Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-14
A FRENcHMAN's VIEW OF US.
NJ. Paul Dcschanel's Impressions Of n Re-
cent Visit to the United states.

NJ. Paul Dcschanel's Impressions of n Re.
cent Visit to the United states.
NJ 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 a 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. Tie 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 worlSmen repel every
such encroachment on the part of the
authorities as they would stamp out
plague, and the legislators themselves
have no influence upon the worlSmen.
In a word, state socialism is entirely
unknown, or, at least, banshed from
the country, The second noteworthy
point is the genius of simplifcation dis
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 lnowl
edge of practical life.
my most ardent desire is that con.
siderable number of our worl1men and
employers might be sent there to wit
ness what have seen and what | am
now reporting to you. 1t 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 admirable, 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 agreeably sur
prised to find that the American people
are extremely kind. Certainly can not
conceal the fact that a 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, l mean
their purely material activity.
Really Won find extraordinary things
in that country At Denver, Col,
heard the same waltzes as at the Pavil-
ion d'Ermehonville. Among the Nor
mons in California, in the Rocky noun
tains, and generally in all the region OF
the west, development has assumed pro-
portions that can hardly be imagined.
: Towns which, ten years ago, counted
J 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
Chicago, which was rebuilt in 1871, has
now not less than 1,200, 900 habitants
/ 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 Verne's trip to the
moon. The fact is that since my re-
turn Havre, the Champs Elysees, and
my own house seem to me very littl,
things, indeed like the toys of Nurem
burg Chicago Tribune.