The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01
ATTACK ON AMERICANS BY BRIT
ISL WRiTER.JoUR RNALisT
INSPIRED BY ENGLISH LORD
Generally Believed Lord Dougla ass.
Who Was snubbed During His
Visit to America, Caused Pub
ication Of the Article.

London, Aug. 3l.-One OF the BIT.
terest attacks on Americans and
| American institutions ever published
in London Is that appearing in the
/ current number of The Academy, a
/ leading literary publication. under the
/ title of The United States of Gehen-
/ ma Arthur Machen, a British writer
and journalist of local fame is the au-
/ thor of the article. which ne says was
| written after thorough study of the
laws and people of the United States.
| Among some of the most calm and
| judicial statements contained in this
article are the following:
THE whole legal system of Amer
! lea. from the bribed bully on the
bench to the unspeakable policeman
at the station. Is abandoned to utter
and abominable corruption and wick
edness.
The people of the United States
have mission in the world? Yes, II
Tartarus should lack inhabitants, If
hell require to be repopulated
1T is amazing that an American
should dare to utter anything in En-
gland except Thanksgiving that he has
left the foul soil from which he
sprang.
1T Is nothing taht all the munich.
palities are putrid with corruption;
this they admittedly are, from one
end of the country to the other. Tn.
disguisedly there are open marts
where are bought and sold whatever
corresponds In an American soul to
honesty, honor and comparative de-
cency. North and south, east and
west, the story Is the same; corrup-
tion everywhere In everything, great
), and small; not the feeblest pretense at
the mere elements and outward SYM
bos of honor. II would be an insult
to the honesty of the ordinary band
, of brigands to mention their name in
conjunction with that of the average
mayor an dalderman of any American
city.
What is called literature in Amer
lea is only miserable trash. one
must leave their newspapers uncon-
sidered, only alluding in passing TO
the Wholesale adulteration of truth
to the streams OF molren fifth, the
mountains of lies which the public
eagerly buys.
/ THE poisoned rats, typhoid germs
and mbercular bacilli called canned
, beer in Packingtown is only an ex-
ample of the filthy products of all
manufacturers of foodstuffs.
Religion? What has America
gained by its vaunted separation of
church and state? Crackbrained
quackeres and horrible and imbecile
, impostures called new relig-
ions, which flourish like maggots in
rotten carcass.
There has been nothing like the
foundations of the world were laid.
one wonders how long II will be suf'
fered to endure Its purpose in the
sccheme of things Is plain enough
il stands that rotrten. rapidly decay
ing figure of the republic. as an aw'
full warning to the nations against
the plague of democracy; and espec'
tally to Englishmen, who are more
than tainted with the maladies which
have made the body of the American
state TO boil with an obscene and
; filthy putresccnce before our eyes
Only half the horrible truth was told
by the outraged journalist, 1t seems
for he concludes:
Il could fill whole number OF the
p Academy with the shameful record
of people who have deliberately
rejoicingly and boastfully prosu'u'eu
themselves to debased devil wor'
ship, and call upo nthe world to ad-
mire the result. | have no space In
which TO deal with the social system
generally; at the top of ghastly
and repulsive imitation of what these
poor idiots think is the tone OF good
society in London; at the bottom mis-
cry, vice, degradation, dirt and loath-
, someness so lathsome that it is i'm
possible of description"
, 1t is an interesting fact that the
, Academy is now edited by Lord Alfred
, Douglas. second son of 10 Marquis Of
i, ouccnsbCrry, author OF the famous
rules" known to all followers of the
. prize ring, Lord Alfred is said 10
entertain a cordial hatred OF Ameri.
cans because of the cool treatment &C.
corded him when he visited the Unit.