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THE AZ" OF THE "CLACK.r
Lord Kitchener, who, formerly o Wis
count, has just been made an earl.
His majesty's cOnsul-aGent I'm Egypt,
ms he IL now called, Ii one of the
less active members Of the "CIacik,' -
but not its least determined one.
1t is notable exception for the pawn
stands for plain humanity, the rest for
the trappings Of circumstance.
With an American friend the writer
heard the Archbishop of Canterbury
speak at a recent gathering in the
Mansion. House in connection with the
hundred years of peace celebration.
and 1t was agreed that he looked a
man with bent for statecraft, though
his innate humanity was evident and
he gave voice to wish for a history
of the war of Independence and the
events leading up to it that would be
free from partisan bias on whichever
side. In politics. Of course, he is a
tory by the nature Of things. 1T fs az
difhcult." said the friend in parlia-
ment. with striking metaphor. ito
imagine a liberal archbishop as to
Imagine one OF the principal cherubims
staggering into Steve BrodiSe saloon
on the Bowery. OF course. the union
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now too well known to need reiter-
alton. The. Londonderry party. In
fact, consisting as it does OF the fab
ulously rich marquis and his clever
Carson, Lord and Lady Lansdowne.
whose daughter. the Duchess OF De-
vonshire. is mistress of the robes to
Queen Mary, the redoubtable Capt.
Craig and one or two others. may be
said to form smaller camarilla with
in the larger one which Is never weary
of plotting and wire pulling with the
view to preventing. at whatever cost.
Ireland.
Far from lukewarm in this cause,
too is that shrewd and experienced
courtier and old hand in politics. the
Archbishop of Canterbury, who as su-
preme head of the Protestant sect
which believes itself most threatened
by Roman Catholic ascendency in Ire
land is less fervid only than the
Marchioness of Londonderry herself in
depicting the real or imaginary dan
gers of home rule to the royal lady,
who never doubts their disinterested-
ness and who, by a careful and relent-
less policy of social exclusion, they
prevent from ever coming in contact
with any one capable of presenting Inn
pressively the other side Of the pic
ture.
Exactly what part the Archbishop of
Canterbury, who, under the constitu-
tion, is the first person in the kingdom
after the king and queen, played In
the the recent army crisis it s mpossi,
pass without comment that the pri-
mate was a frequent caller both at
Buckingham Palace and at 10 Down
ing street, the prime minister's official
rec urhi OF nd 10
everywhere believed that his sympa-
thies are entirely with the revolving Of
hcers at the Curragh. For If there is
one tenet that the cabal of today holds
the army and navy of these islands
are "the kings army and navy" and
that the military forces Of the crown
should be susceptible of use as a sort
of pretorian guard should a case arise
in which the personal views of the
sovereign happened to run counter to
the law of the land.
''On this issue of the king versus the
people," remarked the member of par
lament already referred to, 1.-The gov
ernment could if 1t had chosen, have
swept the country and secured itself
an Indefinitely renewed lease of power
and an added prestige that would have
enabled it to enforce home rule and
to have carried all the other measures
which it's members desire to place on
the statute books.
Instead Of taking this bold course,
what has the cabinet done? It has de-
liberately pushed the question of royal
supremacy as far out of sight as It can
be hidden. and why? Because all of
these liberal ministers. even Lloyd
George himself, are dominated by that
latent reverence for royalty which is
the one real religion that this country
has left. All that the king has to
do is to pat any one OF them on the
head and his manhood oozes out
talk about the sovereign's really hay-
ing little or no power and being only
a figurehead IL the merest cant. Az q
fact the king. under the constitution,
has some very real powers. but what
eal,y enables him to dominate, as he
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feeble compared to that which the
Archbishop of Canterbury, as head OF
her church, exercises over the consort
of the sovereign.
