The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-05-29
INDIANS At OUR BACK DOORS.

tnoy 1.-Two on reservations on the Out
skirts of All Our Cities and Parade
the Streets In Blankets and Feathers.
News Parisian Papers Print.
To peruse the Paris newspapers Is tC
discover the most amazing statements
about America and America ns-ab.
surd. ridiculous things that reveal tu
the reader the unfortunate paucity of
the Parisian's knowledge Of the world.
These errors occur In the very best
journals OF Paris and under editors
who stand high In the newspaper
world and should know better
Here are few examples culled from
the leading papers of Paris of the sort
OF statements commonly passed out to
the innocent French reader:
An article discussing the fuel used
In different countries includes this
statement: 'In America the houses are
heated by natural gas which comes
from the Rocky mot utains In tubes or
pipes and enters the houses all over
the country. No other fuel is now In
use in America"
Another enlightening article relates
that ''all the country west of Chicago
is O. desert to the California, but it has
been marked off with multitudinous
bitches, which are kept filed with wa
ter from the great Mississippi river,
and thus the land Is made fertile and
crops may be grown
This about American Indians is
amusing: THE American Indians are
no longer menace to civilization
They now live quietly On the outskirts
of all American cities In quarters pro-
vided for them and called Indian res
ervations.' They may be seen at any
time wandering the streets in their
blankets and feathers, but they are
now quite snbdued-the white people
no longer fear Them
Here is, indeed. piece of news:
Canal. Is a great country and Is
proud of having been the birthplace of
the greatest American patriot. George
Washington"
a long article on the Mormon faith
says: 'The Mormons are a strange re-
hgious sect founded by the Rev. Ar
thur Smith about thirty years ago
Mr.. Smith was contemporary of Mrs.
Mary Eddy. the Christian Science
founder But the two could not agree
In their faiths. and Mr.. Smith went
west In a caravan with thousands of
followers, many Of whom were killed
by the Indians In crossing the deserts
OF America. Mormons have many
wives, like the followers of Islam, and
they are TO be found In all American
cities with their large families"
The Parisian Is enlightened as to the
course of most of our fortunes In this
wise: The reason why SO many OF the
great American fortunes are made in
pork packing is because the staple of
diet In America Is pigs. Everybody
eats pig three times day, just as the
Englishman eats roast beef three times
day. The demand for this article of
diet has been the means Of many
Americans founding great fortunes"
The truly democratic origin Of our
b
article. 1t tells US: THE presidents OF
the great American republic have all
been Of humble origin. The great Lin
coin was a tailor and worked In great
poverty for many years prior to bis
taking his place as president Presi
dent Cleveland was New Jersey
farmer and was perhaps the most pros
porous of all the presidents In his early
life. After he had served several terms
he returned to his farm at Princes
Town and continued to lead the Life of
a farmer until he died, doing much of
the work with his own hands because
he liked to-
president Roosevelt is Of Jewish de-
scent, though not Of the orthodox faith,
his people having been, converted to
the Puritan and pilgrim faith soon
after they emigrated to the new world.
Mr.. Roosevelt was a policeman for
many years before he entered political
life and was also a midshipman In the
navy for time. He has always plain
ly shown his humble origin and during
his terms at the White House would
take long vacations and join parties of
the toughest kind OF men and live with
them for weeks-lumbermen cattle
herders and miners. His high life ex-
istence was always distasteful to him,
and he lived the life of humble work
man even at the White House, Mrs
Roosevelt serving his meals for him. so
distasteful were servants to him."
We are told "the sky sweepers OF
New York are modelled on the idea of
the Eiffsl tower. but covered with
stone. The people who live In the up
per apartments are the poorer classes.
but their rooms are airy and light,
which is really letter than living In
dark quarters near the ground, as
they did on the east side in the days
before sky sweepers were built"
Suffragettes will be interested to
read the following: I'm America wo-
man suffrage has been accepted The
women vote, enter all political posi-
lions, and IL is said that ere long there
will be a woman president But the
unfortunate result of suffrage Is that
the American woman has become in
nufferabie. She rules with an iron
hand. and men are but puppets to her.
a Frenchman cannot understand why
American men will submit to this