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I Talks With Farmers
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111 1
THE OIL MILL INDUSTRY.
There Is no southern industry which is
attracting more local attention, and which
is on a more general "boom" at the pres
ent time, than the cotton seed oil and meal
industry. Both foreign and local capital
are being largely invested in the rapid
extension of the business from one end
of the'cotton belt to the other. Nearly a (
hundred millions of dollars have been in
vested tn oil mills by two syndicates
within the past year or two. Small mills
operated by local capital all over Georgia.
South Carolina and Alabama, were
bought up by the Virginia and Carolina
Chemical company last year, almost as
fast as deeds could be written, money paid
and. the transfers from original owners
equid be made. It was the general Im
pression that, through so extended a scope
of the oil mill Industry by the company
above referred to. a chock at least for
some time to come would be put upon
any further investment of local capital In
such enterprises. That the people would
be slow to go up against the so-called oil
trust, which, with Its millions of money,
might easily crush out any kind of local
opposition. The two big companies, the
Southern and American Cotton Oil com
bine. doubtless thought to sweep the field
at a single stroke, but judging from pres
ent activity among the people in building
new plants, the oil mill fever has reached
an impetus Into which renewed activity
has been injected. The growth of the
1 cotton seed oil Industry* during the past
quarter at a century has been the most rev
markable of any other southern enter
prise. One of the pioneers in the oil mill
business said to me a short time ago that
when he sent an agent among the farm
ers for the purchase of their seed, that
n» one community In a county in Missis
sippi. tn which state the first mills were
located, hie agent barely escaped being
lynched by the infuriated farmers who
would listen to no proposal for the pur
chase of their seed. The fight between
the mills and the producers was kept up
for several years, with the mills steadily
gaining, until now seed are sold in large
quantities at every important local point
where cotton la purchased. The enormous
increase in the demand for commercial
fertilisers, stock food, and the different
uses to which the oil can be placed has
made the industry a necessity, and the
time is not far distant when
growing county in the south will number
among its useful enterprises a cotton seed
oil mill, which win supply local demands
for meal, hulls, and fertilisers, and con
tribute to the foreign demand for oil.
Co-Operative Mills. (
The most popular plan now for the erec
tion of oil mills tn local communities is
on the co-operative basis, building mills of
such capacity as will only require the
seed grown tn such communities and as
will be used to supply the local demand
for meal, hulls and fertilisers. The oil
mill at the present and for the future. \
which can be made absolutely independent
of any kind of trust or combine, is the
small mill run on the co-operative plan,
and controlled by stockholders who pro
duce the cotton. There are two important
elements of strength which constitute the
independent position of a small co-opera
ttvo mill. The first is found In the owner
ship of the stock, or at least a large pars
of it, by the farmers or landowners whose
lands produce the raw material, which
feeds the mill erected in their local com
munity. The second element of strength
is found in the faet that those who supply
the raw material also furnish the market
among themselves for all the products of
the mill, except the oil. There can be no
comar made on the market for oil. be
cause the demand for it is too wide
spread and there are too many large in
dependent refineries in the field bidding
for the crude oil from the small mill.
'Ther are now being erected in thia .state
by a new firm four large refineries at 1m
» portant centers, which will give renewed
activity to the oil industry next season.
I know of a number of instances where
farmers in different communities are get
ting together for the purpose of erect
ing a joint co-operative ginnery and oil
mill. Some of these small plants are al
ready-tn process of erection while others
are busy subscribing to. the stock and
making the purchase of machinery. For
tunately for the producers, the oil mill
business can be as successfully operated
on a small investment of capital in a lo-
STRICTURE
This disease demands the skill of an expert. When improperly treated
serious complications result and years of suffering are in store for the
t victim By my skillful original method of treat
ment a permanent cure is quick and certain.
