The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-10-16
LECTURE OF WENDELL
PHILLIPS.
ON ''sTREET LIFE IN EUROPE"

In Paris, some years ago, the lectur-
or was refused admission by sent
incl to public building, because he
wore a cap which, in France, was
only worn by servants. lie finally
convinced the sentry that he had
another cap at home and was permit
ed to go in.
"Americans think it an evidence
Of manhood to repress their emotions.
Homer made his gods whine and howl
and did not imagine he was detract-
ing from the dignity If the god, inuch
less that of man. This is thcI
sentiment in Europe. After one of
the sessions of the French Assembly,
jules Fave and thu orator Berger
fell upon each others necks and
kissed and wept. Imagine Sunset
Cox and Ben Bot er kissing each 9th
er. Laughter.
"One thing that torclbly strikes
an American In Europe is the lack OF
what he would call enterprise, hat is,
the application of brains TO wosk.
Ralph Waldo Emerson says: "A
Yankee has as much brains in his
hand as European i'll his skull
We harness steam, and send lightn
ing on crrands. A genuine Yankee
baby looks over the side of his cradle
plans new one, and gets patent
for it before he is nine months old.
Laughter. The difference between
the Yankee and the European Is
illustrated by the above, N conGec-
zion with an anecodote o. Horace
Greeley. Frenchman. whom he saw
moving with rusty..old knife: Why
dom you get good, sharp. modern
scythe? 1t will do three times as
much work. a
1.-The Frenchman's reply was full
er of economy than the Tribune ever
was: All, Monsieur, 1~shaven' +
three times the work to do a..
'In Europe, wood is sold by the
pound, and bread by the yard. I e
Italian wood sawyer places the saw
between his knees, and rubs be
wood Oh the saw. This, according TO
the lecturer, was the dead low tide
OF the application of brains to work.
I he high tide of the application of
brains to labor is found in the opera
ton of one OF our grain elevators,
which the lecturer characterized as
an instance OF the Yankee skulking
the final curse of getting his living by
the sweat of his brow.
The Europeans, he said, were
much more polite THAI the American
Ask New Yorker the way to Wall
street, and he will send you to a
place hotter than the fourth of July.
Ask an Englishman, and it is a
chance if he don't send you to the
same place. Ask Frenchman the
way to u SaLO1s, and he will direct
you with the greatest particularly.
Ask a German the way to a place,
and he will go with you.
Gin America. everybody travels N
Europe, the man who is a curios-
ity. This fact explains Montesquieu's
remark, that Paris is France Paris
pulls down king, and the matter is
accomplished before Marseilles hears
oft.
TN Europe, a,Dost everything
Is governed by eco1omy. The lectur-
eswas once instr cited in Italy by an
officer in the Frgiish navy how to
save cent.
"Thc next place where we see
Europeans i at the church, the doors
OF which are always open. In the
churches t ere is no hateful aristoc-
racy OF pews. He had seen the blood
royal Of Naples kneeling side by side
with the ragged lazzaroni- bath aqual
before God.
''ln the matter Of alms-giving, he
Europeans are far superior to us, In
America, we waste more than Italians
eat. and yet in that country he had
never seen a beggarturned away from
a house or store without having
something given to him as 2 testimony
that better-of owed something to
Worse-off.
"Women's work in Europe is