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AMERICANISM
JrrDGF. JOHN D. WORKS is the
best known citizen of Los An
geles. By reason of his admirable
contributions to current literature his
name is familiar to readers in every
part of the United States, and he is
almost as well known in Boston as he
is at home. We like to, remind
our readers of the national character
of Judge Works. He Is one of the
foremost students of constitutional
Americanism, and the accuracy of his j
interpretations is recognized univer
sally. Under the title, "What Are Our
Liberties Worth?" Judge Works dis
cusses the value of the American
guarantees to which The Herald is in
the habit of referring. He reaches the
conclusion not only that the guaran
tees are ignored, but that they are ac
tually violated. Treason to constitu
tional Americanism stalks through
this land, inviting social disaster, and
this treason, by reactionary and ig
norant newspapers of a type with an
example of which the people of Los
Angeles are familiar, is upheld, while
those who oppose it are denounced as
"Reds." No child should he gradu
ated from public school without an ac
curate and realizing knowledge of his
inalienable rights as an American citi
zen; but with our present system of
training, admirable in many respects
though It be, the boy ]ea.\ es school
with distorted or at the best, hazy
ideas of history, and with such an im
perfect knowledge of the foundationa!
principles of the A-nerican social sys
tem and its protector, the government,
that he submits to bluffing, bulldozing,
browbeating and the tawd»-y mockery
and hideous injustices substituted for
a plan that was as severely simple as
Puritanism, and ns easily understand
able as the ten commandments.
With profound gratitude that our
distinguished fellow student upholds
our conclusions and Justifies every
thing wo have said on the subject of
Americanism, we quote from his re
markable article on "Constitutional
Liberties:"
"The country today is swarming
■with detectives, most of them irre
sponsible, many of them criminals
themselves. In other countries they
might be called secret agents of the
government. The number of these al
leged emissaries of the law is being
Increased With alarming rapidity. The
persons, the homes, the business of
the people are brought under their
surveillance, and often for unlawful
and unscrupulous purposes. They
have become a serious menace to the
liberty of the people. . . The system
of arrest, Imprisonment and punish
ment prevailing in this country is un
doubtedly making more criminals than
It reforms and causing more crimes
than It prevents. Worse still, it is
arousing in the minds of our people a
spirit of hatred of the law, of resent
ment toward the constituted authori
ties, a sense of oppression, wrong and
injustice that will bring disaster If
not corrected. We are sowing th<
of evil passions and will reap the
whirlwind of hatred, malice and re
venge if the present methods are not
abandoned and the just and humane,
laws of liberty and justice, contem
plated by our constitution, substituted
for them."
TAFT HAS FAILED TO
MAKE GOOD
TAFT'P predecessor as president of
the United States achieved during
his incumbency of that great
office a popularity among the people,
am! commanded the confidence of the
best citizens of the country, to an ex
tent hardly equaled and never sur
passed In the history of our country.
This was done by his evident devotion
to the policy of curbing and regulutinpr
those great Interests that had already
worked serious injury to the general
economic welfare of our country, and
threatened, unless restrained, to
achieve infinitely greater evils than
they had already accomplished.
The program for restraining the evil
influence of the interests which by a
ruthless use of the great powers that
they had gained had shown themselves
the enemies of the general welfare, be
came known as the ROOSEVELT
POLICIES, and under that name re
relved the indorsement and support of I
every patriotic lover of his country—it
made no difference to what party ho I
belonged.
When President Taft, the choice of
the great executive who had inaugu
rated these important policies, was
elected to succeed him. it was ardently
hoped that such election meant a con
tinuation of these policies. The evi
dent satisfaction with which the inter
ests that had strenuously opposed the
Roosevelt policies, which curbed their
malign influence, regarded President
Taft's election, gave the first chill to
the ardent hopes of good citizens for
a continuation by him of the Roosevelt
policies. Some of his selections for
cabinet positions did not tend to re
move these doubts. This was especially
the case with the selection of his sec
retary of the interior.
