Photo from W. II. Holmes, U. S. National Museum 



A REPULSIVE IDOL 



This curious stone was found in a corn field a few hundred feet from the station at 

 Xico. in Mexico. An animal figure with a hurrian head is carved in high reHef on the 

 houlder to which it seems to be clinging. Some idea of its size can be gained from the 

 little Mexican hoy who is shown alongside it. 



The picture which then fitted Porto 

 Rico now fits Central America. The 

 laborer of Porto Rico, who then got less 

 than 20 cents a day for his work, was 

 even better off than the present laborer 

 of Guatemala, who now gets nine cents 

 a day for his. Then, seven out of nine 

 Porto Rican laborers were barefooted ; 

 today nine out of ten wear shoes, while 

 in Central America six out of seven are 

 barefooted. 



Lest it seem to appear that in compar- 

 ing Porto Rico with Central America the 

 comparison is an unfair one, let Cuba 

 be taken instead. Cuba has an area 

 somewhat smaller than Guatemala and a 

 population ap])roximately equal, and yet 

 it enjoys a foreign trade 13 times as 



large. It has an area one-fifth as great 

 as that of all of the six Central .\merican 

 republics, including Panama, and yet its 

 foreign commerce is three times as great 

 as that of all six republics together. 



GOOD GOVKKX-MEXT SPELLS PROSIM-KITV 



Jamaica, a British possession, has an 

 area only one-twelfth as great as that of 

 Nicaragua, and yet it has a foreign trade 

 three times as great. One might go on 

 with these enumerations indefinitely, the 

 lesson of them all being that prosperity 

 cannot exist where good government does 

 not. On the other hand, it is equally 

 demonstrated that poverty cannot exist 

 in the Caribbean region where good gov- 

 ernment is foimd. 



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