Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, July 27, 1913, Image 2
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that the trial will be a titanic fight.
Solicitor General Hugh M. Doraey,
Frank Hooper and Assistant Solicitor
Stephens will conduct the care agatnM
Frank. The three are known as ag
gressive, tireless lawyers. The Solic
itor General has put into the State's
case all the energy for which he Is
noted.
At the very first he took charge of
the case with a masterful hand, and
when the mystery seemed beyond so
lution he set an army of detectives to
work. Through all the stress of a
veering public opinion, he has held
firmly to the course he had set, defi
ant, obviously preparing for the great
fight of his career as a public prose
cutor. In most of the preliminary
lsgal battles, especially In his hardest
fight agalnat the Indictment of Con
ley. he has been successful.
The Solicitor General, from the evi
dence in his hands, believes In the
guilt of F*rank. He will defend his
oonvlctlon to the end.
The defence presents a corps of at
torneys who are reputed to be as able
criminal lawyers as the South can
produce. Luther Z. Rosser, county
attorney. Is the towering figure of the
defense. He Is a pitiless questioner
of witnesses and cross-examinations
which he oonductp are generally pro
ductive of significant results. The
defense will build its greatest hope, It
is expected, on the charge that Jim
Conley killed the Phagan girl Jim
Conley will be one of the witnesses
ag&lnet Frank, and all the force, all
the ruthless power of Luther Rosser’s
questions will be brought Into play
againM the negro. The public ex
pects & wonderful psychological dem
onstration on the hour the negro
taken the stand.
Arnold Striking Figure.
No lens powerful as a criminal law
yer Is Reuben R. Arnold, who wan re
tained by the defense to co-operate
with Mr. Rcsner. Arnold Is a brilliant
lawyer, and always a spectacular and
compelling figure In the criminal cases
with which he Ip connected. Asso
ciated with Rosser and Arnold In the
cane will be Herbert Haas and Sam
Boorntin. who were employed by the
Frank family when Leo FYank first
was arrested, and who have been
zealous In conducting the score of in
vestigations that were made neces-
:*>rv by the unexpected turns which
incidents took time after time.
The trial will he called Monday
morning in the Superior Court room
on the firfet floor of the courthouse, at
South Pryor and Hunter streets. The
room, which is the largest available
to the Stat i courts, is expected to be
all too small for the crowd that will
ronie, eagerly curious and expectant.
A strict police supervision of the
crowds will be necessary, and ar
rangements already are being made
by court officials to prevent conges
tion or disturbance.
Special deputies will be employed
for the occasion, and altogether it is
expected that twenty officers will
guard the courtroom. The little army
will be In charge of Deputy Sheriff
Miner, who will be stationed at the
main entrance. According to the
plan, all principals in the case, all
who are interested as lawyers, rela
tives. witnesses and press represen
tatives, will be admitted before any
•pectators are allowed to enter. After
them the spectators wiil be admitted,
one by one, until the seats In the room
are filled. Then the doors will be
locked.
It has been ingested In the Sheriff's
office that every person admitted to
the courtroom will be searched for
firearms. but whether this course
will be followed has not been decided.
Postponement Unlikely.
Judge L. S. Roan will preside at the
trial He announced 1n a telegram
from Covington, where he Is spending
& short vacation, that the case will
be caJled Monday morning, without
fall. There Is little probability that
an attempt will be made to obtain a
postponement, although It has been
hinted that there are one or two
causes which might tend to bring
about delay. One Is excewlve heat,
another the fact that certain attor
neys In the case are engaged simul
taneously In other litigation hardly
less Important. But the court officials
and all who are Interested vitally are
ready to scout the idea of & postpone
ment.
The ground thus 1s laid for what la
confidently expected to be the great
est battle of Atlanta’s legal history.
A mysterious death, a chain of dam
aging circumstance* pointing to the
guilt of the accused, a coterie of law
yers for the defense who are given to
surprises and who are known for in
exhaustible resources, a Solicitor who
Is determined and a fighter—every
thing points to a great struggle.