Mr. Ballinger already had achieved
some unenviable notoriety on account
of his connection! with the efforts of
the Guggenhelms and others to appro
priate to themselves natural resources
In the territory of Alaska of almost
Incalculable value. His most Intimate
friends and supporters were among
men In the northwest, and especially
in his home city of Seattle, who were
interested in these efforts to obtain
by proceedings which some government
employes denominated as fraudulent,
property that belonged to the people.
That a cabinet officer with such con
nections and supporters should come
in conflict with honest men who had
been employed to safeguard the inter
ests of the government was not only
not surprising, but was inevitable.
The first of these conflicts to claim
public attention was the difference
which arose between Mr. Ballinger and
a subordinate under the control of his
department, Mr. Giavis. An investi
gation by the president of the charges
against Secretary Ballinger involved in
a report made by Giavis resulted in an
executive order discharging Giavis and
finding the secretary free from fault.
And yet this order contained one state
ment by the president himself which,
if true, showed Mr. Ballinger to be a
violator of the laws of the United
States. This statement was to the
effect that shortly after retiring as
commissioner of the land office, Mr.
Ballinger had accepted employment
from some of the interests that were
•endeavoring to secure the people's
property in Alaska, and this employ
ment related to matters which were
pending in Mr. Ballinger's department
at the time that hi was an official of
the government. If this employment
was accepted, it was in direct violation
of a statute of the United States pro
hibiting a government official for two
years after ho retires from a depart
ment position from accepting any em
ployment upon a matter perilling at the
time ha was In the employ of the gov
ernment.
An astonishing- feature in Mr. Taft's
order was that after finding that Mr.
Ballinger had done a thing which was
in absolute violation of this law, the
president gives no attention to this
grave fault upon his part, but con
cludes his findings with a complete ex
oneratlon of the secretary.
The next, and the most serious re
sult of the efforts on the part of hon
est employes of the government to pro
tect Its interests has been the dismis
sal of Mr. Plnchot. The greatest of
the "Roosevelt policies" inaugurated
by Mr. Taft's predecessor was the pol
icy of the conservation and protection
of natural resources. Mr. Roosevelt
said before retiring from office that the
services of Mr. Pinc.hnt as the heail of
the forestry division had not f#ly
greatly assisted him in developing this
most important of his policies, but that
Mr. Pinchot's services were the very
foundation of this policy, and without
his services its Inauguration and de
velopment would have been impossible.
So far tho net result of ten months
of Taft's administration has been
to depnse from his position as a gov
ernment official the man who, above
all others, was hated and feared by
those very influences that are seeking
to secure wrongful possession and con
trol of the people's property, and seek
ing this by means which some of the
employes of the government have de
nominated as fraudulent and illegal.
It may be true that Mr. Plnchot was
guilty of a technical breach of official
decorum. It must be evident, however,
to students of the situation in the de
partment of the interior that Mr. Pin
chot's act for which he was dismissed
was the result of a conviction upon
his part that to longer continue in the
position occupied by himself with the
department of the interior headed and
controlled by a man whose acts and
Influences he regarded as inimical to
the best Interests of the people, would
not only be of no substantial service to
the people, but would circumscribe and
destroy his own powers,of usefulness.
Mr. Pinchot evidently decided that his
last official act should be a sturdy blow
at those enemies of the public who h«
believed were controlling the acls cjf
the secretary of the interior, ;ind that
blow he administered with force and
directness in his communication to
LOS AXGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1010.
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Senator Dolllver which was read in the
United States senate.
The most terrible aspect of the whole
matter, however, is that citizens must
apparently abandon their hope that Mr.
Tuft will continue the policies which
recommended his predecessor §.o
strongly to the confidence and affection
of his fellow countrymen. It is with
no partisan joy that Tlie Herald an
nounces this conclusion, but with sor
row and chagrin. Notwithstanding the
fact that the party for which The Her
ald stands may eventually gain some
political advantage out of Mr. Taft's
betrayal of the public interest, we
would have been much happier to
have recorded an unswerving alle
giance upon his part to the Roosevelt
policies. We would much rather see
those policies carried out, with the con
sequent benefit which their realization
will bring to the people, than to secure
nny advantage possible to the Demo
cratic party out of the failure of Mr.
