Captain Leary Recalled From Guam
By Editor
CAPTAIN LEARY, the American ruler of the island of Guam, is to be recalled. The reason of his recall is said to be that he has issued too many decrees. It was one of his decrees that sent a certain Catholic church official away from the island. Another decree forbade all Catholic feast-day demonstrations, and abolished concubinage. Two of his decrees prohibited the selling of intoxicating liquors in the island or the importation of liquor. It was necessary that the government should recall Captain Leary in order to be consistent with its own position on the canteen question. Of course Captain Leary had no right to forbid feast-day demonstrations, unless the demonstrators undertook to compel American citizens to uncover and bow down in the presence of the procession, as they attempted to do some months ago in New Mexico.