The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-23
HILL GAME N LOVE
With America and With All
Things American.
NOT so AWFULLY WICKED
In Its Wicked Spots, and
Mighty Good in Its Good.
NOT so AWFULLY WICKED

New York, Dec. PA dispatch 20 the
| Herald from London, says:
Hall Game, who is now at Creda Castle,
Isle Of Man, contributes a long article
to the Daily Telegraph today entitled
Life in America" He says in part:
Did 1 see any results of the war?
Yes, in the sudden and great revival Of
trade, which is now brisk in America
Beyond shat, not great deal that seemed
10 be direct result. Indeed. it is sur
prising how little impression the war has
made on the minds and condition of the
people of America. They hardly talk of
it ar all. The people give you the idea
that they have turned down the page OF
the Spanish war for good.
ATTITUDE TOWARD ENGLAND
what did I find to be the American
attitude toward England?
Not greatly unlike what IL was three
years ago. Certainly no such extraordi-
nary change in the national sentiment
appears TO have passed over America as
that which we nave lately experienced
in England. Nobody on the other side
alliance, whether in the form of a treaty
or of an understanding. Nobody talks
of it and 1 doubt If it has ever impressed
itself on The American mind as a serious
idea at all. That Is not to say that the
good feeling for England is not deep and
widespread in America. 1t is, and Eng
lands friendnness to America during the
war has strengthened the ties between
the two countries. Any public reference
to that friendliness is sure TO provoke
applause
ABSORBS ALL RACES.
at does not require any knowledge in
economic problems to fee that in one i'm
portant particular America is master OF
the world. Already that amazing country
absorbs all the races of the earth, and
every race that it absorbs it feeds and
strengthens. It may be stated as sure
though astounding fact that no civilized
race whatever has yet been known to de-
cline or diminish on American soil
LESS WICKED THAN ENGLAND.
AS for the wickedness of the big Amer
lean cities, Chicago and New York, it can
only seem greater than anything else in
the world to those VINO do not know the
Wfckedness of our own cities at home
Our appalling stories of the waysh of for
eign cities usually come from people who
live the most tIumdrpm lives in London. !
The secret is a very simple one. They
are explorers only when they go abroad.
THE AMERICAN HERES.
IF l were asked what is the worst evil !
which comes of the American thirst for |
prosperity I should say the pride of |
wealth. Nevertheless the corroding effect |
OF great wealth shows Itself on Ameri- |
can society in more ways than one. The |
marriages of English men 10 American !
women may perhaps bring about the An |
alliance which Mr.. Cham |
beriain so much desires, but where The /
reasons for such unions are merely wealth |
on the one side and vanity on the other, |
without any other apparent motive. the |
loss will be Il America in the lowering |
Of the moral tone of that part of her peo- !
pie which comes within the atmosphere |
of such transactions
AMERICANS AS READERS.
THE quest of material prosperity by no /
means absorbs the energies of the Amer
lean people. 1t would be impossible to find
among the nations of the world more /
readers to the thousand Of population.
And the Americans not only read more I
than we do-uhey read better No other
nation pays so much attention 10 the
education of its women, and in no other
country does woman stand so high or play
so serious a part.
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.
The religious life OF America is active
70 the point of fostering nearly every
crazy action that takes Form OF faith.
Nowhere is that great wave more felt
which is now carrying the Christian
church back TO the early ideals OF Christ
anity. The work of the Sums is splen-
1idly done both by men and women IN
America Where there is no state church.
reverence for the church and the things
IF the church is greater than it mas ever
seemed to me TO be in England or even
n Rome
WHY HE LOVES AMERICA
Il love America because II is big and
because its lhigness is constantly impress
sing the imagination and stimulating the
1earts 1 love its people because they are
Tree. with the freedom which the rest Of
he world takes as by stealth and which
hey claim openly as their right I love
hem because they are the most industri-
ous. earnest. active and ingenious on
Earth, because they are the most moral /
md religious. and. above al. the most
sober people in the world: because, in
spite Of ali the shallow judgments OF su-
Dsriicial observers. they are the most
shildlike in national character. the easiest
o move 20 laughter. the resdiest % be
.ouched to tears. the most absolutely true
n their impulses and the most generous
z their applause"