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Panama Pecksniffs and the
Shipping Trust
A large eentingent of newspapers—of the kind that live by
their entangling alliances—have fallen into sudden paroxysms of
moral horror at the action taken last week by the United States
senate on the Panama question.
Busy people who have no time to unravel the intricate prob
lems of diplomacy and finance are perhaps puzzled to understand
why the cause of high national morality should seem for the moment
to find its most passionate devotees in the ranks of privilege. They
marvel that common honesty *and simple good faith should be
claimed as a monopoly of those who have cornered so many other
of the good things of life.
Why is it that the stand-pat senators, whose consciences have
never before seemed too tender for this rough world—Crane, Gal
linger. Lodge, Oliver, Penrose, Root, Wetmore and so on—are now
so dreadfully shocked by the proposal that American ships should
go free of tolls through an American waterway?
The people of the United States are not all-—or even mostly—
fools And they are prepared to understand that it is not pure
piety that has ranged the stand-pat senators in such solid ranks
against free tolls.
Cleaned of all the sanctimonious humbug that has been
smeared over this subject, the plain fact is, of course, that the Pan
ama canal belongs to the United States—just as the Erie canal does.
A few of the Americans who espouse the supposed right of England
and other foreign countries to manage the canal as equal partners
with the United States are no doubt merely honest people with mud
dled heads. But the main strength of this preposterous opinion is
derived from the hack-stairs influence of the International Ship
ping Trust and its allied financial interests.
The present controversy over the question of canal tolls should
awaken the American people to a certain broad fact of modern life
that has never before been so vividly illustrated,4o-wit: THE EX
ISTENCE OF A VAST INTERCONTINENTAL COMBINATION
OF SELFISH INTERESTS THAT KNOWS NO PATRIOTISM,
BUT USES ALL GOVERNMENTS FOR ITS OWN PRIVATE
ENDS.
The hysterical outcry against a reasonable American policy for
the control of an American waterway is due to the organized hyp
ocrisy of this combination.
Englishmen. Frenchmen and Germans, so far as they are free
from this influence, readily agree that Americans are right in man
aging the Panama canal to suit themselves. They admit, as a mat
ter of course, that they would wish to do the same thing if they were
in our place.
The talk of our obligation under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
and the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, to treat the canal as if it did not
belong to us. is mere cunning sophistication. This is evident from
the following considerations:
First—Nobody would dare question our right to stop work at
the Isthmus, and even to destroy all that we have done there—
which-certainly would not be the case if our property right were
not absolute.
Second There is no existing consideration that could possibly
induce the United States at this moment to enter into an agreement
with England or any other country to bind our hands in the way
that the stand-pat senators and stand-pat newspapers say we are
bound by the Hay Pauncefote treaty. They, therefore, rest their
case on the theory that we have got ourselves into a diplomatic fix
—and can not get out. *
This is nonsense. For no great nation ever did, ever will or
ever ought, to submit interminably to a bargain that is wholly one
sided and has no give-and-take to it. Such bargains ar. respected
only by servile and decadent states. Among self-respecting nations
treaties are always abrogated when they cease to have mutuality of
advantage.
Third- The history of the Clayton-Bulwer and Hay-Pauncefote
treaties absolutely justifies the action taken by the senate last week.
Sixty-two years ago, when the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was
made, England had a slight consideration to offer us, because of its
claim oi a protectorate over the Mosquito Indians and some more
or less shadowy rights in certain Central American territories. The
suspension of those rights formed the consideration for the bargain
made by Secretary Hay with Lord Pauncefote in 1901. The treaty
of 1850 was then abrogated—just as the treaty of 1901 might now
be abrogated if it were worth while to do so.
The vitality went out of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty when we
acquired sovereignty over the canal strip, and decided to build the
canal. NOT THROUGH FOREIGN AND NEUTRAL TERRITO
RIES BUT THROUGH OUR OWN LANDS.
A careful study of the history of the long controversy with
England about the neutralizing of a canal across the American
isthmus will show that the claims of England had steadily weak
ened and had nearly reached the vanishing point, WHEN THEY
WERE SUDDENLY REVIVED THE OTHER DAY BY INVIS
IBLE INFLUENCES. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAS
THEN MADE THE TOOL OF THE PRIVATE POWERS THAT
RULE OVER INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION.