Considerable difficulty will be en
tailed at the first, it Is expected, when
the Jury must be drawn. From indi
cations, It is likely that the prelimi
nary Jockeying will consume the first
day of the trial, or even more. So
widespread has been gossip concern
ing the Phagan case, so thoroughly
have citizens of Atlanta had the de
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tails recalled, so mucn has it become
a part of the city’s life that men will
be hard to find, it la expected, who
will be willing to view the evidence
coolly, without prejudice or without
bias. Then, too. the lawyers, know
ing the men from whom the Jury must
be picked, will select the men with the
utmost care.
The defense, it has been announced
will ask that a Jury be solorted from
the Grand Jury ven4r<*. Whether this
request will be granted is altogether
in the discretion of the trial Judge.
It is experts!, however, that it v\ill
be refused unless significant reasons
are brought to bear by the defense.
Trial Will Lsst Days.
Then the case will start. Evidence
probably will not be taken until the
morning or afternoon of the second
day. It will he taken slowly, in gTeat
detail, at such length as to Insure a
trial of many days' duration, if the
length of time consumed in examining
the witnesses at the Coroner s inquest
is any Indication.
.Surprises will come, surely. It Is
likely that most of the surprises will
be those of the defense, the public
generally crediting that side with
more evidence hitherto hidden than
the prosecution.
The State's case has been perpet
ually before the public. The agencies
of the State have been crossed at
times, and out of the antagonism has
grown publicity that was not good for
the privacy of the prosecution’s fine
of attack. The defense, on the other
hand, has kept quiet. When the Min-
cey affidavit was published last week,
favoring the defense, it came as a
surprise to the public, and led every
one to expect further surprises.
The Frank trial absorbs the public
interest for more than one reason.
The revolting nature of the crime by
which Mary Phagan went to her
death, the mystery surrounding its
circumstances, the uncertainty that
came with new revelations day after
day. pointing first to one and then to
another suspect, the final centering
of all suspicion on the two prisoners—
Frank and, Conley—the charges and
countercharges that have been ban
died back and forth—all make the
case one to attract and to hold the
Interest of every man or woman who
can hear or read.
At Factory Short Time.
Mary Phagan. an employee of the
National Pencil Factory, was a girl 14
yearR old. Her father was dead, and
she lived with her mother and her
stepfather, W. J. CoUAnan, at No. 146
Lindsay street. This Is In that sub
urban section of Atlanta known as
Bellwood. She was a gay, friendly,
lovable girl, well liked by the children
of the neighborhood and by the grown
folks as well, according to every rev
elation of her personality that has
come since her death.
The little girl had worked for some
time, straitened circumstances of the
family driving her to that necessity.
She had been employed at the pencil
factory on South Forsyth street only
a short time.
Saturday afternoon, April 26, sha
went to the factory to draw’ her week
ly pay. It was the day of the Con
federate Memorial parade. Forsyth
street was deserted. The factory was
quiet. The little girl w-ent alone to
the big building at about 12:10 or
12:16 o’clock, according to the state
ment of the street car men who took
from her home to the down town sec
tion.
Watchman Finds Body.
Early Sunday morning, at about 3
o’clock. Newt Lee, the negro watch
man at the factory building, found the
girl’s body In a dark corner of the
basement, bloody from a dozen cuts
and bruises. The clothes were torn,
and every evidence pointed to the
fact that there had been a struggle
In which the little girl fought vainly
against her assailant. Her neck w r aa
discolored, where a rope had been
used to lower her body down an ele
vator shaft from the first floor.
Later, on the third floor, in the
bathroom of the factory, blood,
strands of hair and other evidences of
a struggle were found, pointing to the
fact that the child had there been at
tacked first.
