Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-02

is able to enter into a frst-rate Ger
man family on very reasonable terms.
The social life of the Germans is in
sympathy with our own, and he has
fewer temptations toward dissipation
than in any other great city of Europe
on account of the universally studious
habits of the best Germans. There is
scarcely any circle of Americans there
who live merely for pleasure, as in
Paris and London
Paris, in the days of Napoleon III.
was inhabited by a large number of
Americans who came there to spend
money and to entertain: but now Lon
don has probably more attractions for
an American than Paris ever had.
largely, perhaps, because Americans
have come to find that blood is thicker
than water and that wherever they
move in London they are received and
treated as near cousins, and soon find
themselves quite at home.
THE position of Americans in Eng
land has been much prejudiced by
very rich Americans going over there,
making an enormous display of money,
and seeking to buy their way into
social position in manner which they
never would dare to attempt in their
own country; but the quiet and reason
able Americans have found London as
congenial a home as an Ameri-
can moving from one of our
own cities to another would
find Nearly every club in Lon
don has one or more American
members; nearly every public spirited
committee is represented by one or
more Americans in London, and. to
judge by the newspapers, one would
say that Englishmen to-day treat
Americans as people whom hey not
only respect, but would very much like
to know better. If / have heard it
once have heard it dozen times out
of the mouths of English public men
the hope that England and America
would in the near future put an end TO
war by making such a defensive and
offensive alliance, at least with their
natives, that war henceforth would be
impossible. The thing that keeps ma
tives hostile more than anything else is
difference of language, to say nothing
of difference in race and religion.
mo libel against America ever goes
unchallenged to-day in the English
press. ! can remember the time when
papers could scarcely find space for
anything complimentary to the United
States. All this, however, has changed
for the better since the Alabama claim
decision. That decision made English
men realize that Americans were in
every respect great nation-not only
capable of defending themselves
against an attack on land, but also
able to insist upon their rights abroad
and in manner to challenge the re-
spect of all the world. We led the way
in accepting arbitration as a dignified
settlement of international disputes"
Have YOU heard MIR. Gladstone ex-
press any opinion on this subject?"
Gladstone in the time of our civil
war, was thought to be rather preiu-
diced against our government. Well,
had the pleasure of dining with him
a week before he resigned and during
that dinner he paid such high compli-
ments to American public men, Amer
lean life and Americans in general, as
to show that he, for one, was heartily
glad to see the success of the repub-
lican experiment on this side of the
water.
''EIe follows American literature and
American doings exactly as though
he were interested in politics here;
and, above all. he is interested in see
ing how far the sympathies of Amer
ia are likely to assist England in
standing out as power in favor of
disarmament and arbitration as
settlement of international questions
Another thing, too, which surprised
me, was this: You know Gladstone
used to be regarded as rather a friend
of Russia, and against Turkey, and he
has always been looked upon as being
very much under the influence of Rus
sian friends Yet he told me that he
had read George Remnants book On 81
IBERIA from cover to cover and consid-
cred it altogether the most complete
book on the subject imag Unable, in
that George KEENAN, had said the last
word upon the subject of the treat
ment OF political exiles, and that any
one henceforth wishing to treat Of this
subject, whether he was Russian or
an Englishman, would have to 90 to
George KEENAN, for information. What
S1ade the greatest impression upon
Gladstone was the internal truth and
impartiality -he believed every word
of it," ARTHUR STEDMAy.
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