Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-16
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- III. Helyoake has bsen of the
oont English visitors to the
111oa States and he has, Of
peeo, put his imprsssions into
~ Thls gentleman seems to
~ been especially struck by his
6 1oeVefy that We have no '!'com.
- Doepls" here, In the English
- q the term. He perceived
~ eVsry man In America feels
y >GoaGh he owned che country,
ox1oe the charm Of recognised
11nllty aud the golden chances Of
1Dslstsrship pervade his mind.
= xsoadons on the other hand, no.
- abks . foreigner what he
Hlnks ef England, because the
ooD1e ID general do not feel tha,
Z ~ eWu the country or have re.
1naltle control over It. On this
G10nt ees visitor had received be
Y ~ otaEtlng . wholesome admoni.
1on = Remember. Mr.. Hoiyoake.
- have ne eommen people In
Annneiea. We may have . few un-
61un1nea enss." The psrtinsncs Of
~ 1ajunstseu was apparent to the
ols1st whom he met, ~ he did In
ooQogAl elties, workiDgmsn whom
Y ~ had knewn In fsrmsr years IL
!; ZaHland. ~ home, he says, they
Wouid have thought It hardly pru
1Dnt e. leak . foreman or oversssr,
Mueh, lsss an employer, In the
Il -; while here they st once pro.
3ooa9 70 intrsduss him to the
Mayer Of thslr town, which they
& ~ n IN o6hand, confident man.
& - = = friend Of thsirs. On the
WAo1es however, Mr.. Holyoake
u ~ dlspessd TO think our sslf.as-
s. ooeeion 3 little In excess of interna.
o1eaal requirsmsnts. Many citi-
3 06oo gave him the impression that
No. thought themselves "equal to
thols supsriors and superior to
tAelr squalls"
10 our visitor, accustomed to the
otald course Of things in England,
~ whole country seemed to be 10
+ houildsring commotion, and he
oemparss life In America to bat
s ~ and . march. He thlnks the
) nntioeal Injunction, "Hold on" ex.
ees1lngly appropriate, since if a
4 nnAn should happen to "fall OF" or
1oes his foeting, We would nnd pso.
ple TO busy to stop and pick him
-. The drst hour he was In New
York he was warned not to com.
plain II he happened to get run
ever, sihcs In America We run over
anybody In the way. and II you
oso .kuocked down it 10 charged to
year own stupidity. He admired
our faculty Of ssll-help, and espe'
elAIly its outcome In Innovations
md invsntions. He is quite alive,
heWevsr, to the eccentric and ri.
s.seelnne forms which the impulse
8 toward experiment occasionally
takes. Apropos, for instance, oI
C1natauqua Lake and its amateur
pAIlesephsrs, he let's drop a word
abeut the danger to progress
broueht about by those whom Col.
Ingersoli denominates Its "Fool
: Eflends." On the whole, Mr..
Wolyoake concsdes that IL We &C.
oept Erasmus Darwin's definition
of . fool a. zone who never tried
~ experiment." there is hardly .
feel In America, whereas the same
sort Of persons block up the streets
% England. It 10 worth noting also
that this friendly visitor differs
3 from the great majority ofhis esun.
tfymsn In pron0uncing our nation.
al habit Of interviewing strangers
not only the most amusing but
most useful Institution conc eiva-
BE. He has often had personal
knowledge, he tells Us, Of sojourn.
en- In England possessing curious,
eftsn valuable. knowledge, by
which every newspaper reader in
the land might have been the rich-
or; but they passed away with
their unknown wealth Of expert
enes because no London journalist
teok the trouble to elicit 1t. Re-
mindlng ~ that the art Of asking
questions 10 the Instrument of wis.
dom. Mr.. Holyoake terms the in
eeRviswsr the true successor Of
Socrates.
Well disposed ~ our tourist was,
he did not carry away the notion
that everything IL perfect in Amer
lca. Il annoyed him, for instance,
- pay fer having hisl shoes black
- 40 per cent. more IN Chicago
ehan he would have paid in Eng
laud. They charged him, too, we
afe told, In the IIliaois metropolis
ooventy.1vs cents for walking
stick Which he could have bought
( at home fer sixpence. He get an
tmprssslon, also, that our youtha
and maldsns are too self.suf f1icient
II thsir manners, though he ad.
nnlts that they seuid scarcely exist
at I'll In these parts save for thii