The Washington times., 1920-11-26
Today
One Big Immigrant.
Only 500 Years Ago.
The Greek Frogs.
A Rockefeller Gift.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE.
tcopyright. 1880.


their own religion. The ten thou
sand Russians will help Mexico.
What that country needs is greater
dilution OF its dark Indian blood.
That will form a useful mixture
later, but there Is too much OF 1t
now. The people OF Mexico.
through the natives. are too near
the barbarism of the late Stone
Age, inconceivable to us.
Wells, in his admirable Outline
Of History" reminds you that:
"It Is not more than five hundred
years since the great empire OF the
Axtecs still believed that it could
only live by the shedding OF
blood"
Every year in Mexico hundreds
Of victims died in this fashion:
The body was bent like box
over the curved stone Of sacrifice,
/ the breast was slashed open with
q knife Of Obsldian, and the priest
tore out the beating heart OF the
still living victim.
That victim" Of the Mexicans,
only five hundred years ago, was
a human being, and the victim,
like the crowd watching his agony,
believed that God was well pleased
with the performance. We our
selves are not so far advanced,
since many of US believe that the
present and actual Ruler Of this
universe was until recently
pleased with animal victims and
the smell of their burning flesh.
We are more advanced than our
Mexican brothers, however for
that race, so near the curved stone
of sacrifice, has a good deal to do
with present Mexican affairs.
Our race is removed by ten
! thousand years from human sac
rifice. And we we're studying the
stars and charting their move
ments when Mexico was still
studying the entrails OF human
victims and counting the beat OF
a quivering heart
The colonist that Mexico ought
to invite within her borders is the
United States Government. Mex
leo would annex the United States
as much, in proportion, as TINS
country would annex Mexico:
Brilliant Mexican orators would
be welcome in our House and Sen
ate, and before long all Mexico
would look and prosper like Texas,
California, and other States OF
this Union that were recently
part of Mexican soil. We ought
to help the Mexicans with that
program. Perhaps Senator Hard
ing will do it. A fine epitaph
would be:
"He located the southern boun.
Diary OF the United States south
Of the Panama canal"
In Athens the Greeks give a
great reception to their princes,
brothers of Constantine, driven out
in war. One prince is carried on
the shoulders Of the mob.
The frogs croaked and begged
until they got a king. The Greeks
will get the king they want. When
a nation is not ready or fit for free
dom. it is fortunate in knowing its
own unfitness. Not everybody
should try to go into business for
himself.
John D. Rockefeller has given to
a fund for women and children
sixty-three millions of dollars, in
addition to ten millions given pre-
viouslv to that fund, in honor of
Mr.. Rockefeller's wife, who died
five wears ago. Mr.. Rockefeller's
gifts to public uses, as many as
were publicly made, now amount
to four hundred and seventy-five
million dollars.
How fortunate are people that
have not sense enough to supply
their own needs from the nations
unlimited wealth that citizen
like Rockefeller should appear
with intelligence to gather money,
self control to save 1t, and gen.
erosity to distribute IL. The world
improves. A little while ago a
man as rich as Rockefeller would
have invested all that money in
great cathedrals, or other futile
efforts to save his soul from future
flames.
Rockefeller spends the money to
save other men from sleeping
sickness, hookworm, yellow fever;
10 save other mems children from
infantile paralysis. He. KNOWS
that hookworm and yellow fever
are real Not 80 sure, perhaps,
about that ancient germ, the worm
that dieth not.
More and more men realize that