Milford chronicle., 1906-11-30

SAINT tOuYerlufet VINO was indirectly
the means OF Americas expansion by
the Louisiana purchase OF 1903. Do not
from now or tell me that the negro
Of the south or OF the north has no
claim to Americas citizenship Tous-
saint rOuverture has forever won for
the negro that token Of the gratitude
OF our nation.
But. alas. now. with flushed cheek of
humiliation and dOwncast eyes Of
shame. we must recall our national
dealings with the poor. helpless, strug-
Cling republic Of Mexico in reference
TO the Texan annexation Of 1915 and
the Mexican cession of 1913, and the
more we study this sad epoch OF our
national history the more we feel that
our government not only acted unjust
ly. but she acted dishonesty.
hInuay
But. as England acted unjustly in
absorbing the Transvaai and the Or
ange Free State. yet. after all. the
greatest blessing which could come to
those African lands is the British flag.
Where the British flag goes there go
British capital and British men and
AnglO-Saxon enterprise. Because the
British flag now waves over all the
southern territory Of Africa there is
going to grow up a great African gov
eminent which shall rival the Austria
Han government and make those hills
teen with enterprise and with virile
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wave over Texas and New Mexico and
Arizona and Nevada and California
thcse lands have been developed as
they never could or would have been
under Mexican rule. With all the ad-
vantages Of climate which these states
have and with their great mineral and
agricultural possibilities. Texas and
Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada
and California would not be support
ing the vast numbers Of prosperous
homes were it not for American rule
and the protection of the United States
flag.
In praising the climatic conditions
of the great southwest, and especially
OF southern California, we may use the
strongest superlatives. We must com
bine in that description of CALIFORNIA;
climate the invlgoration of the tenn.
perate zore and the balminess of the
tropics. We must describe a climate
beneficial to the well man and to the
sick. In this Edenic climatic cOndi-
ton we. find all the atmospheric bless
ings Of the arctics cuddling up and
Nesting against all the atmospheric
blessings of the tropics, while 1t is free
from the destructive billiards of the
north. which. like an Alpine avalanche
Of snow. threaten TO destroy the Nor
wegians and the Russians and the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES too. from the pes
tiferous miasmas of the equator. which.
like the fatal coils Of the Brazilian
anaconda. threaten to crush out the
life OF the Inhabitants Here, truly. the
crocus and the heliotrope can grow all
the year around. As loving maidens,
they lift up their lips to be woOed and
kissed by the same gentle sun.
Are the climatic conditions Of south
arn California all that?" says some
one. you are talking like a crazy
nan. How can winter and summer be
married at the same nuptial shrineY
How 1 do not know. The meteorolo- |
yists tell me that the cause is due to
he Japan current which flows like
great river along the shore Of Califor
lia. But after these scientists have |
ried to give me a rational explanation |
or this atmospheric elysium still am
is much in the dark as ever. l simply |
tate facts as they are and must refer
'ou to the scientists for the causes.
I know that on Dec. 2S, 1908. 1 left |
chicago in a binding snowstorm to go |
md live in Los Angeles. Bundled up in
heavy fur lined overcoat, the wind /
ut through me like a knife. Yet, |
trange to say, after / arrived in Los
Angeles could look out of my study |
window into my yard and see roses
rowing upon the bushes. These roses
we're not protected by dollhouse glass,
tut they were breathing the same fresh
ir that l breathed. Winter and sum
ner impossible to be married? You
an see them as bride and bridegroom
very day of your life in southern Cali.
ornia. There the Januarys and Febru.
rvs are not any more wonderful than
he Julys and Augusts. There the in
abltants must sleep under heavy blan-
cts all the year round. Marvellous
wonderful indescribable are the at
lospheric conditions of the great
outhwest OF our republic.
And what a health resort we have
)ur leading men Of the west have for
he most part been the great leaders Of
he east. From overwork in their east
rn homes they have broken down
and have had to seek a
warmer climate or they have gone to
outhern California or the great south.
rest lecIuse there is sickness in their
am!!y. Rather than be separated from
heir loved ones they have gone to the
1utIweSt 70 renew their life's strug-
les near 70 the Pacific coast The re-
tit is that some Of. the ablest min
,ters and lawyers and physicians and
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