The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-23
Americans Are the Greatest People
On Earth.
WHAT He DISCOVERED
ENGLISH NovELIsTs oBsERvA.
TIoNS ON ATERICAN LIFE.
Surprised That We So Soon Dismissed
the Spanish War-our Amazing
Capacity For Absorbing the Races
of the World-We have Been His
judged By Others.

New York, Dec. pa dispatch to the
Herald from London says: Hall Game,
who is now at Grada Castle, Isle of
Man, contributes long article to the
Daily Telegraph today entitled Life in
America" He says in part:
did I see any results of the war
Yes. In the sudden and great revival
of trade, which is now brisk in Amer
lea. Beyond that not a great deal
seemed to be a direct result. Indeed,
it is surprising how little impression
it has made on the minds and condi-
ton of the people Of America They
hardly talk of it at all. The people
give you the idea that they have turned
down the page of the Spanish war Tor
good.
What did I find to be the American
attitude toward England?
mot greatly unlike what it was three
years ago. Certainly no such extraor-
binary change in the national senti-
ment appears to have passed over
America as that which we have lately
experienced in England.
1T does not require any knowledge
in economic problems to see that in one
important particular America is mas
ter of the world. Already that amazing
country absorbs all the races of the
world and every race that it absorbs
it feeds and strengthens. 1t may be
stated as a sure, though astounding
fact, that no civilized race whatever
has yet been known to decline or dimin-
ish on American soil
CAS- for the wickedness of the big
American cities, Chicago and New
York, it can only seem greater than
anything else in the world to those who
do ,ofl iClr of
cities at home. Our appalling stories
of the ways of foreign cities usually
come from people who live the most
humdrum lives in London. The secret
is very simple. They are explorers only
when they go abroad.
eff [ were asked what was the worst
result which comes from the American
thirst for prosperity, l should say the
pride of wealth. Nevertheless, the cor
roding effect of great wealth shows it.
self on American society in more ways
than one. The marriages of English
men to American women may perhaps
bring about the Anglo-American ALI
ance which Mr. Chamberlain 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 to America in the lowering of the
moral tone of that part of her people
which comes within the atmosphere of
such transactions.
''The quest of material prosperity by
no means absorbs the energy of the
American people. 1t would be impossible
to find among the nations of the world
more readers to the thousand of popu-
lation. And Americans not only read
more than we do-they read better. No
other nation pays so much attention to
the education of its women and in no
other country does woman stand SO
high or play so serious a part.
1.-THE religious life of America is act
i've to the point of fostering nearly
every crazy notion that takes form of
faith. In America, where there is no
state church. reverence for the church
and the things Of the church is greater
than it has ever seemed to me to be in
England, or even in Rome.
L love Amrica. because it is big and
because its bigness is constantly i'm
pressing the imagination and stimulat-
ing the heart. love its people be-
cause they are free with the freedom
stealth and which they claim openly
as their right. I love them because
they are the most Industrious, earnest,
active and ingenious people on earth
because they are the most moral and
religious and, above all, the most sober
people in the world; because, in spite
of all the shallow judgments of super
fetal observers, they are the most child
like in national character, the earliest
to move to laughter, the readiest to be
touched to tears, the most absolutely
true in their impulses and the most
generous in their applause"