The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-12-12
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 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 / simply love;
they are so wonderfully sympathetic
to one. There is no trouble they will
Eot take, or personal inconvenience
they 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
to appreciate the "boundIess 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
United States" who are now crowding,
u,
London, and then separate for wander
ings all over England, and makes a
plea that they be well treated. There
is n bit of policy in its concluding ad-
vice, which every one who has suffered
the extortionate impertinence of the
London tradespeople-an imperti-
nence 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
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,
but 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 i'll 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 .afL-e-sredteF5 than a. fsevv
York, but stress was invariably laid
on the superior wearing qualities, o
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.