The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

| A'Se sh A<Caa0h 0Vh 6hy CooHVhiAo oo vantage because he lived on the banks ! of the Thames. The whole of the ad- vantases went to those who happened ' to own the soil Of London. and 1t went into their pockets to the extent ofs4something like s2s0.oo0.o00 . year: that was the rent which Londoners pay year in and year out for per- I mission to live in London and increase its trade. The house rent might be | talk en at $150,000.000. MT. Webb want ed to know what the people of London | were going to do about this. They could not induce the landlords vol untarily to hand over their incomes to | the community for the community's benefit Were they going on. laboring | In London simply to improve the con- dition of the land owners? Laws. he | remarked. had given this income to the land owners. and laws could take 1t away again. It would. however, be serious business.
 i: MT. Webb is one of the ablest eco- nomists living: in knowledge of de- tall, if not in general view, certainly l the ablest. He sees quite clearly that the next great fight between the priv ileged classes and the people will be an economic fight. and will be on this question of the taxation of land values. The sooner the fight comes the better. MT. Balfour and Lord Lansdowne, it seems. have made up their minds to reject any budget which contains Q tax on land values. These gentlemen | may not be able to carry the House of Lords with them on this matter. At any rate, the great fight between the lords and the people which Is coming will be fought on this point.
 Foreign Missions. = ' Arrangements are largely completed for the great conference on foreign missions. which is to be held in Edin- burgh in June of next year. On a smaller scale there have been previous efforts to hold worlds missionary gath erings, but that now in contempla- tion will dwarf in point of represep- tative character any project hitherto planned. It Is to be a conference of experts duly elected by the various churches and societies throughout the globe. The actual number of delegates will depend upon the amount of the annual income of each organization. which Is taken as a working basis for this purpose: The scheme is due to the vigorous initiative of Americans. who are apparently to- send over as one of their representatives the dis tinguished naval writer Admiral Ma han, Lord Balfour of Burleigh Is to be the chairman Hof the conference, with Lord Reay Sir John Kennaway and Sir Andrew Fraser as vice chairman. and Mir. J. H. Oldham as secretary. Before the gathering actually assem-. bIes, eight commissions of about twen- ty experts are to meet for the prepar- ation of reports, which will afterwards be the subject of consideration,
 The woman suffragists of the world are to assemble in London this year and to hold the largest and most in fluential congress that has ever taken place in the history of the movement. The date fixed is from April 26 to May l, and during that period demonstra- tions will be held continuously. The Albert Hall has already been booked" and the new St. James Hall has been secured for the whole week. The uni versity towns of Oxford and Cambridge will be visited, and a determined cam paign carried on there. Visitors are expected from twenty-one different countries, and speeches, which are to be interpreted. will be delivered in every European language. The pro- motors hope that all of the visitors will be taken as private guests by sympathizers with the movement. The largest suffragist conference hitherto held took place in Amsterdam, when seventeen countries were represented. Apes and Men.
 Professor Arthur Keith, M. D., lec- turing at the Royal College of Sur geons on "Anthropoid sApes," displayed an interesting chart of the anatomical points of resemblance between the apes and man. The following figures were copied from the chart:
 The gorilla has 109 anatomical points peculiar to itself. It holds eighty seven points in common with man. The chimpanzee and gorilla have sew enty-eight points in common.
 The whole basin of the Congo is clothed with forest, with which the distribution of the chimpanzee coin cides." the lecturer said. That forest area is about eight times the area of England. Wit hthe extension of civil ization into the region the chimpanzee will surely disappear.
 q doubt very much If there are at present 100000 chimpanzees living, and whether there are 10000 gorillas.
 Without some exceedingly strict laws of preservation. 1t is probable that there will be none of these an- thropoid apes living in 200 years time." trt:tt
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 Sir Maurice De Bunsen, the British Ambassador in Madrid. writes wapn- ing the public against the time-hon- ored fraud known as the Spanish prisoner swindle. This fraud contin- ues to be practiced upon the unwary in the United Kingdom and other coun- tries by a gang of ingenius swindlers established In Madrid and other Span ish towns. Assisted. no doubt, by &C., complices in foreign countries, they single out the victims. and extract from them many thousands of dollars every year by means of a concocted story Sir NJ. De Bunsen says that he fears that the evil is on the increase though the Spanish government Is do- ing what 1t can to suppress the fraud. He advises persons, receiving from Spain such letters as he indicates, to communicate with their ambassadors without delay.
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