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STKUN work faces tlie British w?r
department. The Zulus are in up
rising. In all the vast colonial possessions
of Great Britain, there Is no point
where a rebellion Is so dreaded.
In India, where fanatical Sepoys haVe
in the past precipitated terrific con
flicts, the problem of -restoring order
i never so difficult as that which de
velops when the savage Zulus turn
from the path of peace.
The Incredible courage and ferocity
of the Zulu, together with his knowl
edge of the modern rules of warfare,
would make him a ' redoubtable foe
even if his armament consisted only
of the primitive assegai of his fore
fathers, but. unfortunately, the savage
is now in- possession of the most mod
ern equipment.
During the Boer war, the British
used th.e Zulus with great effect
against the farmers of the vcltland.
The Zulus hud . ever - hated the Ult
landers for driving them from some of
their choicest possessions in the dark
continent. They made common cause
with the British against the followers
'of Oom Paul, anil did deadly work.
Ttut after the war the Zulus, in rec
ognition of their valiant service, were
permitted to. keep their magazine -gVins,
and now these arc likely to be turned
against the soldiers of England in a
struggle that seems to unavoidable.
Through Natal and Zululand thous
ands of tha more intelligent of the
natives have been made members of
the British police. What will be their
attttuae in the event of an uprising is
hard to determine. Thus far they have
loyally served Great Britain, but this
is no guarantee for the future. The
Zulu has boundless love for his home.
and zor! for the fatherland, which w
his, undisputed, until the white man
came to despoil him. If the cry of
"Africa for the Zulu" is sent over the"
whole district the well-equipped Zulu
police may prove recreant to his trwt
and join his people in the combat
against Britain, if he does the task
that faces the war office will have in
creased in difficulty about tenfold.
"The fiercest, most bloodthirsty na
tion of fighters in all the world," is the
way the Zulus have been characterized,
and when it is remembered that in Na
tal alone there are a million of them
as Bgainst one hundred thousand white
population, it can be seen what tremen
dous havoc they .could create before
Kngland's full power. could be exerted
to restore tranquillity.
Chieftains like Bambaata and Dinl
zulu have already been hurling .defi
ance and even bullets at the British
on the frontier of Natal, and worse
still the horrid practice of sacrificing
children to make the black warriors
immune from British bullets has al
ready begun.
This custom is taken as an almost
Infallible sign of Impending rebellion
by the British colonial office.
Under ordinary' conditions, the Zulu
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One Man Who Offers as
BY DR.'PXn. J. A. SEMl.Ert.
Ml'CH is nowadays written 'and said
against and for prohibition, its
influence on the status of our per
sonal liberty, about the detrimental
effects and virtues of malt and spirituous
liquors on the human organism' and rela
tive to the regulation of the liquor traffic.
Most of the arguments In favor of the
traffic, having come under my observa
tion, are based purely upon selfish in
terests, having no logical origin, hence
no power of conviction. Therefore the
present landslide towards prohibition.
Every sane and thinking person, free
from prejudice and may be even a tem
perate drinker, like the undersigned,
can't help but .see that the continuance
of the present system in handling the
liquor traffic means the ruination of the
American people, despite the claim of
the liquor interests, that two-thirds of
the Nation's expenses are borne by tha
tax on liquor. If II was not borne by the
tax on liquor, it would be borne by an
other mode of taxation. A direct tax on
all distilled and fermented liquors should
undoubtedly be levied.
' But why should a government" like" the
United States, with its tremendous re
sources for revenue, be the means of put
ting a prize on the manufacture of death
dealing mixtures, which may be found
under a thousand different brands, of
whlHktcs, by issuing to unprincipled
wholesale Ifquor dealers what are termed
rectifying licenses. Surely Tom, Dick and
Harry must be able to obtain them, when
even the six Chinese gin joints of this
city are operating under the same. In
conjunction herewith I recall the fact
that during the past year six deaths oc
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chieftain in Ms own-rough way u fond, 0 . -r .J., , '- , , . ' v '!
of his children, and the mother passionately-
devotes herself to them.
"When she goes to work in the field
the .little ones are strapped to her
back, and her care over them Is con
stant, and no less tfevoted than the
mother love to be found in the Occident.-
But in time of warfare, when the
Interests ' of the fatherland are at
stake, all family, love must be subor
dinated to patriotism. Then the moth
ers deliver their" little girls over - to
the witch doctors. The boys are
spared because of their, duty to grow
up and become soldiers ready to fight
for their country.