Few jnen were in the factory build
ing between the last time Mary Pha
gan was seen alive and the hour her
body was found by the night watch
man. The men were Leo Frank, the
factory superintendent; Jim Conley, a
negro sweeper; Newt Lee. the negro
night watchman; John Gantt, a for
mer employee of the company who en
tered with Frank's permission, that
he might get a pair of shoes he had
left behind, and two workers, Harry
Denham and Arthur White, who werj
on the fourth floor and who remain
ed In the building until 3 o’clock. At
that time Frank, who had left the
building at 1 o'clock, came In and let
them out. Frank was alone In the
factory until 4 o’clock, by his own ad
mission. When Conley came in, or
wh^n he left, no one knows.
Newt Lee Suspected.
After the first discovery of the bodv
suspicion fell on Newt Lee, who had
reported the discovery of the body. He
was arrested. The negro, frightened
to within an inch of his life, protested
his innocence. The police were not
satisfied that he was the murderer,
and began the search.
Information came thick and fast
and of every variety. The first tangi
ble statement was from Fd Sentell, a
grocer\man, who said he had seen
Mary Phagan walking by the side of a
tall young man as late as 12:30 o’clock
Saturday night. Later he ldentifl?d
the young man as Arthur Mullinax. a
street car worker. Mullinax was ar
rested.
Develpoments came fresh with
every hour that day. Gantt, the young
man who was in the factory late Sat
urday afternoon, was arrested on sus
picion, which deepened when it was
announced that he had been in love
with Mary Phagan.
Monday morning following the dis
covery of the body an inquest was
held, and as a result of revelations
that he had been alone In the factory
building much of Saturday afternoon
Superintendent Frank was arrested
on suspicion. Detectives asserted their
conviction that the guilt lay between
Lee and Frank. Gantt and Mullinax,
proving alibis, were released.
The third day of the mystery a
young man named Paul Bowen was
arrested in Houston. Tex., on the
charge that he had killed Mary Pha
gan. It is said that he had acted in a
suspicious manner upon being con
fronted with news of the girl's death.
He was arrested by the Houston po
lice. but later was released when he
established an alibi. Out of his ar
rest grew a scandal in the Houston
police circles.
That Lee killed the girl was assured
by the detectives for several days. By
the side of the girl's body had been
found several dirty scraps of paper.
Miss Hinckley Writes Experience
Miss Gladys Hinckley, called “the most beautiful girl in
America, ” who has written her experiences in Washington society
Him TO HELP
Stop Papa's Drinking
Girl's Appeal Touches Heart of Ore
gon’s Chief Executive, Who Or
ders Investigation.
Agriculture May Be Revolution
ized in 25 Years, Declares Ex
pert, Who Has New Theory.
Brilliant Young Woman Will Toll Real Facts of
Life in the Capital’s Whirl.
WASHINGTON, July 2(5.—Society
is waiting, it can’t be said eagerly,
for the publication of Miss Gladys
Hinckley’s book, “My Experience in
Society.” In fact, it is whispered
that there are not a few of the Cap
ital’s four hundred who would breathe
with more ease if they w r ere assured
that the girl called by the Russian
Ambassador “the most beautiful girl
In America” had decided to forego her
literary career.
So far Miss Hinckley has been able
to keep secret just what her book
will reveal, though all society has
known she has been w r orklng on It for
months.
The young author, she Is just 20,
has had a decidedly interesting ca
reer since her debut a couple of years
ago. Her beauty made her admired,
but her caustic writ has made her
feared.
She is a deep student and is known
to be fearlfss in expressing her view's.
Realizing this, the society set is ex
pecting a pretty frank statement of
Miss Hinckley’s experiences, and
there is no great joy Jn the expecta
tion.
Miss Hinckley does not have to
write for a livelihood. She has a for
tune in her own name, while society
momentarily expects the announce
ment of her engagement to young
Jerome Bonaparte.
on which were written almost unde
cipherable word 8. They were sup
posedly from the unfortunate girl.
One note was as follows:
“He said lie wood love me laid down
like the night w’itch did it, but that
long, tall, black negro did it by his-
self.”
