Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-12-05
VISIT IN EUROPE.
0rmsby MCHarg Tells of His Trip
Across the Big
Pond.
Britishers and Others Are Away Be-
hind the Americans in
Many Ways.
European Conditions Have Developed
q Large Class of De-
generates.

WOrld OrmSDy McHarg VINO is SpenQ-
ing few days at lhome says: "We
had very pleasant trip to England,
Scotland, Ireland and France the past
summer, arriving in Washington
about the 9Th of November. We visit.
ed many noted places, and spent sew
eral months in France, where l read
some French law and got smatter-
ing of the language 50 that l could
get along all right. France is like a
garden, all cultivated outside of the
cities. The French people love their
land and have no reason to emigrate.
I was surprised to see SO much land in
England given up to pasturage, as 1
had an idea that it was about all cul-
tivated except what was held in parks.
In the south of Ireland it looks like
the country was deserted as far as
cultivation goes. The exactions of the
landlords have about driven the ten
ants out of that part of the island.
"Both on the continent and in the
British isles, it strikes one that they
are behind the times, as compared
with America. Our machinery and
methods of doing business are far Su-
perior to the old fashioned ways you
see there. The tipping system is a
great nuisance, and wealthy Ameri-
cans have spelled the servants with
exhorbitant tips for any little service,
no matter how trifling. They seem
to think that every man who goes
there is wealthy and try to get tips
accordingly. To learn how much it is
customary to pay for the common ser
vices a traveller need, is one of the
first things that astranger sould do to
save himself annoyance.
1--WE visited Burns cottage and
birth place. In the
former we found in his own hand
writing, little poem, written by the
late Col. Ingersoll. It was fine
tribute to the Bard OF Scotland. At
Stratford, the natives seem tolknow
very little about the writings of the
most celebrated Englishman who ever
lived. In London we saw great deal
Of drunkenness, particularly in the
parks and many other things that
would not be tolerated in American
cities. There is a much greater op-
position to the Boer war in England
than is generally believed.
dublin is tine city and reminds
one of Detroit, Mich. Paris is the
most beautiful city in the world land
the colony of some 5000 Americans,
many Of them in business there, seem
to take to the cosmopolitan ways with
great ease. The lack of regard for
what we rconsiderfthe rightlviews of
morals. is seen all over the continent
and England. and particularly in
Paris. European conditions have de-
veloped large class Of what we would
call degenerates. In Germany they
are noticeably jealous of our trade
success and the fact that trust made
articles are sold under the nose Of the
German manufacturers, is creating a
feeling of fear that the extent of this
competition has only begun.
"There is national feeling against
England not only in France but in
Germany. and l saw a cartoon in
German paper that represented John
Bull pegging down the island of Erg-
land, with J. P. Morgan coming across
the water, and the paper advised
that the pegging he made tight or
Mr.. Morgan would get the island.
The feeling in favor of the Beers in
Germany amounts to public demon
stration in the theaterS and elsewhere
whenever the occasion offers. re-
turn home more of "howling Ameri-
can" than ever. We have the best
country on earth and am proud to
be an American citizen"