Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-30
"On Board the
Good Ship Earth
By Herbert Quick
Nearly Ready to Move on South
America and Africa
BY Herbert Quick

+, elsewhere, mostly in the form Of evil
| bacteria in the blood and animal
parasites in the body These produce
diseases. The proverbial Incidence or
nations of the tropics is largely the
result of disease, like hookwor1n.
These germs and parasites affect
both the men and their livestock.
The tsetse fly fights back farming by
killing the domestic animals in South
Africa. The sleeping sickness kills off
the people. Cholera Favages the
tropics and bubonic plague and yell
low fever and hookwor1n and many
other plaques. But these diseases are
one by one being conquered Yellow
fever and malaria are mere questions
OF mosquitoes, and the Panama and
Cuban experiences prove that they
| can be COPIED with. A simple remedy
and very effective preventives are
known for hoolxworms. New antitoxins
and serums are found every year.
We can now see the end of the tea-
rofs of the tropics for the white race.
The other great scourge of the
tropics is comm ereialisn, and its ac-
companying slavery and peonage.
The horrid debauch of greed in the
Congo State under the accused Leo
pold was commercialism hunting
ivory and rubber. Yucatan and hene-
quen, Bluef1elds and bananas, Hawaii
and Java and sHgar--these sinister
couples might be added to indefinite
ly. Spanish America and her prince
~ haciendas are other names for
land monopoly and slavery. The de-
struction of men in the tropics by
disease germs and parasites is not
so awful as that by human parasites!
The slogan for the human race
seeking to move into these great
vacant spaces on the decks of the
good ship Earth, therefore, is silence,
democracy and cooperative industry.
Science will ward off disease and
point the way to successful produce
ton. Democracy will eliminate priyi-
lege and give to each man the same
rights to the use of the decks of the
good ship Earth as any other man.
And cooperative ndustry-cooperat-
iva1 farming, cooperative manufac-
turing replacing the wage system
will furnish the capital, the engineer
ing skill. the sanitation and the will
ingness to wait to reclaim those wide
and overgrown regions which present
problems too difficult for the unaided
man.
In that day the valleys Of the
Congo. the Niger, the upper Nile and
the zambezi-the whole interior
plateau of Africa-will hold more
happy people than Europe ever
/ possessed, and the. civilization will
outshine that of Carthage or ancient
Egypt, or of the Moors. or of present.
day Europe or America.
And the Amazon, the Orinoeo and
the La Plata will carry commerce
between the densest populations in
the world. There are areas greater
than half a dozen Texases along
those rivers where not the highest
wages will now tempt even the
natives to go for rubber the con-
! ditions are so lethal. All that will be
cured. Science, democracy and CO.
! operative industry will make OF
Brazil and her neighbor states the
/ beautiful and prolific home of moro
people than now exist on earth. The
vacant spaces there are greater than
the whole of the United States. and
naturally richer than the Mississippi
valley.
! In those days the Caribbean and the
Gulf of Mexico will carry the busiest
commerce in the world, perhaps, for
, across them will lie the ferries from
the South and Central and Mexican
ports to the West indies, and our
Southern States.
The Mississippi Valley and the Vail
ley of the Amazon will fill those seas
with shipping, and drop wealth and
plenty on all shores.
To the accomplishment of this fu-
! ture the passengers are now almost
ready 10 address their efforts. We
have the science-Goethals and Cor
gas have shown us that. Tomorrow
win bring the democracy and the co
operative commonwealth, with the
right TO the use Of the good ship
Earth assured tosevery passenger-no
matter how humble
God speed the day!
See tomorrow's Evening Star for
announcement of the next article in
this great series.