New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-16

! knows the past history and literature OF
the IJrited States. and has apparently
more than secondhand acquaintance
with the present. He has accepted with
perhaps too great readiness the ideas OF
certain yellow" writer's who paint the
CAPITALIST as a demon and the working
man as a slave. But he has taken the
mains 10 read n better and more repre-
/ sentative kind OF literature. IL is true
/ that he has an exaggerated idea OF po-
Iitical corruption in America, and his
/ criticisms OF IL come strangely from
! Freedman who knows the history OF
events in the Third Republic from the
DAYS Of the Panama scandals until now.
NJ Roz has clear and forcible way OF
EXPRESSING truths even when these are
not particularly novel Writing Of the
great economical expansion in America,
he thus refers to it's effect in Europe:
/ The increase Of American production may
not only diminish cur ability 10 SELL II
| dininishes our power of manufacturing.
( The Union, in proportion as it experts more
I manufactured products, exports less raw
b material Every day IL needs more 10 feed
/ its workshops: IL spins and weaves its cot
ton. IL transforms its leather into harness
I ana SEOcF- More IMAM lilics II epcN " seer
( hides and WOODS in the markets OF La Plata.
where we are customers ourselves; u de-
mands rubber I'm Brazil. raw SILK IN Japan
and China. II lessons the quantity al our
disposal and provokes rise OF prices II
is the modern solidarity OF the dinerent
markets OF the world, the Old and the
New. the Occident and the Orient. IN thls
new phase OF economic history. the entry
of the United States upon the scene,
emerging from their isolation. Is a chapter
which must be written with the utmost
care.
/ The religious liberty in America nat
urally excites the authors admiration as
he compares It with the attitude OF
modern France. In the United States
/ the neutrality of the state is not a
hostile indifference. but an equitable
| benevolence." Profoundly religious, the
| American people leaves TO all DC
nominations the most perfect liberty
"the opposite of our policy. which is at
4 once irreligious and interventionist." BY
I insisting as he does upon the Importance
attached 10 utility in the American educ
cational ideal, ". ROE hardly does JUS
! tice 10 the extensive work in science
/ for its own sake that has given such
prestige to the graduate and professional
departments Of our leading universities.
| Doubtless the American attaches less
value to purely literary education than
| the European does. But NJ. ROE goes
too far in declaring that nothing in
/ America resembles the French ideal of
'rhonnete homme," a literary man of
The world prepared for leisure, for the
/ urbanity and elegance Of social life
which the salons are TO complete"
/ Americans. nc thinks. do not undertake
/ that slow, patient, complex and har-
monioue work where taste. scholastic
/ training, scientific tradition and refined
surroundings cooperate. The European
/ education, he continues. is serviceable
/ for everything, but sufficient for moth
! ing, "or, rather. sufficient for its object
which is 10 give 10 the man Of the world
all his value and TO social intercourse
ali its price" on the contrary, America
/ seeks hastily to arm the Individual and
equip him summary. American edu-
cation is nothing IL not utilitarian and
practical" 1t would be trucr TO say
that while unitarian and practical
I education was 10 he had in all our uni
versities. education for its own sake
] WIS uEiildlGfh pA AAlDSt WIZ 'OhAu ca
ford to have il. and was TO be had here
quite as readily as at Oxford or Paris
or Berlin. Nor is there historical justi-
fcation for the authors opinion that the
| American universities are A sort of
exotic growth "superimposed upon the
nation and not an emanation from il,
that 1.-The ordinary law Of historical de-
velopment IS reversed and the Americans
! count on the organ TO create the func-
ton" on the contrary, it was 10 ac-
commodate themselves 10 their environ
nrent that the older American univer-
( stiles were compelled to develop more
advanced education and higher cult
ure. otherwise men now engaged in
graduate courses would have had to so
TO Europe instead Of remaining in the
"supcrimposed university"
In chapter devoted TO Imperialism
NJ Roc notices the rapid changes in
American foreign policy. chiefly during
the Mckinley and Roosevelt administra-
lions. In = few lucid rarag graphs he
demonstrates how impossible it was that
the nation should remain fixed in the
limited Codrc ~ the original Constitu-
ton. American imperialism is often
represented as an explosion 81 national
sentiment produced by the Spanish war
aud the exploits of the army and navy.
1 But. according 10 tho author, lit is the
result Of normal or fatal evolution of the
Monroe Doctrine" whence the neces-
sity ~ Conquering the hesemony ~ the
Pacific. Of entering into conflict with the
Old World, of becoming a military and
naval power. These are the links II an
iron chain infleSibe az logical necessity
itself" As an impartial critic. NJ. Ro5
is i'm sympathy with tho Republican
party and its policies as an instrument
in the evolution IF tho United states
toward It's national ideal. The old Dem
ocrstic dogma Of states rights has he
thinks lost most Of it's adhcrents The
political education OF q people has no
better master than the force Of things.
The people Of the United States have
/ been led TO this conviction that IL is
much more master Of the federal gov
/ eminent than Of the state governments
A current ~ opinion can act far more
effectively In impelling the one federal
activity than upon authorities numerous
and dispersed like those Of the states"
Tho author thinks that socialism Is