Like all women in governing posi-
tions." said one who is in a position to
know whereof he speaks to the present
writer. the queen is priest-ridden. nor
is this the first, time that the Arch
bishop of Canterbury has acted as ad-
wiser to royalty, for, as dean of Wind
sor and the favorite clergyman of Queen
Victoria DR.. Randall Davidson is known
to have enjoyed the confidence of Queen
Victoria, and to have counseled her in
many matters" A born courtier. though
by no means a man of small ability. his
rise in the church was rapid. He is, in
fact one of the few men who have
reached the primacy without having
held a benefice. and once. at meeting
of the Kent Chess Association, he de-
c1ared that though he was not bril-
liant chess player he could claim to
represent all the pieces except the
pawn. He had, he added had a great
deal to do with kings and queens, had
lived in two castles and was both a
knight and bishop. Except the pawn"
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does dominate. or rather as the queen
does, is the feeling that exists under
the skin of practically every one in
this country, that monarchy is heav-
en-sent institution against which it
were impious to rebel.
mo one realized this more keenly
than Queen Victorai. who. it recently
has come to be known. was strongly
ayerse to the appointment of civil
through competitive examination. Be
cause as she shrewdly observed, the
moment you make merit the basis Of
their appointment you lessen simultan-
eously their loyalty to the throne
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of church and state is the main plank
in his platform. and no candidate for
the position who was suspected OF
being unsound in this respect would
have ghost Of show for the ap-
pointment"
No one suspects the archbishop OF
endeavoring to play Richelieu. nor even
Mazarin. Unlike the two French cardi-
nails. he has no real power, and he
realizes this to the full. His role Is
that of wire puller. for which he is ad
mirably qualified. That he is a born
courtier many good stories testify.
One who knew both DR.. Davidson and
the late DR.. Temple. whom the present
primate succeeded as archbishop, de-
clared that they reminded him of silk
and sack cloth. He tells how the two
prelares were seated at dinner on
either side of Queen Victoria. And
you were appointed to Exeter in 1867 -
said the queen to Temple. How won
derful that your majesty's mind should
retain such details" interposed pr:
growled Temple, I've just told her.
By birth the archbishop is a Scot
who first saw the light in 1s4s His
health never has been good since, as q
boy. charge from a gun entered the
base of his spine. Every autumn he is
threatened with peritonitie and for
months at a time he lives on nothing
but milk food. But luck" IL one can
call it that. has been with him ever
since, as a student of Trinity College,
Oxford. he chummed UP with young
Crauford TAFT, the son Of the Arch
bishop TAFT. whom, after his death, he
succeeded as the primate's chaplain. A
few years later he married the daugh-
ter of his archi-episcopal patron and
eventually became chaplain at Windsor,
where one Of his first sermons delight
ed Queen Victoria. who at once took
him up. In 1891 he was promoted to
the see Of Rochester. and was trans
lated" to Winchester in 1873. He be-
came Archbishop Of Canterbury in 1903
in succession to Temple, having pre-
viously declined one offer of the post.
The youngest primate record, he
has been described as clothed in arm
or of imperturbable blandness." He is,
in fact. essentially a diplomatist who
has strayed, as 1t were. into the church.
and from the first he has governed by
policy. and not by emotion or mood
The other two members OF the
"clack. the Duke Of Connaught and
Lord Kitchener. are. of course as lord
governor general of Canada and his
majestys consul-agent in Egypt respec-
theater OF events to be described as
active" but both, it is said. hold
strong views, and contrive, by means
0f correspondence, to have considerably
more than finger In the English DO.
litical pie. : .1r,-I
Copyright, 1914. by Curtis Browu.)
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the same depth. Some gold is being
found in the River Quisere, which
is about fifty miles long. The Quisere
flows over bed of quartz upon which Is
an alluvial deposit containing gold that
could be worked by the use of dredges
There are also quartz deposits in the
neighborhood Of these rivers. and the
placer miners report the finding OF
quartz. visibly incrusted with gold
There Is one quartz vein in Santa Rosa
caled the Clemente, whose every test
shows gold:
II
The great difficulty. however, is In the
getting in of machinery and the reduction
Of the ores. So far there are practically
no means Of transportation
And this brings me to the question of
communications. South America is al
the beginning of great railroad era
New lines are being built in nearly all of
the republics of the southern half of the
continent. and many roads have been pro-
jected to open up new territory. There
are several already planned and sur
veyed that will materially affect eastern
Bolivia. One Is the extension Of the
Antofagasta railroad which runs from
great tin mining town of Uyuni. and
thence on to the plateau of the Andes,
ending here at La Paz. This line has
built q branch from Uyuni to the town of
Tupiza, and it Is now within short dis
tance of the Argentine railroad system.