Many practitioners still employ obsolete, pain
ful methods of and do not
seem to know that an operation Is not neces
sary to effect cure. I employ no crude meth
ods in my practice. By arduous study and de
votion to my specialty, keeping in touch with
the latest discoveriA of science. I have per
fected new and entirely original methods of
treatment which are prompt In effecting cures
and successful in some of the most obstinate
cases. My cure for stricture is gentle and
painless, and often causes no detention from
business or other duties. It promptly stops
all unnatural discharges, allays irritation, im
' parts tone and elasticity, and renders the
urinary channel free for the performance of its
natural functions. I want to talk to every man
w»o has Stricture, and explain to him the advantages of placing hia case
in the hands of an expert who has studied and treated the disease for twelve
years and whose knowledge of it is not equaled by any other physician in
the United States. Consultation free sither at office or by mall. Write
and learn about my perfect system of home treatment. Correspondence
confidential.
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.
33 Inman building. 22 1-3 South Broad Street, Atlanta,
cal community, as It can be backed by
millions with headquarters in the city of
New York. A small mill -costing not over
$4,500 for the machinery set up and ready
for work, and driven by a 35 H. P. engine
will press out just as many gallons of oil
per ton, and make just as nice meal and
hulls, and the products sell for just as
much money to consumers, as if $200,000
had been invested in the plant. The only
difference is in the capacity of the ma
chines. Inese small plantation oil mills
have a daily capacity of five tons of seed,
0r\330 bushels. A Jen ton mill costing
about $6,000 set up for operation, will
crush M 0 bushels of seed daily. I am
constantly in receipt of letters from far
mers in different sections who are be
coming interested in these small plants,
and they are being erected and successful
ly operated five and eight miles In the
country from the railroad. The oil is
hauled to the depot in barrels and there
transferred to the tank cars.' Acid and
potash are purchased and all the fertil
isers needed are mixed at the small plant
with the home-made meal, and the sur
plus meal, together with the hulls are sold
for cattle feed or shipped to meet the de
mand from other sections. The invest
ment is small and the profits on the busi
ness done is necessarily large.
Oil Mill Products.
For two years I have actively agitated
through the columns of The Semi-Weekly
Journal and in my public addressee before
farmers in different sections this system
of co-operative ginneries and small oil
mill plants as a solution of many exist
ing troubles with which they have to
contend.
Those efforts are now beginning to bear
zood fruit. It will ultimately lead to a
general co-operation of the producers In
the handling and sale of their cotton, as
well as the handling of their cotton seed
products.
This is the great end to be desired and
its fulfillment will mean the dawning of
a new and brighter era in southern agri
culture. It is well that we keep fully post
ed on the cotton seed oil situation, that
we may know just how to figure on the
proposition of a eo-operatlve plant.
Good, dry seed will ordinarily turn out
into the by-products as follows: Forty
two gallons of oil, 72S pounds of meal, 1.000
pounds of hulls and linters. The value of
these products at -present prices are as
follow*: ' , t
♦2 gallons oil, at Me $15.12
73 pounds meal, at $1.3 9.0$
1 000 pounds hulls and linters, at 35c... 2.50
Total $28.88
The average price for seed this season
has been sl4 per ton. The dost of working
$3.00 and freights $1.50 per Non. run the
cost of handling the seed at the mill up
to $18.50 per ton. Deduct this from gross
value of the products and we have net to
the mill of SB.IB cents on each and every
ton handled. Nearly all the mills handled
on an average of 3.000 tons each, which
makes a net profit to tne stockholders of
the mill of at least SIB,OOO. The average
mill now in operation cost about $25,000.
This gives a net dividend to the stock
holders tn these, mills this season of about
80 per cent on their Investment. Some
mills in favored localities have made
enough money this season to pay the orig
inal cost of erection. U is generally con
ceded that all the mills will net SB.OO per
ton. This has been a fortunate year for
the mills, the best they have had in some
time, though the profits in the oil mill
business are always good, if the manage
ment is properly handled. It has been in
timated that the trust people will endeav
or to shut out local mills and retard the
building of new ones by a system of com
petition .which will force the local mills
to operate at a, loss for a year or two.
Whe.-er any such scheme will be brought
forward or not it is too early now to find
out.
The agitation of the small co-operative
iplll. In which the producer* are now be
coming Interested, is giving the trust peo
ple more trouble than all things else com
bined. It presents a. proposition which
they are powerless to go up against or
overcome. The investment In these small
Plante is so small, they can be supplied
jy the seed raised in their own Immediate
neighborhood, the farmers who raise the
seed can utilise the meal and hulls, and
the oil is always in demand at good prices.
