The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-28
PURSUIT OF THE PFENNIG.
GERMINr'S SITING WAYS As SEEN
NJ nv IMEI!ICIy.

" " " ' AN'aNl
Entertainments 49, A Nation of Small
yshopkrepcrs Lack OF Public spirit.
MUN1CH, May O.-Tt Is the custom In Europe
to sneak Of America as the Land Of the Dol
lars and Of Americans as mcrcenary Yankees.
In both instances. Of course. In n derOgatory
sense. Immediately before and during the
first days Of the recent war II was n stock ar
gument that Americans would not fight Spain
because there was no money in II. Spain being
moor. People who had every renson TO know
better advanced this view because their news
rapers continually dinned it; and when they
discovered that Americans not only would but
did fight they crawlcd out Of an UNPLEASANT
predicument-no self-respectIn Continental
will willingly acknowledge himself to be in
tho wrongly declaring that after all there
was q lot OF money in II and that that was wha.
the Americans were after. II Is difficult to
find 4 European. not an Englishman. who is
oren to tho conviction that America did not
go to wal with Spain with the object Of stealing
Cuba. and whatever else she could lay her
hands on. and that she now has the loot.
Notwithstanding the fact that German
papers have received what are orenly de
Clared to be official orders to say nothing
harsh about America az the present time. their
unfIiendliness is only half concealed. They
are cautious about commenting upon the acts
OF our Government in relation with their own.
but our troubles In the Philippines I'll them
with 2lee and with sarcasm. They vent their
spite impnrsonally. and therefore safely. by
saying all manner OF unpleasant things about
American character. all looking to the main
object Of holding us up TO derision and repro-
baton MS a people. First and foremost is the
eternal harping dpon what they call our greed
and ostentation. Often these plants sound
very much as Il coming from the boy who secs
unpthnr lpr with n liuDnr Eitn or n mora
varicgatel glass marble; but what they intend
to convey is the belief that they. the Germans.
are nbove the wholly Vulgar love Of money
and that they would not have great fortunes
II they could.
Now. II any man can 80 through this world
and lind four nations which. collectively and
individually. think more and talk more Of
money. and go to lower depths Of uarsimony
and petty lncanresS to get It. than the Ger
mans. the French. tho swiss ana the Dutch.
he will he obliged to do n great deal of careful
searching. But it is the Germans and the
French. and ALWAYS pre-cminently the Ger
mans. to whom MammOn is the first if not the
only worthy god in the calendar. He pro-
cedes Gambrinus. which is rs much as can he
said. He enters into every circumstance Of
public and private life from birth to marriage
and to death.
Most Germans. even OF the princely and
noble houses. are what would be considered
in America DESPERATELY poor. There is no
reason in the world why their praise worthy
efforts to better their condition in life should
ln derricd ma n ls onIv Nv ,h.Ir constant
condemnation and ridicule Of the Land Of the
Dollars chat they invite. even provoke, n con.
tenn lation Of their own condition and the cir
cumstances attending it. In a country where
one tips a public Official with five cents and q
street car conductor with a cent. each show
Inv not umhrage. but the most humble graft
tude. the field for survey is certainly wide.
W. o,,n ,ri,h .,o ororo,, Ca.n,n ~,
10 beSlh "ith' ,''e average 'erinah' "heh
he sets out to make money, is content with
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amount 10 re''re on F.'''''o ~ u lor'uhr'
that is fabulous, It is soiI that in Bavaria
..,,h =, rnnulo,ior n.,,,y ~ rro,, &C. ,hot ~,
Penn PENNSYLVANIA, there e nre only three a' m IN n.
hires. The great mass OF professional And
ane hor. W ~, hoas p ann
business men nave incomes o' 'ess tha'
500. The cost Of Iiytng i. about the same
"a il is In America. and the German does not
live nearly so we'll.
Tconomy is Considered hv the German to
he the sTrest way Of tmaklng money; nnd il !,
strile tho troneo,Ioutic strnnrcr all nrer thc
Continent. Tie German. however. is pa1t
taurnnt md sees n German wipe rho SCUM from
lis musta"he with a tnie"c OF bread and then
eat the nreaI nt "ne 6 IGN. !" r%aiiI tr it; ,h hnt that
Ter goes FAR DEEPER. Nhrn a German saws To- a
fornigner avn Lc doa.n', cav it IN nnnthar
Garmnn ber1u. "a thev know one onGtInr zoo
we'll. ""Come in and hay" n brink he ICesn'p
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