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Balfour Mr.. Asquith. the prime min
ister Is great lawyer; Winston Church
i'll Is the grandson Of a duke, and Herbert
Samuel, postmaster general is a member
of a great Jewish banking family. The
liberal cabinet contains only two men who
have sprung from the people-Lloyd
George, who forced himself to the front
by sheer brain power, and John Burns,
who was given a post In the vain hope
that his appointment would conciliate the
labor forces.
The tory party can match these cases
by that of F. f. Smith, one of its rising
men, who was described by the late
Justin Mccarthy 'the son of no one
in particular. Bonar Law, its leader.
who was a successful business man, and
half a dozen others. 1t has always been
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CENTRAL. RA1I RoAD. STATION liz GsUATEr1ALA CITY

pay 81 year to aid i'll its building. The
work was started but a war broke out
and the funds for the railroad had to be
used to support the president.
The year following another contract
was made, and along in 1892 the work
was again under way. At that time 10
per cent of the salaries of the public Off
Gals, and > per cent of all the town
revenues were ordered to be set aside for
railroad construction. The contracts were
let. and along about 1896 1891 five sec
tions had been built. extending from tile
seacoast 1870 miles up the mountains.
At that place the road stopped. 1t began
at the ocean and its terminus was a jun
gle. Many of the ties rotted and the rails
rusted until 1904, when Sir William Van
Horne, Minor c. Keith and Gen. Tom
Hubbard got a new concession for it and
pushed it on to its completion.
1t was finished in January. 1905 and it
is now one of the best roads in Central
America
This Northern railway is we'll built
The gauge is three feet. and. with the
exception of one place, the greatest grade
is 3 per cent. For a short distance it is
more than / per cent. The road has
over 300 steel bridges, one of which
is more than 600 feet long, and another
743 feet long. The latter bridge is 229
feet high.
This road has guaranteed income OF
SoOOO00 Il year. the concession providing
that the government will insure the =
per cent dividend on the 81 Oo0.uOo invest
ed in it, In addition to this. last year 1t
made more than 100000, and the traffic
is steadily growing
1t was over this road that ! came into
Guatemala. I landed at Port Barrios ON
one of the regular steamers which call
there on their way from Panama to New
Orleans The port has a wide and deep
harbor and vessels of the heaviest draft
can come to its docks. The railroads
pass for. thirty or forty miles through
the rich banana plantations of the United
Fruit Company and carry their freight
right to the steamers. While l stayed at
Port Barrios about 1o,o00W0 bananas
were loaded, and on my way over the
road We were some hours passing
through the plantations.
Leaving Port Barrios the cars go right
into the jungle. They wind their way
through the Motagua valley, where the
soil is rich sandy loan about fifteen
feet deep. Here the rainfall is album
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JOHN BURNS.

bringing in crowd of concealed members
while the liberals We're off their guard, to
defeat one clause of the bill. the time
table was knocked out of gear The lib
erals. of course, reversed the defeat, but
ten days had been lost. and the prime
minister solemnly brought in new time
table in which the debating time was
curtailed by ten days.
How perfectly, this state of affairs is
understood in the country is shown by
the recent election at Bolton. where the
successful liberal candidate was Tom Tay-
lor. a local manufacturer He made no
campaign in the ordinary sense of the
term, for he admitted frankly that he
could not make a public speech When
he was declared elected and it became his
duty to address his constituents, he said
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Still farther inland the mountains make
enc think of the Rockies. They are hare,
ragged and torn by raVireS and canyons
There are thirsty trees upon which hang
thirsty air plants, the orchids of the des-
ert. Now and then YOU pass Il little val
ley with irrigated patches along the
stream running through it. Here are
matched huts. the homes of the In
dams. Such valleys are but few hum
dred feet wide and the population is
scanty.
Ny train stopped for breakfast at
.-acapa and my meal cost me SO. When
left | took a bottle of mineral water WITH
me- for which | was charged 81, ana
also package of cigarettes which cost
me So | gave tive-dollar fee to the
prior car porter at the close OF the trip
and once paid boy dollar to bring me
a drink. All of these CURES, however.
represent Guatemalau money, of which
it takes seventeen dollars to make one
OF ours. so that a five-dollar bill equals
Just about 80 cents.
