The Adair County news., 1909-11-17
NATION OF OPT|M|STS
Lord NorthcIiffe's High Tribute
to Our Temperament.
america Ikea BIG BOY"
English Publisher Says Americans Are
Nation of Dreamers, but With
Great Future-Beleves We Should
Produce Great Musical Composer.


a Nation of Dreamers, but With a
Great Future-Beleves We Should
Produce Great Musical Composer.
Il have observed that the difference
between the Americans and the Eng
llsh is that the former are all optimists
and the latter are all pessimists," said
Lord Northcliffe, who controls the Lon
don Times and sixty or more other for
eign publications, on his recent visit
to Chicago. Everything Lord North
cliffe saw was a target for his COM
ment. For America he sees a great
future.
Your whole nation, the members Of
which have been described to me as
frenZied money grabbers," he said, 81
find TO be dreamers-a whole nation Of
dreamerS.
DO you know, it is ludicrouS to me
TO look at some of your papers and see
how old fashioned they are. Look at
the American papers today, all discuss
ing whether there should be an income
tax or not, what wages women should
receive and all these old labor prob
lens that we buried years ago. You
are whole decade behind Europe. Do
you people realize that?
America Like Big Boy.
"Why, look on America as would
look on some young boy just off for
college or as would on a young couple
newly married. The country delights
me- I am enthusiastic over it. You
have great future, but your troubles
are all ahead.
you have one tremendous figure
here. l mean your late and future
President Theodore Roosevelt. He is
a splendid man. One nation does not
produce more than two or three men
like that"
do you believe that he will again
be president of the United States?"
'Why can 1 doubt it? Everywhere l
have been the people have talked
Roosevelt to me. You worship him.
There is nothing like it in Europe,
such hero worship. And he deserves
it too He is a tremendous figure"
do you believe he will be ranked
among the great statesmen of the
world?'
"AssuredIy 1 do. We are still close
to him, however, and it is hard to
tell. Certainly we have no one like
him in Europe today"
Speaking of the difference between
the English and the American temper
ament, he said:
''The Englishman is a born peSsi
mist He is never content with sur
face Indications; he is always looking
beneath to find something rotten,
something warping, something wrong;
he is never sure that he is prosperous,
no matter how rich he is.
"You Americans, on the other hand,
are radical optimists. A glance at the
surface satisfies you. Every one of
you believes that America is the great
est country in the world and that
Americans are the greatest people.
You are taken up with dreams of a
great future.
SIiS\' TIO6NSS SOHIPOSCi'
md I believe that the future of
america is great. You should pro-
..uce the lext great musical composer
here I do not know that you will,
nlst ycO GhoIld, for you have all the
oEcmsnts-s. "'eutonic strain, a Slavonic
11trai73 2RC fine enthusiasm every
* mere. The two greatest artists of re-
.ent years were Americans, Whistler
and Sargent. And your standards in
the higher fields of culture are grow
ing yearly"
After visiting the University of Chi
cago Lord Northcliffe said: "John ID.
Rockefeller could make no better use
Of his vast wealth than the founding
Of your wonderful university. You
should appreciate your rich mentor
the wise use Of their millions"
He was asked his opinion of J. Pier
pont Morgan.
81 Pierpont Morgan?" he replied.
"Why, IL he had lived in the middle
ages he would have been another Lo-
reno de- Medici-another Lorenzo the
Magnificent"