The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-27
EXPOSITION LETTER.
Written tor the Citizen.)
80 Rue Caumartin, Paris,

curately measuring or comparing
International EXpoSitions, but,
after six weeks study, | think
the Chicago Exposition was in
many respects not inferior to this
of Paris There is more and
/ better class art about this show;
| the ensemble is more artistic. and
it would be hard TO excel the
beautiful scene that stands before
you when the sunlight or electric
light illumineS the domes and
minaretS that adorn the space
between the Champs ElySees and
/ the InvalideS. There are more
traces of the artistic spirit among
the exhibits than at Chicago,
and, Ill truth, for an exhibition
of European att do not say the
very best, but at least the second
beSt-the exhibition of Paris in
1900 would be hard to beat. But
that is all, wonderful to say, see
+ ing that some years have elapsed
since the Chicago Worlds Fair.
and that great progress in many
directions might have been ex-
pected.
One thing very noticeable now
is the increase in the number of
visitors. Paris is not. or seems
not to be, more crowded, but the
exposition is. Last Sunday, just
10 people under half a million
passed the gates. The price of
tickets had come down to 10
cents, which may have, must
nave, had some effect, and there
was Christian Endeavor pill
grlmage or an English trades eX.
curSion, 5000 or 1000 strong,
which helped to fill \ few weeks
ago, the universal remark was:
"W hat crowd of GermanSm
and in truth, Paris was, as some
one put it, for the time more Ger.
man than Berlin. Wherever you
went, on the bouleVardS, in the
exposition, in the cafes, on the
top of the OmnibuSeS, Gin the
air. as the French say there
were thousands Of them, in spec
taclcs, nearly all in straw hat,
and dressed as if they all had
the same tailor-or none. 1t was
a fresh German invasion, and not
a wholly popular one. For popu-
larity in that way, the invasion
must be American, for the latter
visits the shops first, and then
sees the exposition from the Eillel
tower. One cafe owner bitterly
complained to me that Germans
had completely driven away his
regular customers, land they
drink no WINE" he concluded
sadly, 'only beer"
Not that the i-Tuetonic feel
ing is just now very strong in
France. 1t seems rather to be
slowly but surely dying out, not
so much because the nation that !
took AlSace-LOrraine from them
in 1870, less, as because they Z
hate the nation that beat them at
Waterloo, and stood them off
at FaShoda more. Besides,
though of different religion, there
is much in common between the
Germans and the French. Both
are Continental nations, they
have what the French are pleased
to call 'largenesS" of ideas that
IS unknown and highly antipa,
thetic to the Anglo Saxon,
whether he be an American or
English. German Protestntism
OF the land of Luther, is not in
reality so antipathetic to French
Catholicism as is American or
English Professionalism a d
why? Simply because the Prot
estantism Of the latter is too de
cent, too moral for French tastes
and French tolerance. The Ger
man is not nearly so shocked by
French latitude Of opinion and
speech and conduct as is the An.
glo- Saxon, and Paris sights and
and sounds, to which a German
would habituate himself in week,
remain for years, perhaps forever,
odlouS to the Anglo Savon. 1t is,
III this morality, this ingrained,
distinctive morality, lies the Sc.
cret of the Anglo Saxon power
and dominion. No nation that is
not strong morally will ever be
permanently strong physically.
OF late, however, the German
invasion has been notably dimin.
iShing and the American-not the
EngliSh-is taking its place. At
any rate, Americans are more ma
merouS, more about the centre.
certainly more thick in the richer
and more expensive quarters of
the town. You rarely see a Ger
man III fashionable restaurants or
very expensive hotels. The
American you do see and hear
also, for their cordial unreServe,
their allability and easiness of
approach make them always live
and agreeable companions.
1t will, perhaps, be news to
Won that American missionaries