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MONDAY, MAY 18, 1914.
CHINA HAS A NEW CONSTITU
TION.
So enormous is the power intrusted
to the president of the Chinese re
public by the constitution just pro
mulgated that fro mour point of view
he will be less like a president than
a military dictator or head of an un
limited monarchy, and the govern
ment will be Republican in name
alone, even the form being absent.
While explicit authority to promul
gate laws at his discretion is not
given to the president by this re
markable document, his veto in all
cases is absolute, except for the sim
ple provision that he must have with
him three-fourths of his administra
tive council. This, in connection with
his right topropose such legislation as
he chooses, will in effect make him,
if a strong man, seemingly complete
master of the legislative bodies, and
those bodies the mere recorders of his
will. Should they prove recalcitrant
he can dissolve the parliament or con
gress and have a more docile one
elected.
Very obviously, this is not a con
stitution to suit us or any people with
long training under institutions more
or less free. Before condemning,
however, the production of the Chi
nese constitution builders it will be
well to remember that the wide de
parture from our ideas of republican
government may be, not the establish
ment of a new despotism in essence
indistinguishable from its predeces
sor, but a wise recognition of the
real and great differences between the
political efficiency of China’s millions
and of our own. One need not go
beyond our own continent to And
proof that constitutions modeled on
that of the United States do not pro
duce the results we get from ours for
peoples unlike ourselves, and there
fore are not necessarily best for ev
erybody.
The Chinese president, for all his |
power, will not be another emperor, I
sequestered in semi-dividinity and
issuing from a Sacred City commands
inspired by concubines and eunuchs.
He will be a man of his time, as well
as of his place, unenslaved by an
cient precedent or custom, but with
restraints and possibilities hitherto
unknown to the rulers of China. It
can safely be assumed that the Chi
nese, who are not a dull people, know
a good deal about their own coun
try, its needs and its possibilities, and
probably their great experiment be
gins with more of promise than it
would have done had they tried to
imitate the western democracies more
closely in the formulation of their
organic law.—Ex.
MEXICAN WAR PENSIONS.
Charts Allen Smith, seaman on the
l.. S. battleship South Carolina, was
. killed at Vera Cruz on April 22,1914,
while in the line of duty, and his
mother has applied for a pension, the
first application of the kind as a re
sult of the present "war” with Mex
ico. T{ie authorities at Washington
say the pension will be allowed in the
regular course of business.
According to the government pen
sion statistics there are 1,142 sur
viving Americans of the Mexican war,
each of whom is drawing a pension
of $30 a month, and there are also
5,123 widows of the Mexican veterans
who are receiving pensions. The to
tal amount paid by the government
in pensions on account of the Mex
ican war is nearly $50,000,000. No
pensions were paid for services in
the Mexican war until 1887, when the
first bill was enacted for the relief
of the Mexican veterans. The war
came officially to a close on July 4,
1848. ' ■ 1 ’
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The bids for the street lighting will
be opened this evening at the meet
ing of the city council.
FOREIGNERS READY
DEFEND SELVES
A
English, German and French and Oth
er Foreigners Have Force of 2,100
in Mexico City.
MEXICO CITY, May 18 —‘I’m the
correspondent of *the London Ex
press,” said a newly arrived young
Englishman, entering the British. Club
in Mexico City. “Just sign your
name to this list,” said the secretary.
“Drill day will be announced soon.
Every Englishman who comes here
joins the British colony vollunteers.
We’ll furnish you with a rifle when
you go to drill."
Every Englishman in Mexico City
is expected to join the volunteers.
The rifles, strangely enough, are fur
nished, in part, by the Mexican gov
ernment. There are about 700 Brit
ishers in the capital, including per
haps 100 women and children.
The Germans in the capital number*
about 1,000, including 800 men, most
of whom have served in the German
army. Drills, with the German vol
unteers, are frequent and they have
entered into the spirit of self-defense
so heartily that they have even pur
chased horses for a volunteer caval
ry.
Together with the British volun
teers the Germans would make a
fighting force in the foreign colony
of 1,500 men. There are also, per
haps, 600 Frenchmen who are pre
pared to join the force of foreign
self-defense, bring the number of “al
lies” up to 2,100.
The census of 1910, taken in the
days of peace, shows that there were
12,227 Spaniards in Mexico City at
that time and 24,212 Spaniards in all
of Mexico. It is probable that these
figures are about the same today, for
the Spaniards have not fled from the
country as have the members of oth
er nationalities. They couldn’t flee,
very well. They own all the grocery
stores not only in the capital but in
Mexico itself. The control the liquor,
or pulque business, and the tobacco
business. Much of the farming is
done by them. About the only in
terests they have left untouched are
mining, which is done by Americans,
and dry goods, which is in the hands
of the French.
