FINDS ENGLISH FOOD
FOR LAND TAX FAITH
it means that an American single-taxer, who has just returned from Great Britain, believes that the English people is ready to listen to the principles of the single-tax theory. And when the New York Sun says
it does not mean that the Senator from Wisconsin is a manifestation of crashing, celestial eloquence, but that he is advocating a secession from the Republican party. Can you not see, my friend, what magnificent economies of time are effected by headlines like
WATCH SPRINGS TRAP
FOR JAPANESE SPY
over a story dealing with the capture of an Oriental suspect by a sentinel at one of the Pacific Coast forts, or
SCREAMING FRIARS TORTURED
CHILD MOTHER FAINTS
which does not mean that a society of howling friars have been guilty of an atrocious crime upon an infant in the presence of its mother; or that a band of religionists are driven by torture to cries of pain, while a young mother faints at the sight. It only means that a poor mother, who has suddenly gone insane, breaks into a house of refuge, where her little boy is being cared for by a religious fraternity, accuses, without warrant, the brothers of torturing her child, and faints. Or take
FRENCH RACE WORN OUT
ENGLISH TO TRIUMPH.
These lines are not the summary of a study in national growth and decay, but expressive of the fact that a French bicycle team wins a signal victory over a group of exhausted English competitors. Do you see now how far towards the art of simplified story-telling these Americans have gone?