Ruthlessly are the poor little gir-ls i
put to death, and from the slaughtered
bodies Is concocted a fluid which,
when rubbed over the bodies 6f. war
riors, is said to make them immune
from" the effects of British bullets.
When about to practice their incemta
tlons these wizard doctors smear their
bodies and faces with white paint.
Around their heads they wear circlets of
flsli bladders, and their bodies are garbed
in bullocks- hides. Then to the .hellish
music of native instruments they sing and,
dance about the soldiers, daubing them .
with the fluid prepared In advance.
Once annolnted thus, the Zulu has
add-d to his natural ferocity a. fanatical
belief that he is safe, that he cannot be
injured, and goes forth to battle with a
reckless contempt of danger that even
a Japanese, secure in the rewards to
come to him after death could not match.
The entire history of- the Zulu race has
been one of unceasing slaughters. Whole
epochs have been blotted' out, even tra
ditions and legends destroyed by the
epidemics -of butchery that from time to
time fall on the land and turn it into
a sea of blood.
Of late the blind courage of the people
has been regulated by a certain craft
learned from association with the white
man in his wars and his politics. This
knowledge has made the Zulu an in
finitely greater peril.
Thus Dinizulu, despite his drunkenness,
is recognized as a menace because of
his mastery of the white man's methods.
Dlnizulu lives In a -well-constructed
building, furnished in the English style,
with large mirrored, wardrobes in his
bedroom, and all the appliances of civ
ilized life. He has a-brick house for his
occasional Knglish guests and an English
valet to attend them.
He can play the graphophone, one -of
which forms a main feature of his
amusements. He is a scholar of some
pretensions, both in Zulu and English,
writes a bold. ' legible hand, and, despite
his drunkenness, which is almost per
petual, he has force and diplomacy, and
by virtue of tradition wielde over his
followers a power which cannot be
measured by the white man's standards.
rtather than disobop him any Zulu
would cheerfully die by hi own hand.
. Dlnizulu has been steadily preaching
the doctrine of insurrection, and has
View of the Liquor Question
a llcmody for Existing EvUs the Abolishment of Saloon Bars.
curred among the habitues of these
joints, .being poisoned by the concocted-,
rectified "rot gut," by the sanction of
our great and glorious Government and
In defiance to all health and police laws
of city and state.
Whether the pure-food law will remedy
tlie selling of impure liquor remains to
ho eeen. The mixing of refuse spirit with
gin and whisky oil, prunJuice, burnt
sugar, a chunk of tobacco and the re
quired amount of water is still the priv
ilege of the rectifiers, only they must
henceforth mark their containers "recti
fied" goods. How many men, after hav
ing been on a spree, remember what they
drank? I am much afraid that old "King
Noble" and "Bead Rot", brands of liquor
will be dispensed in future like In the
past. According to the Federal law, no
one im ' cllowed to rectify or mix liquors
without the required license. Yet. this
law is transgressed by most of the sa-
loonmen of the land, and the breweries
are furnishing the distilled water gratu
itously for 'the purpose. Often did I
wonder, when I have seen the drivers of
brewery wagons unload small kegs of
distilled water, for what purpose the lat
ter was used until I finally learned the
secret. To use common water In reduc
ing whisky takes too much muscle, as
it does not readily mix. We all have
heard of double distilled whisky, but
doubla rectified "booze" is what most
bars are dishing out to their patron?.
But the saloonman is compelled to 'be
saving: he pa;s enormous rents and the
brewer exacts from him 8 per barrel for
beer, the cost of which, labor and all
does not exceed 2. The smaller profit on
the beer must be nade up by doctoring
the liquor. Kor a pure food law to be
effective as far as -he' liquor traffic is
concerned, it should designate & stand
THE SUNDAY OREGO VTAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 26, 1903. , r ' ' 3
England Faces:SeriousrTrouble With
been slvlv stirring his people to war on
the British. British plans to try him
for treason have been interfered with
by the danger that the instant any at
tempt i matte to punish him the uprising
will be precipitated.
. In his appeals to his people. Dmizulu
has craftily invoked the memory of
Chak.-v that miglitv warrior of tradition
before whom none could stand, and in
the course of whose wars were destroyed
more than a million people.
After his triumph Chaka declined to let
his own chosen soldiers marry because he
said that home ties had a softening ef
fect on a soldier, and deprived him. of
that love of blood which should be the
first attribute of the true man of war.
Chaka was killed by his brother, and
still another brother killed him, and so
the historv of the -nation runs, the suc
cession passing from King to King only
throitRh the success of the aspirant to
the throne In killing off its occupant.
