Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-05
ANGLOMANlA IN NEW YORK.
How Gen. Badeau's Work Has Inaug
urated n Cure.
[SpeclaI CORRESPONDENCE


VIEW YORK, Sept. su-A neaIthru1 social
symptom visible here is the beginning of q
reaction against the a~nglomania, from
which certain circles have SO long suffered.
Servile and ridiculous as it has always
been in the eyes of the community in
general, they seem to have had no suspicion
of it until recently. Nor would they have
had any but for the fragrant violations of
common courtesy and common decency on
tho part of many Englishmen whom they
have entertained lavishly and deferred to be-
You'd oil reason. They nave discovered that
most of their British guests accept their hos
FATALITIES as matters of course, as tributes
from interiors to superiors, and that they
never dream of aught like reciprocating
when their American friends happen to be
on British soil. In truth, these are apt to be
snubbed in any advances they may make,
and treated very shabbily by the persons
they have placed, IN this side of the sea,
under great social obligation. Moreover, the
~insolence, the downright insults that have
been offered to different New York families
by Ineir uansatIanr1c cousins ave had
their effect.
A writer commenting on this disease says:
"One shameful example of this was the pres
ence OF the Duke OF Sutherland with his mis-
1893 aV NNCNAlulS DISttlkItiSU Oh Ul5 OCCASION
OF his daughters marriage, given by our
former minister to the court of st. Cloud.
This studied affront seems Incredible; but
there appears to he no doubt of it. The duke
oaght to have been publicly horsewhipped
for the brutal hit of hlackguardism, and it is
q pity that he was not. 1t would have served
us a salutary precedent for the proper treat
mento of noble lords under such circumstances.
Similar instances, though none quite SO
htrocious, are not uncommon, and even New
York ~anglomanlacs are getting cured of their
distemper. The worm has been trodden upon
until it has turned. Henceforth visiting
Englishmen win be likely to find a change in
some of the persons here who have been DO
lite to them to a point of fawning, and who
have hitherto SO overdone the duties of hospi-
tality. The average Briton is a good deal of
u bully, and the best cure of his bullying is to
bully him In turn. He will entertain a sin
cere esteem for America and Americans
when they resent, as they should, any infrac-
ton of his of the laws of good breeding"
The articles on aristocracy in England by
Gen. Adam Badeau, recently published by a
syndicate of newspapers, have doubtless done
much toward effecting a cure. Nothing ever
written about the English has been SO timely
and salutary as these articles. They have
done more to destroy a%nglomania than all
other means combined, because they give an
imnartial and thorough presentation OF aris-
tocracy. Gen. Badeau's style is as simple and
forceful as Goldsmith's.
The author has had opportunities of study
ing his subject on its native heath not often
presented to Americans. Perhaps the very
greatest service rendered by Gen. Badeau;s
book is the truthful showing che gives
of the enslaved condition of the upper
class E~nglishwomen. He says in plain
words: "a WOMAN is a nobody in English
mems eyes, This fact has been known to
those untainted with a~nglomania for a long
time, and in estimating the civilization of the
mother country it is well to bear it In mind.
Gen. Badeau says:
II knew u dowager whose husband had been
called the wealthiest mmoner in England,
who was left $4,000 a year, though he willed
away millions. A woman is n nobody in Eng
lishmen's eyes. The husband had been fond Of
his wife, but it did not occur to him to pro-
vide her with the state to which she had been
accustomed for a lifetime.
1.-The daughters of great houses prepare for
their fate from the beginning. They never
reign unless they marry. If they cannot Sc
father dies, and keep up a little establishment
in an obscure way; or the queen gives some
of them, out of charity, rooms at Kensington
palace or Hampton court, or. some other asy-
lum foT avoayed aristocrats. You will find
there women of oldest lineage pinched for
their dinners and their gloves, whose early
lives were spent in the most sumptuous strlc-
lures and splendid style that this world
knows.n
The author is as impartial as he is severe.
He shows the pleasing side of the aristocracy,
and the examples of real nobility that he
found among them. He describes an Irish
and English peer, whom he calls ga noble-
man indeed in a manner that wins ones
highest admiration. But he says of him, 81
insist that this--I wish might call him friend
would have been Just as much of a noble
man if he had been born an American and a
democrat He was one of natures noble
men, G.. G..