The broken sobs of outraged morality that have since filled
the air prbceed from emotions that are, at bottom, predacious and
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
IN the August number of THE
COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE
there Is an article on "The
Conquest of Cancer,” which Is of
absorbing Interest, for the simple
reason that it tells, In popular lan
guage. the exact truth on a subject
about which there has been so
much sensational exaggeration that
the public mind has been perturbed
without being Informed upon it.
The sad truth is that, at the
present time, the only sure cure
for cancer is the surgeon’s knife —
and that is sure in only certain
special cases. But doctors have
learned to recognize cancer in its
earliest stages, when It often IS
CURABLE, and that is a vast gain
in Itself.
Moreover, experimental investi
gations are now on foot which give
at least the hope that a specific
cure may be found for ail forms of
cancer. Some of the lower animals
are the necessary victims of such
experiments, and some people, who
apparently love dogs more than
they love men and women, make
a great outcry over that fact. Such
people, whose sentimentalism has
gone astray, may be disregarded
W'hen the object in view is an al
most Immeasurable blessing to hu
manity. It would probably be Im
possible to find anywhere men en
dowed with a more sympathetic
nature, and a greater desire to ban
ish suffering from the world, than
those very experimenters.
Terrible Figures.
Since, after all. selfishness is at
the bottom even of the soul of the
sentimentalist, some of the object
ors to animal experimentation as a
basis for improved medical science
may hesitate In their blind opposi
tion when they are Informed that
statistics show that one out of
every fifteen men, and one out of
every eight women who have
passed the age of 35 years is doom
ed to die of some form of cancer.
This Is not to say that death by
cancer is a mere lottery. It is not
as if fifteen men, or eight women,
shut up in a room, were required
to draw from an urn containing
either fourteen white balls and one
black ball, or seven white and one
black, with the certainty that the
unfortunate who drew black must
die a terrible death. The meaning
Nagging By Dorothy Dix
IN a peculiar and piteous divorce
case now pending, the sole cause
that Is alleged for the breaking
up of a home Is a woman's nagging.
The husband, a wealthy and
prominent man, testified In court
that he had left his wife because
he could stand her Incessant nag
ging no longer.
The children, a nearly grown son
and daughter, entreated the tourt
to give them tok‘heir father be
cause their mother’s bagging made
life unendurable to them
Neither husband nor children
manifested the slightest affection
for the woman. She had killed their
love by nagging.
The woman is pretty and good.
She lived in a palace and had all
the luxuries that money could buy.
She had husband and children and
everything to make life happy,
and she has thrown away every
thing, lost everything, by her nag
ging.
Not Her Fault.
There is a lesson in this little
story from real life that every wom
an who is at the head of a family
should pause and consider. Eor
this lady with the serpent's tongue
Is not the only nagger. There are
others, and if more husbands do
not get up and desert their wives,
and more children do not turn
against their mothers, it is be
cause of the marveloyts fortitude
and power of endurance that some
people have
It Isn't the nagger's fault She
does the very best she can to break
up her home, and make life a bur
den to those unfortunates whom a
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912.
Cancerous growths on a carp, a rare case, which shows that even fish are not
immune to cancer.
Is that, on the average, out of every
fifteen men and eight women past
35 years of age one surely possesses
the seeds of cancer, which will
eventually develop. It is as if in
the room there were a fly having
an unerring sense enabling it to
detect the presence of the undis
closed cancer. The person on whom
that fly alighted would be the vic
tim designed by fate. All the
others might be perfectly safe be
cause they did not bear the fatal
mark. But, according to the sta
tistics. theVe would in the long
average surely be ONE in every
such assemblage who would carry
the hidden insignia.
Sometimes the doctor can detect
the fatal blight or the probability
of its existence, but generally even
he can know nothing about it until
the disease visibly declares itself.
Then, if Instant action is taken, in
some cases of external cancer he
can effect a cure with the aid of
the knife. The object of the spe
cialists now is to find some remedy
which will act upon the disease
wherever it may be located. You
will read in the article to which I
have referred what has been done
with such means as radium and the
X-rays and certain chemicals. You
will also find there what has been
learned about the causes of cancer,
what about the means of detecting
> it at an early stage, when it may
still be curable, and what is the
nature of the hopes which the
searchers for a specific cure enter
tain. The man who is foremost in
this search, and upon whom the ex
pectant eyes of the world rest, is
the German, Dr. Ehrlich, who re
cently discovered a specific for an
other disease which had been re
garded as hopeless.
