The record-union., 1893-08-12
WHAT DIR. BROCK THINKS OF Us.


DR.. Brock, in the London Fortniqhtly
ReUieaC, tells the English people and all
others some solid truths DR.. Brock has
visited the exposition at Chicago, and he
has travelled slowly and observed care
fully in many States of the Union. He
writes vigorously to disabuse the English
mind of the idea that the United States is
as yet in the very green stage of develop
ment.
He tells them that in one hundred years
this country has made progress and
reached proud eminence, achieved by
European States only through slow ad-
vances during more than a thousand or
fifteen hundred years; and DR.. Brock, to
emphasize his allegation and quicken
British comprehension, adds these sig
nifcant words:
This surprising development is not by
any means confined to commerce, trade,
and the industrial arts, but covers all
those conditions which are manifest in
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Which means that the learned sociol-
ogist would have the people of Europe
understand that they make themselves
ridiculous when they estimate the Amer
lean States and their people as infinitely
or at all inferior. That European society
is older and fuller developed in art and
or
higher and technical education is to be
conceded that European society is more
select and in many respects is more re-
fined is due to the age and the monarch
ical conditions. But, as DR.. Brock tells
the Europeans. the people of America, in
material wealth, in conquests over nature,
the occupancy of new lands, the peopling
of the country, development of territory,
the upbuilding and variety of industries,
the establishment of institutions of popu-
lar education, in agricultural and me-
chanic arts, in the volume of industries
and the aggregate Of values handled by
them, in progress in mining, in coinage
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Portable conditions of all classes, have
made advances in a hundred years that
Europe has not made in thousand and
has not surpassed during the space of
fifteen hundred years.
He goes further than this, and declares
that it is all directly due to the forms of
constitutional government. constitutions
interpreting liberty, protection and
human right
In conclusion, the learned writer tells
his European readers that "the American
people are the most comfortably housed,
the best clothed and the best fed people
in the world; and they are advancing on
right lines to a higher, better and purer
civilization than has ever before existed
in the worlds history"
The doctor ought to have added that
England, Germany, France and Italy are
sending to us constantly people who look
upon this country through very different
glasses; who make first use of their new
found privileges to declare that every
thing is all wrong here; that labor is op-
pressed, human right tyrannically cir
cumscribed, personal liberty manacled.
the conditions of toll abhorrent, the
laws oppressive, the peoples officers an
autocratic class, the peoples government
a mockery. the American social system a
sham and cheat, and that the right thing
and only thing to do is to ''stab the law :"
upturn order, cry havoc and let slip the
dogs of anarchy. If DR.. Brock is right,
then we are wrong in tolerating such
people his Europe sends to us as
would undo all the achievements with
which be credits us.