The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-16

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!! the dollar was coveted and held In
great respect. is was rot 20 fnach for
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10. In other words, that avariee was
vice almost unknown in the land.
There il q IaYishness Ia the Americans
uay of expanding his money that re-
deems his triek ~ taking OF his hat %
IL Nhsfeyer he sees H.
As I said AT the beginning Of this
paper. found great difficulty in sum
ming up in . sfsUrt article the many
Impressions which formed during d
six-fnoaths' stay 10 America. | may,
however, safely assert that the we'll
| resd. weai-bred American is the most
delightful OF men. and that good
American society il among the WITH
1 est, the most genial. refined and hos
pitable | have met with
But the more travel, and the more
III lock AZ other nations. the
more convinced an | that the
French, with ali their faults, are the
hatplesf peorse on earth. The Amer
leans are certainly on the road TO the
| possession OF all that can contribute TO
the welsbeing and success OF q nation,
but they seem to me 30 have missed
the path that leads 20 real happiness.
! do not think they know hox to live.
Their domestic joys are more shadowv
| than real. To live in a whiri i not 70
Hive vel. America suffers from gen.
erai plethora. The French shopkeep-
sr. Tor instance, wfo. in our small
provincial towns. locks the door of his
shop from 1870 10 -. 30 as not TO
| Re disturbed br customers while he is
Iepjoying hrs dinner with bis wife and
children, is nearer 10 the solution OF
| that great problem OF life. happiness,
than the American in his headlong
chase after afflasslee The FrenchnlaE
says 10 himself Il want 10 live as
| veil and a long a. | can know /
shall never have another chance. .
IL Is often charged against the Amer
leans that they are given 20 Dragging.
But so are we all, in different man
ner. And NAV not men who have
done marsels be permitted q certain
amount OF Standardization 1t Is
said, too, that their eceentricity con-
stanfIy leads them into folly and some
times into license But is il not better
60 have the liberty 10 err than TO be
Obliged TO run straight in leash Their
politics appeared 10 me perfectly child
ISL, bat ii | am right may add that,
like children, they viii learn. 1t is by
voting that people learn 70 vote.
IL there any country in Europe in
which morals are better regulated.
work better paid, or education wider
spreaa2 Is there country lii Europe
where You can find such neutral riches
and such energy in employing
themy So many people with con-
ciousness OF their own intellectual
and moral force7 So many tree
schools. where the child of the million
aire and the child of the poor are seen
studying side by sidef SO many free
libraries, where the boy in rags may
enter and read the history of his
country and be fired with the exploits
OF it's heroes Can you name a coGn-
| try with so many learned societies, so
many newspapers. 50 many charitable
institutions. so much comfort.
The greatest French prose writer OF
| the day, NJ. Ernest Renan. one day
| wishing to turn himself into prophet
OF iil-omen, predicted that, ii France
continued republican, she would be-
| come second America. MAY nothing
worse hefaii her