Suppose that Dr. Ehrlich should
succeed (as he may do any day),
cruel fate has doomed to live un
der the same roof with/her.
When the sum of the harm that
is done in the world is added up.
it will be found that the nagger
holds the banner record. She has
driven more men to drink, more
young girls into idiotic marriages,
more children away from home,
than all other causes combined. She
is like Samson. With the jaw bone
of an ass she slays her thousands.
Take the woman, for instance,
who nags her husband about what
he shall eat, and what he shall
drink, and whether he shall smoke
or not. She thinks that when she
mentions these things to him a
hundred times a day she is only
doing her wifely duty. She doesn't
realize that she is invading his_&3--
cred liberty and insulting his judg
ment every time she reminds him
that highly seasoned food is bad for
his stomach, and that he'll acquire
smoker's heart from the use of e
pipe.
Still less does she perceive the
effect of her nagging on her hus
band. She doesn't realize that at
first he so ls offended, then wor
ried. then exasperated; then he be
gins to duck when he sees her get
ting ready to launch the old. dreary
familiar arguments against him.
And at last he comes to hate her
with the deadly hatred that we feel
for those who subject us to petty
tyrannies against which there is no
defense.
If a woman is really opposed to
her husband s method of eating and
drinking and smoking, she might
fight it out with him onee; But
after that she had better let him
kill himself in peace, doing what
what w’ould be the ultimate conse
quences? The’last of the major
diseases that shorten human life
and cause endless suffering would
have beep conquered. This does
not mean that they would Imme
diately disappear, but there would
be good reason to hope that they
might all be eventually eliminated,
so that, after a time, death would
only occur either as a result of
accident or murder or of simple old
age. Men would live longer and
their lives would be-relatively free
from suffering.
What It Would Mean.
But would They be content even
with that condition? Not in the
least. The next effort would be still
further to prolong life. Then the
question would be seriously debat
ed—as it has indeed already been
debated whether death itself
might not be banished. It is not
in the nature of man to be content,
and his Creator did not intend that
he should be content. His wonder
ful powers were given to him in or
* der that he might always seek to
better his condition. He was not
placed in the position of a Sisiphus,
doomed to pass all his time in
pushing a stone up hill, only to see
It inevitably roll down again. He
DOES GAIN something every day.
His progress is slow, but yet cer
tain. He was put into a world full
of enemies and given the means of
combating those enemies. Many
of them he has already conquered,
but many yet defy him. When he
has mastered all of his diseases a
new field for the exercise of his
genius will open before him. If it
did not he would WISH TO DIE.
and might welcome back the dis
eases as friends, for there is no
happiness for human nature except
in marching forward and accom
plishing something.
he wants to do, than to be forever
nagging him about it. It would be
an easier and a pleasanter death.
It is also the nagging of her de
voted mamma that makes many a
girl marry the first man that asks
her. or tempts her to go from home
to work, and that causes many a
boy to leave home. The child that
said, when asked his name, that
he was called "Johnnie Don't” fair
ly expressed the position of many
unfortunate young people in their
own homes.
The Result.
They never have a minute’s
peace; they never have a particle
of liberty; they can never do any
thing just as they like to dp it.
because mamma is after them with
her eternal "do" or "don't.”
She badgers them about the way
they sit, the way they speak, the
way they stand, the way they do
their hair, the clothes they have
got on, what they eat —everything
under the sun. until she stands to
them for nothing else on earth but
a kill joy, and their one thought,
plan and determination from the
time that they are old enough to
think at all is to getaway from
her. And they do it at the earliest
possible moment.
Os course, dear madam, you who
read these lines will never admit
that you nag. But examine your
self and see if you have fallen into
the habit of telling your husband
and children over and over again
what they should do and shouldn't
do. and if you interfere in all their
plans. Naturally you don't call this
nagging, but they do, and if you
want to keep them from hating you
STUP IT I
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
An Investigation of the ifeggili
Causes Which
Lead Men and ■
Women into KF" -1
-i
Crime
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1912. by American-Journal-Examiner.