The other was:
“Mama, that negro hired down here
did this I went to get watfT and he
pushed me down this hole a long tali
negro black that has it woke long
lean tall negro I write whila uiay with
me.’’
Expert* declared positively that
these notes were in Lee’s handwrit
ing.
The Inquest, stretching through
several days, was productive of one
result, at least. The bulk of the sus
picion veered to Frank. The negro
Lee made a number of candid state
ments which afterward w-ere found to
be true, and thus much of the suspi
cion again.*t him lightened.
Elevator Boy Arrested.
Testimony tending to show that
Geron Bailey, a negro elevator boy
in the factory’s employ, had been seen
lurking around the building the fatal
Saturday evening, brought about his
arrest. Lee and Bailey still are held
in the Tower, although suspicion
against them is negligible.
Until several days after the body of
the unfortunate girl was found no one
had thought of Conley as a man to
be suspected But whll? the inquest
over Mary Phagan'e body was in
progress E. F. Holloway, an employe**
of the factory, found the negro
sweeper in a secluded spot on the
fourth floor washing a bloody shirt.
He told detectives, and Conley w'as
arrested on suspicion.
Days passed, days that were full of
theories and speculation, but produc
tive of no real rei-ult. Eyes were
turned to Frank as the guilty person,
with an inconsiderable number of peo- 1
pie suspecting Newt Lee.
On May 25 came a statement from
a woman named Mrs. Mima Formby,
the keeper of a rooming house. Mrs.
Formby declared that the night of the
murder Frank had telephoned her
with the request that she rent him a
room for himself and a girl. She de
clared in her statement that she re
fused him; that he insisted, later be
coming desperate and announcing
that it w'as a matter almost of life
and death with him. The statement
was pretty generally discredited by
the public.
Conley Admits Writing Notes.
After three weeks Frank was In
dicted by the Grand Jury.
Then came a startling and unex
pected thing. Jim Conley, silent un
der a siege of questions, suddenly is
sued an affidavit, in which he de
clared that he had written the notes
at Frank ® dictation, on Friday before
the Sunday on which the girl’s body
was found.
Not until then was Conley suspected
with any degree of strength. But
when the affidavit came, with Its in
conceivable charge that Frank had
plotted the death of the girl more
than a day before he killed her, Con
ley was suspected of having had a
hand In the murder. It was recalled
that Mary Phagan’s visit to the fac
tory had not been anticipated Friday,
and that there would have been no
reason for a murder plot. Conley, it
seemed, had destroyed himself.
The next day he issued a revised
affidavit, declaring that he wrote the
notes on the morning of Saturday, the
day before the body was found. Then
came his third affidavit, that he had
dragged the body of the girl to the
cellar, where It was found, at the in
stance of Frank.
The three affidavits semed to con
tradict one another, and to make
charges that were unbelievable. It
was not until then that suspicion
against the negro solidified.
Public speculation and doubt deep
ened. Then, after two w'eeks, it de
veloped that W. H. Mincey, a school
teacher, In conversation with a negro
on the afternoon of April 26, when the
murder occurred, had ben told by the
negro:
"Go away. Pve killed a girl this
evening. I don’t want to kill anybody
else.’’
Mincey Identifies Conley.
He identified this negro as Con
ley.
Against every statement and every
affidavit that has been published,
charges of untruthfulness and mis
apprehension have been made by one
side or the other. Mincey’s statement
has been attacked, Conley’s affidavits
are declared false, Mrs. Formby’s
declaration Is said to. be without
foundation. Refutations come for
every bit of evidence, revealing plain
ly that the trial itself will be a fight
of veracity and of reasonableness of
testimony.
And so the case stands to-day.
Brilliant detective talent has been en
gaged. Pinkertons were first retained
to reinforce the local detectives, and
later the Burns men were called In.
