Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-05
PREFERS AMERICA
AND AMERICANS
REV. R. J. BURDETTE TALKS
OF EUROPE
SAYS NO PLACE IS LIKE HOME
commends English Reverence for Law,
but Dlsparaees Their Assumed
Dignity and Decorum-In-
cldents of Trip
SAYS NO PLACE is LIKE HOME

Rev. Robert ]. Burdette, the noted
hunorest, lecturer and pastor of the
Temple Baptist church, has returned
to his home in Pasadena after a tour
of Europe.
"What did we see when we went
abroad?" said Mr.. Burdette yesterday
women, children and dogs, houses and
ships, soldiers and sailors, a few rogues
and a host of honest men. Everywhere
the grass was green, except in Califor-
MIA, where it is brown; and every
where the water ran down hill, except
the Gulf stream, which runs up north.
Everywhere there was wealth and lux
ury leisure and idleness, folly and
waste. And everywhere there was pow
erty and wretchedness, idleness and
vice, hunger and crime, industry and
happiness. It's the most monotonous
world you ever saw.
Everywhere in it you will find few
people who will go through fire and
PSCPAN
who would scald and roast you for
their own selfish enjoyment. Funny old
world. The people who do the most
for Il. who make It little better by
their own sacrifices, who love 1t and
suffer for its betterment are the peo-
pie who are the most joyously willing,
when the time comes, to leave it peace
fully and with beautiful tranquility.
1.-THE people who have done the least
for 1t and got the most out of 1t for
themselves; who have made slave of
it; who have worked it for their own
comfort and gain, the people who de-
serve the least of it, are the ones who
howl and beg for a little more time
when sailing day comes along. And
it's that way all over the world. You
find 1t so in Los Angeles, don't you?
Well the more you travel the more you
learn that all the world is built upon
the Los Angeles plan. That's what
makes it such a good world.
Diqnified Europeans
"Do they do things with more dignity
and decorum over in those old world
cities than we of the American rush
and high pressure? oh, yes, indeed. A
great deal more. They have been ac-
cumulating it for centuries and have
more in storage than we have on tap
Sometimes it is charged that our con
=. -, ,,rdi1pi6ad bo6U Well
you should have seen the staid and
eninently decorous British parliament
one night last month when the govern
ment suffered defeat at the hands @
the opposition. You should have seen
it.
"And if it were not possible to see
it you should have been within mile
of Parliament house and heard 1t.
Such whooping and bowling and bench
climbing and gesticulations of hand
and foot may sometimes be seen in
one of our national political conven-
tions. but never in congress. There
isn't a national legislature in Eu-
ropean capital that hasn't disgraced
itself by such scenes Of disorder and
confusion and fistic war as we have
never attempted, since the war, to
equal.
YES, the people of the older civil
izations are very decorous in books and
drawing rooms. But since one night
Of drunken rioting, in celebration of a
victory, the English language has been
permanently enriched by the word
'maeficking.'
Eyes, indeed, the people of Europe
are much better behaved than we are,
IL you ask them. You should attend
an English political meeting and hear
the opposition 'heckel a speaker. The
.hecklers' will riddle the best speech on
earth with questions, comments and
contradictions.
"a French mob may be the most ter
rible that ever ragged. An English mob
is the most brutal. Oh, the more you
see Of your neighbors the better salts
fled are you with your own children
That is one Of the great benefits of
foreign travel. When a man begins to
feel discontented with his own coun-
try and his own people, if he will mix
up with the benighted nations Of the
effete civilizations of Europe a few
months he will come back such noisy
American there's no place on the block
while he is awake.
Reverence for Law
"There is one thing in English muni-
cipal life that delights you. And that
is the English reverence for law; the
profound belief in it, the deep regard
for the written law of the land or the
stronger law of custom. The national
game, as everybody knows, is cricket
1 suppose you might live in England SOC
years and not hear as much abuse OF