Only about 100 miles remain to be built.
but when this is completed there will be
a tranecontinental route across Bolivia
from the Pacific ocean to the Atlantic.
This road will pass through the southern
part of the country. and not very far
away from the oil fields.
Another poSsibi1ity of opening up east
,ern Bolivia lies in the railroads the Bra
zilians are building into Matto Crosse.
They have surveyed lines to. connectsthe
Atlantic seacoast at the Bay of Sac Fran
cisco with the cattle regions Of Matto
Crosse within a short distance of the
Bolivian boundary.
The pastures of Matto Crosse will sup
port millions of stock. and they are only
about as far from Sac Paulo. the great
city Of southern Brazil. as from New
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but just now it Is not possible to send
them down to Buenos Aires on account
Of the heavy freight rates Of the steam
ers on the Paraguay and Parana rivers.
So far all of the Bolivian railway
building has been confined to the pla-
teau and its connections with the Pa
cific coast The most of the cities are
still inaccessible except upon mules.
and there are towns of twenty and
thirty thousand and more that can be
railroads there are practically no hotels
At for a white man to live in. The
country inns are more like stables than
anything else, and in the out-of- the
buy food of the Indians or to obtain
quarters in their huts for the night.
The beds Of the inns are platforms
made Of stone or sun-dried brick. and
the bedding is often lousy and dirty.
should be supplied with rugs, heavy
boots and a rubber coat or poncho. He
should also carry along some pro-
visions.
During my stay here 1 have gone over
the exhibit that Bolivia has prepared
for the San Francisco exposition. A
large part of this comes from eastern
Bolivia. 1t includes. with other things,
samples of fine timber found there.
About one-fifth of that whole country
Is covered with trees. The area is as
large as the state of Missouri and the
timber is about the finest in South
America. Some of 1t is SO hard 1t will
turn the edge of an AK, and a great
deal of 1t takes a beautiful polish. The
cabinet woods include ebony. walnut,
mahogany. cedar and lignum- vitae.
Some of the trees are of great girth
and height. and the wood is so heavy
that it will not float. 1t will require
railroads or steamers to bring it to the
markets. There are also many rubber
treasures that bear the silk cotton
and those producing vegetable wax.
Samples of all these products will be
sent to San Francisco =
- -.1f "a .ni -'sIsap Ws,4,pI" "s.r
Among the exhibits from the same
region are cacao and tobacco. and also
Indian corn. Eastern Bolivia promises to
be one of the great corn countries Of
the future Corn grows well not only
in the low valleys, but everywhere
throughout the plains I have described.
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which. on exactly the same principle by
which the famous cabal got its name
has been christened, by those who know
OF its existence. THE Clack."
VI YOU have not forgotten your English
history lessons YOU will not need to be
tc-rinded what the cabal was nor what
4 did 1t took its name from the initial
letters Of the five chief councillors of that
careless. plcasure-loving king. Charles
the il-namely. Clifford. Ashley-Cooper,
Buckingham. Arlington and Lauder
dale. and it was, declares Montgom-
cry. simply government of debauches.
whose sole object was to advance their
own private interests by making the king
supreme 1t was to Charles the lis time
what the political ring is to our own"
So much for the historic c. A. B. A. L.
It's modern replica. the "Clack" is far
from being a government of debauchees
indeed, one OF its membehs is an arch
bishop and another one of the greatest
ladies and most brilliant women in the
and. But the policy of the camarilla
OF today is Identical or almost identical.
with that OF the cabaI-namely, to fur
ther the interests of the class which II
represents. and of which the sovereign
is of course, the head. by buttressing up
monarchy and the status quo Whereas,
however, Lords Clifford. Ashley-Cooper.
Puckingham Arlington and Lauderdale
cast their malign influence over the king
himself. the. with one exception highly
placed members of the "Clack' weave
their spells about the kings gracious
consort. who. as is well known. is verit-
ably the predominant partner.
1t is Queen Mary's word that goes"
al Buckingham Palace. King George
weak and easygoing and yet, those who
know him best aver. capable like many
other unstable characters. of mule-like
obstinacy. is ruled absolutely by his in
vhile the fact that the queen in her
turn is dominated by influences which
are aggressiveiy hostile TO the policy of
her husbands official advisers OF the
moment appears to have recently been
stated openly in the United States, al
though as yet only one of the aristocrat-
&c members of the powerful "Clack has
been mentioned there by name.
