New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-10

1t is often said that every nation has the govern
nent it deserves. What IS much more certain IS
T nat EVEN e the direct product Of the felt
the supply closely aud lneV ltaDy 10 le NC
newspapers afe WIN has moi been obliged, for some
length OF time, to road either those newsPaRersI 0
oCcur scattercd about in them But on the whole anu
taking the total impression and elect ma t tIs
best means TO eface and kill In whole nailoh inc
discipline of respect the feeling for what Is eeTaru
papers The absence Of truth and soberness IN theii
The poverty in serious interest, the personality anu
snre Of nv are own expeeHces IT is
those viii give clear CROUCH notion of what the news
nitely what has happened to oneself Soon after ar
irving IN Boston, opened Bosiom nuTSpHR tick
came upon a. cU9s news conveyed through tho
tn eSn wS Of the telegrap The rst itching was
m%s Just say in passing xiS1 had x, 1et s sssn
Fay " s d'' Was. the %sssHS sdm
ton for Miss Mary Andersen THIS Vas a. Boston sve enc
ine paper was given me soon after arrived opened
it, and found under large type beading Sv Ssto
He has Harsh features, supcrcious manners, paris
his hair down the middle. wears single eyesass ana ana
favorable Introduction l most kindly and hospi-
taby received at Chicago II happened that l nao a
descent the editor Of tho chief newspaper In those
parts, dThe Chicago Tribune called on him. ana
cOnVefSe0
ward. when | had gone back to England. New YORK
paper published a criticism Of Chicago and It's pe0Pe,
purpOrting to have been contributed by me 10 no
Psli Mall Gazette over here. It WIS poor hoax,
but many people wcro taken In and were escusaDiS
angry , Mr. MEG OF teeapSe sSo to me to know
had written the criticism l, OF course III a., 81
Then Chicago paper is sent TO me; and what have
tho pleasure Of reading as the result OF my d
dictfon is this Arnold denies MI Medin my old
friend refuses to accept Arnolds disclaimer says
Arnold is a cur - lava. .,
ideas and of light could not but feel that the sky over
his head is Of brass and iron And SO say thaIl IN
America he who Graves for the interesting IN h@ ss
faction for his Of beauty. his sense for eeva
tion will feel the sky over his head TO DC OF eTss s am
The United States most imperecty great void exists
in the civilization over there Tsnt % %ha' Is Go
The graver because It is so little recognized ca
them.
But now the Americans seem, IN certain matter
to have agreed as people to deceive tne mem. they
have not to cover the defects in their civilization by
Boosting, fancy that they well and truly solve not
SSn ntS the n' human pUri'' problem too Ono would
say that they do really hope to find in tall talk and
elevation which human nature, as have said, In
stinctively craves-and substitute which may do as
Goethe pronounces to be the best thing humanity has
they would fain create by Procalmng themselves al
e aT b. BY assuring ono another tho language
tbsir national historian, that american democracy
proceeds in its ascent uniformly and ma1estcay
as the of being. and is as certain as the DEGREES
Of stcrnity'
Or, again, far from admitting that their news.
napers are scandal, they assure ono another that
the,r press OF their most signal dis
tnctions Far from admitting that In literature they
have as vet produced little that Is important they play
At treating American literature as II It were great
INDEPENDENT power; they reform the spelling OF the
English language by the Insight OF their average man
For every English writer they have an American writer
| to match And him good Americans read the West
! ern States are Of this moment being nourshcd and
| formed We hear. on the novels Of native author
Par from admitting that their average man danger
and that his prodOmnance has brought aeoht pientl
mi lack of refinement, distinction, and beauty, they
declsre in the words OF my friend Colonel Hlggnson
wears since: thus far tho English 10 my best race
| hut wo have had Englishmsn enongn' put III
| ons drop moro of nervous fluid and MAKE th'
| American And with that drop new range oil prom
Use opened on the human race, and lighter, inner
more highly organized type OF msnnna ~' :. nor ~,
pressure of their climate aud Of their average man hA.
IN ado IT, is thing to be strivon against they sss;
one another that II Is the right accent, quo
| English speech Of the future. 1t reminds me OF
thing in smolets dinner party OF authors SseS
refutation Of Bolingbrohe, but In the meantime has
Just been preeented To the Grand Jury as public
nuisance for having blasphcmed In an aiehouso Oh
the Lords Day'-sesed by this philosopher Is th'
scotchman who H. giving lectures on the pronuncia
| uon OF tho Enslsh language" This drop
| plaYs a stupend0us part In tho American rhapsody Of
| ssifpra.se. Undoubtedly tho Americans arc highly
| nervous both the mon and the women. A great
Paris physcian says that he notes distinct now form
worry about servants. But this nervousness, dsvel
oped the rsoo out thero by worry, overv0rk, want