The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-22
AS HALL GAME SEES Us.
Tells the English Public What He
Found in America

Found in America
New York, Dec PA dispatch to the
Herald from London says:
Hall Game who is now at Greda Cas-
tie. Isle of Man, contributes a long ar
ticle to the Daily Telegraph today en-
titled Life in America" He says in
part:
Did see any results of the warp
Yes, in the sudden and great revival
Of trade which is now brisk in America
Beyond that not a great deal that
seemed to be a direct result Indeed. il
IS surprising how little impression the
war has made on the minds and con-
hardly talk Of it at all. The people give
you the idea that they have turned
down the page OF the Spanish war for
good.
what did I find TO be the American
attitude toward England?
Not greatly unlike what it was three
years ago Certainly no such extraor-
binary change in the national sentiment
appears to have passed over America
as that which we have lately expert
enced in England. Nobody on the other
side or the ocean calls for an Anglo
american alliance whether in the form
OF a treaty or OF an understanding. No
body talks OF it and I 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. It is and England's friend1i-
ness to America during the war has
strengthened the ties between the two
countries. Any public reference to that
friendHness is sure to provoke applause.
TT does not require any knowledge in
economic problems to see that in one
important 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 sta
ted as a sure, though astounding fact
that no civilized race whatever, has yet
been known to decline or diminish on
American soil.
LAS 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 not
know the Wickeduess of our own cities
at home. Our appalling stories Of the
ways Of foreign cities usually come
from people who live the most hum
drum lives in London. The secret Is q
very simple one. They are explorers
only when they go abroad
IF were asked what is the worst
thirst for prosperity. I 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-Ameriean alli-
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 absoFbs the energies of the
American people It would be impossi-
bic to find among the nations Of the
world more readers to the thousand Of
population. And Americans not only
read more than we do-they read bet
ter. No other nation pays so much at
tention to the education of its women
and in no other country does woman
stand so high or play so serious a
part.
The religious life OF America is ac-
tive to the point Of fostering nearly ev-
cry crazy notion that takes form Of
faith, as where that great wave IS
more felt which is now carrying the
Christian church back to the early
ideals of Christianity. The work of the
Sums is splanidly done both by men
and women. 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.
Ct love America because it is big and
because its bigness is constantly i'm
pressing the Imagination and stimulat-
ing the heart. love its people because
they are free with the freedom which
the rest of the world takes as by 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 shallow judgments of sup
CRITICAL Observers they are the most
childlike in national character. the cas-
lest to move to laughter. the TeadieSt
to be touched to tears the most a sO-
IuteIy true in their impulses and the
most generous in their applause"