Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-06
THE PEOPLE
OF ENGLAND.
Synopsis Of Prof. PauI's Lecture at
the County Institute.
GREAT BRITAIN'S POWER
And Greatness o. English erienesi,ip
for America, and the Courtesy
shown 60 Americans.

Specially Reported for the News"
At the County Teachers Institute
held last Saturday at the University
Prof J. II. Paul spoke on the geo.
rraphy OF the British Isles. His re-
marks on the soil. climate. vegetation.
and animals Of the islands and the In
dustrial life Of the people. interest
Ing and humorous and were followed
BY some observations on the people. In
part as follows
THE PEOPLE.
After all Il Ia the people that interest
ua most In any country. ! found In the
British Isles many Of the nncst people
I have ever met, and also saw many ot
the most degraded people I have ever
seen. There II marked distinction
there between the high and the low
between the better classes, ana the UNI
fortunate and the drunken class. ~
rule. whenever I became at all ac-
quaintcd with either the sctoch. I'm.
giiah. Wcloh. or Irish people. found
them tolerant, though conservative. In
religious belief. usually frank and
plnln-Epokcn ON political and public
qucEtions. very much attached to the
Institutions and laws OF England pa
triotic In sentiment ~ TO the nchicNc
menta of their country. and slow 20
comprehend upon what grounds could
still believe America TO be a greater.
frccrr. ana more progressive country
than Britain.
DRiTAIN's GREATNESS.
am ready TO admit the greatness
OF England. the glory OF her history,
the wonder OF her military ana naval
uahlaNafu0uiu the Nuatuen pf her ems
pirc. IN. freedom OF her people. the linz
Partially Of her laws. the supremacy
OF her literature. ana the superiority
Of her poets. writer's. and statesman.
II II. IN Daniel Webster has declared.
IA power TO which, for purposes OF
foreign conquest and subJupation.
even Rome In the height OF her
glory In not to be compared.
"a power that has dotted over the SUR
face OF the whole globe with her pos
sessions ana military posts: whose
morning drum-bcat. following the sun
and keeping company with the hours.
encircics the globe daily with one con-
tinuoua ana unbrokcn strain Of the
martial airs OF England"
And we have no reason. RA Amcri-
cans. TO feel otherwise than proud OF
the glory aud power OF the land OF our
hncsAtorr: for Of that long and glorious
history ~ the development OF human
liberty and the establishment OF the
rights OF man, our own history IN nut
a part-thc cnpntone of the building
the completion OF the story. Nor do they
look upon Va as other than their own
people.
FRIENDSHIP FOR AMERICA.
Everywhere went. found that
Americans We're popular. especially In
Scotland. Nowhere did md tho
slightest animoaity or rnncor toward
an American m such Aud whatever
may be said OF the history OF the past,
or whatever individual differences ana
exceptions might ntlll exist among them
In their estimate OF the American pco-
pie, the real state OF English public
feeling ar "a whole toward this country
was amply demonstrated IN the course
OF our late war with Spain. For q few
days Just before the declaration Of war,
when American public feeling was tor
fibiy wrought up. when In Congress the
determined appeals OF statesmen were
being delivered. when the President,
heaitating between the contemplated
horrors OF war ON the one hand aud
the evident aympathica OF our people
FOR downtrodden humanity ON the 9th.
or, was Htill In doubt as 20 peace ana
war. even when war had become "a
practical certainty then. In that SUI
prone moment, just ON the eve Of bat
tie. In the calm that prccodes the
ttorff-thc huhh or expectancy bcfofu
the final outburst-whcn the anxiety
decpened terribly In America. owing
IN part 10 the mcnacing attitude Of ccr-
tain OF the great powers OF Europe aud
tile lack of certainty aH to what the at
titnne OF the English government might
I've. In that supreme crisis the English
press. In almost one voice Numbered
forth the verdict OF the English nation.
II was the sentiment OF friendship and
sympathy 10 "a brother land, engaged as
England had often been before, IN
h,rikinR blow for liberty at the forces
OF tyranny and oppression. The En-.
Rlirh public was not well Informed M
10 the reasons for the span
sh-AmerioRn quarrel. Neither Mt
firrt were the editors; but
the latter class quickly Not hold OF the
facts. and at once ranged themselves
almost without exception, on the side
OF the Americans. ana the aympathics
of the masses were not slow In follow
Ing their lead. ~ that time II was
thought that the navy OF spain was
very formidable. Al accounts of II
made the SPANISH navy larger than
that Of our own country, The English
man would Significantly say. while dis
cuSHlng the question OF our lack Of
sufficient navy for the emergency
'Well. England has plenty OF ships and
guns; America need not fear any
thing" Poems ana sentiments like
the following appeared In nearly all
the papers: