The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-27

shoW too, how deep is their presen
 feeling of humiliation, and how sheer
 they are In wanting to learn from u
 how to do things, some of the paper
 indulged comments like this. Per
 haps" they said, this tempting 0
 English pupils to American schools i
 a good thing for us. We must not for
 get that Germany got it's lessons 1T
 commercial enterprise by sending
 young men to be trained in the business
 offices of London, and possibly we could
 not in turn more surely provide for oul
 own commercial future than by en-
 couraging the youth of England to SC
 for a few years of training to the Uni
 ted States
 This reminds me of the reception
 London has just given to the represen-
 tatives of the New York Chamber of Commerce It will be a back number | by the time this is read, and only for
 my conceit-pardonabl to an Ameri-
 can sojourneying just now in England in thinking I have something new to
 say about 1t, I should not dare even an
 illusion to such ancient history. But
 you perhaps heard that while these
 men were here they were "patronized'
 in various ways by the royal family, | the Lord Mayor and others. That, l am sure, is the expression that would be used If the news was sent in the stereotyped English form. But don't believe such nonsense--all the patron age" was the other way about. Not the slightest disrespect is intended to the genial king or the lovely queen, for both of whom l have a regard which is up to the full limit of what any citi- zen of republic ought to feel for crowned heads. All the same, though, it is my persuasion that Edward and Alexandra were just as glad to see these leaders of American finance as the men were to seeand talk with them, and I cannot doubt that when the king looked at them as samples of the kind of men that had pushed American trade so far ahead of England's, he felt as little like condemning them as Lincoln felt like condemning Grant upon the complaint that he drank a great deal Of whiskey, but was rather inclined, like Lincoln to ask them what brand of brains and enterprise they employed so that later on he might give a pointer or two on how to do things to those heads of British trade which are now so painfully realizing for the first time their ignorance and inefficiency.
 All this is in perfect good nature on my part; but really the change of sen timent toward America and her peo- pie has been so great in this country hc nd ctr r In plN emphasized by the visit of those N. Y. magnates, that one can scarcely de- scribe it without seeming to chuckle over It. One writer, too, with the fear that because he cannot help being a little playful on such a subject, he may be suspected of exaggerating and may not be taken serously. But 1t is a fact that, far from the Nef York vis- itors receiving 'patronag ge" they threw this article about in great big, sugar. coated chunks wherever they went And this was just the thing to do. It was what shrewd business men so quickly sighted the mark and then so hit it. was another instance of American versatility It showed, | too, in what great kindness we can act |
 
 it was very amusing, and | yet it had it's impressive feature, and | did not In the least tend, I can assure you, to lessen ones estimate of what it means inl these days to have the stars and strips for ones flag.
 What these visiting m1lionaires 'ound was that John Bull was on the stool of repentance because he had earned so poorly the latest device in making business go It was evident in very paer they read and in every con- rersation they held that this hitherto elf satisfied and rather conceited old entleman was quite out of the notion if himself and was having a fit of the ,lues He was taking on quite seri usly because he didn't know any more nd hadn't done any better, and was as many a man does when ride or self will gets a sudden shock, vhat would become of him in the fu- ure. In saying that this was what hese men found when they reached England, one does not exaggera te in he least, and in proof of this one might ut In the witness stand, not only these len themselves, but every single Lon on editor and almost every man who bout that time was discussing current l usiness conditions from English plat ] )rms. Naturally, therefore, the one I all upon these influential New York ; rs was for words of friendly re-as l trance, and with the true American anius for doing the right thing in the ght way, these were the sort of words a ley began at once to utter. | Don't be so frightened" they said 4 After all this Is great country. Don't } down-hearted old man. Don't l link that the star of England is going |
 set. We've beaten you in some lings-that s true; but that's only ason why you should pull yourself to- ; ,ther, and go into the battle with " ore vim. Look at us." they said: ~ lr'nt we of the same blood with your II lves?" So did they express themselves U substance, and then their pointed q lery was. "If this spirit of trium- U lant enterprise is in the blood of the . tighter, why isn't it also in the blood 1e the mother?" And this last remark 9' emed to suit the patient better than ything, if one may judge from the " itorial comments upon it. Yes, in '' ed" replied these good-natured
 tights of the English quill, that's r, st the point to tie to- It Is the energy u d adaptability of the Anglo Saxon J,oua dona thasa praat thppe fnr