The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-30
"ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH
Nearly Ready 10 Nove ON SonM America and AFRICA
BY HERBERT QUICK.

parasites in the body These produce diseases. The
proyerbal Incidence OF nations OF the tropics is
largely the result OF dsease-like hookYorm. These
germs and parasites affect both the men and their
livestock. The tsetse ny fights back farming by kill
ing the domestic animals in South Africa The sleep
Ing sickness kills of the people Cholera the
tropics, and bubonic plague and yellow fever and
hookworm and many other plaques, But these dis
by being conquered. Yellow fever
and malaria mere questions of mosquitoes, and
the Panama and Cuban experiences prove that they
can be COPIED with. simple remedy and very enec-
tive preventives known for hookworm. New
anttoxins and serums found every year We can
the end of the errors of the tropics for the
white race.
The other great scourge OF the tropics is CONNER
cialism and its accompanying slavery and peonage
The horrd debauch OF greed in the Congo state under
the accursed Leopold was commercialism hunting
ivory and rubber. Yucatan and henequen, Bluehelds
and bananas Hawaii and Java and sugar-these sim
lister couples might be added to indefinitely. Span
ish American and her prince4y haciendas are other
names for land monopoly and slavery The destruc-
ton OF in the tropics by disease germs and para
sites Is not awful that by human parasitesl
The slogan for the human seeking TO move
into these great vacant spaces the decks OF the
Ship Earth therefore is science. democracy and
cooperative industry Science will ward on disease.
and point the way TO successful production. Dem
ocracy will eliminate privilege and give to each
the rights to the of the decks OF the Good
Ship Earth as any other man. And cooperative
industry-co-operative farming, cooperative manu-
featuring replacing the system-wi furnish
the capital the engineering skill the sanitation and
the willingness to wait reclaim those wide and
cult 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 happy people than
Europe possessed and the civilization will out
shine that OF Carthage OF ancient Egypt or of the
Moors OF present day Europe or America
And the Amazon. the Orinoco and the LaPlata will
carry commerce between the densest populations In
the world. There greater than half a
dozen along those rivers where not the high
est wages will tempt the natives to go for
rubber, the conditions lethal. All that will be
cured Science democracy and cooperative Industry
will of Brazil and her neighbor states the beau
tiful and prolific home OF more people than now exist
on earth The vacant spaces there are greater than
the whole 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 per-
haps for them will lie the ferries from the
South and Central and Mexican ports to the West
Indies and southern states.
The Mississippi Valley and the Valley OF the ANA
ION will all those with shipping and drop wealth
and plenty on all shores
To the accomplishment OF this future the Passengers
are now almost ready to address their efforts We
have the scence-Goethals and Gorgas have shown US
that Tomorrow will bring the Democracy and the
Co-operative with the right to the use
of the Good Ship Earth assured to every Passenger
no matter how humble.
God speed the dayi
Sec tomorrow's Times for announcement OF the next
article In this great series.