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Show THE CITIZEN 6 INI'- - THINGS BOOKISH I To me, in the study of any people, there is no subject more interesting And he tells his sensations and feelings in clear, understandable Engsoul. and instructive than to learn their origlish. One cannot depart wtihout the inal ideas of evil; that is, before befeeling that one has partaken of the ss morals with contaminated the coming , hospitality of those island people. The iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir we which of that call civilization. In persons to whom he introduces us by speaking of the Markuesan people we name are living men and women, boys Edited By WILLIAM C. WINDER, Jr. read in "White Shadows, And the and girls, whom we will all live in wicked? Morals as we know them had hopes of meeting some day. Mr. Frank though so important, things will crowd nothing to do with their sin in his Harris, one of the most difficult critics back into his memory and the salient The wicked were the unkind, to please, expressed his regret that his facts will stand eager to be seized mind. those who were cruel to children, life was too far spent to make a trip the writing of a book of travel upon. He writes apparently top lease wives who made bad popoi, and whites to the Marquesan islands. And this IN is no compass to guide one's himself and satisfy his intrigued fancy, thought was inspired .by these deeply and in doing just that, he compels, with rum privileges who forgot hospipen, no code of rules to fall back upon. s Of a and human course, such of Frederick simple If the traveler has perchance the gift without inviting, all of us to take the tality. code of morals was effective O'Brien. of an inner sight, and then the power journey with him. And when a writ- splendid whites imposed their own ers heart is in his experiences and before the to interpret what those eyes behold, of quibbles, fear and hatred. there is in store for us one of those their demand for utterance, it is not Ireligion Dangerous Block Feature have found time and again how far rare vintages, an entertaining travel essential that his vocabulary be masto our own codes are those tale. The reverse, however, is usually sive or his style brilliant in order to superior nations, Representative Burton, of Ohio, force his readers to go through with of the savage and the disheartening result in and themselves among they dealing made this interesting. statement: One If two men of the same age, faith him. to a much finer honor. These of the most adhered serious dangers that conSuch a man is Frederick OBrien, and outward culture, were called upon more impressed upon become things fronts the country today is the creato ach write a book of the same city and although his greatest attraction me every day as I see that insufferable lies in his or town or island, it is entirely probhumanity, yet intolerance with which we see fit to tion of special privileges and the enactment of legislation which creates able that the difference between the his talents as writer and raconteur are of our not who down one is upon every far from meager. Of his books of the two books would be far greater than discrimination between different And color. faith behind and too, it, the apparent difference between the South Seas and their wide popularity, classes of the population. That which is absolute ignorance. Mr. George Chappele, writing under men. They will walk through the same We are horrified at the thought of is a crime for one is an innocent name most of the of the Walter visit Captain streets, perhaps Traprock, cannibalism. Well and those transaction for another. We have the good, bura indited identical exhaustive clever and with the same localities, talk cannibals are just as stupefied at the formation of blocs in this country;. 1 lesque entitled The Cruise of the people. Their task is finished; one of the English burning Joan do not know what is the cause of the Kawa, yet Chappele admits that the thought will doubtless present a carefully comof Arc for the pleasure of it; and when bloc, whether it is the discriminatory books as and dead the their of list many paper long names, chapters piled or whether the blocs cause never worry him with their likenesses, one departs a trifle from the universal legislation on which they are writen; the other the discriminatory legislation. They because it is ever the active mind and ignorance of the rite of canibalism may have but a few inaccurate referand learns a' little about it, those na- act and react on each other. The ences to names, yet of itself the result the intense enthusiasm of Fred OBrien tives have just about as much right to fact that we have enacted these statwhich is uppermost. will spring into vivid life. their horror as we have to ours. Re- utes which create discrimination Of White Shadows of the South How many accounts of travel in inmakes it possible to bring into the. cently in a lecture here, Mr. Carl Ake-leSeas be one or read hear rather late it does would, perhaps, parts teresting notedt raveler, said, The only savbody politic this . dangerous feature in the game to write, but now has come which are just as fascinating and brilwhom are those the natives of blocs. s of Atolls of the Sun (all published by ages liant as the little red Their made ideas whites have savage. Karl Baedeker! They do not miss the Century company), which reawakens Nothing should be more equal than cernot are and ideals that but ours, recital of a single street or sign post, all the old glamor of the other books. taxation. Let me point out to you is nothing against them. They tainly comof And a one is all is there all some of the evils of the present sysover, glamor things yet after it is own lives