But out of that incident grew another
scandal, another of the unpleasant In
cidental features that have made the
Phagan case the most notable of
Georgia’s crime annals, even beyond
the fact that it Is the greatest mys
tery'.
Last week It was announced that
the Pinkertons believed Frank inno
cent, after weeks of announcing that
he was guilty. Later the declaration
came that they had not made the
statement. This incident was value
less in unfolding mystery, but Is
indicative of the turmoil in which the
caae has been from the first.
CHICAGO, July 26.—Startling
changes in existing theories regarding
the sun and Its effect on the earth are
made by Professor Edwin B. Frost,
director of the Yerkes Observatory a<*.
Williams Bay, Wis. He says that nu
merical values regarding the equiva
lent In horsepower or other units of
the amount of radiation received from
the sun, as given in the best school
and college textbooks as well as In
molt of the cyclopedia® and dictiona
ries, should be reduoed 20 to 80 per
cent.
Professor Frost asserts that meas
ures and estimates by the late Profes
sor 8. P. Langley were too high—
nearly 50 per cent too high—and that
the theory of the “solar constant"
should be revised; that it is not a
constant, but a variable; In other
words, our sun Is a variable star like
hundreds and thousands of others In
the sky.
Absorption to Increase.
Other facts set forth are that, be
ginning in the summer of 1912, there
has been a decided increase In ab
sorption and that when the sun spots
are numerous the radiation received
from the sun is relatively high. In
about four years the spots will be
numerous.
The belief Is also expressed that
eventually It may be possible to de
termine general weather conditions
six months or longeT in advance by
careful observations of solar condi
tions, and tnat the advance forecasts
will revolutionize the agriculture of
the world. Professor Frost, however,
thinks it may be 25 years or longer
before long-distance forecasts on the
lines mentioned will be possible. Lo
cal scientists who have read the arti
cle of Professor Frost say it is most
valuable.
Useful in Time.
“It is a highly interesting article to
the layman and scientist alike,” said
Professor Henry J. Cox, in charge cf
the Chicago Weather Bureau. “The
subject of the earth’s absorption of
the sun’s heat is one which has In
terested the Government to a great
degree. We haven’t reached the point
of using the figures set forth by Pro
fessor Frost, but I feel sure that we
will be able to in time. Professor
Kimball has been making observa
tions along these line® at Mount
Weather.”
SALEM, OREG., July 26.—The faith
of a little girl In the power of the
Governor to make everybody stop
selling her papa “drinks" so her mam
ma will have money with which to
buy clothes, is graphically portrayed
In a letter received bv Governor West
from a little girl living in a small
Oregon coast town. The letter says:
“Mr. West, Dear Governor:
”1 am a little girl, 12 years old.
My papa is a hard working man and
he is not very well, but what I am
trying to tell you is that oftentimes
he gives the hotels for drink what we
need at home, oh, so‘bad, and they sell
It to him on Sunaay, too, and it makes
us all so unhappy. My dear mamma
can not go to church. She has no
clothes to wear like she used to have.
Oh. I wish you could do something
for us. He is often so cross to my
mother.
”1 tri^d to earn enough to buy my
mother some clothes. It is such hard
work to earn money when you are
so small.”
Beauty a State of
Mind, Says Doctor
Homely Girls May Remedy Defects
by Concentration on Ideal
of Pulchritude.
CHICAGO, July 26—Dr. C. Frank
lin Leavilt has made public a lesson
in winning a husband by suggestion.
“A woman has two weapons—
thought and action. When she Is pos
sessed of a ‘going mir.d’ she Is almost
irresistible. A woman with power
wins the man she wants. •
"The first lesson to all unattractive
women should be to picture them
selves in a receptive attitude toward
men. From childhood they should be
taught to meet the opposite sex with
out fear and bashfulness. Fear gives
a shock.
“Thoughts properly directed can
change the physical being. From
concentration on a subject fifteen
minutes a day women have become
beautiful. They should suggest to
themselves at intervals that they are
beautiful.
