Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-05-18

| III SGtA Reich, after spending few months
/ !UE%lEE ~ in America, has gone back to his
/ IDkJWA-h native heath and written bis opin
! DNA ions OF this eOHntrv and people.
! 3IklE~f The principal objection Emil has
lIE1 ~ to this country, rather to the
4 NN% F people Of this country, is that they
~ - seem to be filed with the belief
that their nation has future whose greatness cao
hardly be Overestimaied; in other words, the peO-
pie Of this country have unbOunded faith n the fu-
| ture greatness OF the republic.
Emil also critcises the American women. The
! American woman, according to Emil is entirely too
ambitious She is not contented to be just cook
and hOusekeeper, like the Dutch danes, but wants
to be on an equality with her husband. His opin-
ion is that the strenuous life the American woman
is leading will result in physical breakdown.
However, it must be said that Emil fOand some
things about the American people to admire. The
common impression that all the American thinks
about is the dollar, according to Emil Beich is q
mistake. He finds, on the contrary, that money
really cuts less CONCEALED moisture among the peO-
pie of the United States than among almost any
other people on earth. The man who happens to
i have money, he finds, does not necessarily stand
any higher socially than the who has none.
He fnds also, that the American people are
exceptionally generous, and there is spirit Of hos
pitality and urbaDty pervading the people Of this
country that delights the foreigner.
| Emil also INDUCES in some prophecy He pre-
diets that sooner latter will get into trouble
on account OF the Panama canal and the Monroe
doctrine. The nations Of Europe will combine
against and whip Us after, perhaps, the greatest
war of history. Then, after We have been licked
and humbled and convinced that we are not so
many as We had supposed, Emil believes that we
4 will become truly great.
i We can not say that are particularly offended
on account Of the frank criticism OF this Dutchman.
There NAV be a good deal OF truth in what he says.
It is true that the average citizen Of the United
States has unbounded confidence in the future Of his
country he believes that It is the greatest cOun-
try on the globe and he has right to think so, be-
it is, but along with his pride OF country and
faith in the future there is degree Of over conf
dence that sometime may get us into trouble. The
average citizen believes that your Uncle Samuel
can clean up any other nation earth, any two
combined, and do the job with reasonable ease.
H Well that may be true, provided we have time to
get ready for the fight; but to suppose that We
could collect a volunteer army in a week or two
that could 30 out the next week and clean out all
the trained battaliOns Of Europe is the ankest sort
Of fOOlis ness. Armies have to be organized and
equipped and drilled in order TO make them ehec-
tive. The American youth makes a good soldier
as good perhaps as the world ever saw, but he
needs to be drilled and trained in order to make
part of great military machine. We we're lucky
in having Spain for an opponent in the last war.
II il had been some other power than that old rot
ten, efete kingdom we might have had lot Of trOu-
bic. It is not wise to get swell headed and strut
about the national poultry yard with neeks curved
and tails spread to the breeze just because we whip
ped Spain without any trouble.
I Another thing that Emil may be right about is
that sooner later liable to have trouble on
account Of the Monroe Doctrine.
II that doctrine means that we have to step in and
protect every dinkey little South American so-called
republic, it is reasonably certain that there are
large lunches Of trouble ahead Of this country. The
South American Republics, to begin With, are not
worth protecting. The people down there would be
better of in most cases il their socaIed republican
governments were wiped of the face Of the earth
and they we're put under the dominion Of England
or Germany. Popular liberty there is only name
The heads Of the republics generally dctators
whOhave managed to gather large enough mobs fol-
lowers to boost them into power. The governments
are corrupt, non progressive aud without credit at
home or abroad. Il is about time for this govern
ment to let the South American republics shit for
themselves They don't thank the United States
anyway for protecting them. They are no good and
not worth protecting worth the risk OF getting n
to tronble on their account.
Still the predictions Of Emil do not trouble "a TO
4 any considerable extent. We wonld grant deal
rather see an American citizen over cl0a ieut AID
optimistic about this country than to see him b.ly
aching around and and predicting AN sorfs % dis
asters We think that when there is real danger
ahead the majority Of citizens Of this country will
have sense enough to see the clouds gathering and
getready for trouble when trouble comes