The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-21

pendent life, it looks as if nothing should
be impossible to them in the future, con-
sidering the inexhaustible resources at their
disposal.
America has been doubling her popula-
ton every twenty-five years. II lmmlgra-
ton continues at the same rate as II mas
hitherto, in fifty years she Will have more
than 100000, 600 inhabitants. Ii, during
that time, continental Europe makes prog
reSs only in arts and sciences, while the con-
dition of her nations does not improve, she
will be to America something like what bar
barism is to civilization. While the Hohen-
zollerns, the Hapsburgs and the 'hrebran-
denburgs" of Europe review their troops;
willie her standing armies cost continental
Europe more than 81 900, 900 year IN
time of peace; while the European debt is
S25, 900 600, 900, the American treasury at
Washington, in spite of corruption which 1t
is well known does not exist, has a large
surplus. While European governments
cudgel their wits to devise means for meet
ing the expenses of absolute monarcbIes, the
Washington government is at a loss what
to do with an ''unmauagable surplus u"
While the European kilograms in the daily
papers give accounts of reviews, moblhza-
tions military and naval maneuvers; OF
speeches in which the people are reminded
that their duty is to serve their emperor
first and their country afterward of bias
phemous prayers in which God is asked TO
bless soldiers, swords and gunpowder, the
American kilograms announce the price of
| wheat and cattle, and the quotations on the
American markets. Happy country that
does supply the press with sensational news
Happy country that can get into state or
ebullltion over presidential election or
the doings of the pugiliSt John Sullivan,
while Europe in trembling asks herself,
with the return of each new spring,
| whether two or three millions of her sons
will not be called upon to cut each others
Threats for the greater glory OF three en-
perors in search of little excitement.
America is not only great nation geo
graphically speaking. The Americans are
| great people, holding in their hands their
| own destiny, learning day by day, with the
| help of liberty, to govern themselves more
and more wisely, and able, thanks to the
| profound security in which they live, to
conSecrate all their talents and all their
energy to the arts of peace.
WE HAVE NO ''sTUPID LOOKING FACE"
That which struck me most in America,
! from first to last, is the total absence of
| stupid looking faces. All are not handsome,
but all are intelligent and beaming with
activity. In my opinion it is in this that
American beauty mainly consists. In the
| large cities of the east the first thing which
caught my attention was the thiuness of
men and the plumpnesS OF the women. This
| seemed to hint that the former lived in
| furnace of activity and the latter in cotton
wool. This impression soon deepened into
conviction. The more [ saw Of these large
cities and the briliancy, wit and refine
meut of society in them, tine palmer it be-
came to me that, if America had thus early
rivaled the older nations of Europe i'll all
the elegance OF fashionable life, it was be-
cause Of its treatment of women. 1t seemed
to me that her lot was as near to being per-
| lection as an earthly lot could be. A re-
Spect amounting to reverence is shown for
her, and it appears to be the chief aim of
her protectors to surround her with luxury
and make her path through life a sunny
one. So far as adding to ner mental and
physical grace goes, this plan of making
every woman an uncrowned queen has an
swered completely. Seeing her high posi-
ton, she has set herself to work to fill it
becomingly; and it is the cultivation of
| Americas daughters, 1t is their charming
independence and a CONSCIOUSNESS of their
power that make them SO attractive and
render American society so delightful to
the stranger.
OUR WOMEN ARE 'Too INDEPENDENT HE,
SAYS.
In their treatment of women, the Ameri-
cans might give more than one lesson TO the
men of the old world, even to the French
man who in the matter of pOliteneSs lives
good deal, l am afraid, on the reputation
of his ancestors. The respect for women in
Americans seemed to me to be perfectly dis
interested, purely platonic. In France,
this respect almost borders on gallantry. A
Freedman will always stand back to let a
woman pass, hut he will generally profit by
the occasion to take a good look at her. If
an outsider be competent to form an opin-
ion, | venture to say that the American
| woman does not render to a man 1.-THE of
the devotion she receives from him
The French wife repays husbands devo-
ton by protecting his interest; an Ameri-
can one too often repays it by breaking into
| his capital