Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-09-16
EUROPE WILL BECOME
| AMERICANA
Noted English Editor Tells Of
Spread of American
Influence.

VIM T. Stead in the New York American.
| kipling's oft quoted line, what do
they know of England; who only Eng
land know" may be applied with equal
| force To Americans, whose range of Wis
ion is limited to the United States OF
such there are many millions. Nothing
4 surprises me more in talking to the
average educated American than his
/ ignorance OF the extent to which Amer
lean ideas are Transforming the world.
\ On this fact there can be no doubt.
4 In the evolution of the Slavs OF the
Balkan the Robert college. that Ameri
can institution of the Bosphorus. played
:, part more important than that of
amy foreign office in Europe. excepting
| that of st. Petersburg
| Bulgaria, now on the verge OF COM
plete independence. is the direct Off
spring of the United States. American
trained students fired the Bulgarians
with the idea of emancipation. Men
| reared mt the Robert college framed
the constitution of the new state on
| American lines.
The most important development of
| internatonalism that has taken place
OF late years was the opening of the
| International parliament of agriculture
in Rome where the king hopes 1T may
| develop into a universal parliament of
the world That institution the full
significance of which is vet but
Hllle dppTtcldleu. cltfleI IN Illt Olu
I world or the new, was the direct pro-
duct of American thought. Mr. Lubin,
a citizen from the Pacific coast. brought
the idea to Europe, where 1t found a
cordial welcome and a permanent home.
But behind them all. invisible as the
atmosphere whose pressure all men
feel. was the American idea--the only
formative idea, inspiring the confer
cnce. The idea of free federation OF
sovereign Independent states living to-
gether in fraternal equality and set
thing all their differences by the i'm
partial Judgment of am Independent SUI
Ipreme court,
On the 18th of this month there Will
Ensemble at Rome an International CON
grcss OF eminent men from every Eu-
lropean country. who will come togeth-
er for the express purpose of discuss
ling what should be done to bring about
the federation of Europe on American
Hines. 1t is proposed that an inter
national committee of representative
men should be formed for the purpose
Of forming federation leagues In every
country, whose object Is TO bring into
existence the United States of Europe
on lines approximating as closely as
possible to the United states of Amer
lea.
This assembly OF European notables
is the outcome of a continental pill
grimage undertaken by Sir MAJ
Waechter, a naturalized British sub
3 ject, born I'm Germany as far back as
1887. Sir Max. despite his I. rec score
years and 10. is hale and hearty anG
3 full of energy and enthusiasm of youth
: His faNorite recrcations are riding
driving and boating. to which he ha.
now added. as the pursuit OF his ole
g age, the Americanization of Europe.
Sir Max Waechter makes no secret o
his admiration OF America. He mad,
e a comparison between the United States
of America and disunited states of Eu
g rope, with the conclusion to quote hi
own words:
Europe is gradually losing its posi-
: tion in the world, and this will in cours
of time be usurped by other nations
! which are rapid. coming to the from
II unless we pull ourselves together AN,
n abandon the vicious system now pre-
> vailing i'm Europe which handicaps IL
so seriously In the commercial strug
gle for existence"
y There is only one answer tn thai
). Europe must be Amcricanized or Flu
!, rope is lost
% But 1T will be asked, what chance ha
this bold German Briton of carryin
n ont his Amercanzed project?
1t was to find out that Sir Ma
Waechter last year made "A political Pill
. grinlage through Europe In CONVEX
sation which Mr.. Charles Lowe report
in the Contemporary Review, Sir Ma
Waechter declared that SO far froi
finding the sovereign statesman OF tn
old world hostile they are prepared t
consider their inevitable Americaniza
tion with open mind