These facts present the keynote to the
situation. It is a proposition which today
imperils the millions of dollars invested
In oil mills and fertiliser factories all over
the south during the past few years. It
Is the same sort of a proposition which
is today giving the big square bale com
press trust, the jute bagging and tie
trust so much trouble.
The. latter combines see that improve
ments have been made in the aystem of
haling cotton, by which the staple can
He compressed at the ginnery and shipped
direct to the spinner, and that cotton is
covered- with cotton bagging Instead of
Jute. Naturally these interests which
hav« controlled and dominated the cotton
industry of the south for so many years
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, x ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1902.
should be deeply disturbed over an out
look which promises in the near future
to culminate in a co-operation of the pro
ducers along the following lines: The
erection of co-operative ginneries and
small oil aqlll plants, the compression of
cotton at the ginnery and its shipment
direct to the spinner, the substitution of
cotton bagging, the manufacture of fer
tilisers at the small oil mill plant, and
a general saving of the enormous divi
dends made by the industries named and
at present in the control of big combines,
to the extent that the farmers will get
their legitimate- share out of the value of
the products they produce, and cease to
be the footstool upon which giant corpo
rations can rest, and multiply their mil
lions. Tnese are matters which are al
ready attracting the publlo attention.
They are being discussed now everywhere
by men of business and keen observation.
Forces are already lined up for the bat
tle, and we may well expect lively times
for the next few years in the gradual
passing out of the old methods and the
substitution of the new. Let the farm
ers use their brain for the bqtter pro
tection of their interests and our counry
will have no cause to fear for the ulti
mate result.
HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRYDEPARTMENT.
J. A. Avaton, Ga.:
In the daily reading of the Semi-Weekly
Journal, I notice in your columns and
others mention of the book by Stevens,
"Georgia, Historical and Industrial.’’ As
I am'very anxious to read the book I want
you to tell me through The Journal
whether I can obtain the book or not, and
if so from whom?
Ans: The volume referred to Is a recent
publication by the State Department of
Agriculture at Atlanta, by direction of
Hon. O. B. Stevens, commissioner of ag
riculture. Write to Hon. O. B. Stevens,
Atlanta, Ge., care state capltol, and if he
can supply you, I am sure he will do so
with pleasure. The books are given away,
a feqr for each county, and are quite val
uable.
C. C. C., Fox, Ga.:
Will you be kind enough to give me a
remedy fpr the pest which last year de
stroyed our Irish potatoes. They begin
eating the plants as soon as they get out
of the ground. In working my potatoes
today I found them in great quantities,
and where they eat the potatoes it Snakes
the plants as If they had been scorched.
Please give quick remedy.
Ans.: Your potatoes are being attacked
by the Colorado potato beetle, which is
the most destructive insect known. Noth
ing short of Paris Green will rid your
vines of the pest, unless you hand pick
and kill them which is a big undertaking.
If you have a small patch, one ounce of
Paris Green to « or 8 gallons of water
will be sufficient. The Paris Green should
be dissolved in the water, by first work
ing it up with a thin paste and then mix
ing. If the Paris Green is pqt into the
Bordeaux mixture, about which I recently
wrote an article fully explaining how to
make it, the mixture would be all the bet
ter. At all events use the Paris Greeh as
suggested and spray your vines thorough
ly, underneath the leaves as well as on
top, and continue the work at intervals
of once a week until the bugs have been
entirely destroyed.
F. R. L., Gainesville, Ga.:
In reading over an article of yours in
The Semi-Weekly Journal of a month or
so ago, In speaking of the watermelon and
its culture, you say a fertiliser of barn
yard manure and wood ashes is good for
the watermelon. About how much ashes
would you use with the manure? I lost
your article which I intended keeping for
reference. I am a great believer in home
manures.
. Answer: If for immediate use. compost
the ashes with the manure, using 1,000
pounds of ashes per acre. This can, how
ever, be reduced with good effect, if the
fertilizers are simply put in the hill. Do
not compost ashes with stable manure and
allow to stand for any great length of
time, as the lime in the ashes will cause
the nitrogen in the manure to evaporate.