to live, and they had their over these with most for lore of the books, tem. We have the high surtaxes. Surthey picture pelled to suspect that so doabove in all were, things, happy route. a en was gathered from post card rare, understanding that final pataxes, are proper and natural. They were virtues and their simple ing, thetic though brave and stolid, gesAs a matter of fact, a person has to are necessary in order that the burture of a race passing into extinction. often very near to the Christian virtues den of taxation see the hordes of American tourists in may be equal and which we profess to follow. Another We, of this country, are so utterly action, in order to fully realize what ' passage of OBrien is here appropriate : that the burden may rest upon those inanimate, inhuman things they are. ignorant of other places and other peoThe beauty, the depressingness of most abler to pay. Along with the With the utmost disdain for all the ple that it is usually beyond our imag' islands is these overwhelming. Why creation of the surtaxes you provide to of races is inations whole one realize that big idea poor natives, their could not this idyllic, fierce, laughter-lovin- g an avenue of escape for the very rich to stroll the fashionable promenades people are passing out forever, and e people have stayed savage and men who desire to invest in and gather a bag of statistics with largely as the result of conditfons wicked and clean? The artists securities. More than that you create which to prove to the yokelry at home which our civilization has imposed strong, alone have known the flower destroyed a leisure class, you create a class upon them. As a matter of fact, we that they have really, been somewhere. s which loses interest in the industrial need not go beyond our own doors, for here, the possible growth into great-neAnd I almost forgot, too, the endless and purity that was choked in the progress of the country and is satisdiary books in sight, for of course one right here we can see the tragic remsmoke of white lust and greed. fied to rest upon the income derived could hardly be expected to remember nants of the proud nations of American And then we stop to consider these from securities which pay no taxes to the things which one sees, but we Indians. To you ardent partisans who know could never feel. spend your days in demanding of all a strong tribes of which but a few re- the country. (Applause.) You fetter strict adherence to your narrow codes, main, most of the others dead of the industry, you take the resources which On the other hand, the ocasional man drops into a place unnoticed; he, let me point out to you your only 100 white mans diseases. Those who still should be invested in those developper cent Americans, and ask if you live are wtihout hope, and they know ments which create employment and too, feels the urge to write his impresare proud of the results of your vaunt- that they will soon pass out of their mis-- , stimulate the growth and production sions. He will likely omit entirely the ery. They have lost entirely the Will of the country, and put them into names of streets and buildings, of birth ed civilization? b for has to the implantdeath-bedLive, conqueror It is entirely beyond question that but he will tell securities. places and of his contacts with the people who wherever the whites have appeared, ed within them the Will to Perish, or the native civilizations have withered, the uselessness of existence. He forced live there now, and perhaps will disand seldom, if ever, because they have his religion on them, which forbade cern and remember the hidden influRadium has dropped $50,000 a gram and most of them their Pertwo. of joys, daily the been less the now deal ences of the great worthy in price, and the Standard Chemical playing to an how fear them to be no is this of sadder implacable will He taught haps proof upon the destiny of the living. company has been forced to close its Their in island having world than the Deity. light joyousness implant within us a desire to go as a found in the carnotite properties in Paradox Valto no was tonic there left buoy pilgrim to a church or shrine wtihout nations of the Pacific. There would, gone, ley in western Montrose county, Coloeven freedom exthem up though politcal ever telling us on which comer it perhaps, be some semblance of an rado, throwing 250 men out of work, would to were What restored them. of the affairs cuse or state if for was built this it what or in stands year according to an announcement made see could but he Christ the or even masters say, white could, of in would, others, rebuilt. He will, telling by officials of the company here re- innothe havoc among their numbers of considerable the benefit mirror wrought tell of his inner self, and cently. Discovery of vast deposits of name? His cent those own such own ruthless race by hie professing domination, by and its through people place are not pitchblende in the Belgian Congo is . But. the tales of OBrien but as a rule they have been merely pireactions. His story will be vastly insaid to be responsible for the decrease ferior as geography, but it will be a rates, regardless of the flag under given too greatly to bitterness. One which they sailed, murdering, robbing, could not live on those islands, with in the price of radium, which is said vividly living thing. . to sell for $70,000 a gram now, comAs this man writes, with his heart despoiling, leaving the usual trail of their lush and fragrant verdure, wtih-out feeling a certain expansiveness of pared with $120,000 a gram formerly. dictating every stroke, all the little, death and disease. The South Seas word-picture- . semi-savag- e all-embraci- ng y, guide-book- tax-fre- tax-fre- s, the-dir- e v |