Taft'to carrry them out. We say this
because we recognize the fact that any
departure from the line of advance laid
Sown by Mr. Roosevelt, that any time
lost in asserting and protecting the
rights of the people means that the
interests that are endeavoring to evade
those rights will become by such fail
ure and such loss of time, more
strongly intrenched, and that the peo
ple's rights will be sacrificed by such
failure.
Until now we have refrained from
any criticism of Mr. Taffs actions,
althdugh we have not been by any
means satisfied with many of them.
We have done this, feeling that he had
a right to demand a trial before the
people—that he had a right to demand
time in which to make good In their j
behalf. Put this time has been accorded |
him; this opportunity has been given
him, and it is with regret that we arc !
compelled to say that he has com- i
pletely failed to take advantage of it.
It appears certain that the American
people must wake up to the fact that
the White House is occupied by a man
who will not guard and protect their
interests; who, on the contrary, has
surrounded himself with men who are
endeavoring to invade those interests,
and in making haste to remove from
the government men who the public
know can be depended upon to pro
tect those interests, II is painfully
evident that the present occupant of
the White House will, eventually, sur
render those interests to the predatory
organizations that arc ever waiting to
pounce upon and devote to their own
uses ami purposes the property and
resources which should be preserved
for the benefit of all the people.
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AVIATION
A MAGNIFICENT aviation pro ■
is being carried out In the
Angeles way. In a meet of such
treat proportions accidents are to
be expected. No one pretenda aviation
is a perfect art. The value of the Loi
Angela* gathering to the people of the
United States is its demonstration of
the comparative perfection to which the
art has already attained. If there are
weaknesses, the Los Angeles trials will
indicate them. If there are obvious
improvements that might be made, the
Los Angeles trials will Indicate them.
If there are in the various machines
latent qualities which have not yot
been demonstrated, the Los Angeles
meeting will bring them out.
And above all, the meeting is famil
iarizing the people of Los Angeles and
Southern California at first hand, and
the people of the United States by
means of graphic" reports, with the
present condition of the art and science
of aviation. An accurate knowledge of
this condition, gained by the trials and
tests of all tKe machines, will be fol
lowed by immediate advances in the
art of scientific diri^&le flight. The
Los Angeles meeting Is, so to speak, a
The Fat Is in the Fire
great campaign in the conquest of the
air, and at the close of the campaign
mankind will be much nearer the sat
isfactory and complete achievement of
that conquest than ever before.
■\Ve hope the weather will be such
tha,t the vast throngs who have trav
eled to Greater Los Angeles in the ex
pectation of seeing a demonstration of
the best climate hi the world, as well
as of the most faacinatlhg and scien
tific art of the world, will not be dis
appointed. So far the bonnie blinks
of sunshine have been much relished
by the spectators.
All who can possibly attend the meet
should do so. It will be historic. Hun
dreds of years hence there will be a
••date" which the school children of all
the world will have to commit to
memory. It will be: "First western
aviation meeting, Los Angeles, Califor
nia, January, 1910." And we hope and
it the date will be supplemented
by a record of complete success, un
marred by serious accident, undeterred
by untoward circumstance, and from
first to last triumphantly demonstrat
ing the claim of :Los Angeles to be.
considered the aeronavigation metropo
lis of the went.
SPLENDID COMMISSION
IN nothing that Mayor Alexander has
done has the city been more for
tunate than in his selection of the
commission which for the next two
years will have charge of our public
parks. In all the city of Los Angeles
there are not two other men who have
devoted 80 nni'-h attention to, and have
so much knowledge of. the peculiar op
portunities and advantages offered by
our climate for attractive growth and
beautiful flowers as Judge Charli
Silent and Henry W. O'Melveny. The
work which they will be called upon
as members of the park commission
to perform'for the city will be in the
highest degree a labor «cf love to both
thet-e gentlemen.