The use of the unleached ashes is to fur
nish potash"for the melons. The same can
be gotten through the use of 100 pounds of
kainit per acre in place of the asnes.
M. 8., Fair Bluff, N~C.:
I have an acre of land which I wish to
plant in early amber cane and cow peas if
they will make good early forage. Should
they be planted together or separate,
broadcast or in drills'? How should the
land be prepared? Any information that
you may give will be gladly received. I
also have a mule which has the splint.
Will you please giJe remedy. It seems
that I could not do without the “Timely
Talks with Farmers,” and The Journal.
Answer: It is rather early to sow sor
ghum and peas together for forage, as
cow peas make better growth later in the
season. Your best plan would be to plant
a patch of early amber cane in drills,
making the rows three feet apart, and
bringing the plants down to a stafid 3 to 5
Inches in the drill. Break the land good
and deep broadcast, harrow it, and then
lay off the rows and plant. -Cultivate as
you would field corn, and when knee high
begin to cut it for the stock. The stubble
will put out again at onee and by the
time you get to the end of the patch the
first row will be ready again. About the
first of May break some land well, broad
cast peas and sorghum together and har
row in. Use one bushel of peas and one
peck sorghum per acre. This combination
will make you splendid forage which can
be fed green, pastured or mowed and
cured into hay.
For splint on the leg of your mule, use
Kendall’s spavin cure. Apply the liniment
two or three times .daily, using only a
small quantity at a time, but rubbing it>
well into the bony enlargement. By per
sistency. and giving thp mule all the rest
possible, yop should effect a permanent
cure in six to eight weeks, if the disease is
not of too long standing.
Severe Tests for Car Wheels.
Buffalo Express.
Some remarkable tests on car wheels have
lust been made at the foundries of the New
York Car Wheel Works at Black Rock. The
company is filling an order for a special qual
ity of wheels to be used under 100,000-pound
capacity cars now being built for the Penn
sylvania Railroad by the Pressed Steel Car
Company. The requirements for wheels for
each work are very severe, and railroad en
gineers have regarded that proposition as
one of the most difficult to be faced In modern
railroading. All the railroad papers have
recently been filled with discussions on the sub-
The load to be carried by each wheel In
such cars exceeds eight tone, more than
double the load In ordinary practice. The
New York Car Wheel Works have made a
specialty for some years of chilled wheels
for special service, and the progress made
in the manufacture has been demonstrated by
tests. The specifications and test require
ments of the Master Car Builders' Associa
tion require wheels to stand ten blows of a
weight of 140 pounds falling twelve feet, the
wheel being placed horizontally, supported at
three points on the flange. Some railway,
also require the wheels to stand the thermal
test, which consists of casting a band of
molten Iron,* one and a half inches thick by
four Inches wide, around the wheel tested.
The test demonstrates the ability of the wheel
to withstand excessive heating from brake
service. The road’s Inspector selects three
wheels from each lot of 100 offered, and if
any one falls to meet the test requirements
the lot is rejected. It can be seen that the
tests are severe, even in regular practice.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Cardinal Gibbons will celebrate his silver
Jubilee as Archbishop of Baltimore on October
3 next. z
The Shah of Persia Is expected In Berlin on
May 2*. and apartments in the palace at Sans
Souci are being prepared for him.
William Boucher of Baltimore, who is still
living, made the first screw head banjo In 1847.
It is now in the National Museum.
Richard Palmer, who recently celebrated hia
103 d birthday, at Abberley,,. Worcestershire,
England, has lived in five reigns, and hopes to
witness the forthcoming coronation festivities.
Professor Shaller Mathews of the University
of Michigan, who recently returned from the
Holy Land, says that In a small town east of
the River Jordan he discovered a windmill
which had been made in Batavia, 111.
The house erected by General George A.
Custer tn Topeka, Kan., in 1868. is being tom
down to make room for a ’modern residence.
The walls of one of the rooms are decorated
with notes and figures made by Custer, while
planning his campaigns against the Indians.