The man who tore away one corner OF
the veil which thus far has screened the
members of the new cabal was. of course
Patrick Egan. formerly American min
lister to Chill who. while presiding over
a meeting Of New York Irishmen. al
luded to the Marchioness of Londonderry
as asserting her influence on Queen
Mary with a view to securing the ex-
clusion of Ulster
Either however. the speaker did not
know or DID not think it advisable to
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= Hs 4,
The 0ptimist.

A NEW YORK ministed is noted for his
happy fund of anecdote., l-sr4c
detest the shallow optimist," he
said at recent vegetarian banquet in
New York II detest the shallow optinl-
list who. shutting his eyes to the num-
neriess evils that surround u.s. insists
that the world is getting better.
This man. In fact. reminds me Of the
nurse whose mistress said: aif
Was Johnny good At the party.
nurser y e@s. .-.-. fl
oh, yes, nna'am.' she replied He
only broke two vases and licked four
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COUNTRY HOUSE IN EASTERN BOLIVIA.

York to Cleveland The Brazil Land and
Cattle Company has formed an alliance
with one Of the large packing companies
of the United States. and they are now
erecting packing houses at Sac Paulo.
The cattle of Matto Crosse will be sent
there by railroad and will be killed,
dressed and frozen preparatory to their
export to the United States and Europe.
The short extension of this projected
road would reach the cattle fields of
eastern Bolivia and bring them much
nearer the seaboard than our cattle fields
west of the Mississippi, from where we
have shipped vast quantities Of meat to
Europe.
Another probability of the near future
is that railroads will be built from the
livia to Corumba, Brazil. with railway
center at Santa Cruz The latter town
lies in the heart Of the petroleum terri
tory, and it will eventually be great
railroad center.
A line has been surveyed from there to
the Marmore river. which runs into the
Madeira and on to the Amazon. and in
the far future this may be extended
through the Amazon valley to Iquitos.
Another road has been surveyed from the
city of Cochabamba, high up in the
mountains southeast of La Paz, to con-
meet with the Santa Cruz extension
where it joins the Marmore. All of these
lines. with the exception Of the southern
connection with the Ar8entlne system,
are in the future. However, the Bolivian
government has decided that the Andean
regions and the eastern plains must be
united and it is planning railroads to that
end. The Argentine government is anx-
ious to build its railroads into its unde-
veloped territories known as the Chaco.
and Paraguay has been invited to extend
the railway from Asuncion into eastern
Bolivia with a terminal at Santa Cruz.
F&t -;..-z (.
At the present time eastern Bolivia is
practically inaccessible and it cannot be
opened up to colonization until railroads
are built There is no way to get into
the country excepting on foot or on mule
back. and no way to get the crops out
When the railroad is completed to Co
rumba the cattle can be driven there and
shipped to the markets Of eastern Brazil;
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Wales is nothing short of unholy, while
to such a feudal landlord as the Marquis
of Londonderry with his $4,000 inherited
acres the Welslman's land scheme rep
resents sheer robbery.
Above all,' declared the politician
already quoted. ''the members OF the
'clack' oppose change. They are the
'haves.' and, as such. they regard any
drastic change in social or political con-
ditions in this country as inimical to
their interests. So as Lloyd Georgism,
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wall of mountains and plateaus running
through it from north to south, Bolivia,
until now. has been practically hermit
land. 1t has no seaport. and until with
in the past generation it had no railway
connections with the rest of the world.
Today the best part of it is unknown.
refer to that on the eastern slope of the
Andes. The discoveries so far have been
confined to the high plateau, upheld be-
tween the two ranges of mountains This
plateau is on the roof of the world 1t is
great plain as big as the state of Ohio,
situated at height of from two and
half to three miles above the sea. 1t is
walled in by mountains, and Is so poorly
watered that it produces only the scanty
grass upon which the alpacas and llamas
feed 1t is bleak and barren and the
winds that sweep over it are so cutting
that often wear face mask to protect
my complexion. This is knitted of alpaca
wool. 1t covers the whole of my head,
having only small holes for my eyes and
mouth.