In fact. It is said that the only King
of the Zulus who ever died a natural
death was Pandu, who escaped assassina-
tion by pretending insanity. As maniacs
are sacred, in the Zulu code none dared
remove him, and he went to his grave I
from natural causes.
Much of the military success of the
Zulus has been due to their methods of
drilling and righting. F;ach "impi," or
regiment, is composed of 8000 men, - and
advance to the Attack is made in three
lines of battle, the ranks being filled up
quicklv bv those in the rear when the
enemy s fire proves destructive.
Dlngiswayo. a native chieftain - intro
duced the present elaborate system of
drilling- He learned it from the British
while at Cape Town, where he fled for
safety during a revolt.
ard of pure malt and spirituous liquors.
Beer, for instance, should only be
made out of hops, malt and pure water,
and - necessary materials for clarifica
tion, and remain in the aging tanks
for at least four months. It should not
be manufactured like in the majority
of America-n breweries out of extract
of rice, 'rice itself, willow bark, aloes,
nux vomica, cocculus and other dele
terious drugs, thereby enabling the
brewer to turn out beer in 16 or 17
days, each keg with a parting dose of
bicarbonate of soda to make the con
tents extra fresh and lively, and a little
hops and malt thrown in. for flavor.
The original cost- of wholesome beer
does not exceed 12.00 a, barrel. Is it,
therefore, a wonder when a brewery
concern not far from home, worth
$40,000 25 years ago, now counts its
wealth by the mill5ns? The -state, in
my estimation, suld augment the
Federal pure food lawand enact laws
compelling the brewer to make a
wholesome article. If he had done so
in the past, and the wholesale adulter
ation of spiritous liquors had hereto
fore been stopped, we would not now
virtually be compelled . to completely
eradicate an evil which,- through the
aid of bribe and graft, has grown in
tolerable, arrogant an4 domineering. A
brewer in Germany, selling impure beer
and beer not thoroughly ripened loses
his franchise, his beer is dumped into the
gutter and he himself is sent to the pen
for reflection.
Pure beer, taken in moderation, is a
nourishing food, an appetiser and tonic
sedative for the human organism, and
doea not produce Bright' and other fatal
diseases, like the stufP dished out in our
so-called breweries. Unadulterated wines,
properly matured, are a strength-giving
beverage, contained in many of the
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ZZZLZT. WARRIORS JZKEEAKED.
strictly ethical pharmaceutical prepara
tions prescribed by all physicians of the
land. For my part I prefer them without
the addition of drugs, and when taken in
moderation are to many persons a' boon
and better health. Strong liquor as a,
beverage should, according to my be
lief be avoided and treated more as a
medicine. Although .we are well aware
of their nourishing and life-snstaining
qualities, nevertheless? I cannot see a ne
cessity for their daily or habitual use,
without special reason. Yet if they. were
pure without admixture of essential and
fusel oil and other dangerous adultera
tions, the ljarm from their habitual use
would be considerably minimized. I see
through press notices that the brewers all
over the country are becoming alarmed at
the progress prohibition is- making. They
are holding conventions everywhere and
are endeavoring to stem the tide by of
fering their aid "in the movement to curb
the liquor traffic.
Did it" ever- occur to you that the crim
inal only repents when the rope is near
ing his. neck? Haven't the brewers of
bad beer and the wholesalers of bad
whisky been like Siamese twins, and held
in subjugation the keepers of dives and
other saloons? I ask the question, "Who
holds the leases to the dives in the north
end of our city?" Is'it the individual sa
loonkeeper? ' No. indeed: it Is either the
brewer or his twin brother, the wholesale
liquor dealer. Adolph Busch, the St.
Louis brewer, lately- stated In an inter
view, according to diftpatcnes in the daily
press, that he favored reform In the
liquor traffic, and added that it had cost
him over a million dollars in trying to
defeat local- option and prohibition in
Alabama and other states, I wonder
whether this million dollars went for le
gitimate expenses or whether it went into
the -bribe and graft fund? Can anyone
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believe, that such men as Busch are sin
cere in their protestations for reform?
They see that the Jig is up. ' They, know
the Supreme Court of the country has
upheld the state prohibition laws. They
know their ill-gotten . wealth and the
further accumulation of the same is at
stake, and therefore their present move
for reform comes clearly from a selfish
motive.
