The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

the south was arrayng its congressional
forces on the other hand The great GEN.
ter of this forensic struggle was in the
United States Senate. I'VE must have
more men to represent us In the Senate!"
cried the north. Then, as speedily as
possible, they rushed the settlers west to
fill up the prairies beyond the Mississippi
AID carve out new states to send their
Senators to the national capital to help
them in the slavery fight I'VE must
have more men in the United States Sem
ate to help us in the struggle to perpetu-
ate slavery!' cried the south. But where
were they to gel the new states from
which to select the new Senators?
There was no unsettled land and no pos
sible new states south of the Mason and
Dixon line. So the south turned its eyes
toward Texas, part of the Mexican re-
, republic 1t practically said, 'If the Mex
lean republic will not sell Texas, we will
send the settlers of the United States
into 1t, and We will get up a revolution
there. and then we will annex Texas to
the United States, and out of Texas can
be carved ten new states" In other
words, the south overran Texas with its
people, as the north rushed its settlers
INTO Kansas territory a little later in or
der to make 1T an abolition state Then.
after Texas was admitted into the Union,
the United States government, figuratiVe
ly speaking. as a highwayman, put the
pistol to MeXieos forehead and said,
Surrender to me all of California, all
OF Nevada, all of Arizona and most of
New Mexico for a paltry $751; 600. or /
will blow your brains out and gobble up
your whole country" OF course / am
telling this transaction n a coarse way,
but | am truthfully though bluntly tell
ing you what the United States govern
ment did. | am recounting bare histori-
cal facts.
Kindly Climate.
But, as England acted unjustly in alb
sorbing the Transvaal and the Orange
Free State, yet, after ALL the greatest
blessing which could come to those Afrl-
can lands is the British flag. Where the
British flag goes there go British capital
and British men and Anglo-Saxon enter
prise. Because the British flag now waves
over all the southern territory of Africa
there is going to grow up great African
government which shall rival the Austria
liam government and make those hills
TEEN with enterprise and with virile life.
Because the stars and stripes wave over
Texas and New Mexico and Arizona and
Nevada and California, those lands have
been developed as they never could or
would have been under Mexican rule.
With all the advantages of climate which
these states have, and with their great
mineral and agricultural possibilities
Texas and Arizona and New Mexico and
porting the vast numbers of prosperous
homes We're 1t not for American rule and
the protection of the United States flag.
In praislng the climatic conditions of
the great southwest, and especially of
| Southern California, we may use the
| strongest superlatVes. We must combine
in that description of California; climate
! the inauguration of the temperate zone
and the balmness of the tropics. We
must describe climate beneficial to the
| well man and the sick. In this Edenic
/ climate condition we find all the atnaps-
/ pheric blessings of the arctics cuddling
/ up and nesting against all the atmospher-
| ic blessings of the tropics. while it Is free
| from the destructive billiards. of the
north, which, like an Alpine avalanee of
! snow, threaten to destroy the Norwegians
| and the Russians and the Greenlanders-
| free, too, from the pestiferous 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
madens, they lift up their lips to be
wooed and kissed by the same gentle
sun.
Are the climatic conditions of South
| ern California all that?' says some one.
''Yon. are talking like crazy man. How
| can winter and summer be married at
the same nuptial shrine?' How, do not
| know The meteorologlstS tell me tnat the
i cause is due to the Japan current which
flows like a great river along the shore OF
| California. But after these scientists
have tried to give me rational explana-
ton for this atmospheric elysium | still
am as much in the dark as ever. / sim
ply state facts as they are. and must re-
fer YOU to the scientists for the causes.
| know that ON December 2s, 1903, left
Chicago in a binding snowstorm to go
and live in Los Angeles. Bundled up in
a heavy fur-lined overcoat. the wind cut
through me like knife. Yet, strange to
say. after | arrived in Los Angeles | could
look out of my study window into my
| ward and see roses growing upon the
| bushes. These roses were not protected
by dollhouse glass, but they We're breath
ing the same fresh air that | breathsd.
| Winter and summer impossible to be mar
ried? You can see them as bride and
bridegroom every day of your life in