Nevertheless this plateau is one of the
treasure vaults of the world. containing
vast deposits of silver and gold. copper
and tin West of this plateau is the
desert. descending into the borax lakes
and, nitrate fields Of Chile and east of 1t
ID the main wall of the Andes. on the
other side of which are vast plains that
slope gently to the Amazon and Parana
river systems. 900
Bolivia is a wonderful country. 1t has
all-told an area of more than 100000
square miles. You could put New Eng
land and all of the middle states and all
the southern states except Texas inside
If. and there would still be room to spare
Nevertheless. it has only about as many
people as Chicago. and its pure whites
do not number more than the population
of either Memphis, Tenn, or Bir-
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Thus royalty. especially as typify-
ing all the force Of arfstocracy. class
and privilege in England, can effective
ly block the legislative machinery when
1t wills or when it finds its own pre-
negatives threatened, and thus IL Is that
this modern cabal. this little reaction
ary 'claok' working through the queen.
is able to impose its will upon the
democracy of England"
Even more profoundly anathema In
the eyes Of this ''clack' than home rule
itself 10 what has come to be known
as Lloyd Georgism." 10 the Arch
bishop of. Canterbury. Of course, the
cha ncellor of the exchequer's scheme for
the disestablishment 81 the church In
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lS1OR1, they say.
repeats itself. Two
centuries and a
half ago England
was ruled by a
ca'oal. Today the
destinies not only
of England, but of
the whole empire
are Influenced pro-
foundly. If not ac-
tually controlled,
b V a camarilla,
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An Unexplored En-

An Unexplored En-
pire and the New
Railroads Proposed to
Open 1.-THE Oil
Fields of the Chaco,
Which Are 200 Miles
Long Vast Timber
Regions-Rubber and
Quinine and the In
dian Competition With
South America - Bo-
livia's Exhibit at San
Francisco-Great Pos
sibilities in Tea and
Cocoa Cotton Planta-
tions Two Miles Above
the Sea-Twenty-fve
Varieties of Indian
Corn.
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BOLIVIA
out from the headwaters of the Benz. and
the gravel of that stream shows color all
the way down to the Amazon. It is be-
neved that great part of the treas
ures Of the Incas came from the Beni:
and the English and American miners
are prospecting in that region today.
Gold Is being found in Matto Crosse,
just across the borders from eastern Bo-
livia- They are working placers in the
provinces Of Santa Javier and also in
Santa Rosa, where during the dry sea-
SON they bore from thirty to forty-five
feet down into the beds Of the canals
and wash the dirt. Many of the rivers
Of eastern Bolivia have never been pros
pected. They have a deep undercurrent.
and run over slate and granite so that
the rough tools and clumsy methods SO
far used have not proved efficient, except
where there are alluvial deposits thrown
up by the streams.
These deposits are usually about
three or four feet wide. and of about
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AM amazed at the
disco V eri e s now
III a king in the
backwoods Of Bo-
livia. Lying in the
m i d die of t h e
S o ut h American
continent, s e pa :
rated from the Pa
cific ocean by a
trackless d e s ert,
which belongs to
Chile. with a great
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the one vital thing about the present
governments policy. represents progress,
reform. in a word. change. all the power
Of the 'clack,' as representing the won
derful. almost incalculable. influence of
the aristocracy in this county. is thrown
against Lloyd George. who. more than
any other man in political life. these
privy advisers of the queen would best
Not the least vehement in this respect
is the third, and by all odds the most
intellectual, of the members Of the
"clack." Harold Cox, who. until his de-
most brilliant members of the house OF
commons. What, it may be asked is this
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THE ROYAL MEMBER OF THE
LATER-DAY CABAL.
The Duke of COnnauEht, who In one of
the leading figures of the secret
Camarilla. which rules England
through it's queen.
who discussed the situation with the
writer a day or two ago. has all but
succeeded in wrecking the most powerful
government of modern times in England,
and which has largely succeeded in side
tracking the greatest progressive pro-
gram attempted in recent years.
What are the politics Of the &C. L.
A. C. k? To begin with, 1t Is reso-
lutely and implacably opposed to
home rule. the fact that Lady London
derry's masterful husband is the real
genius of the Ulster movement being
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MODERN
Spcclal Correspondcnce nf Emo Star

LONDON, August 6, 1914.
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Gopyrighted, 1914. by Frank G. Carpenter3