W’ HOEVER was begotten by pure love,
And came desired and welcomed into life,
Is of immaculate conception. He
Whose heart is full of tenderness and truth,
Who loves mankind more than he loves himself,
And can not find room in his heart for hate,
May be another Christ We all may be
The Saviours of the world, if we believe
In the Divinity which dwells in us
And worship it, and nail our grosser selves,
Our tempers, greeds, and our unworthy aims
Upon the cross.. Who giveth love to all,
Pays kindness for unkindness, smiles for frowns,
And lends new courage to each fainting heart,
And strengthens hope and scatters joy abroad,
He, too, is a Redeemer, Son of God.
JUST at this particular juncture
several unfortunate men are
being held prisoners for the de
liberate planning of the murder of
a fellow being in New York.
Other men implicated will no
doubt be added to the list before
this article appears.
The meanest and most despica
ble motive for crime in life is at
the bottom of this dreadful and ap
palling act —greed for gain.
Certain men desired to break the
laws of the land.
Certain other men were bought
who violated their oaths to pro
tect those laws.
( The law breakers were caught,
and they told the tale of buying
the silent co-operation of the law
protectors.
Then these law protectors delib
erately employed professional as
sassins to murder the man who be
trayed their act.
Murder Not Always
Result of Wild Impulse.
It is a shock to many people to
know there are professional assas
sins in our land.
Many good people had believed
that murder was always, in these,
days, the result of some wild im
pulse—of drunkenness, or jealousy,
of anger, of self-protection or in
sanity.
It seems almost incredible that
men who are not moved by any of
these emotions are to be found
banded together, ready to kill any
one for a stated sum of money;—
and a paltry sum comparatively.
Now that such men have been
found and are held by the law for
trial, it would help the students of
eugenics to learn something of the
prenatal and early childhood con
ditions from which those men came.
It would be worth while to appoint
committee to go about this search
for the desired information with as
great care as the detectives went
about the search for the criminals.
There should be, indeed, such a
committee, whose work is to look
up the pedigree for at least two
generations of every man and wom
an who becomes a criminal.
Especially should, the prenatal
conditions be learned when there is
any possibility of obtaining such
data.
If there is a bad piece of road
where vehicles are broken and hu
man beings injured, the causes
:: Courage ::
By REGINALD LUCAS.
f)F all the boons the gods can give.
This one I ask and ask in vain,
'Well satisfied if I might live
My life, as it was lived, again.
Its faults and failures I confess,
Os cares and griefs its ample store;
From evils past I shrink the less
As dreading future ills the more.
And yet this were the coward's part;
“Go forward’’—there’s our duty clear;
The humble and the contrite heart
Knows not ingratitude or fear.
For this were man's most shameful lot,
’To lie in an unhonored grave,
Even those who loved him daring not
To claim for him that he was brave.
which led to such accidents are in
vestigated, in order to avoid future
trouble.
If the causes which lead men and
women into crime can be traced
then there is a firmer foundation
for our reformers and philanthro
pists to stand upon while they
seek to better the coming genera
tions.
Few Women Know Laws
Os Prenatal Influence.
Only a few women of the most
progressive order today know, or,
knowing, believe in, the laws of
prenatal influence.
Not one poor woman of the un
educated classes in a thousand has
the least idea on this all-important
subject.
Yet a butcher's wife, who watched
the slaughter of animals before her.
child was born, brought forth a
human monstrosity—a child crimi
nal —who possessed an insatiable
desire to destroy life.
The child of a woman whose hus
band was a miser and who com
pelled her to beg or steal pennies
from his pockets to satisfy her
hunger was born a thief, and went
through life a kleptomaniac.
Innumerable cases can be cited
of the immediate results of the
mental influence of the mother on
her unborn babe; and there is no
subject of greater import for wom
an to study than this.
The government would do well to
set aside a certain sum of money
to aid such investigations for the
benefit of the science or eugenics.
And this present moment is a
most appropriate one to begin these
Investigations.
Science is doing a great deal in
its effort to conserve and prolong
life.
World Needs a Better
Order of Things.
But it is not so much the con
tinuance of the life of individuals
on earth which the world needs as
a better order of beings.
Every possible investigation into
heredity, prenatal influence, child
hood’s environment and early as
sociations should be made, and the
information carefully classified and
presented to the world for consid
eration.
The capital punishment of crimi
nals will never reduce crime. But
the proper education of men and
women on what fatherhood and
motherhood means will prevent the
birth of criminals.