Arizona republican., 1904-10-03
SOME EUROPEAN METHODS
And the Way They Impressed B. fl.
 GOldwater of Phoenix.


 B. M- Goldwater returned here yes terday morning from his trip to Eu- rope, having spent some time in New York and a day or two in Prescott since he got back to his native land. Very naturally he was asked what he had seen that was interesting to talk about and very naturally he said he did not know. He saw lot of things that were interesting to him. in fact everything was interesting, but he couldn't recall anything in particular that he wanted to. enlarge upon. He said that often during his stay there he felt like writing to his friends and telling them a lot of things that claim ed his attention for the moment. and then it would occur to him that near ly everything he saw had been seen by so many before and described so min utely that it was almost an impossi- ble task to try and go into detail about anything. So he made it a practice whenever anything particularly inter- ested him, to merely write his friends the number of the page in the guide book describing the things he was en- toying that day. so they could look it Up if they wanted to, and have the facts much better than he could give them.
 MT. Goldwater says that while he had fine time in every country he visit ed, and particularly in Paris, he thinks that Germany is the great nation of that continent. They have a way of doing things there that appeals more to an American than the methods of the other countries he visited.
 MT. GOldwater says he is as much of an American as anybody and while abroad he took occasion to assert on every possible occasion that America had the old world skinned to a fare well on nearly everything. still he says he has to admit that the people of Eu- rope, who are at all comfortably sit uated, get a great deal more out of life than do the same class of people in this country. He says Americans know better how to make money but Euro peans know better how to spend it. If an American makes a competence he immediately wants to double it. while the European is willing, when ne gets competence, to sit down quietly and enjoy it. He says it is a notable fact that there are more profitable small manufacturing concerns, proportion ately, in that country, and but very few of the enormously large industrial plants. A French CT German manufac- turer who has an income that assures him all the legitimate needs and luxu- ries for himself and family is sat isfed to preserve the conditions as they are. If there is demand for more goods of his sort let some other enterprising person cater to it. For him to enlarge his plant and double his output would only make him more money that he could not spend ana double his wor- ries and duties so he could have TO real pleasure spending what he had all ready acquired. Were it an American l he would break his neck to try and
 supply the whole demand of the world and kill himself in doing it.
 Another thing that Mir. Goldwater | noticed was the great civility and po- l liteness with which strangers are treat
 ed If one does not know the lan-
 guage of whatever country he may be
 travelling in, all officials and even the
 resident population instead of making