The temperate people of the entire
country have come to the conclusion, in
spite of the assertion that two-thirds of
the cost of running the Federal Govern
ment, is being borne, by the liquor tax,
that the burden due to the traffic is be
coming unbearable. The -costs for states.
counties and cities to maintain courts of
justice, penitentiaries, insane asylums.
poorhouses and minor jails. ' due to the
riot running liquor traffic, , by far out
weighs the total benefit in tax derived
not to mention, the misery and heart
aches created?
Among many the prevailing idea that
the excise law would curb the liquor evil
and rid us of drunkenness is in my opin
ion a mistake. Whoever wants to drink
will do so in spite of this new inven
tion. Especially the habitual drunkard
of whom we desire so much to be re
lieved. He 'is bereft of all pride and
would care little to expose his true na
ture through curtainless windows. As
long as the present .day saloon prevails,
keep it out of sight of women and chil
dren. The state dispensary system, tried
ih some states, also proved a failure.
Of all legislation enacted in the matter.
local option has-been the most successful
and reasonable. It hag driven the saloon
from the resident portions of cities and
out of the rural districts in the interior.
The greatest difficulty with the retail
liquor traffic is the at present existing
American bar and the obnoxious treating
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habit. Through the latter many persons
drink more than they want because the
inbred selfishness .of man makes' him
tarry at the bar after he has treated, to
play even, and the result Is drunkenness
or a beclouded brain at least. The aboli
tion of the treating habit alone " would
therefore be a great 'stride towards re
form. But the greatest drawback in re
forming the retail traffic is the Ameri
can bar, where people drink standing.
Abolish the bar in the saloon altogether;
have it out of sight and let no one be
allowed to brace it. Compel the retail
liquor dealer to supply tables and chairs
and serve his wares at these. Let mil
lionaire and wageworker be able to sit at
the same table. If one wants to drink
champagne at $3 per bottle and the. other
at 5c per glass, let this be their privilege
and serve them bof h alike, but let all
beverages be pure and free from adulter
ation. '
To banish all lunch out of retail liquor
establishments as the excise law pre
scribes, is tlie height of folly. On the
contrary, I would advocate the granting
of liquor licenses to eating-houses only.
To abolish the present-day bar would be
the greatest reform which might be at
tempted. Let drinking places and cafes
like I described be as free from curtains
as the restaurants and dining-rooms are
-now. No one would need to be ashamed
to patronize such inns. Make the liquor
business decent and none but decent
men will enter the same. The stigma,
now duly placed on the saloon, would dis
appear in short order. Brewers and
wholesale "liquor dealers would then find
it unprofitable to lease the prominent
business corners of the .city, pay enorm
ous revenue for same and raiBe the rents
of all other lines of business in propor
tion, because the incentive to graft
wduld be gone. With the incentive to
graft gone the incentive to bribe would
also disappear. Our state and municipal
legislative bodies as well as the .police
authorities would do their duty. Public
At the Big Cut in Panama Canal
t Battle Between Man and Nature Being Fought to a Finish.
HERE are those who have wondered
whether, apart from the tropical
weather, the difficulties of overcoming
the engineering obstacles of Culebra cut
were not overestimated. .
But when it is remembered that the nine
mile strip, varying from 250 feet to the
top of Gold Hill, west of Culebra, is com
posed of rock, slime, gravel and tropical
dirt; when it is borne in mind that the
existing prism of this canal is subject to
frequent landslides, and when it is con
sidered that this region Is washed by -a
torrential rainfall which exceeds. 12 feet
yearly, some realization of the dlfficulr
ties presented will e possible.
It is one thing to blast and shovel a
million cubic yards out of Culebra, but it
is anoth.er problem, says a writer In Out
West, so to place the excavation that il
will be out of the way for all time or so
to place it that it will protect the fanal
channel on the lowlands of the eastern
portion of the waterway.
The investigator at Culebra,. as on other
portions of the ditch,, is Impressed at the
outset with the fact that the railroad is
the key. to the situation both from an en
gineering, and a sanitary standpoint. This
canal cannot be constructed upon a trun
sewer plan. All of us have intelligent
friends who seem to think that it Is only
necessary to excavate and throw the
dirt along the banks of the' waterway.
But as the tourist obtains bis first view
of the cut at Empire he observes that the
rapidity with which the dirt trains are en
abled to move out is the measure of the
day's achievement.
Through this region; in order to assure
a prism of definite width, it has been
found necessary to increase the pro
posed width from time to - time as one
landslide followed another, and while
that Increases the total amount of th.e
excavation, it renders possible the plac
ing -of tracks one above another, to ac
commodate the dirt trains.