Declares Georgia in the Toils
Os a Political Dynasty
FIND on mjr return to Georgia
in mingling with drummers and
friends by the wayside, that there
Is but little enthusiasm for any
I
candidate. Terrell’a friends seem
confident or careless. It may be the 4
cause of this confidence and care
lessness is the fact, known and read
of all mervin Georgia, that Terrell
belongs to the ring and the ring be
longs to him. Dupont Guerry Is
getting around slowly but surely.
He Is kicking up a dust everywhere
he goes, but there are so many rains
to settle the dust these days. Can
didate Estill seems to be a single
bird dog, he has not flushed a covey
yet, but he has pointed several sin
gle birds. It will take a long time
to kill all the birds setting them one
at a time. Candidate Smith has de
clared that he is out of the race,
and now the three candidates in
for the home strqteh are Terrell,
Guerry and Estill; all good men I
have no doubt, personally, and all
gentlemen, socially, but the different
gangs they run with is the thing
that makes the difference in the
candidates.
There is a kind of a political dy
nasty in Georgia, It has been on
eVer since Alex Stephens stood for
re-election. When that grand old
statesman died the dynasty came
into the inheritance, and I affirm it
as a fact that one hundred,men in
Georgia will compose the total num
ber who have named candidates,
fixed the rings, figured on the slates,
and have run the state of Georgia
for twenty-five years without a
break. I could name, I dare say,
fifty of these men. ’ These ope hun
dred men are all for Terrell, and If
they were to announce tomorrow in
The Journal that they had all come
over to Guerry, Guerry would be
elected governor of Georgia as cer
tain as the sun shines.
Georgia has a population of <>Ver
two millions. Isn’t it strange that
more than two millions of people
will sit idly by and let a political
dynasty of a hunderd men run the
state and never raise a question as
to their pedigree, politics, or prin
ciples? • These one hundred men can<
meet any day and determine when
a primary shall be held and who the
candidates shall be—not so much
because they are the one hundred of
Georgia but because, like the West
ern Union Telegraph wires, they
touch every other political battery
in the state. As a rule, If you will
tell me who the gang is for I will
tell you who will be elected, and the
only Instance In my life where I
have ever known a gang to be de
feated was when Alex Stephens
stood for governor, and Governor
Samford, of Alabama, stepped Into
the gubernatorial ’ office of that
state, after .the gang fiad fixed
their slata and named their candi
dates. Ahd do you know, I am
strongly of the opinion now that
men like Stephens, Samford and
Guerry can break slates and bust
rings and do some things In spite of
the one hundred and their power to
make governors and other state of
ficials? The ring candidate of Geor- <
gia today is the legitimate successor
of his predecessor in office, as
much so as any child of the home
is the legitimate child of the pa
rents. The jlng is hard to beat, for
they have found out long ago that
organization is everything. and the
ring in Georgia has determined that
Guerry shall not have time to or
ganize, for they have brought on
the primary the sth of June, and
from now until the sth of June ev
ery farmer in Georgia will have a
move on him, for never In the his
tory of this atate were farmers so
behind with their plows and crops,
but the one hundred said the sth
of June it must be and sth of June
it is. The one hundred can figure,
they can distribute literature and
funds. They know as well how to
run the political machinery of a
state as any locomotive engineer
ever knew how to run his engine.
But the hope I have for Guerry.
and is a strong one. is that he will
International Benevolence.
BY BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER.
ENEVOLENCE on an inter
national scale Is a distin
guishing characteristic of the
Christian era. word
B
“philanthropy,” though compounded
of two common Greek words, is not
found in classic Greek at all. The
Greeks of pre-Christian times had
no such word because they knew
no such thing as philanthropy—
love all men. It Is pre-eminently a
coinice of Christien’ty, e.s the ele
vated spirit of which it Is the name
Is exclusively the product of Chris
tianity.
In Christ Jesus, who is most ap
propriately called in many passages
of the New Testament the Son of
Man (not Jew nor Greek nor Ro
man), nations and races that once
were far off from each other have
been brought nigh and "the middle
wall of partition” between them has
been broken down.