“Married women should take ‘treat
ments’ to retain the affections of their
husbands. Going back to the old days
of honeymoon attraction she is able
l to keep her husband interested.”
Baby, Shut in Coop,
Fights Off Chickens
Fowls Pick at Eighteen-Month-Old
Guri, Who Is Rescued by Hu
mane Society Officer.
CHICAGO, July 26.—Rosa Ruben-
stein, 1245 Waller street, an 18-
month-old baby girl, shared an or
dinary sized wire-covered coop with
five chickens at 632 Maxwell street
yesterday. Her eyes were large with
fright and she was at the end of the
coop keeping the chickens away with
a small stick.
The fowls were pecking at her bare
legs. Charles H. Brayne, an officer of
the Illinois Humane Society, made the
discovery In making a trip through
the West Side ghetto.
Brayne removed the child. The girl’s
mother, Mrs. Jennie Rubenstein, ar
rived shortly. She told Brayne she
left the child in the coop.
Deacon Newlywed
Hazed After Wedding
Members of Congregation Take
Bridegroom to Lonesome Field
and Lash Him to Tree.
KANSAS CITY, July 26,—Walter
Stratton, 35 years old, a deacon in
the Roanoke Boulevard Christian
Church here, who was married re
cently to Miss Alta Barber, of Hum
boldt, Kans., was “kidnaped” from his
bride by men members of the congre
gation at the clo*e of church services
the other night and severely hazed.
Members of the hazing party said
they sought “to punish” Deacon
\ Stratton for going outside the church
* circle for a bride.
The hazers met Mr. and Mrs. Strat
ton at the church door. While two
of them guarded Mrs. Stratton, the
others took Stratton to a pasture a
mile away and tied him to a tree.
Conscience Hurts
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Few U. S. Employees
Amount Returned by Those Whom
Error or Fraud Benefits Is
Decidedly Small.
WASHINGTON, July 26.—Fewer
penitents tortured by the “still small
voice” confessed and surrendered
“conscience money” to the Federal
Government during the fiscal year
1913 than for many years. The “con
science fund” received during the
twelve months ended June 30 totaled
only $2,814.44, the lowest amount
sipce 1901 and comparable with a
hnndred year average of $4,200.
That fund is the only official Index
to the scruples, but no Treasury of
ficial attempts to explain the decrease
In restitution of money received from
the Government by fraud or error.
During the last hundred years the
Government has received conscience
contributions aggregating nearly a
half million dollars, the exact figures
up to June 30 last being $434,615.69.
Right to “Damn"
Not Man’s Alone
Indiana Judge Invests Woman With
Privilege to Swear Upon
Provocation.
300,000 to Mend
Missouri Roads
Governor and All Other State Offi
cials to Wield Shovels for
Two Days.
JEFFERSON CITY. MO., July 26.—
Governor Major has announced that he
will issue a proclamation soon setting
apart two days in August when every
able-bodied resident in the rural dis
tricts and towns of the State will be
asked to render personal assistance in
improving the highways.
The Governor estimates that at, least
300.000 men will respond. Many will
furnish teams and machinery.
“The work of 300,000 earnest m<)n for
two days will be equivalent to 600.000
days of work, to say nothing of the
teams that will be supnlied,” the Gov
ernor said. “Many boys, too, will turn
out and aid the good cause.”
Governor Major himself proposes to
wield a pick and shovel for the two days
on some highway near Jefferson City,
and he will expect every State official
to do the same.
SOLDIER’S WIDOW LIVES
TWO YEARS ON $95 INCOME
HASTINGS. MICH., July 26—The
death of Mrs. Lottie Malloy, an old set
ter, revealed the fact that she existed
two years and three months on the sum
of $95. She and her husband resided
on a farm at Leach Lake, north of town,
until they went to the Soldiers’ Home
in Grand Rapids, where Malloy died
h two years ago.
