Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-17
Some Sources of European CnIumnies.

Inc American people warmly and justly
resent the way in which they are referred
TO by Certain Frerch and German news
papers. The terms money -getter.-' "ruf-
nan. Door and even worse make no
pleasant reading. We ask ourselves,
Where 10 they find warrant for such
epithets?' Suppose we look into the mat
ter little
When the scavenger press of Paris de-
clares that Americans love only money. do
we not hear echo of some of the Der
fervid orators during our exciting cam
paiSps? Has not that charge been flung
st the east thousand times? Is it not a
pet charge in popul1st strongholds that the
rich men of the east care nothing for the
country except for the dollars that it yields
them? And yet what do we see now? The
richest young men of the east, the Roose-
velts. the Astors, the CHAMBERS and others
with money to burn. are going to the front
and proud To go, in the company of men
OF the west, ritfemen and rough riders all
III the country's service. Does that bear
out the charge that love of money controls
the men o the east?
When Lieut.. Du Bose. late of the Span
ish legation here. spoke in public in
Canada of the border ruffians" of the
Of campaign recklessne3s INDUCED in here
st home during our domestic controversies?
The wild and woolly west" is a phrase
Used by certain people of the east who
have never crossed the Allegheny noun
tains: who do not know that the Young
towns and cities of the west are peopled
with men and women of the best blood
ard culture in America; that the repre-
seEtatlyes OF the west in either house of
Congress rank with the most capable ana
respected Members of that body The
phrase is wholly out of date and has en-
tirely lost its application.
When Senior de LONE referred to the
President in terms of personal dfsrespect
the country felt outraged far beyond the
matter of the minister's official transgres-
sion 1t held the President IN such high
appreciation, both official and as man.
that 1t stood at once indignant and amazed
at the SPaniard's calumny. But that facile
hneak was hardly out of commission when
certain American newspapers, of the
baser sort, discounted everything he had
said by the Vi Jierce of their attacks on
the head of the nation. They heaped abuse
upon him. and eked out the poverty of
low vocabulary with the vile insinuations
OF the pot-hOuse and the gutter. They
charged the President with shaping his
course in the matter of Cuba to influence
the stock market in the interests of his
frien ds, and held him up generally to con-
Timely ard ridicule
The suttersnipe newspaper will not mend
its ways, and it is not important that il
should. Its rawlings are of small moment
Its disaDprOvaI is a sign of merit in the
recipient But stump orators of all sec
lions seeing their excited and ul-considered
Ltteranc-S reappcar abroad to the whole
country 5 disadvantage, might serve a good
end by taking reef in their sails in future
in discussing domes tic affairs. For as a
matter of fact, the general tone of Ameri-
can life and purpose, in office and out, is,
TO speak with moderation. as high as that
presented in any country in the world