The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-12
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iff1v 2 skiS i In the ye1n1 shiz< fdlIoxot {As clsse ot the war u seeme1 n if allsun had been u,,esay exsinxsixhea- Cn1sgsnafeay, this was not the case. The mrltiplica- ton of great fortunes. the growth of . class rich by inheritance, and the inn provement in meshcds of travel and com munication all tended to carry great numbers of Americans to Europe. The luxurious fAncies which were born of in- creased wealth, and the intellectual tastes which were developed by the advance oi the higher education, and b which aa old civilization offers peculiar advantages and attractions. combined to hreed in many persons . love of foseign hfe and foreign manners. These tendencies and opportunities nAve revived the dying spirit of colonialism.
 We see il most strongly in the leisure class. which Is gradually increAs;ng in this country. Dunng the miserable as cendancy oi the second empire band oi these persons formed what was known as the American colonys in Paris. Per haps they still exist, If SO, their existence is now less lagrant and more decent. When they were notorious they presented the melancholy spectacle ot Americans admiring and aping the manners, habits and vices of another nation. when that nation was bent and. corrupted by the cheap. meretncious and rotten system of the third Napoleon. They furnished a very offensive example of peculiarly mean colonialism. The partieular phase has departed. but the same sort of Americans are. unfortunately, still common "a Eu- rope. do not mean, of course. those persons who go abroad to buy social con- sideration, nor the women ~ho trade on their beauty or wits to gain buef and dishonoring notoriety. These last are merely adventurers and adventresscs. who are common to all nations. The people referred to here form tha, large class. comprising many excellen, men and women. no doubt, who pass their lives m Europe, mourning over the lnteriority oi their own country. and who become thoroughly demoralised. They do no, change into Erenchnan or Englishmen bu, are simply dishgured and deformed l Americans.
 We find the same wre;ched habit al thought in certain groups among the rich ana iutC pSVptc ot oui ktVat isastStti cities. cspeciall, in New York, because ,' IS the metropolis. These groups are foi the mos, part made up of young men who despise everything American and admire everything English. They talk and dress and walk and nde in certain ways, because the English do these things in those ways. They hold ther own eountr, in contempt. and lamen, their hard fate ot their birth They try to think that they form an aris,ocracy. and become q, once ludicrous and despleable. The virtues which have made the upper classes m England what they are, and which take them into public affairs, into 1 literature and politics, are forgotten Anglo-Americans initiate the vices or the follies of their models, and stop there l If all this were merely passing fashion, an attack of Anglomania or of Gallo. mania, of which there have been in stances enough everywhere, il would be of no consequence. But IL is recurrence of the old and deep-seated malady oi colonialism. l, Is lineal descendant of the old colonial family. The feature are somewhat dim now, and the vitality Is low, but there IS no mistaking the hereditary qualities The people who thus despisc their own land, and ape English manners, fatter themselves with being cosmopolitans, when m truth ! they are genuine colonis,s, petty and pro- vincial 10 the last degree.