Wichita
for the beer'" was one who ls now -urg
ing temperance, I presume, yet strain
ing himself in nn effort to defeat it.
Jt was only a dream, however; he had
gotten Into prohibition territory and
thought he could get booze in Wichita.
I know of two men at Woodward,
Okla., who never did any good the
greater part of their lives, back in In
diana, on account of booze, and who
are now wfil\ fixed with flne farms.
We temperance people who are hon
est In our efforts, and do not pretend/
to encourage lt while writing dlscour
agingly about lt, but provo by our ac
tions that we are heartily in earnest,
would not think of taking the blood
money offered by the brewers for char
ity. We believe In keeping the brewers
from getting It from thousands who are
not able to keep their families com
fortable for their amber-colored poison.*
The more brewers and the richer they
get, the more people we have depend
ing on charity. W. S. BURROUGHS.
ANSWERS MARY MAGDALENE
ON QUESTION OF PURITY
LOS ANGELES, July 29.—[Editor
Herald]: The man signing himself
"Mary Magdalene," In Saturday's Let- ■
tor Box, says: "The purity of woman
makes the world a fit place to live ln.
For the love of heaven, leave her as
she is." I believe in the purity of
woman to such an extent that I would
like to live to see the day when every
woman of the world ls pure, regard
less of the "rights" of fallen men. As
fallen men claim that they have a
right to be Immoral, It would no doubt
work a hardship on them If some I
mothers" daughters did not go astray,
but nevertheless I valoue the purity of
my neighbors' daughters more than I
do the "rights" of fallen men.
' VERA FIDELIA.