The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-11-09

cANs ARE ALIKE.

Il ARNo AfNE AAlFNEs
In the introduction TO Prof Huco
Munsteraevgs great work ON The
Americans is tho following Tho
most peculiar. the most surprising the
most significant fact is that the Amor.
lean from the Atlantic to the Pacific
is one and The same "
a superficial observer might have
seen otherwise than did Prof Nun
sterberg. Dropped down in Boston or
Cambridge q stranger might he led 10
describe an American as man Of
erudition afflicted by a geographical
limitation Of vision and experience.
/ shoule our rfriegete elect New YorH
his characterization might be a con
series ct individuals representing the
atomic theory Of energy continuous
and rapid motion between fixed limits.
The result would seem TO be The con
temporaneods production and des.I
truction Of matter inorganic and or
ganic
Philadelphia might be to our micro
'nceas as a city whose suburbs have
absorbed most Of its beauty and pleas
ures and where 5he suhurbanites live
quiet lives and play uiet and familiar
games. withal practicing arboriculture
and mathematics in genealogical de-
grees.
II fortunate enough to get an invita-
tic1 to visit in the South the globe
trctter might study a democratic aris-
tooracy. struggling with varying sue
cess to solve a problem presented by a
homogeneous mass, even a majority OF
Americans liferent in color. race,
temperament and education.
If he were to follow the star of en-
pire and iool by its light upon the
West he could assist az a genuine
apothecsis of hustle" where even the
language if condensed into push" and
all life is ''up and coming" Should
the visitor make a complete round he
would need a dictionary of French iu
New England ana Louisiana of Ger.
man in PENNSYLVANIA, and St. Louis, OF
Polish again in that polyglot Keystone
state. Of Swedish in Minnesota, Of
chinese along tho Pacific and Of Yid-
dish within a mile OF his disepbarka-
tion in New YotS And vet TO the in
tslliaont student an these arr com
hined into homogeneous Amoricanism.
Just how TO define this is not easy
Perhaps y ncgarion win make it clear
cr Prof Muusterberg points out that
90 pite OF the theorIziRg Of German
there can Le absolutely
no question Of making a German de-
peudency. or even a German state or
states out OF the eighteen million Ger.
IN the United States.
No more is there possibility of an
Ireland Sweden italy.
Russia or even ludaca in America
The work Of amalgamation goes on.
md the power Of assimilation of that
same vague "Anencanism" is one OF
he later miracles Of history Prob
ably it lies in the realm of the ideal
r. at any rate of ideals. The ideal Of
which each single arrival ,
brings With him is what WORKS 9ut ,
he result Sometimes In these later !.
'ays II shows itself in ugly directions.
oward anarchy. lawlessness and fire. ,
Imt these find themselves :
checked by the wise foundations lail
md Incorporated IA laws by the
,arler arrivals To the founders of
ne Republic, Puritan. Huguenot AMI
cavalier alike, liberty did not spell
license. ami the framework OF selfgoy
eminent established by them bears
wen the heterogeneous superstruonre
md hlline IN provided by the later ,
more undesirable additions The free
lom Of the individual, just so far as q
loes not interfere with the greatest
OF the greater number la
he keynote OF Americanism and here
IN is found the key that fits ,he lock
IF the natures Of men from Tampa TO
Tacoma. from Flagstaf to Showhegar
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Parker lost out in failing To make
II.