The daily Alaskan., 1909-11-17
NATION 0F 02T.I.STS
Lord NOrthCIife'8 High Tribute
 to Our Temperament
AMERICA LIKE "A BIG BOy"

English Publishsr ssys Amorionnu Are
 Nation Of Dreamero, but With a
 Great Futuro-Boliovou Wo Should
 Produce Great Musical comPoaor. '
 "I have observed that the difference between the Americans and the Eng fish is that the former are all optimists and the latter are all pesslmIsts," said Lord NorthcllGe, who controls the Lon don Times and sixty or more other for. elgn publications, on his recent visit to Chicago. Everything Lord North cllfe saw was a target for bis com ment. For America he sees @ great future. ~.
 "Your whole nation, the members Oi which have been described to mo GB frcuzied money grabberB," ho said, q find to be dreamers-R whole nation Of dreamers. -.
 DO you know, 1t & ludlcrous to mo to look at some of your papers and sec how old fashioned they are, Look at the American papers today, al discuBS- ing whether there should Do an income tax or not, what wages women should receive and all these old labor prob lens that we buried years ago. You are a whole decade behind Europe. Do you people realize that?
 America Like a Blg Doy
 "Why, look on America as would look on some young boy just oR for college or as would on a young couple newly married. The country detghtS me. I am enthusiastic over it You have a great future, but your troubles are all ahead. 4
 "YOu have one tremcndou8 figure here. mean your late and futuro 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 be will again be president of the United StatesT
 "Why can doubt lt? Everywhere ] have been the people have talked Roosevelt to me. You worship him. There Is nothing Ike 1t In Europe, such hero worship. And hB deserves it too. He Is a tremendous figure"
 Do you believe be win be ranked among the great statesmen of tho world"
 "Assuredly I do. We are stll close to him. however, and it is hard to tell. Certainly we have no one Ike him in Europe today.
 Speaking of the difference between the English and the American temper Oment, he said:
 "The Engllshman is born pessi- mist. He is never content with sur face indications; he Is always looking beneath to And something rotten, something warplng, something wrcngi he IS never sure that be is prOsporou8r no matter how rich be ig, ....... .s45
 You Americans, on the other hand, are radical optulsts. A glance at tho surface satisfies you, Every one of you believes that America ls the great est country In the world and that Americans arc the greatest people. You are taken up with dreams of a great future. -
 Should Produce Great comPopor.
 And believe that the future of America is great You should pro, duce the next great musical composer here. I do not know that you will, but you should, for you have all tho elemcnts-a Teutonic strain, a Slavonic strain and a hne enthusiasm every where. The two greatest artistg of TO- cent years were Americans, Whistler and Sargent. And your standards in the higher fields of culture arc grow ing yearly" say -.s.... g....-
 After visiting the University Of Chl- cago Lord Northcli6e said: 'JOhn D. Rockefeller could make no better uSo of his vast wealth than the founding of your wonderful university. You should appreciate your rich men-foE the wise use of their milliOn8."
 He was asked bis opinion of ,. Pier pont Morgan. ...... ..... ..--.
 "J. Pierpout Morgan2' he replied. "Why, if he had lived in the middle ages he would have been another To- renzO de Medlci-anotheT Lorenzo the Magnificent"