Zacapa is the biggest city between the
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ago by "A famous English politician. now
member of the Asquith cabinet. He was
, >mparinS legislative me thods in Eng
land with those in vogue In the United
States. and at the time he spoke he was
probably rig1t.
The British member Of parliament was
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NGLAND is the
most democratic
country in the
world, ana i'm no
other country in the
world is the will Of
the people better
expressed through
IT'S legislative as
sembly than in
this. = These word 5
were used 10 the
writer some years
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II Il L an american
railway Will soon
be connected with
the Guatemala sys-
tenn. 1t already
G o m Q : to [ h e
boundary of the
republic and only
twenty-five or thir-
" miles of track
are yet 10 be laid
10 connect il with
the G. VI a I Q IN a | a
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I'm this way Guatemala City is only
within about four days from Mexico City.
When the break is completed it will be
only three days. and the time to st.
Louis will be less than six days. while
that to New York will be just about one
week From Guatemala City to st Louis
the distance is 2,S24 miles. To New York
il is ASA miles, only about 200 miles
less than from New York to San Fran
cisco 1t needs only an extension of a
little more than fifty miles to connect the
roads here with those of Salvador. and
the day seems to be fast coming when
the u-American railway from New
York to Buenos Aires will be in operation
The distance between these two points by
rail will be only little over ten thou
sand miles. and of this between six and
seven thousand miles have already been
built Add to that an extension equal to
the distance between here and New York,
and We shall have this great interconti-
mental railway with several hundred miles
TO spare.
Everywhere l go i'm Central America |
hear the people talking of new railroads.
One of the projects of Panama is to build
a line from Panama City to the town of
David. the largest place in the northern
part of that republic. Costa Rca will
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NECAY of Parliament

NECAY of Parliament
Il Places All the Power in
the Hands of Cabinet, Which
Decides What Laws Shall be
Made and Allows No Others
Chance to Pass Through
the House of Commons
Abolition OF the Veto Power
of the Lords Blow to De-
mocracy-How the Guillotine
Prevents Discussion and
Amendment of the Govern
Inent Ukases = Auton1aton
M. P.'s.
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Central, which comprises the lines run
ming from here to the port of
San Jose on the Pacific. and those
(which cover the western slope of this
country. Indeed. travellers can now so to
Mexico City hy rail, piccing out the short
break of DAYS ride on mules. More
over extensive plans are under way to
extend the Guatemalan railways into SAL
yador and Costa Rica. ana within COM
Daratively short time we shall be able to
reach the Panama canal by railway.
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The western coast is by far the rich
est part Of Guatemala. II has many larg..
coffee plantations and the coffee traffic
forms big item OF freight. This will
be increased when the Panama canal is
completed Recently many tacao orchards
have been set out and this industry IL
reviving. About fifty years ago the cacao
was carried northward to Mexico on
mules. and in some years the amount sem
was millions of pounds Another export
was cochineal. dye made from bug
which covered the cactus about LAX
Amititlan. That dye brought in something
like a million dollars a year
During my stay here i'm Guatemala
have talked with the chief railroad men
of the country including Mr.. f. G. VIII
hanson, manager Of the Guatemala
roads; Mr.. ID. b. Hodgsdon, manager o.
the Central. and Mr. w. e Jessup the
superintendent of the Central lines They
all speak enthusiastically of the prospects
of Guatemalan development Mr.. Jessup
estimates that there are 1000 square
leagues of land I'm this country which
will grow sugar cane, and that the coffea
plantations might be enormously increas-
ed. He tells me that there are large
forests in the mountains and extensive
tracts which will grow grain. There are
also cotton lands and tobacco lands and
large tracts fitted for the grazing of cat-
tie. There is great deal of land be-
longing to the railroads. and the govern
ment has much wild land which may be
acquired by concession.