During the month of July, 1904, 31,000
cubic yards of dirt were excavated at
Culebra cut; one year later the monthly
excavation was upward of 80,000 cubic
yards, and during the month of July.
1906. 157,000 cubic yards were removed
from the nine-mile strips.
It is worthy of notice that on March
14, .1907, the daily excavation was greater
than the amount shovelled out during the
first month of July cited. The present
monthly excavation varies between 600,00
and 800,000 cubic yards; and with the
passing of the rainy season 1,000,000 cubic
yards a month will be the assured ex
cavation record of the Culebra army.
But back of this record of monthly
excavation and .as a preliminary condi
tion essential to the present efficiency of
f I
opinion would otherwise drive them from
places of authority.
Cafes and inns, as I have pictured, are
the retail liquor places in Germany. Th y
are patronized tiy all classes of people of .
both sexes. Families can aria do visit
such establishments without being held
up to scorn. Personally 1 have seen the
Judge. Catholic priest and Protestant
preacher of the town sitting at the same
table, discussing the questions of the day
after church on Sunday afternoon. Ill- !
mannered or indecent men are not seen '
or tolerated in these places. Prostitutes,
if not barred, are ostracized by public
opinion from visiting them. The inn
keeper in Germany, is as respected as the
banker and preacher.
There are many honorable saloonmen in
Portland. - but- their calling becomes
odious When, contrary to all laws, thieves
and robbers are granted licenses.
I recall the .occurrence to mind when a
prominent brewer pleaded for the renewal
of the license of that ersewhile notorious
fence and dive-keeper, whose resort gave
our police no end of trouble.
For any man to thus plead and for
Councilmen to be in . favor of granting
the plea is sufficient for the law-abiding
and sober public to be willing to curtail
its own personal liberty and vote the
liquor traffic, bag and baggage, out of .
existence.
The brewers and liquor men are respon
sible for the present revolution against
the traffic, because they adulterated their
products and criminally abused their
privileges.
I am not a-prohibitionist, and therefft-e
willing to first try stringent laws for the
prevention if tlie adulteration of beer,
wine 'and liquors before I forego my per
sonal liberties and join the prohibition'
ranks.
Abolish the bar and treating system,
Jajl all bribe-gtvers and bribe-takers, and
let every -one try to cultivate that power
of will and be imbued with sufficient self
respect whiclv will prevent us from be
coming a nation of chronic tipplers and
drunkards..
the Culebra army is the story of the
conquest of the Isthmian jungle. The
canal cut proper has been a constant
source of trouble to the .health division.
In many instances outlets for drainage
are impracticable and the water supply
can only be ditched In one pool." The
progress of each steam shovel leaves In
its train new and varied drainage prob
lems. This has .necessitated constructing.
pools by filling in, deepening ditches, con
fining the water by rough stone walls,
and ditching the large side pools, thus ,
turning alt the water into the main ditch,
where the current slowed down, and this,
unfavorable to mosquito breeding. Drip
barrels of oil have been placed at-points,':
where the current sloed down, and this,
combined with the rapidity of the cur
rent, has reduced mosquito breeding in
the canal cut to a minimum.
Tbe malarial reports of the district
physicians being tabulated, the number
of cases In the different camps is -compared
with that of the previous three
weeks. If there is a decided increase of
malaria at any camp the Inspector of
that district is telephoned to look for
the point of infection.
The .mosquito inspector takes -the . list
and goes over the whole ground In order
of greatest Increase, locating, or confirm
ing the point of infection, and reports
upon the measures best adapted for the
removal of the same. All the laborers
of the district who can be spared from
the daily routine work are at once con
centrated at that point to make a swift
;and effective end to the mosquito breed
ing places. ' '
- Overlooking tbe Kooe City.
BT GRANT WTLLIAMS. '
I am standing today On the evergreen hills,
-Looking: down where the winding Willam
ette flows by,
Xnd the songs I would' sing, and the rapture
that thrllln,
Only you understand only Just you and D.
And 1 gaze far across at that deep ridge of
blue.
Where those white-hooded sentinels tower
on high.
And the promise I . see in that God-given
' view.
Only you understand roniy Just. you and I.
At my feet teeming cities, far and wide val-'(
leys fair, .
A world In a world at a sweep of the eye.
And the proud crown of Destiny hovering
there,
Only you understand only Just you and I.
You have. been there, as 1, on that far-seeing
crest;
You have drunk In the glories of land and
of sky?
And the dumb thights that struggle to
burst from my breast.
Yoy and I understand only just you
and I.
Portland, Or.'