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EURASIA
By Chris. Evans

PREFACE.
In "Eurasia" the author describes an ideal republic where many of the
problems that confront us are worked out. The book describes in an
interesting and readable way how government is administered in this
ideal republic. The government is one in which women take their full
share of responsibility, the school children are trained in the problems
they will meet in life, and more emphasis is laid on character building
than on the dead languages. The children of both sexes are taught
useful trades. All school children are taught to swim. The idle are
employed in the construction of roads, canals and irrigation works. The
problems of distribution are so arranged that the worker receives a
more equitable reward for his labor.
The author, Chris. Evans, speaks with a firsthand knowledge when he
discusses the army prison management and the administration of law.
Mr. Evans, who was born in Vermont, is an old cavalryman, having
served in the Civil War. After the war he served with the cavalry in the
West, fighting Indians.
CHAPTER I.
A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE.
One pleasant afternoon in the month of May, 19--, I launched my boat,
and after rowing about half a mile from shore I shipped my oars,

stepped the mast, hoisted sail and reclining on a cushioned seat at the
stern with my hand on the tiller, I waited for a breeze to spring up, and
whilst so doing I fell asleep. How long I slept I know not, for when I
awoke my boat was close to shore, and to my' astonishment I was in
strange waters. I went ashore, when I was accosted in English with a
foreign accent by a venerable looking man with the question: "Where
did you come from?" I replied: "From the United States of America,
and what country is this?" His answer was Eurasia, and beckoning to a
man in uniform, who was passing by and who immediately joined us,
he told him that I was from the United States of America and did not
know what country I was in. The official addressed me very kindly and
invited me to accompany him, and leaving the boat in charge of my
first acquaintance, with instructions to take good care of it, he escorted
me into the city and left me at a hotel with a request that I would permit
him to call on me the next day at ten a. m., and he would show me all
the principal buildings and introduce me to the President, "who I have
no doubt will be delighted to see you." At the appointed time he arrived,
and, taking my place by his side in an automobile driven by electricity,
we passed in succession the buildings occupied by the different
Departments of State, and stopped in front of a modest building set
back a short distance from the street, and at the