FRANK c. CARPENTER
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eventually be connected with Panama
Nicaragua and Honduras. and the conces-
sions for the extension of the roads here
have already been granted. Both the old
and new lines are practically owned by
Americans, and from New York to Pana-
ma the indications are that the lines will
be under American control. The president
of the Pan-American extension to Guate-
mala is Mr.. D. Q. Thompson. who was
formerly our minister to Mexico. The
railroads of Costa Rica are owned by
the Keith syndicate. and the same is true
of the railroads of Guatemala. All of the
lines have been planned by Americans and
built by Americans. and there will prob
ably be one American company operat-
ing the whole.
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parliament. The reason of this is that al
election in England is an expensive al
fair and only a wealthy man can under
take campaign without assistance from
the central office of his party. That as
sistance is withheld unless the prospective
candidate is warranted kind and gentle
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a certain day, on section at l "a on
another date. and so on.
Tie object of the ruling oligarchy being
to prevent discussion and. perhaps, mu-
tilation OF its bill. debate was strung out
on the opening words of each section,
and in many cases before half dozen
lines of the section had been discussed
the guillotine fell. In other words, the
time limit was reached, a division was
taken and the automaton members
solemnly filed through the division lob
bies and that particular section was
passed.
When. a few weeks ago. the tories man
aged, by working a snap division, and
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and their uniform was OF calico. while
their hats were OF straw. Each man
carried a gun, but this was the only
sign of warfare about him. am told
they receive from 10 to Is cents daily,
and that the government is always be-
hind in its pay. The most OF the SOL
diers are Indians, who are forced into
the army.
This train had an American engineer
and an American conductor. and this is
the Ease with the other railways of
Guatemala. The natives have no ex-
perience and they cannot be trusted TO
handle the trains The conductors re-
ceve 500 gold per month, and the engi-
neers have similar salaries The con-
ductors tell me that the Guatemalans
are great travellers and that both the
first and second class passenger tralnc
is good F'irst-class fares are in the
neighborhood of . cents gold per mlie'
and the second-class are about half the
first-clasu. The Indians patroniZe the
roads and the conductors say that they
have to watch them carefully TO COZ,
lect all the fares. They are smart ana
will try to cheat their way from station
to station A man will buy a ticket FOR
a short distance and then change ms
ticket while en- route. taking that OF
passenger who has ticket for "A longer
ride. slipping the tickets back and forth
so that he gets a good part or his rae
without pay. Many men buy tickets
short of the station where they expect to
get off, trusting that the conductor VIII
forget them ! wonder If this is not
sometimes the same in our country.
The railroad from Guatemala CITY TO
the Pacific ocean is known as the Guate-
mala Central, and connected with Ii are
the extensions which run northward al
most to the boundary of Mexico. This
system has three or four ports on the
Pacific. the NEST of which are open
roadsteads, so that passengers have TO be
frequently landed in baskets 1t was AT
San Jose that Secretary Knox was let
down out of our war vessel. as st. Paul
was let down from the walls Of Damas-
Gus in a basket. This is the only SINH
larity / have ever observed between 81.
Paul and the Secretary
The Guatemala Central was the first
railroad built in Guatemala. 1t was be-
gun about 1877, when an American, Mr..
William Name. who had been general
manager of the Costa Rican railway.
came here and built the line from the
seasoast as far the town of Esqulntia.
This was completed about 1880 and lit
tie later he received concession to ex-
tend it to the capital This road is well
built and well ballasted. [ took a run
down over it few DAYS ago. It's steep
est grade is about 312 per cent. but the
average grade is not more than 112 New
ertheess, in going from here to Esquint-
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What is the condition nov? The house
of lords is robbed of its power of revi-
sion. The commons by tanning through
a bill in three successive sessions. can
pass il into law over the heads of the
lords without the change Of a comma.
and the result is that what the party
machines desire now is not independent
members of parliament but voting auto
mata.