EVANSVILLE, IND., July 26.—
Judge McCoy, of the City Court, to
day decided that a woman had a le
gal right to say “damn.” Miss Kate
Graham had an argument with het
landlord several days ago over the
rent, and, according to her story in
court, she used these words to the
landlord:
“I will not pay you a damned cent
until I find out whether the house is
condemned.”
Mrs. Graham was arrested, but dis
charged, the court holding that under
the circumstances she was justified in
using the word “damn.”
Woman Sues Road
For a Stolen Kiss
Says She Fought Engineer in Effort
to Retain It and Demands
$1,999.
SEATTLE, July 26.—To w'hat extent
a railroad is responsible for the actions
of its employees Is involved In a suit
filed in the Snohomish County Superior
Court by Mrs. Charles Nelson, who
asks $1,999 damages from the Great
Northern Railroad Company for a kiss
imprinted upon her cheek by George
Thorne, a locomotive engineer.
Mrs. Nelson charges Thorne seated
himself beside her, put his arm around
her and kissed her She says she fought
him off, and he tore her wrap during
the struggle.
GARBAGE MAN HIDEsTaCT
HE IS BLIND FOR 2 YEARS
DENVER, July 26—For two years
Edward Dormer has worked faith
fully as a garbage collector and has
a good record. City officials In the
sanitary department who employed
him did not know he was blind until
recently.
He as able to get about with the
ease of ori^ with clear vision, but Is
very sensitive about his affliction.
City sanitary officials were dum-
fo .^ded when they learned of Dor-
mt. s affliction. He. has not lost a
day since hi? employment and will
be allowed to retain his position.
Continued From Page 1.
been investigating Mexico and Cen
tral America, and there can be no
doubt of the favorable nature of the
reports to Tokio. Nature produced
there a section so much like Japan
that its visiting natives feel at once
at home. This marvelously fertile
country has been given up for cen
turies to the rapacity of Spanish con
querors and native despots.
Japan awoke half a century ago,
and since then has astounded the
world by Its superb advancement. In
that half-century the principal con
tribution of Central America to the
world were “revolutions’’ which gave
picturesque material for comic operas
and plots for grotesque fiction.
Mexico for centuries has been the
victim of military adventurers and
political plunderers, and looks back
with longing to the Interim during
which Porflrio Diaz ruled as the most
absolute despot in modern history.
The United States would not make
a move to remedy these conditions
and interpose the Monroe Doctrine In
the way of any other power, with
the result that the world still con
tains a vast and practically undevel
oped tract of land perfectly suited to
the expansion needs of Japan.
Hail Japan as a David.
The stand taken by Japan against
the United States and its demand for
a recognition of its equality has met
with the enthusiastic approval of the
jingo political factions in all of our
“Monroe Doctrine Republics.’’ All
anti-American factions in Mexico and
Central America acclaim Japan the
David who will humiliate the dollar-
hunting Goliah.
In recent years the Japanese have
sedulously conducted a campaign cal
culated to win the favor of the ruling
officials of the Monroe Doctrine zone,
and have lost no opportunity to fan
the anti-American sentiment.
This hatred of the United States
does not flow from any act. It arises
and is fed by the very fact that we
still proclaim the sovereignty of a
Monroe Doctrine, which implies that
the republics affected by it are in
ferior and are therefore entitled to
our protection against the world and
against themselves.
Their contempt arises from the fact
that we have not enforced the detest
ed doctrine.
What does Japan now say to the
anti-American factions of our Mon
roe Doctrine republics? She says:
“We also are classed as inferiors by
the United States, whose Declaration
of Independence asserts that all men
are created equal. Let us co-operate
to resent these insults.”
Birthplace of Japan.
But, a far closer tie than a lust for
revenge binds the peoples of the
American tropics to Japan.
Millions of the natives of Mexico
and Central America are Japanese in
all save name!
This is a startling statement, but
it is absolutely true. Scores of so-
called Indian tribes scattered all the
way from Northern Mexico to Costa
Rica speak languages derived directly
from the Japanese, look like Japa
nese and follow closely the primitive
arts and customs of the Japanese.