It is probable because they are so
prosperous and have seized so much
of the country’s business that Span
iards are so cordially hated by Mexi
cans and are invariably mistreated
and robbed by Mexican revolution
ists. If the Spaniards in Mexico City
have organized a defense corps they
are keeping the fact a secret, in or
der not to arouse Mexican ire. If it
were known in the capital that Span
iards were arming, it might be nec
essary for the government, in order
to satisfy the populace, to take their
arms away from them.
The 400 Japanese in the capital
are fully prepared to defend them
selves but the 1,500 peaceful China
men, who do the laundry work of the
city—a business which the Mexicans
do not begrudge them—will take
what fate doles out to them, if con
ditions are disturbed.
It is a matter of fact that an army
of about 3,000 foreigners could be or
ganized in Mexico City on a few.
hours’ notice. The foreigners would
gather in the Colonia Roma district,
where nearly all of the foreign em
bassies are located.
Nubone Corsets.
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those Nubone corsets. tf
If you want an tne news all the
time, read the Prospector.
The Wlllara »cou House on me
corner of Millionaire Row and Ho
bart street will be moved back in a
few days and placed In line with the
other residences on the street, after
which a sidewalk will be built from
Court street to Wickersham avenue.
Health Notice.
In view of the fact that several peo
ple persist in throwing ashes, garb
age, etc., in the public alleys, streets
and on private premises, I herewith
publish extracts from city ordinance
covering same and will see that they
are enforced.
All receptacles containing ashes,
garbage, etc., must be covered and
rendered fly proof.
,The scavenger has offered to re
move garbage, ashes and toilets week
ly from private residences for $1.00
per month. The extracts front Or
dinance No. 27 aye as follows:
“Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the
Common Council of the Town of
Valdez, that any person who shall
throw or deposit, or cause to be
thrown or cause to be deposited in
to or upon any public street, highway,
alley or grounds, or in any gutter,
ditch, stream or creek, or upon any
private premises within the corporate
limits of the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
any glass, broken ware, dirt, rubbish,
garbage, ashes, soot, cinders, or tilth
of any kind, or any person who shall,
either as owner, agent, lessee, or ten
ant, allow to remain upon any prem
ises in his or her possession, occu
pation or control any glass, broken
ware, rubbish, garbage, ashes, soot,
cinders, or filth of any kind, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and '
upon conviction thereof, before the
police magistrate, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than five nor
more than twenty-five dollars.
“Sec. 2. Any person who shall,
either as owner, agent, lessee or ten
ant of any building, lot or ground,
within the corporate limits of the
Town of Valdez, Alaska, throw, emp
ty out, or deposit, or cause, permit
or allow the same to be done by any
servant or employee, or other person,
in any gutter or ditch, .stream or
creek, or near any inhabited place,
the suds of filthy water resulting from
the washing of clothing, or dishes,
slops from the kitchen, or other filthy
matter, or to allow suds or filthy wa
ter to stand upon such premises, or
to run or seep into the public streets
or alleys, or the premises adjoining,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof before the
Police Magistrate, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than five nor
more than twenty-five dollars.”
E. C. DALTON, M. D„
k 21 Health Officer.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERMS OF
the District Cou-rt for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, at
Dillingham, Unalaska, Unga and
Kodiak, Alaska.
The President of the United States of
America:
To the Residents of the Third Di
vision of the Territory of Alaska,
and to All Whom It May Concern:
GREETING:
You, and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by an order
of the court, duly made and entered,
a special term of the District Court
for the Territory of Alaska, Third
Division, has Been called and will be
held at Dillingham, Alaska, begin
ning on the 10th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. am.;
In the Town of Unalaska, Alaska,
beginning on the 22nd day of Aug
ust, 1914, at the hour of ten o’clock
a. m.;
In the Town of Unalaska, Alaska,
beginning on the 25th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
In the Town of Unga, Alaska, be
ginning on the 26th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a.
m.;
In the Town of Unga, Alaska, be
ginning on the 1st day of September,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a.
m;
In the Town of Kodiak, Alaska, be
ginning on the 29th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
In the Town of Kodiak, Alaska, be
ginning on the 5th day of September,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
Said Special Terms of Court will
continue as long thereafter as the
public welfare may require.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska this 13th
day of April A. D. 1914.
FRED M. BROWN, m
District Judge.
JAMES C. McREYNOLDS,
Attorney General.
Attest: ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
Date of first publication April 20,
1914.
Date of last publication May 25,
1914.
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