No bill has the ghost of a chance OF
passing, or even of getting reading,
which is not what is known a gov
eminent bill by which is meant that
il has been officially fathered by the
cabinet That body. before pariamen-
tary session begins. meets and decides
what the legislation of the session shall
be. The bills are drafted and approved
by it and then presented to parliament.
They might as well receive the royal as
sent without that Formally for the dis
cussion which takes place on them is
nothing more than farce.
AS a matter of fact, only few lines
of each really important bill are dis
cussed at all This is brought about by
the operation of the time table, unof-
fcially known as the ''guillotine." Take
the case of the home rue bill, for in
stance At the opening of the session the
prime minister announced that so many
days of parliamentary time would be de-
voted to the discussion of this measure.
This allowance was subdivided, the an
nouncement being made that debate
would cease on section / at : pm. on
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Special Correspondence If he star
LONDON, December a6. 1912
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HiIalre BeIIOc, the nOVeIlst, WHO was
liberal NJ p. for Stafford and who re-
signed rather than take orders from the
machine Since his resignation he has
devoted much time TO fighting the caucus
system, but without making much appar-
ent impression on 1t.
1t is becoming increasingly difficult.
too, for an independent man to get into
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1hE. PORTS OF Til. RclFIc ARE OPEN ROADsTEADS
RAILROAD P1ER AT SAN JOSE DE GUATEMALA

la a distance of twenty-seNen miles. the
fall Is nearly 1900 feet.
The ride down 10 the coast abounds IN
fine scenery. There are numerous horse
shoe curves which equal those OF the
Pennsylvania railroad. and YOU are al
ways in sight OF volcanic mountains
You wind your way out of one valley into
another. through hills covered with cat
tie. now and then seeing coffee planta-
tons and in the lowlands great fields OF
sugar.
About an hour or so from Guatemala
City you reach Lake Amititlan. above
which the towering volcanoes of Aqua
and F>uago look down and the scene re
minds you of Switzerland. Lake Amt
titan is five miles in length and not more
than two miles in width. Its water T.
beautifully clear and here and there are
hot springs which bubble up and breathe
forth steam from the surface The rail
road runs in and out along the shores ~
this lake and in one place IL crosses y
Al the time this section was built e y
Huntington was furnishing the capital
and he was surprised at the money II
took. The story is that he sent word that
If the engineers could not find enough
rock they had better wire New York
and he would send down silver dollars
enough TO make the fill.
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then a real representative of his constitu
ents, and he had some chance of initiating
legislation for their benefit. Today he is
a mere voting machine to carry into eff
feet the will of the cabinet, handful of
men. not including the king. and he has
no more chance of initiating or pushing
through legislation than the humblest
voter who helps to return him to parlia
nent
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The fact is that England today is an
oligarchy ruled by a small group of poll
ticians, and. although it looks like a
PARADOX, this state of affairs is due to
tho destruction, branch of the lcgis
laturc. of the hereditary house of lords.
hands of the people. this democratic meas
ure has placed all the power in the hands
of the politicians.
In tho old days. when the lords were
real power il was necessary. If a really
democratic measure We're to be forced
through the upper house. to have the
driving power of public opinion behind it.
That meant full and free discussion in
the house of commons and the passage
by that chamber of the bill in its most
perfect form. free from any crudities and
imperfections on which the lords might
seize excuse for defeating it. The
private member of the house of commons
had his full chance of discussion and
amendment, and he could use them
lever TO forward the fortunes of other
measures in which he interested.
Under this system. too. it was impossible
for "A government to overload It's program
as is done today, for only one big measure
could be discussed, under these condi-
also exercised their right of discussion
became law II was pretty thoroughly
thrashed cut. and every one understood
what il meant In the intervals there were
chances for those small local bills which
are of so much Importance in any stage.
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GUATEMALA CIT
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Copyright 1872 ty Frank e. Carpenter
Special Correspondence III The star.
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Leaving Port Barrios. the cars go right
into the jungle. They wind their way
through the Motagua valley. where the
soil is rich sandy loan about fifteen
feet deep. Here the rainfall is album
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mf:aon, bpwdtipttin Iiidptieud etid
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mt.
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