Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-11-01
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 last comes bit of appreciation
from q 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,
nnd, better still, an English weekly,
the Gentlewoman, publishes it, as fol-
lows: "The Americans I simply love;
they are so wonderfully sympathetic
to one. There is no trouble they will
not take, or personal inconvenience
,hey will not suffer, if in any way they
can render one 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 it's cue from it, and
urges Londoners and all English folk
10 appreciate the "boundless kindness
and hospitality which they Amer
icans) heap. upon us" and be ready to
"receive the strangers right royalty
in return. It calls attention further
| to the unprecedented influx of "men
and women from all parts of the
| United Stntcs'' who are now crowdlng,
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 n bit of policy in it's concluding adj
vice, which every one who has suffered
the extortionnte impertinence of the
London tradespcoplc-nn impertl-
ncncc none the less because it is often
cnvcloped in fawning servility-will
say Il hearty '' amen" to: "ln these
bad times of depression in trade, it
would be as much to our advantage
as to theirs, not only to welcome, but
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 az
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 Pari,
last summer was surprised at the price
charged her for the make of gloxee
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" Ut course tins 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
e trade.
e 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 laie
q on the superior wearing qualities, /;
!. stress that was .expensively disprovet
] in the case of most articles. Tourist
e from this country are looked upo,
!, abroad every time as geese to lay colder
n eggs. They are geese to give their gol'
y for the value they get, nine times ou
l. If tenn. Y. Times.