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The Modern Gulliver
By WINSOR M’CAY
under art of March 3,1873
ok By mall, $5.00 a year.
The Railroads Can Rob the
People IF-»-
They Can Arrange to Keep American Ships from Free Use
of the Panama Canal.
PERTINENT PAR A GRAPHS
It la difficult to keep s.■« r.
from those who have your frit l
ship.
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Home men never heed a BUggt
Tlon that is not accompanied bj
kick.
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Speaking: of perches, the plm;
ime ie the most uneert;
of
but
n matrimony brings man a
iL'iihie he seems more anx-
to take a second chance.
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."t of character can often be
1' a man's face by shav-
rf his mustache.
our women folk w ho
' '' 1 moving are
the front window at
fhbor's furniture.
n-up tian meets
'' of his youth he
\ why some one Aid
i» passion with a
In a cartoon printed several days ago our artist showed the
Panama Canal with American ships held back by American loco
motives,
That was a picture of fact, although many citizens do not
know it
All the solemn talk about “treaty obligations" about our
duty to England, our national honor, is merely so much "rail
road talk," a good deal of it well paid for by the railroads.
We are told that it is dishonorable, unfair, treacherous, etc.,
to permit American SHIPS to use an American CANAL, unless
we also let English ships use the canal, without charge.
. And the so-called friends of national honor—who are in
reality gentlemen a’nd newspapers subsidized or controlled by
railroads—have actually managed to compel all but coastwise
American ships to pay toll, like foreign vessels.
The railroads want no free use of ths canal by American
coastwise ships, and they fight such use through the politicians
and newspapers that they own, for a simple reason.
The railroads mako money carrying freight from the Atlan
tic to the Paoiflc. And the more they can CHARGE the more
they can MAKE. Hitherto ships carrying freight from New
York to San Francisco had to go all around South America.
Therefore, the railroads could charge for freight carried 3,000
miles across the continent as much as it would cost to send a
ship all around the continent. And, in addition, the railroad
could add a charge for quick freight as against necessarily slow
ocean freight.
Now ships will go from New York to the Pacific Coast
through the canal, and the cost of water freight will be very
small—UNLESS THE RAILROADS CAN MANAGE TO
FASTEN A TOLL ON AMERICAN FREIGHT USING AN
AMERICAN CANAL. This the railroads are trying to do, in
the high-sounding name of national honor, treaty rights, etc.
For, don't you see, every dollar that railroad influence can
lay as a tax on American shipping in the canal IS A DOLLAR
THAT THE RAILROAD CAN ADD TO ITS FREIGHT
CHARGES. .
Let our Government charge American ships $2 a ton for
using the canal, and the railroads can at once add $2 a ton to
their freight rate.
Quite simple and clear, is it not?
Remember that when you hear the pitiful sobbing talk
about protecting poor Great Britain against such an “outrage"
as letting Americans, who built the canal and paid for it, give
free use of it to American ships.
England, as a matter of fact, is very little interested in the
matter, except that England's rich men own the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad, and they, like our railroad owners, are working
to fasten a tax on American ships IN ORDER TO ADD THAT
TAX TO AMERICAN FREIGHT SHIPPERS.
Fortunately the matter is pretty well understood.
This country will let all American ships use the canal with
out charge very soon. And our coastwise shipping will be free
at once.
The Congress in this instance will not be used as a rail
road freight collector. One Senator the other day introduced a
resolution to set aside the existing treaty with England en
tirely—a thing we have a right to do at any time. There is no
doubt that whatever may be necessary will be done to make
and keep the American Canal FREE TO AMERICAN SHIPS.
Even the railroads, after they lose their foolish fight, will
find it a good thing FOR THEM to help the general American
prosperity.
Free use of the canal and low freight rates will bring lum
ber to the Atlantic Coast Irom the Far Northwest and bring
fruit to the East from California and other Pacific States.
Eastern products will go at low freight rates through the
canal to the Pacific. Business will grow, enterprise will find en
couragement. labor, industry AND the railroads will share in
the benefit of a canal UNITING THE COUNTRY MORE
CLOSELY AND MORE CHEAPLY.
For every carload of cheap freight going through the canal
and taken, apparently FROM the railroads, there will be two
extra carloads of high priced freight FOR the roads. Profitable
long ha< r will increase and profitable short hauls as well.
And within ten years intelligent railroad men rill thank
the Panama Oanal and free use of it by Anie, •. is for prosper
ity such as they have never seen.
MEANWHILE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALIZE THAT
THE RAILROADS AND THEIR MANAGERS, NEAR SIGHT
ED AS USUAL, ARE THE REAL POWER FIGHTING TO
SHUT AMERICAN EHIFS OUT OF AN AMERICAN CANAL
in the name of our holy duty to England.
The Lilliputian hosts of child labor wear their lives away piling up dollars for the heartless Gulliver
who employs them.