This expansiveness of our holy re
ligion is the crowning glory of the
century just closed and It 'ls the
most beautiful and buoyant element
among the forces which are operat
ing at the outset of the twentieth
century for the uplifting of man
kind.
The work conducted by the great
mission boards is an illustration of
International benevolence. Millions
of money and tens of thousands of
mdn and women are placed at the
disposal of these boards every year
to carry on their great work. At the
outset of the nineteenth century
these -boards had scarcely begun
to be, apd their efforts were of the
feeblest sort. At the close of the
century they had been so successful
that it could be, justly claimed for
them that by their efforts more
heathens had been converted than
since • the Apostolic age. Taking
the entire world over more men em
braced Christianity during the nine
teenth century than during the en
tire period of the fourteenth, fif
teenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and
eighteenth centuries combined, and
more than half as many as were
ever converted since the day of Pen
tecost at Jerusalem, when under
bust the slate and ring like Sam
ford and Alex Stephens have done.
Terrell has been ahead in the
race, but Guerry is gaining on him,
and If the one hundred had given
Guerry until the Ist of August on
the track with Terrell, he would
have passed him about the Ist of
July, and gone under the pole while
Terrell would have been a hundred
yards behind, bellowsed, spavined,
and string haltered.
To watch Terrell In those coun
ties where he has been on the track,
he reminds me of a scrub race I saw
in Canada once. I never saw such
running. There was one horse look
ed like he was half a mile ahead r*
the next one to .him was doing his
best, and every time the negro wal
loped him under the belly it looked
like another leg put out, and he
seemed to be running down the
track with forty legs all hitting the
dirt. How I wish Guerry would get
a mile ahead of Terrell, to see Potts
and the one hundred tapping him
up and see a leg push out at every
place when he got the lick. How I
want to be at the race track when
that happens.
I stick to it, I am for Guerry be
cause Guerry is a thproughbred. He
is a sine qua non, he is a vox pop
ull, he is an e plurlbus unum, and
if there Is anything bigger and bet
ter, then he is that and all that. No
ring or clique can boss him or con
trol him if he is elected governor.
He Is for something and against
something. If Terrell Is for any
thing it Is for himself. If he Is
against anything he is very jnuch
against Potts sending telegrams
around over the country. Didn’t it
take them a long time to get up all
the facts and fables about that tele
gram? They let time enough elapse
from the time Guerry got hold of the
telegram untfi they made the ex
planation for them, as the negro
said, to disremember all about it.
Memory may hold its . place for
ever, but memory won’t hold all
things forever.
I wish sometimes I was omniscient
Just an hour, so I could know all.
things about all men, what they did
and what made them do it, and who
was present when the thing was
did, and with it all I would want
some good witnesses, and good wit- 1
nesses are mighty scarce. Some of
them, poor fellows, are dead, the
balance ar, scared, and I had as
soon have ah entombed witness as a
weak kneed witness; a fellow that
disremembers.
The only hope Mr. Terrell ,had. If
It is a hope, is that the one hun
dred fixed the time of the primary
June the sth, but I am betting on
my nag passing their nag before
Sth of June, He is a-gaining on
him, gentlemen, and he ain’t a-put
ting out any more legs, either. I
think Terrell could run faster If
there were not so many riding him.
I believe he Is handicapped. When
a fellow loads up w*lth local option
these days, that means Potts and
Company, corporations and com
bines, and if they don’t unload Ter
rell I am afraid he won’t make the
landing, and yet I never mpt a more
innocent man in my life than Can
> didate Terrell. He looks to me just
like a good deacon of the church,
-that never went anywhere except to
prayer meeting and to business. I
like him but I don’t like his gang.
I keep telling you I am for Guerry
against all comers. My next choice
would be Estill. I rather prefer a
single bird dog to a horse anybody
can ride, I don’t care How fat and
plump and round he Is.
These vaporings may be the re
' suit of indigestion, for I have had
it very bad for several days, in fact
I am under the doctor for repairs,
and if any of these candidates don’t
like what I have said they will have
to wait a long time before I am able
to fight them.
Yours w’ith no ill-will towards
any candidate, but a mighty heap
of friendship for Guerry,
SAM P. JONES.
