The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-29
MARY is A NOSES
MRS. LEASES BOOK PROBLEM OF
CIVILIZATION SOLVED" Is OUT.

Egypt, and CoIonixe In the Tropical
Regions, Advising the Government, at
the Same Time, to Take Brazil and Other
South American Nations by Force II
Necessary--How to Tear Up Railroads
and Put Them Together Again.
An armed Amazon with steeled
breasts and helmeted top-knot, athwart
her front a badge marked, equality"
in her hand a broad-sword on which
is printed, Tropical Emigration" The
sword has just severed chain by
which a none such, squatty in figure,
and sinister in countenance, labeled,
''Shylock of Competition has held an
other dilapidated figure marked La
Dor" captive.
Theis is the emblematic drawing that
adorns Mrs. Leases new book THE
Problem of Civilization Solved"
The work is just out. 1t is published
by Laird and Lee of Chicago: has with
in it's covers 375 pages and sells for
fifty cents.
If Mrs. Lease has really solved the
problem of civilization nearly all of
Wichita will want to know how she pro-
poses to do it, as Mrs Lease is Wichi-
ia woman.
And this is her scheme. 1t is to be
done through emigration to tropical
countries. This is an unique idea-if
il had not been, Mrs. Lease would not
have written it or conceived it, for
that matter
That, however, is what Mrs. Lease
tells the unemployed people Of this
country and other countries to do-get
out. Go to Central America, South
America and Africa. But more than
that. She advises the government to
take possession of some countries. Bra
Zil, Paraguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Pc
ru, she declares, are in a semi-Anarch-
istic condition, dictator succeeding die
tator in bloody succession. Mrs. Lease
says to the government:
JUST TAKE IT.
1--WE stand and have stood for years
ready to expend our blood and treasures
in defense of Latin America against
European aggression. Can they not re-
ciprocate by giving us the leadership
on this continent? If not, we should
take it. We should follow the example
of European nations and annex all we
can and establish protectorates where
ever possible in America.
The first thing in this wonderful book,
wonderful if not in brilliancy, then IN
daring, is an introduction. Mrs. Lease
starts out by declaring that fifty years
ago beggary and want were unknown
in the land, while today every country
must have it's poor-house maintained
at a great cost. Strange to say she
does not offer PopuliStic relief for this
condition, but her Tropical Emigra-
ton" idea instead.
The introduction to the book winds
up as follows:
"WiIl YOU go? Will you exchange
north for a vineyard under brighter
skies? Do you dare to break the
chains of Egyptian bondage for an in
heritance of wine and oil. of fig and
myrtle? Come out, children OF af-
Fiction; come not alone; come forth
from bondage, myriad band stalled
with hope and shod with zeal, and the
lurid waves of the sea of politics shall
part at the breath of Jehovah. This
cloud by day and fiery pillar by night
shall guide safely to the promised land.
We shall inaugurate the new ethics or
human rights. We shall introduce the
ethics of Christ in the politics of the
nation and revolutionize the world"
HEADINGS FOR CHAPTERS.
This is the way Mrs. Lease heads her
chapters:
The Riddle of the Sphinx.
The Foes and Evils of Civilization.
Anarchy the Offspring of Monopoly.
The Crimes of Diplomacy.
Over-production.
Cieniue Of Man has Enslaved the
Masses.
Militarism.
The Eastern Question.
The Naturalization Of the Races:
The Partition of the World.
Federation of the Americas.
Colonization of the Tropics.
Paternal Govrnment.
The American party.
Government ownership of railroads.
Finance.
The commonwealth the mortmain Of
the masses.
Tropical tenantry.
Poverty-The remedy.
The titles of the chapter show the
trend of the work. When it comes to
discussing the tropical countries Mrs.
Lease shows that she has devoted
much study to public documents treat
ing of the nature of the tropics as well
as their historical points and forms
of government
MARY ON ANARCHY.
She tells of the climate and the peo-
ple and their Slothful ways, the fertiIi-
ty of the soil, the density of the forests
all with an ease and eXacttude that
leaves no doubt that she has been stud
wing on this solution of great PROB
lem for long time
In speaking of anarchy Mrs. Lease
saws: The causes for Anarchy are
Miltarism. Congestion of Population,
Land Monopoly, the Competition OF La
bor-saving Machinery and a False FL
nancial system. AS there Is no uniVeF,
sal remedy for the diseases or MANKIND
so there is no universal solvent Tor the
ills that Cypress humanity Sut !he
manifold evils under which civilization
labors today may be greatly remeoled
and finally removed by removing their
causes. and then bending the energies
of the united world to Tropical Coilni-
zation."
For Mrs. Lease not only advises trop-
ical civilization for Americans: She
wants and prays Europe TO people Al
RIGA as Victor Hugo predicted.
II Is q very long chapter that Mrs.
Lease has on Finance" She declares
that Metallic money, mllitarlsm ana
Doverty are relics of a barbarious past
and wants the world to return TO the
use of a dollar as yard-suck-
TEAR UP RAILROADS
In her chapter on Poverty her plan
for getting TO the tropics is mace very
plain and how in the world % YOU
think she intends that II shaii oe
donea First she wants all the reform
forces in the country to organize ny
precincts Then she wants them To so
TO the polls. After she las The reform
ers in power she wants .hem 10 take
up most of the competicg railroads. put
the tracks on end AMI then transport
the people to the TROPICS
This is the way she tells it: Then let
all who love mankind more than mil
lionaires unite for the ctmr.on welfare.