How Your Mind Can Aid Health
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
A GREAT DOCTOR ant e saifi;
‘Successful practice re -
quires one-third science
and two-thirds savoir faire”
(knowing how to do it).
By that he meant impressing
the imagination of the patient,
and impressing it ths right way.
Any doctor can affect his patient's
imagination, but many send its
mercurial spirit dropping down
ward like a thermoneter in a cold
wave if doctors ever really do
kill their patients it is through
what they administer to the
mind.
We are only just beginning to
learn eomathiug of the extent of
the mind’s control over health
and disease. Many persons are
willing to admit that the mind
influences nervous affections, and
that the imagination ijiay either
tiring them on or drive them
i'.vvay; but they refuse to believe
that mental influences which pro
duce “lessons”—i. e., physical in
juries to certain purls of the
body.
Inspires With Confidence.
But they are wrong In thair
scepticism. The imagination can
produce lesson a as well as
heal them. There never has been
a great epidemic in which a
large percentage of the mortality
was not the result of mental up-
>et. Mere fear kills like a light
ning stroke by i**mlyiung Uie
nervous system, whereupon the
bodil) marhlncry tears Itself to
plei*es through loss of the central
control.
i do not auppowe that the imag
ination ever broke a bone or set
one. but 1 am sure that it has
either saved or lo9t the life of
many a siek person, according to
the way in which it happened to
be directed, either by the will of
the patient himself or by the
guiulng Influence of a doctor or
a nurse.
The successful doctor is the
man who enters the sick room
with his face full of cheer and of
masterful confidence, and not
with hie pockets full of pills. The
good nu#se is worth her pay be
cause she keeps her patient cheer
ful and confident. When you
chouse a doctor for your family,
select one whose look makes >ou
fee! stronger. His presence will
be like that of Napoleon on the
battlefield.
It is not sympathy that hauls:
too much sympathy sometimes
kills. It 19 confidence that does
the good work. Away with your
morose-looking doctor—unless it
happens that behind the grave
face there is an appearance of
power, for that is worth more
than ail else in breeding con
fidence in the patient.
it has been suggested that ‘ per
sonal magnetism" is an actual,
dynamic (moving) force pro
ceeding from one person to an
other.
There is much to support that
view. When Caesar in his scarlet
cloak, with his bald head bared,
rode through the lines of his sol
diers at Alesia. something passed
from him to them which enabled
them to hurl back the assault of
the three hundred thousand Gauls.
It was the personal magnetism of
Caesar that saved the day. It put
courage into despairing hearts
and energy into tired muscles.
But the best way to combat
disease is to meet it with your
own will. The patient who gives
up can rarely be saved. Believe
with AH your might in your pow
ers of resistance. Think of re
covery. not of death.
Exerting Will Power.
A hot summer is before us. and
it will bring its lassitude and its
sicknesses. real or imaginary.
Prepare yourself beforehand to
meet these conditions by culti
vating confidence, cheerfulness
and will power. Joke about the
thermometer when it goes up to
ninety or a hundred in the shade,
and don’t draw a long face before
it. If an epidemic breaks out. treat
it as the Roman emperor treated
the comet which terrified his
friends. “Ob,” he said. rt that hai
ry st$r is after the king of the
Persians, who has got whiskers
It won’t trouble me."
And if you are doubtful about
the power Qf the imagination to
influence your body, read the
stories of the “Stigmata” which
appeared on some of f
of. old, when they concentrated
their minds for days and nights
together on the wounds of the
Savior.
All Could See Them.
St. Francis, it is recorded, had
all the marks of the Crucifixion
upon him, though not produced
by any hand or weapon.
Everybody could see them St.
Hieronyma Carvaglio had the
spear mark in her side. which
bled every Friday. St. Cathar
ine, of Raconisco, had the marks
of the Crown of Thorne on her
head. All of these things, and
many like them, are said to have
been produced solely by pious
meditations. You may smile at
that, or you may not, according
to your standards of belief, but
you can hardly refuse to believe
other things as wonderful that
have been recorded on medical
authority.
Whether you <;all it Christian
Science, or mind healing, or blind
faith, or anything else you may
choose, there is no doubt that you
have it in your power to influence
by mental concentration the
health and well-being of your
body. Cultivate that power, and
you
You
doctors nuts -jut Uon' m il t
will be the better f
will save, or shorten,
ors’ bilhs—but don’t n
DOROTHY DIX
Writes on
The Suffrage Pa
rade—It Was a
History Making
Spectacle and
Marks the Exit of
the Doll Baby
Woman From the
Stage of Life.
By DOROTHY DIX.
W HAT did people see as they
watched the Suffrage Pa
rade in New York laat
Saturday?
They saw the first f#al flembf-
racy of woman.
They saw Judy O'GraAg and
the Colonel’s Lady marching
shoulder to shouldtr. They saw'
the petted darling of the draw
ing room walking side by side
with the girl of the sweat shop.