The presence of Mr. Ltppincott upon
th.-< board gives it the advantage of a
trained engineer, which will be most
important to the proper development
of the great park system of the city.
.Mr. Rand&U is a man of excellent
judgment and fine character, and can
bo depended upon to in every way sec
,,u.i and support the efforts of his
colleagues.
When Judge Silent stated on ytstei
,l iy that ii uas the purpose of the com
mission to give t" tli" city of Los An
gelea the finest park system possessed
by any city in America, no one ac
quainted with the peculiar ability of the
judge and his colleagues on this com
mission will have any ddubt that they
will succeed.
What a park commission such us the
City of LOS Angeles now has can do
uuh the greal are.is ot Elyelan park.
Griffith park and the smaller beauty
spots scattered throughout the Bity
within the next twn years is something
that imagination can hardly forecast.
We (eel that it «ni be arortfa while for
cm people t" watch the Los Angeles
nark commission for the next two years.
TVe predict that the work which that
commission will do will be a source ot
pride to every citizen of Los Angeles
and of satisfaction and pleasure to
every visitor.
Kliminate Kooeeveltlsm from the Re
publican party and what Is left? For
tunately, the American people know
what national good government should
be. And they know there are public
men who can be depended uson under
all circumstances to be Americans
first, politicians afterward. Whether in
high office or in low, the men who are
politicians first and Americans after
ward are wearing on* their welcome
in public life.
All the aviators are "wonders." In
fact only a few years ago many peo
ple would have said they wore too
wonderful to be possible. This shows
how careful one should be never to
prophesy unless he knows. But there
may be extra wonderful wonders, and
we think Paulhan is entitled to that
distinction. The mercurial, volatile
French temperament t:t!;es very kindly
to the air.
Liquor saloons must be free from
brewery ownership or domination, and
Clubs must be clubs and not liquor fa
loons. These are two of the planks
in a sane temperance movement which
should appeal to everyone who calls
himself a good American citizen.
The government is such a bene
ficiary by the enterprise of Los An
geles in planning and executing the
Aviation week program we presume
Uncle Sam will establish an aeroplane
military post at Greater Los Angeles
without delay.
When Emperor William opened the
Prussian diet no one asked whether
it had been subjected to proper tests
under the pure food law. Thus Is the
effeteness of Prussia in comparison
with the United States triumphantly
proved.
Behind the Taft-Ballinger-Pinchot
episode or controversy or disturbance,
or whatever it may be called, lurk cer
tain Interests, wearing sardonic grins
and chuckling with the glee proverbi
ally attributed to ghouls.
Hi ate railroad commission will meet
January 19, "to hear complaints of
shippers and requests for reduction
of rates." Please emphasize the verb
"hear. 1
Wo hope all visitors to Los Angeles
will have an enjoyable experience, and
will carry away with them only sunny
memories of our sunny city.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
How 1 wonder what you are.
Twinkle —lot me look again!
You're a soaring aeroplane!
Oh you Big Stick. "There's no place
like ho-ome. There's 'no-o place like
home."
Greater LOS Angeles is the most
talked or city in the world today.
Well, have you seen "em fly? I low
would you like to aviate?
The State Press
Tramp Army -
Tiip announcement made by a railroad
man at Phoenix, A.rl*., that the migration
of hoboei tv California Ifai i.r.'n totally
•topped thii wiuit'i ilm' loutheaatern
ral roadi wi ild ■■ welci newi if it were
•übstantlated by '>'•• oondltlon« in t!i" bay
cities. Unfortunately thi tribe ol wander-
Ins Wllliei )n theae parti nemi '■> '"■ a«
numerous m ever this winter.- Oakland Tri
bune.
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Complete Cycle
Actual night with wings through tlio air
Is only the last and newest triumph, It
may or may not turn out to be a practically
important one. But, useful tool or play
thing, tho aeroplane la either way the
crowning achievement Of man. because it re
moves hie last physical Infirmity to any of
hid follow creatures of earth. This cycle
at least of human aspiration It at last com
plete.—Fresno Hermbllcan.
