The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-16
the min sps; cities os the Cnised States.
ineizdiaa, Chicago ed tho fass. Gen.
Msseev says Of a..

YES ~ sIsI swing. GUS s1sfs we& kns oess %
order ms&ataiSsz svsrywhses. ana that, 100.
wii2eat sse AID OF the pelles Essn on tie
sseaDbos.. which vas crowded, rD nos
,ostaet- :; hsd beea In such . crowd 81 hogns
sesuld probably have bsen roaghsy tressso
nssesy kacauss I was veil dressed AZ the
ticket oSssss lines we're formed sna each refsoc
kouges hsa ticket ia bis turn without efvsh
In kas!ass there 10 sivsys . Wild Tusa Tor the
ticket vir1ow. essh sghsiag his wsy In and o1s
ssasa. the wesxsst being able 70 get 10 .: all
This IL the testimony OF . practical,
shrewd, 0bsesvant man of the world,
soldier who has seen many ianda In sup
port Of ts~n- Aassey's generous judgment
OF Amsrses il 10 pleasant 20 cite that Of
Mr.. Water Besant. the welI-known
English soyelist. who says Of n in the
Boston .sdrefiso:
When flsar country becomes settled the way
Europe IL. you viii be the mosf wonderful na-
ton On sesth- Csnads will JOIN you some DAY:
she must sosns TO you There u no heip Tor II
And you vii ultimately stretch from The North
Pole 70 2snana vsry likely you viii sdd
south Arssrics. too. You talk about having
navy, ia. I doa't zee what you want of oEaL
There IL $40 nation esSta would dare attack
you Ans yoa certainty never viii nesd IN
srDy. fsa never can posaibiy have occasioa
i0f lanG eoniest with any body
II Is peasant to find as last distin-
suished english soldier and distinguished
literary man speaking hearty. brothefiy
words CT the United States. which has
hitherto been bitterly denounced or
satirixed by every English tourist who
has visited IL. with the honorable excep-
tions cs Richard Golden, Thackeray.
Thomas Hughes. Herbert Spencer. Sir
Charles. Dixie and Mr.. Bryce.
From she days Of Mrs. TroiIops down to
the present. date q great many English
tourists asvs made . good deal Of money
abusing America Capt. Basil Hall, Capt
Masryat Dickens. Harriet Martineau, Sir
Lepel GgIffn. Wilkie Collins. Froude and
Matthew Arnold have all visited Amer
ica. Scas Of them have had much good
TO say OF W and the abiest Of
them eli. Dickens and Arnold, have been
conspicsaousiy unfair and ungenerous.
Dickens: Martin Cnuzxiewit" Was .
brutal raricsture Of . generous people
Who treated him in his youth with spien-
did hospitality and gave his writings an
enthusiastic welcome that would have
touched the heart Of manly man. Thsck-
cray VA TOO genial and well-bred . man
Of the Horid 70 put . microscope over
every mole on our cheek. aud Spencer was
too profound and philosophic thinker TO
treat our great republic with contempt: he
kindly warned VI that our greatest danger
vss tbas some day our democracy might
drift to, strongly in the direction Of |.
mere plstocracy.
II was . matter Of surprise and regret TO
intelligent Americans that 90 eminent an
Englishsnan - the late Matthew Arnold
should aave written about America In .
spirit at childish petulence. insular ego
tisin ard insolence. Mr.. Arnold was q
great critic rather than great man. This
IL not ss'iting him low on the roll Of fame,
for to tie same rank. and not above IL, be-
long boeh Carlyle and Froude; both great
writer's rather than great men. George
Washington was certainly . great man,
but he Was not great writer; Alexander
Hamils,n was. like jefferson, q great man
and master Of q strong and versatile
pen, br. neither Hamilton or jefferson
was &C noble and influential . moral
figure. nor 30 great man as WASH
ington. These illustrations serve to en-
force tie fact that Arnold, while a great
writer. was. like Carlyle and Froude.
not without = certain smallness and mar
rowness Of mind and temper, which serve,
to exp!sin his utter incapacl,y to take
a large and phiiosophic view of our
H. rl.-f. 4
simiss N has judgment Of men and things;
his vesse il indelibly associated with hi,
favorit@ phrase. sweetness and light" but
of swee; ness he had so little in his compo.
sition that his bite was about a.
tonic ~ that Of dog fed exclu-
sively ON Peruvian bark. The genius
of expsession in both prose aud poetry
Was his, hat he lacked the genius for noble
action ~ we'll As noble thought that was
the qa&li,y Of his grca, father; be was a
pessinsst IN his social and political phil.
osophy and an agnosiie q; bottom in re-
tseion. lie was nothing when not critical.
and such minds are prone in old European
civilizations to become pcssimssis Mr.,
Arnolc VAS an honest man: ne did not go
home AID csricature ns grossly. az did the
utterly anpriucipled Dickens or kipiinr.
in order 20 sell book rapidly, but
he ho.4estly found the United State. in
isss nt1 to his liking. and he expressed his
op,aioa as contemporary OF US as be h All
slready at the civilization oil Great britain
81 Germany and OF France. lie wrote of
rs isss tramp ayswp;ie. a bilious theo.
Logan with rare gifts as brilliant scalA
lie diG uo; admire car scenery; he sneere4i
AZ ous farmers. he called our climate
abcm;s ahie from New Hampshire to Flor
;da, te ridicule,i oar architecture; he
could not forgive the absence of
''cs,haeital,. Parish churches and cas-
tea II the tssholse teadal age"
be pictured Is rs bcassfai, con
csatei people whose coan,ry was notable
Tor ncs5 hing 50 much IS the absence Of the
comforts and coayeniencss of life: he cam
planned TIA. ali lgxavses were dear say.
oysters and Ice' tast CAB rates were rr,,-
hioitise: that ;ailors' and MERGERS charges
we're third higher than ia England. aaa
he aee,.ssed Es Of having no good reaches,
4 ears<sss accusation from al Easlishman
whose hons reaches are q ho;hou.e
grostn. As fer distinction o. elevation
vs have is not. We have had abe men
Mr.. L,acosn fog enc, bas Mr., Lincoln hat
40 distinction.
This ANAL and shallow criticism os the