The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-28
PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOTHING TO
 LEARN.

LEARN.
 The members of the New England So- ciety of New York and Philadelphia had their annual banquets last Monday and rejoiced in the thought that kind Providence had made New Englanders superior to other men. Two hundred and eighty-one years ago the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock. | The United States would doubtless nev- | CT have grown into the great nation 1t now is if the Pilgrims had remained on the other side of the Atlantic. But that | is immaterial. The Pilgrims came, and | to-day there are millions of Americans who claim direct descent from them, proving beyond question that if these claims are well founded the Puritans were a marveously prolific race. The very superior gentlemen who belong to ! the New York and Philadelphia socle- ties are convinced that each had an ancestor among the MayfioWer's pas sengers. Hence their pride in them selves, their conviction that they are , the salt of the earth" and that the rest of mankind are made of an inferi- or article of clay.
 In his address at the Philadelphia | celebration the Chinese minister, MT. | Wu Tingfang delicately intimated that 1 the New Englander, despite the fact that he towers above the rest of hu- manity in intellect and morality, might sometimes. in coming in con- tact with people of other nations, pick up one or two good points from them, Of course, the eminent Chinese states man ought to know that New England CTS never admit that they have any | thing to learn. The inferior races,
 which inhabit all of the globe except | the northeast ern corner of the United | States would be guilty of intolerable insolence if they were to presume to teach New England anything. It is 1 highly probable, therefore, that the i Chinese diplomats unfortunate sugges- | ton will make him persona grata in the 1 land of the Sacred Goldfish and the wooden nutmeg. It is true Minister Wus ancesto ors a thousand years ago were enjoying high type of civiliza- tion, while the forefathers of the Pill grims could not have been introduced into what we now term exclusive soci- ety. For this reason Mir Wu might be pardoned, during a feast of reason and the flow of soul, for insinuating that the New Englanders are not the only people who have ancestors that were highly endowed by Providence. In any other but a New England gathering such an amiable blunder would be condoned The descendants of the Pilgrims, how ever, will never forgive MT. Wu. They know by ndisputable revelation that the Tribe of Worthy and Honorable Ancestors did not exist until the Puri- tan Fathers were specially created by Providence to land at Plymouth Rock and confer everlasting distinction upon New England. Minister Wu can never make a satisfactory explanation of his uniustifable attack upon New Eng lands supremacy in ancestry. He may not be recalled to China, but he will al- ways be regarded with disfavor by the sacred Goldfish.
 The Chinese diplomats blunder was not the only jarring note at the Phila- delphia celebration. A rude New York CT. with q boisterous sense of humor, shocwked the elect by the tatement that while he was not q New England CT he had the proud consciousness of having sprung from Connecticut sprang," he added "as soon as I got enough car fare to take me to New York" This was a gross abuse of New England hospitality. Everybody knows that from the land of the Pil- grim Fathers whose institutions are so perfect that even the angels cannot rival them, there is never any emigra- ton of the natives except under com pulsion For how can the New Eng lander be happy anywhere except on his own sacred soil? The civilization of other parts of the United States is too coarse and crude for his cultured and refined nature. New York is mere sham and tinsel to him, the veneer is too thinly applied to conceal it's vulgar ity. The west Is half savage, too blus- tering and strenuous for the descend ants of the Pilgrims. As for the south
 that unhappy section Is still undiscov- cred country, although vague rumors about it's success in the manufacture oi
 cotton goods distresses the men of Pil-
 grim stock who have dotted New Eng
 land with factories It is true New
 EnRlanuerS Cldlln lu nave peSli |HV pio
 neers in spreading civilization in al
 parts of the United States From
 ocean to ocean and from the St. Law
 renee to the Gulf of Mexico they claim the credit for every good work that has
 been wrought in the making of this re-
 public But there must be some mis-
 take. The men who did these things
 were merely masquerading as descend
 ants of the Pilgrims. No genuine New
 Englander would think of leaving his
 land of culture of wisdom, Of unap-
 proachable goodness, to live amid the
 "inferior races that inhabit this con
 tinent outside of a limited area ad1oin
 ing Plymouth Rock. As soon imagine
 a hot of angels voluntarily emigratint
 from the highest heavens to consor
 with Australian aborigines.- .-Baltimort