The Red Cloud chief., 1896-11-27

very people LOT WHOM tncN nave uOI'
most. For instance. Englishmen are
vehemently detcsted In the Transvaal,
which has been changed by them from
a spareely populated desert into one
OF the richest countries In the world.
IL is the same I'm numberless out-of-
way regions. AS for the continent,
what, he asks, woUld the Riviera and all
the French and German summer and
health resorts be If It were not for the
constant shower of British gold that
falls upon them?
For all that" he continues. these
people, who derive so much from us,
and who need us so sorely, have no
kindly feeling toward us. They may
like individual visitors among the Eng
fish. but they hate the English visitors
as a whole with a fiercenese which Is
as blind as II is unreasoning. They
know that to refuse the English mus
mean ruin TO themselves. and yet they
would gladly slam their doors In the
face of the Anglo-SaXOn and tell him
In forciblc language to seek another
and warmer resting place.
In concluding his article. however,
the writer abandons the benefits that
cannot be forgiven" theory and pro-
ceeds TO tell exactly why the feelings
Of which he complains do exist:
They people of other nationalitics,
when they enter foreign countries, en-
deavor to adapt themselves to the npw
environments. The English, on me
other hand. have n way of marching
through Europe with the national flag
flying in the van and the drums beat
ing Rule Britannia just as II they
were "A new chartered company pushing
on to conquer the barbarians.
where they elect to remain for u
time there they settle down with the
air of conqucrore. The majority OF
them cannot converse iutelligibly In
the language of the country. but they
are not AT all embarrassed by that. The
result is that. before many English
travellers have come his way. the land
lord has begun to learn English as q
part of his stock in trade, is paying
extra for b%ilingual servants and has
doubled all his notices and advertise
mcnts into English.
THE English, moreover, have a way
of finding fault with the local customs
the breakfast, the dinner hour, the
early retiring movement-and they
grumble at them until the landlord, in
a frenzy of competition. alters all of
them to suit the English taste. The
irrepressiblc Anglo-Saxon. too, brings
with him his sports and amusements
He establishes a cricket club and or
ganizes matches ut which one set OF
visitors plays against another and the
residents have to be content with the
part OF the supernumerary crowd,
With the consent of the authorities he
marks out golf links and the guiloless
native wandering lcisurely over tho
ground, finds himself shouted at in un,
known tongues and hit violently in the
small OF the back before he has an
idea what the shouts are all about.
The fact is that wherever We &c
we have a way of treating the natives
as II they were the foreigners: We revO,
lutionize their customs to suit our owl
convenience; We introduce our games
and amusements and make them pre-,
dominant In the gayety of the place
and II We condescend To know the Ian.
guage at all, 1t Is not from any abiding
sense of the beauty of the same or the
duty Of learning 1t, but simply in ordcl
that we may be able to c%ommunicat,
wishes the more easily TO the in
ferior race-just as We do among til,
Matabelc.
The most curious part of II all II
that the natives to a certain extent ac
Quiesce in this attitude. and their owl
acQuiescencc gals them the more. Til,
foreign temperament runs naturally Il
extremes. and there seems tn be n,
medium between oriental servility an,
brutal insolence on their part. Whel
the occasion for the latter occurs /
Is as II a millstream long pent up ha
at last burst its bounds"