San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-09
TRIBUTE TO AMERICANS.
An Englishman's Opinion of Yam
kee Tourists.
Our Good Dollars Are Very Welcome to
European Tradesmen-A Warning
Suggestion to Those Who
Rush Abroad.

AT IasJ comes Dit OF appreciation
from a source whence it has long been
withheld. A young Englishman, who
has been doing the rounds of the Amer
lean cities, writes home in praise of us,
and, better still, an English weekly,
the Gentlewoman, publishes it, as fol-
lows: The Americans 1 simply love;
they are so wonderfully sympathetic
to one. There is no trouble they will
rot take, or personal inconvenience
they will not suffer, if in any way they
can render one a service" The name of
this extraordinary young Englishman
is not given or it should be blazoned
forth.
The weekly paper, in reproducing
the extract, takes its cue from il, and
urges Londoners and all English folk
10 appreciate the "boundless kindness
and hospitality which they (Amer-
icans) heap upon u.s." and be ready to
receive the strangers right royalty"
in return. 1t calls attention further
to the unprecedented influx of men
and women from all parts of the
and will for the next six weeks crowd,
London, and then separate for wander
ings all over England, and makes
plea that they be well treated. There
is a bit of policy in its concluding adj
vice, which every one who has suffered
the extortionate impertinence of the
London tradespeople-an imperti-
hence none the less because it is often
enveloped in fawning servility-will
say hearty amen" to: in these
bad times of depression in trade, it
would be as much TO our advantage
retain the Americans in England as
long as possible. Not all Americans
are rich, though most are generous.
We are sadly in need of their dollars,
hut need not be eXtortionate, for all
that"
One is provoked and indignant to
think of the thousands of dollars these
"crowds of Americans" will spend, not
only in England but through Europe,
before the autumn will send them
home again. Provoked because many
of the thousands will go for things
that will be bought under the impress
sion that if they are the same price
they are better than can be bought at
home, while, if they are cheaper than
the same goods here, it will still be sup
posed that they are of the same
quality.
A woman buying gloves in Paris
last summer was surprised at the price
charged her for the make of gloves
she was accustomed to buy for con-
siderably less in New York.
"Ah, madame" said the glib shop
girl, but we send only our seconds
to New York" OF course this was
wholly untrue. 1t is absurd to sup
pose that skilled American wholesale
buyers are going to be imposed upon
with seconds of anything, much less
gloves, whose quality is known guam
tity every time to an expert in the
trade.
The same woman's experience in Lon
don was similar. Prices were always
equal, and often greater, than in New
York, but stress was invariably laid
on the superior wearing qualities, a
stress that was extensively disproved
in the case of most articles. Tourists
from this country are looked upon
abroad every time as geese to lay golden
eggs. They are geese to give their gold
for the value they get, nine times out
of tenn. Y. Times.