Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-05

| country and are not totally Indifferent
to the view they take, whether good or
bad.
The latest distinguished foreigner to
give his Impressions OF America Is Mr..
Frederic Harrison. 1t may be said at
once that they are favorable.
As was natural, his first desire was
TO know II Americans as whole were
very different from Englishmcn. He
noticed no radical difference between
them. He says that physically they
are the same race, with the same
strength energy and beauty; and that
except for superficial things, they live
the same lives. And what does he find
the influence OF the vast immigration
from Europe TO have been upon the
character and habits Of the native
Americans? That It Is rather
slight. that the native Americans rap.
idly absorb and incorporate the foreign
element, and that in the second or third
generation all exotic differences are
merged In Mr.. Harrlson's opinion the
native Americans are doing more than
holding their own; they are assimllat-
ing all who come to their shores in
stead Of being gradually Isolated and
exterminated
He has a good word for Chicago.
which he says struck him as being UNI
fairly condemned as devoted 10 moth
ins but Mammon and pork. He heard
nothing OF shop heard nothing but
talk Of the progress Of education, uni.
verslty enlowments libraries, lltera-
ture, art science and the like. He says
that no doubt he saw the city under
favorable conditions but the impress
sion left on his mind was that the citl-
Gems OF Chicago were bringing their
extraordinary enterprise to bear quite
ne much upon social, intellectual and
artistic interests as they do confessed
ly upon grain and other matters of
commerce.
That which struck him as the char
acteristlc note Of the United States was
the freedom OF the lndiyidual--the
career open to talents--in sense
which Is entirely unknown TO Euro
peans and can hardly be conceived by
them. II was impressed upon him that
here every man may aspire to the most
exalted positions-political social or A.
nanclal, and that In this ambition
every girl may share. The ease with
which men can pass from one locality
20 another from one climate 10 anoth-
err, from one business to another, and
the absence Of real social barriers was
to him new sensation. in a measure
wonderment.
Equality to him as to De Tocquevllle
appeared to be the dominant feature
OF American life, and 1t struck him as
being far more national and universal
In America than in France.
lie says that Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity" is not inscribed on
public edihces in the United States be-
cause here no American oitlzcn.-at
least no white citizen, can conceive Of
any thing else. But this lngrained sense
OF the absolute equality Of all white
citizens reacts on a!l things" says Mr..
Harrison. THE congressman Is, at
Washington, a successful politician.
but, outside Congress. he is one OF
seventy millions, A senator, a cabinet
minister or a President, Is merely a
prominent citizen raised by ballots from
the ranks. to return 90 the ranks when
his term Of Office is up"
He was struck with the capitol at
Washington, the mass Of which seem
ed to him to be the most effective OF
any public building In the world And
he declared that Washington the
youngest capital city Of the world. bids
fair TO become, before the twentieth
century ends, the most beautiful and
certainly the most commodious. But OF
all he saw, the home OF Washington at
Mount Vernon stirred most emotions In
him, and he thought the Spartan sim
licity Of the tomb Of the father Of his
country far more fitting and touching
than the grand mausoleum on the
banks OF the Hudson where lie the re-
mains Of General Grant,
For a century or more, foreigners
have been wont 10 dub our country the
land of the dollar, but Mr.. Harrison
says that as TO the worship OF the cal
mighty dollar" he neither saw 1t nor
heard OF it; hardly so much as We do
at home" Nor did he meet with or
see the famous yellow press, the brutal
and gutter press about which Dickens
had 80 much to say: nor did he meet
with any one who read It.
We close our review Of what he has
TO say OF America and Americans by
quoting his remarks on the relations
OF the sexes:
IL received a deep impression that In
America the relations OF the sexes are
In a state far more sound and pure
than they are In the old World; that
the original feeling OF the Pilgrim Faith
ers about woman and about man has
sufiiced 20 color the mental atmosphere.
and TO give all sexual problems a new
and clear field to develop In normal
ways"
The strike continues but the terrible
heat Is moderating so the people are
getting some relief.
NJ, Santos Dumont's dirigible balloon
seems 10 be nothing more than a trife