Cartersville, Ga., April 9, 1902.
the preaching of St. Peter 3,000 souls
were won in a day.
But beyond the limita of church
rolls Christianity extends its infiur
ence, affecting multitudes wh.6 ig
nore or resist its authority. It is
attended by an atmosphere which
cannot be wholly escaped or over
come by any who dwell in Christian
lands. Hence we see examples of
international benevolence quite out- \
side the operations of foreign mis
sionary boards and other such pro
fessedly Christian enterprises.
Many men who have made little
or no claims to Christian faith have
In receht years been.so affedted by
the philanthropic spirit inspired and
diffused by Christianity in the pres
ent age that they have put forth
efforts on behalf of the "kin beyond
the sea.”
The Smithsonian institution at
Washington is an example of ben
evolence which over-stepped the
seas in pursuing its purpose.' It was
organised by act of congress in
1846 in accordance with the will of
James Smithson, who bequeathed
above 1500,000 to the government of
the United States to he "devoted to
the increase and diffusion of knowl- *
edge among men.” Mr. Smithson
was an Englishman, the natural son
of Hugh, third duke of Northum- /
berland, and Mrs. Elizabeth Macle,
a niece of Charles, duke of Somer
set. His bequest was marked by
features which to many seejtned to
border on crankiness, but it ha#
achieved a vast deal in the direc
tion of increasing the sum of human
knowledge.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie is another
philanthropist whose gifts are not
confined by national lines. Os
Scotch nativity but with an Ameri
can career, he has poured out plen
tifully his gifts on both sides of the
Atlantic. Recently, as is well
known, he has given some ten mil
lions of dollars for the establish
ment of a great school of research
to be located at our national capital.
It will do more than carry forward
the kind of work which the Smith
sonian institution was founded to
promote. It will eventually make
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the city qf Washington one of the
greatest educational centers on the
globe.
Now comes Mr. Cecil Rhodes and
by bequest provides for a far
reaching system of international
scholarships at Oxford university.
Besides colonial scholarships for the
various dependencies of the British
empire, he makes provision for five
scholarships to b, filled by stu
dents of German birth on nomina
tion of the German emperor, and
two scholarships to each of the
present states and territories of the
United States. This gift is abso
lutely unique among all the gifts
recorded In history.
Hoarding the American scholar
ships Mr. Rhodes Is reported as
.having said:
'T desire to encourage and- foster
> an appreciation of the advantages
which, I implicitly believe, will re
sult from a union of the English
speaking peoples throughout the
world, and to encourage In the stu
dents from the United States who
will benefit by these scholarships an
attachment, to the country from*
which they have sprung; but, with
out, I hope, withdrawing them or
their sympathies from the land M
their adoption or birth.’’
.Mr. W. T. Stead, one of the great
est admirers and most devoted
friends of Mr. Rhodes, comments
thus concerning the matter:
“The will of Cecil Rhodes is in
ery nespect worthy of its author.
With the exception of some family
estates in this country, the whole of
» which are left to his own relatives,
Mr. Rhodes has dedicated his wealth
In diamond and gold mines to public
uses. Its d.sposal is dictated by what
was ever the dominating principle
of his life. x
- “What renders this will of excep
tional Interest to Americans Is the
fact that It reveals for the first time,
under hia hand and seal, that he was
no mere British imperialist, but that
he was essentially a citizen of the
United States, of the English-speak
ing world.
• • • • • • .
“The principle of his scheme is that
every English-speaking colony and
every state and territory in the
American republic shall be offered a
scholarship of the .value of $1,500 a
year for three years. By this means
Mr. Rhodes believed It would be pos
sible to make oxford the center of
the spirit of race unity, where stu
dents from every part of the English
speaking world would meet, on com- •
mon ground, in the most famous of
the old universities.
"What will result in the future
presence of Americans and colonials
\in what has so long been one of the
most conservative and Anglican cen
ters of Great Britain the future must
decide. The influx of so much Amer
ican and colonial bloods may have
very important consequences, at
which some of the old Oxonians
would stand aghast."