Good Roads
Sacramento county Is making some exten-
Blve lmproyemrnta in the way of macadam
roads they being similar to the ones being
constructed in this city. Sacramonto 1b
making the claim that that county will lead
the world. .Massachusetts is inclined to
double tills statement, —San Bernardino In
dex.
California Republicanism
The editor of the Delta asks UJ tell
how the Republican party fell heir to State
Controller Nye. That Is more than we can
do. He probably came Into hi» political
faith by heredity. Certainly he could not
Vie a Republican In California by virtue of
Ills honest convictions. —Vlwlla Times.
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OH, YOU KID
This is tiie way the Denver l'o*t wil
comefl the new year of 1810: "Wo loved
the old year, but Oh, You Kid!" —Oaklan.l
Enquirer
Turbulent Central America
VII—FERTILE COSTA RICA
Frederic J. Haskin
BIIK smallest but one of the
five Central American stat< s,
Costa Klca shows the. great
est per capita waultlTbf them
all It has* the largest pro
portion of white population,
i and In everything that makes a people
happy and prdsperous it Is the best ol
the flve little republics, whose total
population is less than that, of Ohio
and whoso total area Is but little
greater than that of California. The
per capita imports of Costa Klca equal
the per capita imports of the other
four republics combined. Its per cap
ita exports are nearly three times as
pivat as those of Its nearest rival and
lour times as great as the average for
the other four republics.
The advantageous position which
C, i a Rica holds In these particulars
|g reflected In the character of Its gov
ernment, It lias been most free of all
the republics from civil contention and
strife. With property there always
comes an added responsibility on the
par! <>f the individual, and he does not
go to war so lightly as when nothing
but his own person 1s at stake.
it Is said that more varieties or
plants grow in Costa Rica than In any
other place In the new world. The ex
huberanl vegetation fills the coast and
lowlands and reaches to the highest
mountains, This beautiful land has
700 kinds of birds. The richest and
most precious metals are In its moun
tains, Pearls are gathered from its
waters, as well as the snail which PTO
i the Tyrian purple. Tim forests
abound With the finest dye woods,
medicinal tries, herbs, cinchona, rose
wood, mahogany, cedar, sandaiwood
and all the finest timber of the two
zones.
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On? Is hardly prepared for the state
ment that a Costa Rlcan town has one
of the linest theaters in the world, yet
San Jose, fie capital of the country, ;
boasts this distinction. It has the Na
tlonal theater, which was built at a
cost of $1,200,000. It is said that for
perfection of detail and wealth of dec
oration it surpasses any building In !
the United .States, with the possible I
exceptions of the library of congress
and the Boston public library. The |
best sculptors and artists contributed j
In making the foyer of this theater ;
equal to the finest of those of Europe.
The lloor of the auditoiitfm can be
lifted to the level of the stage by by- j
draulic pressure and this is flone on
the occasion of great balls, making
it one of the largest and finest ball
rooms in the new world.
The forests of. Costa Rica are not
essi ntlally different from those of tho
other Central American states, but
they are especially rich in India rub
ber and the tree that gives us quinine.
The gathering of India rubber is an
interesting procedure* About thirty
five people constitute the average
party that goes in quest of it. They
dress in coar.se cotton clothes, wear
sandals and knot red bandana hand
kerchiefs about their heads. Every
man carries his own outfit, consisting
of a blanket, sandals, gun, fishing
tackle and a machete^ The macheto
is a universal tool with the natives.
It is used to defend the hunter from
wild beasts, to cut a path through tho
forests, to trim poles for a hut or to
fell a tree. .
A camp is built with poles and palm
leaves, a fireplace Is madi 1 and then
the main work of the expedition begins.
The average caoutchouc tree will ruts
dry in a day and yields from fifteen
to twenty gallons of sap. When this is
carried to camp it is first strained to
free It from dirt and leaves and is
then hardened by mingling with the
juice of a vine found in the forest.
After this it is kneaded like dough and
moulded into round cakes.
