Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-29
SCORES PARTY PRIDE.
Lord Northclitfe Lectures
Americans ON Politics.
ENGLAND is FAR AHEAD
Long Ago Solved the Problems We
New Wrestle With.
LEADERS IN SOME LINES
Admits Americans Have Been More
Progressive Along Material Lines.
vexed by Races.
LEADERS m SOME LINE

NEW YORK, September 29-Lord
Northcliffe, the most powerful journalist
in England, II not all Europe, before sail
ing yesterday aboard the Lusitania said
that the present political upheAvals in the
United states indicated that Americans
were coming to realize the folly of party
pride.
You are beginning to see how absurd
it is to boast that you are a republican
or democrat because your father and
your grandfather before him was a re-
publican or democrat said the famous
British editor. Americans are far be-
hind the English in their political de-
velopment. In England We have no
parties in the American sense OF the
word.
Hitherto the political evolution of the
United States has closely followed that OF
England. Most OF the problems with
which you are now struggling We solved
long ago. For example, the child labor
the earlier half OF the last century. The
disruption Of historical parties Is an old
story with U.S.
Thinks Like an American.
Lord Northcliffe acts and thinks like
an American, because he has risen to
what he Is in true American fashion. He
is self-made. Born July Is, 1855, he be-
gan his journalistic career as a reporter
on a London newspaper. Today he 10
the principal owner Of the London Times,
the London Daily. Mall, the London Daily
Mirror, the London Evening News and
about sixty weekly ana monthly taaga-
zines. II is said that his various periodi-
calls reach 25000.O00 readers. Until his
present name was bestowed upon him he
was plain Alfred Harmsworth.
journalists, Lord Northcliffe ranks among
the greatest laHdholders Of the world.
One Of the chief purposes Of his last visit
to America was to look after his vast
newspaper pulp interests in Newfound-
land. He is a joint owner in 5000 square
miles Of Newfoundland forests, where
there have been built three prosperous
towns and two Of the largest paper mills
in the world.
The man who perhaps yields a more
than many Of its highest officers was
interviewed yesterday in his suite ut the
St. Regis. AS he talked his telephone
kept ringing constantly, and when his
secretary could not respond he would
snatch up the receiver himself like a
city editor in the crush Of a heavy night.
There was not moment that his mind
was not working. and working fast. When
the questions did not come fast enough
he asked them Of himself.
Ahead in Material Things.
When said that Americans we're be-
hind the English in their political de-
velopnert,,'' ,4aid Lord Northcline. after
a particularly heavy bormbardment of
the telephone, II should not fail to ada
that you are much ahead Of us II, many
Of the material things, which at the pres
ent time play such an important part in
our civilization: Take. for example, the
telephone. the typewriter aid scores of
other inventions which Americans have
perfected.
And yet when 1 say American, what
do mean? You cannot speak of him
as you do Of an Tngiishman Racially
he may be an oriental. At the present
time this country Is obtaining a very
large proportion Of its immigrant popula-
ton from oriental peoples. Whether It
will be possible for the old Anglo saxon
stock OF your citizenship to assimilate
these more recent arrivals is q uues-
ton.
England does not have 80 great a
medley Of foreisn-b6rn peoples. For
that reason the party organisation such
as you have here may be q necessity in
the United States, whereas In our coufl-
try there Is not the same need for IT,"