Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-25
FRENCHMAN'S OPINION OF
AMERICA.


EDITOR APPEAL: l hereby send you an
article which end in the New York Courier
des Etats- Unis, and which translate. 1t is an
eminent Frenchman's opinion .of Americans.
BoLDNEss, BoLDsEss
Mr. A. Scholl writes under this title
brilliant fantasia" as he calls it, in Paris
newspaperin honor of American 'g aheaditv
ness" for the purpose of stimulating French
activity and French indivaduslism, which he
aecusss of growing sleepy ia the routine,
while the other nations advance
Glow the national character, thoughtless,
audacious, adventurous, has, by the most I'M
foreseen evolutions, become timid, inactive
and bourgeois The useless reasoning has IN
everything and every where taken the place of
action Now it is by action that people live
! and progress. The routine paralyzes as; under
frivilous appearances We are slower than the
Hollanders and more sn perstltlous than the
Hottentots. The Hsages which We tolerate,
our civilization, and our codes do not respond
either to our aspirations or to our necessl-
ties. That which should protect us Expresses
us. We are as if enclosed in one of the ancient
strongholds, surrounded by walls which would
not resist the modern engines of war ten
minutes. The population suffocates benin d
these ramparts, which have become useless
but it is forbidden to take picka1 there and
open an th,r horizon.
The principal cause for this crampsd state
| in which We struggle, in pleasing faith In oul
pretended superiority. 1t is high time that
We had lost it, The superiority of arms
Russia has crushed as. The Commercial
superiority 2 The United States and England
have cut the grass under our feet. There re-
mains to as half marine and some half col
onies Nothing but our sanity has remained
to US whole and entire.
To our illusory devise, liberty, equality, fra
ternity the Americans respond. &c ahead
Business Liberty, they take it; equality
they practice it; fraternity, they impose IT
The France Socialists, these thinkers with
out arms, only dream of grouping, of assoei
alton But each groupe implicated chief
each association ruling minority. 10 these
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| vidual, the mass going freely over free soil
where everyone is his own soldier, only count
ing on his own work, on his ewn energy
The Americans are everywhere; they search
the world as we do drawer to find soma
thing in it. They know nothing that is I'm
productive, they think that all parts of tn
globe can be explored, and they go ahead, II
railroads, in schooners, in canoes, on horse
back, and on foot, trying to sell or barter
They buy, they transport, teyh sell, enjeyin!
life and laughing at death. Business Al
trades are good to them. 1t is necessary trs
to earn money in order to spend it.
They fear no danger. 1t is the danger tina
fears them. They are not proud; lawyer be
comes waiter at a hotel that he may be abb
in the meantime to establish himself as ban
kerr An old banker, having missed his chance
freights ship aud starts out. We meet hin
on the shores of the Oronoko, at Madagascar
in the ladies, on the Csmbedge. Fer the bs
reaucratic ideas, for the shabby regulation
of administrators the American substitutes thu
initiative, the personal will. He knows NJ
rule; he goes and comes at his own risks ane
peris. There is no law and 40 religion which
could prevail against business. While the
French think of an UNEMPLOYED country, the
American only demands ship to go and oper
commerce.
We are willing to close discussion by de
claring that it was the strict administration o
Napoleon that enabled us to 90 threug n sew
eral revolutions and always alight on our feet
this is possible, bat we fall again into the same
traps in like circumstances. In order tha
France finally may recover its superiority IN it,
entire fulaess, it only wants liberty; full lib
erty, in all it's forms. Two years will Their
suffice to restore the French character, which
has been violently choksd.
| JOHN BIRRsCHBACH.
AT Ottawa, Canada, the other day, small
pox patient came near being buried alive. AT