The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
De LOME'S BOOK.
Spanish Minister to Washing
ton Says Startling Things
About America in a Book Just
Issued.
THE AMERICAN WOMEN
Particularly Are Written Up
Not Altogether
In a Complimentary Vein-De
LONE is CauStic.
THE AMERICAN WOMEN

New York, March 1.-THE Sun has
received from Madrid a summary of
little book entitled Around the World
From Madrid to Madrid" written by
Senior Enrique Dupuy de LONE, the
Spanish minister in Washington. The
history of the book is not given in the
correspondence, but it is understood
here that it was written four years ago,
after Senior Dupuy de LONE had visi-
ted this country as SPANS commission
er to the Worlds fair
AS a literary work the book is of no
Importance, but that part of it which
refers to the United States will be in
teresting to American readers, who
will be surprised to learn that the
views upon our country of the present
minister of Spain were not, when the
book was written, at all hatterlng to
Beginning with his landing at San
Francisco, Senior Dupuy Chat is his
real name, although the people of this
country persist in calling him De Lome)
1--WE had been told on board the
steamer all that is usually said con-
corning United States officials. They
are scoundrels and thieves. To strict
ly comply with the custom house regu-
1ations will be of no avail to you. If
you carry anything for which duties
must be paid, offer IS TO the officers in
attendance. Do the same thing even
in case you have to pay nothing, so
that they may not DOIneT you. EaCn
passenger related his experience in
American custom houses, and all ad-
ded: These officials are the meanest
and most miserable fellows to be found
among politicians "
Here is his picture of the American
citizen:
I'VE have all heard of the American,
as he is usually described, with a re-
volver in his pocket, at the mines in
California and Nevada; scalped by In
dams or scalping Indians; losing health
I, I'll
politics; struggling to satisfy his I'M
quenchable thirst for gold; intelligent
and active, with Unborn mercantile feel
tngs and having no idea of art outside
that which is geOmetrically modelled.
A great patriot, he almost invaria bly,
rObs his country whenever he is called
to its service.
These men are evidently not the
North Americans who converted a col
ony into great nation, whose enter
prising genius has attracted the admir-
alton of the world with their great cit
les and railroads and schools. They
are not the Stewards and Astors ana
Peabodys; but they are the Beechers
and TiItOns, the Belknaps and Bah
cocks, the New York aldermen, the In
dian agents. the men of the whisky
ring, the innumerable lot of jobbers and
bribers, well dressed thieves and des-
picable publicans, who cast a shadow
upon the future of the American IN
ion"
Senior Dupuy de Lone's estimate of
teresting.
We all know what woman in the
United States is. She is adventurous
and bold. She travels alone with full
liberty, protected more by fear of the
law than by the respect which she in
spires. She is a spendthrift, elegant,
and wears the most risque fashions,
knowing we'll that everything becomes
her She is genteel; her feet are small;
her hair is beautiful.
Is she a woman who loves home? I
a limo -if1or,
women living at the hotels in Califor-
MIA, in Paris, all over Europe; always
extravagant. spending more money
than their husbands, of whom they do
not know much-mOney earned God
Knows how or where.
Before marriage, as I said before,
they are more feared than respected.
w hen they marry how do they behave?
Who can tell? People have been in
clined to believe that they made model
wives. do not think that they are the
worst in the world; but there are indi-
cations which do not commend them
much; for instance, the mysterious his
tory of a certain witch who now owns
a palace on Fifth avenue, and whose
fortune, of which she now makes an
1nsolent show, was amassed by pre-
venting the increase of population in
the great Republic the personals in
a New York paper; the excursions on
steam boats which follow the publica-
IIon OF these personals their trips to
Paris 40
Summing up the character of the
American men and women the SDar
1sh minister SAYS:
Are all men and women in the Uni
ted States like this? Maybe not do
not know them to be so; but let there be
no mlSund Outstanding upon this subject
We are tired of seeing and knowing ner
sons who later prove to be rascaIs: of
nearing Americans abuse their own
countrymen, and all the more when
they happen to be highly placed: of
shaking hands with persons who ought
10 wear manacles instead of gloves
We're we to believe what those who
know them say.
1T is yet to be learned whether the
American commonwealth can continue
as 1t is now constituted. VIII the I'm
tied States be a BILE to exist when il has
10 confront the social Fe-oblems which
now attract EurOpe'S attention? VIII
the United States be able long to retain
the cohesion from which the Federal
constitution derives all it's force, having.
as the nation has, a government lack
ing unity and strength, as we'll as a
corrupt administration, to say nothing
OF race antagonism and opposing in
terests of the various states? viii the
United States be able to meet foreign
competition. when wages are lowered
abroad? VIII the western AGRICULTURAL
states submit to the economic servi-
tude imposed upon them by northern
manufacturers? In my opinion all
these problems will present themselves
IN the United States before long
AS soon as the present industrial
movement ceases and the United States
gets on a level with other nations, when
profits become less, will the taxpayers
consent to be ruled as they now are?
VIII they consent 10 pay large sums of
money for the ma fntenance OF an army
which does not exist; of navy the con-
dltion of whose vessels is such that none ,
of them would be able to return TO the
United States from a trip to China: of
an administration, whose members pro
vide abundant material for inVestiga-
ton in the criminal courts?
50 many opposing interests cannot
long remain united. Time will bring
about the formation of three nations
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