It is a moot question with archaeol
ogists whether Japan was settled
from Mexico or whether Mexico was
settled from Japan. There are cogent
reasons for the belief that the birth
place of the Japanese race was in
Mexico, or Central America, and that
some great war or great migration
resulted in a pilgrimage northward
to Alaska and thence to Japan.
Thq reader should understand that
strictly speaking there is no such
thing as a Mexican nationality. This
applies to all of the Monroe Doctrine
republics. The upper and ruling class
is of Spanish descent or strain from
inter-marriage with the innumerable
branches of the native stock. This
native stock is called “Indian,” but
millions of them are not Indians.
There are hundreds of these so-
called Indian tribes. They speak as
many different languages. They con
stitute the enormous majority of the
population, but they play almost no
part In the Government.
Different Class of Indians.
The Spanish who came with and
who followed Cortez naturally inter
married with the more aggressive and
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best-favored of the native races. The
Indians who inhabited the presen'
terrltoty of the United States bore
absolutely no relation to those in
Mexico and Central America, who
reared wonderful cities whose ru'es
still attest their advancement and
their Japanese origin.
There are at least ten known tribes
In Mexico where an Asiatic Japaneses
can make himself readily understood.
There Is one so-called Indian tribe in
Mexico in which a vocabulary of 2,000
words contains not less than 1,600
which are pure Japanese.
The observing stranger who walks
for the first time the streets of Mex
ico City. Orizaba, Guatemala City or
who penetrates into the interior of
these countries can not fall to note
that a large share of the natives bear
on their faces the plain proof of their
kinship to the subject* of the Mikado.
The physiognomy of many of the up
per classes reveals a fine blending of
the distinctive facial lines of the
Spaniard and the Japanese.
Mikado’* Subject* Welcome.
There 1* an Intuitive recognition
by the people of their kin*hlp to the
Japanese. The door* of moat of these
republics are open to subject* of the
Mikado. The school children are
taught to respect the military prow
ess of a race deemed inferior by a
world who did not awake to the truth
until the little Jap conquered Russia.
The school children of Mexico are also
taught that their country defeated the
United States in its attempt to annex
their soil.
A few years ago I witnessed a mili
tary parade In Mexico City In honor
of her independence. A company of
marines from a Japanese cruiser was
In line. Flowers were strewn In their
path. A half million people greeted
them as if they were their saviors. All
along the line arose the affectionate
salutation of "Brothers." I did not
understand it; I doubt if they under
stood It, but back of it all was a racial
Intuition.
It is a matter of history that Mexico
stood ready to deed to Japan a naval
base in Magdalena Bay. Had not the
United States intervened Japan might
now possess all of the Mexican terri
tory of Lower California.
Japan Moves Steadily.
I do not say that Japan contem
plates at present the actual occupa
tion or military conquest of any of
these countries. This Is not within her
probable power, but Japan ts moving
steadily for the settlement and devel
opment cf these neglected and revo
lution-desolated republics.
The Japanese will naturally take
possession of fields of enterprise once
possessed by detested Americans.
Thus the doors are opened for the re
incarnation in tropical Amerjca of the
old Japan which has slumbered
through the ages.
Its vigorous Asiatic offspring can
pour 20.000,000 of its people into it and
create the richest and most beautiful
empire the world has ever known.
We could do the same thing, but we
seem to have "more Important mat
ters to attend to.”
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Society Leader Prefers His American
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BALTIMORE, July 26.—Samuel S.
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such a warm welcome last winter when
he returned to his native city after an
absence of 16 years, ha3 sold his big
house at No. 609 Washington Place and
will again go abroad to live, driven
hence by the complexities of the serv
ant problem.
In London Mr. Keyser maintained a
beautiful home, but Baltimore, according
to his oft-repeated statement since his
return, is the ideal place to live.
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