Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1899-08-24
What MR. White SAW.
IMPRESSIONS FORMED WHILE
THE LEDGER EDITOR WAS
IN F0REIGNLANDs.
ENfERYAINS TIE MISSOURIED
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"A Paper Read Before the Missouri
Press Association at Kansas City
Thinks America the
Greatest Country
Incidents in
Paris.
IENfERYAINS YHEMISSOURI EDITORS

The following rambling femhfke
were delivered by X. NJ. White, editor
Of this paper, before the meeting Of
the Missouri Press Association az
Kansas City, NO., this week:
Your President and Executive
Committee have asked me to give you
the impressions formed Of Europe In
four days.
l was on the Continent six days,
but was moving all the time, and,
while Ihavem many and varied impress-
ions, do not know that they would
interest you.
On account Of being the guest Of
very dear friends while 10 Paris, ] saw
more OF what was worth seeing in four
days than could have seen in four
months alone and unable to speak the
language. should have stayed longer
except that | had an engagement as
Recording Secretary Of the National
Editorial Association at Portland, Ore,
and preferred to forego the pleasure
Of Sightseeing, even In gay Paris,
rather than miss meeting with editors
OF my own country.
My trip abroad was taken as pre-
scription, my physician thinking a
long voyage on the water would do
me good. Water 10 not only good to
wash with, but to ride on, especially
when you want rest. l took my
medicine, as is usually the case, ai
quickly az possible, but some day an
going back, not for my health, but t6
see more Of the country, and find oui
II my Impressions, 80 hurriedly formed
are correct.
Foreigners very often come tt
America, and, after staying a week o.
, 90 In New York City, 60 home an'
! write long histories about the Unite'
States; making Kansas City state
} Missouri a city; St. Louis a suburb o
New York, and they people all thi
western country with indians, canni
} balls and buffalo. Now, am not go
ing to fall into that error, bat vii
eimply attempt, In very dlsconnecte'
manner, 10 give you few Of the i'm
pressions made upon me during m,
hurried trip abroad.
was more than ever lmpresse
with grand old ocean, the grandef
i wonder Of all wonders Of the worlt
I'll / was ON the water twenty-tw
s days and experienced all kinds Q
q weather. When still and smooth g
oil, the ocean lie grand; when 1t roll
!. with long and majestic swell, as
! usually does, II is even grander. Whei
I in a terrible storm, your magnihcer
! : ship, going down, as you would thinl
. to the bottom Of the sea, then Gu
loose and goes mile or less deepe
is and then, like cork, up and up, fr
le one end Of the ship and then the othe
,r and then both, and when, apparentl
re the whole business turns over sid
wise and then endwise, and then sid
wise and endwise, at the same time,
~ is grand beyond description. II "
" are not feeling well, perhaps "
= would not appreciate this grandeur.
!" You must 60 across the ocean
appreciate it. Many people "wou
ie 20 to Europe II they did not have
n cross the water" / would not want
lis 20 again IL could not cross the ocea
er 1 was most favorably Impress
lie with the fact, and very proud to kno
that American seamen are recogniz
among the bravest, and none exc
w them when 1t comes to discipline
W courage In the face OF peril. But,
ns made me talk small to note how Il
IN American flags fiy over the ships
nu commerce, on the sea and In the por
20 We surely need expansion In our ira
q on the high sea.
ry, l was impressed with the power
lily England on the sea, as compared "
IN Its hoIdlngs on the land. What wo
9.n EnRlhuu 10 WitnOue tno AeAAAe
Oh. farmers OF this country2
wherever l went l was impress
My with the fact chat Uncle Sam, dur
me the last year, had grown several Inc
ght in the estimation Of foreigners. III
the are convinced that there is sucl
to country as the United States, and
Sen American is now looked up to and
spected everywhere.
ils- When l landed at Antwerp, Be
inns um, early Sunday morning, was
me pressed with the fact that the wor
the and the dogs we're made to do
to work. The milk and laundry @
nks were all drawn by women and dog
women alone. In Holland and Belgi
and In some parts Of France,
on women working In the fields, while
' in .-..,. ,uawa xuar Z In q IN the mines, so