Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-07
. FRENCHMAM's VIEW OF US.
III. Paul Disclaimers Impressions of a Re-
cent Visit to the United states.

III. Paul Disclaimers Impressions of a Re-
cent Visit to the United States.
III. Paul Deschanal, who was recently
sent here by the French government to
study the labor question, has returned
to Paris, where he has just been inter
viewed by representative OF the
Gaulois, Here is what the deputy
from Eure-et-Loir said to the reporter:
81 desired especially to study thor
oughly the relations between capital
and labor, and / was fortunate at the
start in getting acquainted with the
political world in Washington. / must
say that saw three things that aston
ished me. The first was the individual
energy and the free initiative OF
the citizen toward the govern
ment. Everything is done in that coun-
try without the Intervention of the au-
thorities. The workmen repe1 every
such encroachment on the part of the
authorities as they would stamp out a
plague, and the legislators themselves
have no influence upon the workmen.
In a word, state socialism is entirely
unknown. or, at least, banished from
the country. The second noteworthy
played alike by workmen and manu-
facturers. They reduce labor to its
minimum, and invent and use tools
which push forward the work with as
tonishing rapidity, and at the same
time render it much cheaper than that
of European countries. Both employers
and employees show surprising knowl-
edge of practical life.
my most ardent desire is that con-
siderab BILE number of our workmen and
employers might be sent there to wit
ness what have seen and what 1 am
now reporting to you. Tt seems to me
that they would gain immensely by it.
From this point of view the Chicago
exposition will be something astonish-
ing.
THE third thing that remarked was
the hospitality of the American people
1t is admira BILE, and we have no idea of
it here. / must say, however. that we
could not cast our own hospitality in a
similar mold. because we see too many
travellers. But / was agreeab1y sur
prised to find that the American people
are extremely kind. Certainly can not
conceal the fact that Partisan, accus-
toned to the literary movement and in
love with intellectual things, on drop
ping suddenly into New York or Wash
ington would find himself puzzled by
the worldly ways of Americans. mean
their purely material activity.
''Really.you find extraordinary things
in that country. At Denver, Col,
heard the same waltzes as at the Pavi1-
ion dErmehonville. Among the Nor
mons in California, in the Rocky noun
tains, and generally in all the region of
the "cstt, development has assumed pro-
portions that can hardly be imagined.
Towns which, ten years ago. counted
5000 inhabitants, have $4,000 to-day.
and people advance in all these towns
and territories from surprises to sur
prises.
take one example out Of hundred.
Chicar 20. which was rebuilt in 1871. has
now not less than / 200. 900 inha bitants.
/ have seen there houses twenty stories
high When you get into an elevator
in that town you imagine that you are
going to take Jules Eernes trip to the
moon. The fact is that since my re-
turn Havre, the Clamps Elysees. and
my own house seem to me very little
things. indeed, like the toys of Nurem-
burg."-Chicago Tribune.