The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-29
SEEN FROM FRANCE.
HOW AMERICA AND AMERICANS ARE
PICTURED IN PARTISAN PAPERS.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mentioned as the
birthplace of George Washington.
A short time ago young American
came TO Paris for the first time. After
spending a week lettering mp and down
the grand boulevards and the Rue de
Rivoli in the wake Of his compatriots,
he conceived the idea that he would
like TO know something of the real Paris
aud of real French life and particularly
to become acquainted with the French
idea of things in general. He was adj
vised by Frenchman that the most ex-
peditious route TO this knowledge was
through the columns Of a certain Paris
paper, lie Petit Parisien. THAT,
said he, lis the paper of the French
bourgeoisie. 1t reflects France. 1t has
circulation Of 500, 600 copies "A day.
1t has no politics. Ii is very conserva-
tive. It's foreign news is good and trust
worthy, which you viii like. Jean
Frollo, its chief editorial writer is a
very learned man and makes specially
of things American. Read lie Parish
en-; you'll like il, and you Il be sure
that you re getting real French views
They young mau began % read lie Petit
Parisien religiouSly. As the French
man had said, il had a good deal Of
foreign news.
In the first fortnigh.'s reading Of lie
Petit Parisicn's editorial articles the
young American came across some pc
culiarities in the way of foreign news,
which he marked, with a note of the
article in which they occurred. With
the parts from lie Parisien in quota
tion marks they were as follows:
Leader on relations of Canada and
France: Canada is indeed a great
country and it may well be proud of
having been the birthplace of the patri
OF George Washington.
Leader on review Of troops in Rus
STA; Among the celebrated persons
who sat down TO the lunche was the |
brilliant commander in chief of the |
American army, General Nelson -
Leader on American progress: "But,
Of course, one must remember Il at |
the people of the United States are in
great numbers but half civilized. Only !
small proportion of them know how
TO read and write, and it is merely the
great sordid power Of making money,
etc
Among his other finds" in lie Petit
Parisien during this fortnight was one
IN the novel which is running as fcu-
illetOn The scene Of the first few chap
tiers is laid in America, in the neigh
bOrhoOd of the city of New York. The
heroine lives at chateau" 90 miles
from the Battery One afternoon she
desires TO 80 out for a walk, but, to use
the words or the author, "she feared to
do 50 on account of the Indians, reports
of whose depredations had lately come
TO her ears
The young American, always learn
ing new things, finally came across q
two column editorial en- titled THE
Americans at Home" 1t opened with
the words, 1.-The Americans have CO.
lossal Righteousness.
Farther along in the same article
there was an estimate of the Country
men of Clara Ward conceived as fol.
lows:
THAT native audacity which from
the cradle prevents them from ever
themselves; that absence of
discretion concerning matters which bar
the way TO their capriccs; that disdain
Of preJudices, Of etiquette of justice, of
common sense, together with the unex-
pectedness, the disjointedness and the
of their ideas, really 90 fur
Their to make up the strength of Ameri-
cans than the accumulation Of their dol
lars. They adore money, they love
above all 20 pile it up as enormously as
possible, but they do not hesitate TO
throw it out Of the window to satisfy a
'aprice or TO dazzle the spectator OF
IN unconscionable 'humbugisme, en-
oloying every means i'll their power to
audacity as we'll as duplicity,
'obbing others without shame they
themselves headlong upon
ortune, violate her and choke her if
he offers resistance -
After this lie Petit Harisien added
laively: But it is unnecessary to paint
he milliardaires of New York, of Bos-
'N' " hAAetbNA plilct, VI Oh |
san Francisco further; we have done it
hundred times. " Then it stated grave
y that Mr.. Jay Gould was first the
: King OF Gold, then Mr.. Vanderbilt,
'ut that now it is Mr. Bradley Martin.
A few paragraphs further along the
young American read:
1.-THE second Of these milliardaires.
Who will possibly be the first tomorrow,
Sir William Aston, a renowned sports
nan who has nothing more 70 learn Of
thletic games, went few days ago, as
5 his habit each week, to run the ex-
)ress train from the Grand Central of
illinois Mounted upon the locomotive
n the place Of the usual engineer he
ook extreme pleasure in running the
rain against time. Several Of his col.
eagues of the New York club, where
mo may be admitted only upon condi.
ion of having fortune of $50, 600, 600.
ave sought fit TO dispute the record he
made, however. Thus NJ George Gould.
on of the railway king, has good reason
o challenge him for race, if he will,
ecause he has had much practice i'm
his sort Of thing from the fact that ev-