It Is not to much to say that this
bequest of the South African dia
mond king and colonial statesman is
an international event second in im
portance to nothing that has hap
pened in recent years. Its far
reaching consequences cannot be
easily foreseen nor overstated.
Many a purblind worshiper of
Mammon —made purblind by Mam
man worship—will doubtless con
sider the whole scheme as visionary
and foolish. But whatever may
have been his defects, Mr. Rhodes
was never deficient in Intelligence;
no more astute man has lived in
our day. He knew the history of
nations and the power of education
in molding and coloring the desti
ny of nations. He doubtless remem
bered that when England wished to
insure her domination in Normandy
she founded the university of Caen
, in 1436. He was pot ignorant of
how Spain- established the univer
sity of Douay in 1572 In order to
consolidate the Netherlands. He
knew perfectly well that the uni
versity of Berlin was founded in
1810 to retrieve the defeat-of Ger
many at Jena and that the universi
ty of Strasbourg was reconstructed
in 1870 to confirm the victory of Se
dan. He was obliged to have known
how his own alma mater. Oxford
university, has always sustained
Toryism. He must have known,
what every well-infiormed person
knows, that all the nations of Eu
rope. for the solution of both inter
. nal or external problems have for
* centuries had recourse to that most
powerful instrument, a great seat of
learning. There Europe forges its
thunderbolts and Cecil Rhodes knew<
the supreme value of such forces.
Our worshipers of Mammon have
no such knowledge: outside know
ing how to get and keep dollars
they know precious little of any
thing. .
When our money-getters are stood,
alongside these far-seeing moneys
givers the picture is very striking
and instructive. A man of plethoric
purse and atrophied heart looks
rather small in the company of
these statesmanlike men; a dwarf
among giants, a pigmy among
princes would not look more out of
place.
I overheard an Intelligent gentle
man talking a few days ago about
this very thing. He said our rich
people owned carriages and pal
aces, gave dinners and performed «
“functions” like the wealthy of oth
er lands and sections, but that when
it came to matters of
they were shamefully behind the
times. He was a well-informed,
traveled man who used words with
great force and discrimination. I
wished very much to reply to his
accusations against my opulent fel
low citizens. I really desired to de
fend them. But I could not, for lack
of evidence. He had the advantage ’
of having the facts on his side, and
I was afraid I would make a bad
matter worse If I said anything. And
so this man derided the costumed,
commonplace, conventional, con
scienceless covetousness of my weal
thy fellow townsmen and I opened
not my mouth. He laughed at their
pretentious ignorance and poured
contempt on their ostentatious vul
garity. But what could I do? I was
very sorry that I could do nothing.
Nevertheless every day I do my
level best to respect our wealthy
people w*ho grab and gormandise
by the thousands and who givs by
the measure of a few dimes and
paltry dollars. They are often
nearly as well dressed as the blue
jay who screams after early worms
In the tree near my window every
morning, and they skim around >
after pelf almost as gracefully and
quite as songlessly as the vulture
which circles high up In the heavens
looking with microscopic eys for
the last pig that perished on the
commons. Why should I not respect
such well dressed Industry and
such graceful worldly wisdom? Why
should I not admire such prosperous
selfishness and burrv Incense before
the images It sets up? Why not?
Well, when my affluent friends are
as enlightened as they are enriched
and as benevolent as they are busy
I will admire them —and respect
them easily. Then If they need de
fense I will be able to defend them.
But not now when our colleges are
so poor and our money-making
schemes so potent. No, not now.
And now General MacArthur testifies
that the Philippines are absolutely neces
sary to this country * welfare. When- you
come to think of it, it seems strange how
we managed to worry along all these
years without them. /
Two new steamer »na/ will be Inaugu
rated by the Japanese' this spring. Ths
steamers, two handsome 1.709 ton vessels,
are now ready. One line will be from
Shimonoseki Japan, to Cape Sesuro. at
the mouth of the Tumen river, Corea
touching at Rusan and Gensan, both in
Corea. Tne other jlne will run from
Hakodate. Japan, to Vladivostok. Rus
sia. The special object of these lines will
be to intercept the American traffic to
East Siberia.
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