The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-17

Yet I grant you the American Is great;
have it from him and her; 1t must be
So"
Then follows in statistical detail an ac-
count of these conditions which should
particularly interest Chicago, inasmuch as
this city Is cited as an example. Says
the well-informed Chinaman:
There are more Germans in Chicago
than in Leipsic, Cologne. Dresden. Mu-
Mich, or dozen small towns Joined in one.
Half of the Chicago Germans speak Their
own tongue. This city is the third Swe-
dish city of the world In population. It Is
the fourth Polish city and the second Bo-
hemian city. I was Informed by pro-
lessor of the University of Chicago that,
in that strange city. the number of people
who spoke the language Of the Bohemians
equaled the combined inhabitants of
Richmond. Atlanta, Portland and Nash
viIIe-all large cities. 1 learned
from my friend the professor that over
forty dialects are spoken in Chicago.
About one-half of the total population
speak or understand English. There are
| soc, 900 Germans, 1885, 900 Poles, 100000
| Swedes, 10000 Bohemians. $4,000 Yid-
dish, $4,000 Dutch, 25. 900 Italians, Is, 900
French. 10000 Irish, 10000 Servians, TO-,
| 900 Lithuanians, 1000 Russians and 5000
Hungarians in Chicago. You will be sur
priSed to learn that numbers do net count.
| The 500, 900 Germans are not the dominat-
l ing power. are the loo, 900 Swedes.
The 10000 Irish are said absolutely to
| control the political situation. You will
| ask If believe that the monster foreign
| element can be reduced to a homoge-
| neous unit. reply yes. Fifty years from
today they viii all be~Americans. and a
majority will doubtless. show you their
family tree. tracing their ancestry back
| to the Mayf1ower.
American Arfstocrats
''The American pretends to be Demo-
| cratic; SCOTS at England and other Eu-
4 ropean lands. but at heart he is an aris-
tocrat. His tastes are only limited by his
means, and not always then. Any Amer
| lean, especially a politician, will tell you
| that there is but one class-the people.
and that all are born equal. In point of
| fact, there are as many classes as there
| are grades of pronounced individuality
and all are very unequal, as every one
knows. They are included in general
way In three classes-the upper class (the
refined and cultivated), the middle class
| represented by the retail shop keepers)
and last. the rest.
With us gentleman Is born with
| Americans it is possible to create one
| though rarely. An American gentleman
Is described as product of two genera
lions of college men who have always had
association with gentlemen and the adj
vantages of family standing. Political
elevation cannot affect a mans status as
gentleman. heard a lady of unques-
toned position say that she admired
President Mckinley, but regretted that
he was not gentleman. She meant tina,
he was not an aristocrat and did not pos
sess the savior faire. or the family asso-
Citations that. completely round out the
American or English gentleman. 1 ask
ed this lady to indicate the gentlemen
presidents of the country. There were
very few that I recall. There was
Washington, Harrison Adams and Ar
thur. Doubtless there were others which
have escaped me. Lincoln the strongest
American type, she did not consider in the
gentleman class. and Gen. Grant the ma.
tons especial pride. did not fulfill hel
ideas of what a. gentleman should be-
The American woman was of much in.
terest to the visitor. He quotes her fire.
quently. She was the only one who would
talk to him. the men refusing to discus.
social questions Generally she mad,
Jokes" at his expense, and sometime.
she insisted upon calling him ..John." a:
though he were "a Cantonese laundry.
mar" In his chapter devoted TO her h.
says: The most remarkable feature O