The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-10-12


the fact. The splendid looking men
tall, powerful, handsome, fauitlessl,
dressed, that one so often meets in New
iofk are not seen in Boston. Nor did
see many Porlly seigucurs Of the soil,
oahker pattern, the majority of the bus
iness men rarely indicating either in per
son or in face more than average vieor
VI what is called, by the New Englanc
magazine writers, the Brahmin type,
ala not chance to meet single speci
men,: Had | gone to Cambridge nigh
possibly have encountered some Of them
About one thing think | cannot b,
mistaken. In the various cities Will
which am acquainted have often beer
struck with the fact that the signs on tn,
principal thoroughfares show a create,
number of German than of Englisl
names. You vii! find j: SO or, Da!,iSor;
strcet, on Chestnut, and particularly SC
on Market street in Philadelphia, ant
again on Broadway, as had occasion tc
observe last summer. 1t appeared tt
me that from the Battery up to Unior
Square wo.thirds Of the names were O.
Ieutonic origin. This is not the case in
Boston, where nearly all the names or
the signs are English. was much i'm
pressed by this fact. Not only were
these English names in the majority or
the leading business streets, but out in
the suburbs the same thing was seen
Even the BARRIERS are Americans in mos
cases. These facts have for ME deal o.
significance. They show that in New
Engiand alone does the native American
OF British extraction discover strength
enough to hold his own against tie thrift
ty German.
l have noticed that the advertisements
IN the country papers of New England
are full of English names. 1t is not tc
be wondered at that the German, whose
store and dwelling are in the same house
whose partner is his wife, and whose
CLERKS arc hii so::s E::4 daughters, Eho:.!5
gradully supplant our American mer
chants, who keep up two establishments
store and residence, and never think
OF employing their children as clerks
1 could name certain Southern city il
which the Germans, or at least men ol
German extraction, have driven the
Americans almost completely out of the
business field, tho retail trade having
been virtually abandoned to them.
When l told Boston friend tba,
Boston was the most thoroughly English
city had ever seen, he laughed me tc
scorn. "Why, man." he exclaimed
there are 10000 Irish voters in Boston
they rule this town." The emphasis he
laid on "rule" was marked. What feel.
ing there is throughout the Eastern
States against the Irish My friend to
the contrary notwithstanding, l still in.
sist that the signs in Boston do indicate
larger preponderance Of Americans in
business than in any other city on the
Atlantic coast, if not in The country at
large.
Finally, it must be said of the Bosto.
mans that they love their city with de
votion equalled only by the love the men
OF the middle ages bore their cities,
when cities were States, rs Venice for
example. Proof of their affection is
shown i'll many ways, particularly in the
liberality of subscriptions for works of
art and public improvement, not unfre-
quently double the sum needed is sub.
scribed, the surplus going to other i'm.
provements and adolnments not at first
contemplated. 1t is said, by those in
position to know, that the Bostonian
loves his city more than his State. II
he love one he will most certainly love
the other. Pride in Massachusetts he
cannot fail to have, rs one may see who
visits the State House. Relics of the
Revolution and OF the late war are
housed there with the greatest care and
jealousy guarded from the profane touch
of the vulgar. This love and pride for
State and city should be bond of union
between the people Of Massachusetts,
and our own people in Carolina and
Virginia. believe there is some such
bond. In years to come when there shall
be new alignment Of parties and of
sections we shall discover that the in
stitutions Of the Atlantic States, from
Maine to Florida, have much in COM
mon. They are older, i'll sense more
civilized. slower, more conservative,
moro European. The peculiar, distinct.
i've, impetuous American ia being devel-
oped on The other side of the Appa.
lachian chain in the great basin OF the
Mississippi. AS the years go on ne will
be more and more differentiated from
his countrymen on this side of the Allie
ghanies, will have ideas, aims, ambitions
and above all power of his own which
will assert itself, perhaps not altogether
&c Tho Hiking of tho Atlantic coast people.
But that is a far away thing. A thing
that is not far away is the longing look
Southwark on the part of young Bosto-
mans with whom l talked. Evidently
our Southern exhibits had impressed
them. What more natural? Twenty
years ago the South proved an Ell Dorado
to Thousands of Yankee youth it will
prove 80 again in much less than twenty
years. This il the lesson of the second
annual fair of the New England Insti-
tute to the New Englander himself; the
lesson to ourselves is to see that the lions
share Of the new development of the
South falls to dwellers on tho soil. We
are masters of our cotton mills; let US
be masters of all other mills, factories
and industries that spring up in our
midst. Above all let US not repeat our
old folly in new form by confining
ourselves to the manufacture OF cotton
alone. Diversified industry in the mills
as we'll as in the fields. Grow every
thing and make everything ne cau-that
should be our motto.
Novel Suggestion,