The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-14
y. Stewart Appleton. the London
Financier-Auihog, To Make a
Tour of the New South.
he PROMOTES IMMIGRATION.
Has Written That the Greatest
Civilization Ever known Will
BE Erected on the Plains
West of the Mississippi.

SPECIAL Ply CABLE TO II NEW YORK
HERALD y THE ST LOUIS REPUBLIC
London. Dee. ia. Stewart Appleton.
tie London tiEancier will arrive IN
Boston the coming week. and proceed
ttercr. accompanied by three representa-
tiv. gentlemen from leading New England
cities. .. y. Cier1eat. \. D. Prescott and
l.. y. Ho.t To lrca,, sites in the South
and Southwest tributary to st. Louis for
communities OF Northern families who have
deci:ed To reaounce the riS"rs of New Eng
land winters. and also high-class European
colorists. principally English. Scots and
Belgiaus. whom Re hiss interested, on &C
! count OF depressed Industrial conditions
abroad. To sex prosperity in America
ST.. Appleton has long publicly advocated
in Europe and America the solution OF con-
sest,d urban conditions by the more enter
7-.s.EE citizens migrating to the in'iepend-
c.,ce ard alluremer;s nf country lie Hard
times in Europe and the coal famine Prev
alent Throughout, New England this win
ter treaty facilitate his plans
TIE rarity will visit selected points in the
new South and &c thence via birmingham
and Memphis throughout Arkansas and
Texas. returning to Boston BY way OF 81
Louis ard Chicago.
ffsF.l'I'l Io.>S 'E
1t is announced that there is being issued
there an authoritative compendium or sta
t.stical Information. for the benefit of Euro
pe"n fnanCiors ard investors on American
resources for colonization and development
which has been contributed to by leading
officials Of international transportation and
American railroad systems.
Il is entitled American Resources and
international Generals Cf the Twentieth
c injury" and contains portraits and bi-
orraphies Of publishers and editors. as we'll
IS inanc:ers and industrial generals. who
are conspicuousiy advancing the ethical,
educational ami commercial industrial
growth of America.
The author of the work. to whose efforts
through po.yg.ot Propaganda in European
cities is ascribed the record-breaking influx
Of .3f.f6o European Co!oaiSts the past year,
Is y. Ste |art App eton, the financ.er. of Lon
Con The following is from the Manchester
Guardian:
Nj. App.eton's deeply scientific researches
GONE years ago into the origin and prehistoric
distribution Of the human race doubtless con-
tr.hG;ed to-pnssttIv even resulted in-his present
personal activity il printing the recent great
race movement Of the world from Europe to
America. azc also in his ;ar-reach.nS prophecies
regarding the coming population OF America and
re reClStrirUtLCr OF the human race over the
surface Of the globe: such. fer instance. az his
predictions that:
The greatest civilization since the world be-
gan Will ts erected on u. American plains
west of the Mississippi River"
The louisiana Purchase EXPOSITION at St.
Luis will prov. the greatest event in history
toward the population of the Western United
States
TIC r:.irate destiny Of the present cycle IS
Pua~t S,I.G."
Tie n,xt c-ect move on the map OF the world
vi! he the absorption uf Mexico by the United
StatsS-'
Tie ucNt c-eat ti:al ware Of European imuni-
s:ct,-n Ia .,yerCH Will sweep the Southern
States south II Mason sr: Dtxon's Inc"
SCIEN fIFiC DISCOVERIES.
Mr.. Ap. Teton. whose reputation as q scien-
fist in E haolccy Il war.d-wide. has recent
" brought 10 light. a. the result of his
travels, some startling discoveries going to
show that America was first peopled from
Africa across the Atlantis by prehistoric
races-the Egyptians and others
ffe has diz,rr.red that both the Orinoco
Indians Of S7ctn America and the wild
tribes - Eor.ea use 4 poisoned arrow blow
gun a.I carry a hip pouch containing a
f5atherv hemp. or cotton. used as a Nad-
dirc for tie hluwC-u. and these aCcoutre-
nlents. coming from the antipo1es of the
earth and used ny these tribes long before
Columbus discovered America. are so alike
in details as To indicate a common origin
lie has also discovered that the female
InGians of Eastern Brazil have for CEN
turtles worn a thin stone apron. or adjunct
to the hreach CIout. designed as a safe
Sur.i to feminine virtue. which Is worn
else in the world except on the
west coast of Africa. where the
Eastern and Western Continents most near
ly touch each other
Easad on these and Il multiplicity of SIM
ilag. interesting scientific data gathered by
him Mr.. Appleton has completed a novel
snti;le! "A Mexico =: or. The Romance
OF au Aztec Prime To-Day"