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The natives have their own way of
making waterproof goods. They
spread a piece of canvas on the ground
and pour the sap over it, taking care
that the cloth shall have an even
coating. To accomplish this they use
cocounut busks or small paddles. Ex
posure to the sun completes the job
and the goods are ready for use. When
the expedition returns there is a hol
iday season. The average laborer
spends all he has made while away
and as much more as he can borrow
from his employer. When he touches
tho bottom of his pocket he is ready
to return to work.
The climate of Costa Rica helps to
make it the favored state of Central
America. The atmosphere of its high
plateaua is pure and invigorating, and
the temperature remains abo^it the
same throughout the year. On ac
count of the malarial conditions which
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SUGGESTS PLAN TO BETTER
CONDITIONS OF WORKMEN
LOS ANGELES, Jan. B.—[Editor
Herald]: In a letter to The Herald of
January 8 W. Scott Lewis denies the
efficacy of my cure for' involuntary
poverty and instead of combating my
arguliontfc in support of my conten
tion in. takes refuse In Irony and ex
aggeration. His illustration of the
working miller is no solution of the
problem. My plan is definite, prac
tical, requiring no new laws to carry
it out. It is acted on more or less
among native Americana and its ben
efits are felt, as I can show. In thou
sands ill" American homes the balance
between income and the cost of the
necessaries of lite is so evenly divided
that one or two more mouths to feed
makes all the difference between plen
ty and penury. It costs something to
rear a child until it is old enough to
maintain itself? 1 WJio has to bear the
expense? Clearly Its parents.
I think a family of three would be.
enough to train and educate properly;
more children at the present rate of
wages and the cost of living would in
evitably keep the father's nose to the
grindstone during the working period,
besides contributing to the competi
tion for work.
What is wanted Is that the work
should seek the worker and not the
worker the work; then wages would
rise. This is sound economy. If W.
S. L. has a better plan I ask him to
produce it.
I have treat faith in co-operation as
a means of Improving the condition of
the poor..' but to start in such business
requires capital. Through co-opera
tion its members (who are working
men) have lowered considerably the
coat of living in the United Kingdom.
I would recommend W. S. L. to read
an article in the World 1 Work for
this month entitled ".My Business
Methods." by an employer of labor
named Nelson, who adopted the plAn
of profit-sharing among his laborers.
In the article he describes how he
prevail In Panama it Is necessary to
have an accessible post of recupera
tion In the vicinity, and the canal
commission grants leave of absence to
Its employes to go there for their an
nual vacations. One of the most de
sirable Vicinities is known as the pla
teau of Cartago, which the early
Spaniards called Paradise. There are
a number of hot springs In the vicinity
that are famous for the 1 ealing quali
ties of their water. An English san
itary expert pronounced this locality
as being intended by nature for one
of the great sanitariums of the world,
laving is so cheap that one can board
a whole month for $15, Including a
horse to rido.
The Costa Itlnans are the moat pro
gressive agriculturists In Central
America. They have formed a Na
tional Society of Agriculture, whosa
purpose is to encourage better meth
ods of crop and stock raising. The
society is studying the question of the
most profitable crops, is bringing new
ones Into the country and Is experi
menting with farm machinery to de
termlne what la needed in harvesting
and cultivating, It is also looking
after tlm importation of blooded
horses, cattle and other stock with a
view to building up the stock raising
industry. As the rank and file of the
people are more intelligent than those
of neighboring countries, as well as
mure industrious, they are quicker to
grasp tho :nlvantages of these things.
Tlur result is that they have doubled
their exports In twelve years.
Banana growing Is the principal in
dustry of the republic, and the United
Fruit company almost entirely con
trols this business. The output of
bananas has trebled since 1890, and
Costa Rica alone sends out more than
10,000,000 bunches a year, Jlost of the
crop comes to the United States, but
a Strong propaganda Is being carried
on abroad for the purpose of popular
izing the banana In European coun
tries. While the United States buys
several thousand shiploads of bananas
a year, Prance demands only ten ship
loads, and Germany consumes less
than a hundred cargoes. England has
acquired the banana-eating habit to
a greater extent than any of the
European countries, but even its an
imal trade is satisfied with 4.000,000
bunches—a quantity which would be
exhausted in a lew weeks in the
I'nited States.
