Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-07-22

tions. but, after six weeks study L
think the Chicago Exposition was in
many respects not inferior to this Of
Paris. There is mere and better class
art about this show; the ensemble is
more artistic, and it would be hard to
excel the beautiful see nethat stands
before you when the sunlight or elec-
trio light iilumines the domes and
minarets that adorn the space between
the Champs Elysees and in the Inval-
ides. There are more traces of the ar
tistic spirit among the exhibits than
at Chicago, and, in truth, for an exhi-
hilton of European art--I do not say
the very best. but at least the second
best--thc exhibition of Paris in 1900
would be hard to beat. But that is
all, wonderful to say. seeing that some
years have elapsed since the Chicago
Worlds Fair, and that great progress
in many directions might have been
expected.
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 40 people under half
million pasesd the gates. The price
of tickets had come down to 10 cents,
which may have, must have, had some
effect, and there was Christian En-
deavor pilgrimage or an English
trades excursion 800 or 1000 strong,
which helped to fill A few weeks ago
the universal remark was: What a
crowd of Germans" and in truth, Paris
was, as some one put it, for the time
more German than Berlin. Wherever
you went, on the boulevards, in the
Exposition, in the cafes, on the tops of
the omnibusses (''in the air" as the
French say) there were thousands of
them, in spectacles, nearly all in travis
hats, and dressed as If they all had the
same tailor-or none. 1t was a fresh
German invasion, and not wholly
popular Out. vi III thab
way, the invasion must be American,
for the latter visit the shops first, and
then sees the Exposition from the
Eiffel tower. One cafe owner bitterly
complained to me that Germans had
completely driven away his regular
customers, "and they drink no wine, y
he concluded sadly, "only beer"
Now that the anti-Teutonic feel
ing is just now very strong in France,
it seems rather to be slowly but sure
ly dying out, not so much because the
French hate the nation that took AL
SAGE Lorraine from them in 1870 less
as because they hate the nation that
beat them at Waterloo, and stood them
off at Fashoda more. Besides
though of different religions, there is
much in common between the Germans
and French. Both are Continental
nations, they have what the French are
pleased to call a "largeness" of ideas
that is unknown and highly antipath-
etic to the Anglo-Saxon, whether he
be American or English. German Pro-
testantism of the land of Luther, Is
not in reality so antipathetic to French
Catholicism as is American or English
Professionalism. And why? Simply
because the Professionalism of the latter
is too decent, too moral, for french
tastes and French tolerance. The
German is not nearly so shocked by
French latitude of opinion and speech
and conduct as is the Anglo-Saxon, ant
Paris sights and sounds, to which {
German would habituate himself in {
week, remain for years, perhaps fo
ever odious to the Anglo-SaXon. 1t is
in this morality, this ingrained, in
stinctive morality, lies the secret of tn
Anglo-SaXon power and dominion
No nation that is not strong moral.
will ever be permanently strong physi
cally.
OF late, however the German invas
ion has been notably diminishing ant
the American-not the English-i
taking its place. At any rate Ameri
cans are more hume rous, more abou
the center, certainly more thick in tn
richer and more expensive quarters O
the town. You rarely see a German
in fashionable restaurants or very ex
pensive hotels. The American you d
see and ihear also, for their cordial un
reserve, their affability and easiness O
approach make them always live an
agreeable companions.
1t will, perhaps, be news to you tina
American missionaries are responsible
for the war in China, so the Frenc
say. You have only to ask half doz
en-, and three or four will make tn
statement. 1t cannot be the Catholi
Missionaries, they maintain, and it
not likely to be the consuls of foreig
merchants. ergo, it is the Protestan
missionaries, and above ALL thos
dreadfully pushing Americans.
Why is it that a creed that boasts c
) beng, and calls itself Catholic" is
practice so exclusive and so narrow
: minded? Only the other day, the Ez
position afforded an instance. Th
: first Woman's Congress was failure
the right people were not present, tn
really able people did not speak, an
: Mrs. May Wright Sewall was, perhap
the only renresentatiye of America