In that procesiioti were mill
ionairesses keeping step with
scrubwomen; college professors
with the pupils of night schools;
Fifth Avenue hostesses with
waitresses from cheap lunch
rooms; old women with withered
cheeks and g"sy hair with girl*
in the first jsh and bloom of
youth and beauty. AH lines of
wealth and class and social
distinction were wiped out by
the great cause that touches
every woman high and low, and
that has brought them together
in one great sisterhood.
What did the people $ee when
they watched the Suffrage Pa
rade ?
They saw one of the spectacles
that make history. They saw the
passing of the old order of
things and the entrance of the
new.
Exit of Doll Baby Woman.
They saw the exit from the
stage of life of the doll baby
woman of the past, of the wom
an who could find the whole of
life in adorning herself, whose in
terests were no wider than her
own home, and who saw no
shame in getting what she
wanted out of some man by ca
jolery, or flatten’, or lying, or
whatever other means was neces
sary.
Dull, indeed, were the eyes
that did not see in those thou
sands and thousands of earnest-
faced women the type of the new
womanhood that is marching
onward to a place beside man,
no more to be his toy and play
thing, but his equal and his part
ner in doing the work of the
world and reaping its rewards
What did the people see as
they watched the Ouffragre Pa
rade?
They saw the spectre of injus
tice marching in every woman's
shadow. The crowds through
which those ten thousand white-
clad women tramped were most
ly silent, as well they might be
with shame if they had eyes to
see and a heart to comprehend
the significance of the scene.
Own Millions; Can’t Vote.
They saw women who owned
millions of dollars’ worth of
property, but who were denied
the right to say what taxes
should be levied upon their prop
erty. They saw the representa
tives of six million working wom
en, but who have no power in
shaping the legislation that af
fected them >
They SS# Mdthire whose little
CMldrefi's lives wsre crushed out
of them tn factories; housewives
who muet eweat every nickel to
make it go a little farther when
trusts put up prices: women
who represented one half of the
population, and who were af
fected by its every law, but Who
had no voice in making them.
They saw higniy educated women,
brilliant professional women,
noble women philanthropists,
eaintly church women, women
who represented all that is finest
and best In humanity, but who
were denied the previleges that
the most illiterate, the most de
based, man enjoys.
Whet did the people see as they
watched the Suffrage Parade?
They saw ana of the most
patTiatlr sights the world has
ever witnessed. They saw woman
hood humbling Itself before man
to ask as a boon the privilege
that it should demand 4s a right.
They saw the wife who has
grown gray and old in service
to her husband, and who has
given him the best years of hrr
life, asking to be made hie equah
They saw the mother who has
borne his son in her arms going
before him as a suppliant.
They saw the rich woman ask
ing a dole of her butler and her
footman.
They eaw the woman college
professor begging the ignorant ,
and illiterate foreigner to chare
with her the right of govern
ment that he has and ehe hae
not. It wae a silent, sad appeal
to man to right the injustice he
has done woman—to strike her
political shackles from her.
Made Even the Doll Think.
No one except those who took
part in it know what courage,
what Bacrifice of personal in
clination, it took for quite, digni
fied, reserved women to tramp
the streets, and make themselves
a public spectacle for hundreds
of thousands of curious eyes, and
to be the butt of cheap wits and
village cut-ups
To most of the women every
step of the way was the way of
the cross, but they trod it un
falteringly, because there was
no other means that could so
effectuaiiy carry the message
they had to give to the public.
It was a spectacle that made
even the dullest think.
What did they see as they
watched the Suffrage Parade?
They saw victory marching on
to its crowning. Every woman's
face wore the uplifted look of a
martyr, of one who wouid strug
gle on undismayed by defeat un
til she finally conquered. No
one who witnessed that paradf
will ever jest and ecoft again at '
woman's suffrage. He will know
that it is a fact to be reckoned
with, and that it i9 just ae aura
to come as is to-morrow.
the .doctor, eilfeer, help aim.
THE LAST TOWN
By WILLIAM F. KIRK. )
Where is the Town at th# end of the Lina,
With its lure for the great and the small?
How shall we fare when we come to the sign
That was painted and hung for us all?
Long is the track and we can not go back
To wait for a faltering friend;
Through meadow and mart we are whirled from the start
To the wonderful Town at tha end.
Some reach it in youth on a flying express
That passes ihe stations of strife,
Ami others grow gray while pursuing their way
On the laboring locals of life.
Some curse the Conductor and pray for the end.
And some think the pace is too fast;
M hatever the pace, we are nearing the place
Where we all leave the train at the last.
Tis a mystical Town that no mortal has seen
Till the end of his long earthly ride;
Hut after ihe trip there is Knowledge to giean
About pomp aud possessions and pride. '
And perhaps we shall gain wheii we swing from the train
All the things we were forced to resign.
For the Agent is there, with each passenger's share,
In the Town at the end of the Line.