Costa Rica levies a tax of one cent
a bunch on all the bananas leaving Its
territory. The United Fruit company
had the privilege of exporting all its
bananas trie of duty, but when tli«
Costa Rican government wanted to
levy a tax the great corporation cheer
fuliy agreed to pay it, knowing full
well that it could easily get the duty
back at this end of the line. During
a recent hearing before the United
States senate committee on Interstate
commerce the methods of the United
Fruit company were severely ar
raigned. It wus stated that bananas,
once a luxury, were now a necessity,
sold at every corner grocery in the
land. The representative of the United
Fruit company quickly replied that
this was the best justification of his
company's methods —it had taken the
banana from the list of luxuries, for
merly enjoyed only by tho well-to-do,
and had placed it within the reach of
the poor man by making it a cheap
and wholesome addition to his food
supply. <
It was about forty years ago that
the first bananas were brought from
Central America to the United States.
The pioneer banana importer was
Charles Frank, a German waiter on a
steamer plying between Panama and
New York. He obtained permission
from the captain to take a few
bunches of bananas to Manhattan,
where he sold them at good prices.
This pioneer met with many reverses,
but he persevered and in the end re
tird with a fortune.
Captain L. D. Baker of Cape Cod,
called the millionaire banana king,
founded the Boston Fruit company.
He went«outh with a schooner loaded
with notions and returned with a
cargo of tropical produce. His suc
cess was such that he purchased large
estates and turned them into banana
plantations. The Boston Fruit com
pany was the parent of the United
Fruit company, one of the great en
terprises of our time. This great cor
poration now owns or operates hun
dreds of square miles of territory and
controls a fleet of fruit-carrying
steamers which visit every port that
lias tropical fruit to sell.
Tomorrow — Turbulent Central America:
VIII —Densely Populated Salvador.
built a model town in Illinois which
is inhabited by his employes who are
a prosperous and contented people.
Now if workingmien by thrift and
industry on the lines I have indicated
could save money they might ap
proach their employers and demand
an interest in the concern and thus in
time be able to control the business.
J. BUTTERFIELD.
OFFERS TO EXTEND AID TO
EARNEST SEEKER OF TRUTH
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 10.—[Editor
Herald]: J. O. Colbert, In the Letter
Boat column January 3, asks for Infor
mation regarding tho Bible's authen
ticity. In the first place, I do not be
lieve there need be any conflicting
opinions, and would not be, only other
persons like Mr. Colbert read wrongly.
.Mr. Colbert's first quotation is incor
rect. Isaiah, chapter 35, verse 8, is tho
passage to which he had reference, and
if he will take time and read the chap
ter he will see it is not "need" but
■shall not err," and has reference to a
tut mi- time. Again he says he has
read Matthew, chapter f, verses 17-18.
If he will read it again ho will find
that it is "one jot or tittle of the law
that shall not pass," and sinco Christ
lia: fulfilled the law (not only one but)
all are taken out of the way (Colos-
Rlang, chapter 2, verses 12-13). So next
time Mr. Colbert had better read his
excerpts more accurately, and if he is
atill earnestly searching for truth and
gets into a tight place, write (through
The Herald) to me personally, and |I
will try to help him. D. KREBS.
Far and Wide
Inseparable
The Chicago Tribune saya of two friends
that they were aa Inseparable as David anil
Qo'lath. And yet Mr. HocUofeller'a univer
sity hus done so much for higher education
In that town! —New York Post.
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Insurgents
The Taft administration shows Itself de
cidedly In favor of the Insurgent movement
in Nicaragua regardteaa of how it may feel
about tlii) insurgent* at home.—Kansas City
Star.
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Prejudiced
The cost of living is ( to be investigated In
Chicago. While It la unfair, of cnur.se, M
prejudice It. there 1» a pretty strong hunch
that It 1» guilty.—lndlanapulii Newa