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I take refuge in the large experience and 

 ripe judgment of Lord Curzon, of Kedle- 

 ston, who in July, 1904, was given the 

 freedom of the city of London in Guild- 

 hall, and on that occasion used these 

 words : ''Depend upon it, you will never 

 rule the East except through the heart, 

 and the moment imagination has gone 

 out of your Asiatic policy your empire 

 will dwindle and decay." 



I am also impressed with the correct- 

 ness of Lord Morley's attitude. Speak- 

 ing in support of the Indian reform pro- 

 posals two years ago, he said : "The 

 Founder of Christianity arose in an 

 Oriental country, and, when I am told 

 that Orientals always mistake kindness 

 for fear, I must repeat that I do not be- 

 lieve it, any more than I believe the 

 stranger saying of Carlyle, that after all 

 the fundamental question between any 

 two beings is, Can I kill thee, or canst 

 thou kill me? I do not agree that any 

 organized society has ever subsisted upon 

 either of those principles, or that brutal- 

 ity is always present as a fundamental 



postulate in the relations between rulers 

 and ruled." 



And Curzon and Morley have many 

 supporters in their view. In smug com- 

 placency, you may close your doors 

 which look toward Asia, while you open 

 wide those which look toward Europe ; 

 you may refuse the Oriental admission 

 to your schools, while you accord the 

 privilege to any child of a European ; 

 you may pile import duties mountain 

 high, and raise our standards of living 

 to any pitch of extravagance ; you may 

 build warships without limit, and you 

 may continue to treat the Asian as legiti- 

 mate prey. But I am confident that it 

 will not avail. 



As a soldier, whether at Omdurman, 

 in the Sudan, or on 203-Metre Hill, at 

 Port Arthur, the man of color has shown 

 himself a right good fighting man ; in 

 commerce he has, by his industry, per- 

 severance, ingenuity, and frugality, given 

 us pause ; and before the eternal throne 

 his temporal and his spiritual welfare are 

 worth as much as yours or mine. 



SOME MEXICAN TRANSPORTATION SCENES 



By Walter W. Bradley 



With Photographs by the Author 



IN Mexico one may find all of the 

 modern conveniences of travel and 

 transport, including the Pullman, 

 automobiles, and electric street railways ; 

 for, in Mexico City, the capital of our 

 sister Republic, they have quite as com- 

 plete and effective a street and suburban 

 system of electric railways as is to be 

 found in any city of the United States. 

 While this is true, it is not the intention 

 of the present sketch to describe any of 

 the above modes of travel ; but rather to 

 depict some less familiar scenes, which 

 are in part at least the relic of earlier 

 days. 



The contrast seen in these ancient and 

 modern methods side by side is striking. 



at times. The writer one day on the out- 

 skirts of Mexico City while riding on an 

 electric car passed a "peon" (laborer) 

 carrying on his shoulder a wooden plow, 

 such as we read of as in use in Palestine 

 in the time of Christ. Picture i shows 

 burros packing straw through the streets 

 of the city, and was taken while passing 

 in front of the cathedral, which fronts 

 on the main plaza. The electric street- 

 car tracks may be noted in the fore- 

 ground. 



Picture 2 illustrates the use of oxen for 

 motive power in transportation. The 

 Mexicans do not use a shoulder yoke for 

 oxen, but a single stick of timber is. 

 lashed with heavy leather thongs to the 



