The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-04-24

The Statesman of the 18th OF the
month had long quotation from the
New York Sun, telling about some
proposed reforms of New Jersey
laws; and among other things men.
toned, was the fact that in 1901 New
Jersey enacted that no lawyer when
pleading in State Court should Offer
as evidence any decision or precedent
of any English tribunal. do not
know what motive prompted such an
action, but | suppose hatred o. Eng
land was more bitter and fingered
longer in New Jersey after the Rev
dictionary War than in any other part
of our country; and that court rule
may have arisen from that cause; the
outrageous conduct of the Hessian
mercenaries included in the English
army had its full opportunity and
practice while the English held New
Jersey between New York and Phil
adelphia in l777-8; and "Hessian" was
the most opprobrious term one could
apply to any one for two generations
after the Revolutionary War any.
where in the Jerseys, and | can re-
call that it was also employed in New
England in the middle of the XIXth
century, although no Hessians were
employed in that section of the coun-
try. So widely did that animosity
spread through America.
1t was part of the i'll feeling which
so long ranked in the American heart
against the English till after the Gen
eva Award regarding the Alabama
claims in the 70s
Among those English visitors
mentioned last week who came to
America to look us over and go home
and made book | mentioned Har-
riet Martineau. She was an able
woman, forceful writer, and that
she impressed her contemporaries is
the fact that the Poet Holmes, in one
of his earlier poems, speaks Of her
Pride of thy sex, Miss Harriet Mar
tineau"
Such people as Holmes, Longfellow
and those of that sort welcomed her;
while she descended to no personal
tiles in her book, she did spare the
crudties OF American society: but if
she was impartial, she was audacious;
there was no subject she did not feel
equal to discuss, and like all the other
foreign writers of those days, she
brought her opinions with her and
looked for facts to substantiate them.
Some of her conclusions are funny
enough as read today Mr.. Brooks
author OF this book Gas Others See
U.s. says: Miss Martineau, as an
economist, found sure evidence that
labor and capital must in the nature
Of things live happily together under
our institutions. She found entire
absence of paupers and state of bliss
in the Lowell cotton mills. That was
the day when the daughters of New
England sought employment in those
mills, and among them were several
who afterwards adorned American
lie and letters, as Lucsy Larcum, no
mean poet. But if Harriet Martineau
visited the Lowell mills now she
would draw other conclusions. And
speaking OF those women, who in the
earlier day worked in those mills,
might mention that a few years ago
among the papers of an excellent
New England family that passed
through my hands. was evidence that
the honored mother of that family had
been one OF those mill workers.
Those were days of almost Arcadian
simplicity compared with the condi-
tons which prevail in those mills to-
day.
Among the many queer things that
Mr. Brooks has brought to light is a
"A malicious contemporary sketch of
Harriet Martineau," emphasizing the
fact that she is a Maiden Lady, From
rare cut presented to the author by
daughte. of the poet Longfellow.
The picture represents rather at
traetive looking lady of middle life,
although with rather severe facial
hines who is sitting before an open
coal CRATE with feet on the fender, as
they used to call it; by her side is
table with tea furniture, while she.
with long handled dipper, is heating
water over the open coal fire, and
cat is perched on her back rubbing its
head most atfectionately against Miss
Martineau's cheek, while his claws
are spread as cats spread them when
gery happy. 1t tells its malicious
ling plainly enough, and is very
funny.
| wish all the readers of The
Tribune might read this book; it is
as full o. delicious literary things as
a Thanksgiving plum pudding is of
plums. We are told however, that
kipling, when he first knew us, and
before he got his charming American
wife, wrote this about the American
tone:
oliver Wendell Holmes says that
the Yankee Schoolmarm, the cider,
and the salt cod fish OF the eastern
states are responsible for what he
calls a nasal accent. | know better
They stole books from across the
water without paying for EN-, and the
snort OF delight was fixed in their
nostrils forever by just Providence.
That is why they talk foreign ton
que today.
That's all amusing, and important
if true. But right here in Idaho
have met two or three ex-school-
marms whose common tone of voice
was as Sharn and high as a screaming
winter wind. It's not confined TO Ida
no; | believe large school rooms are
responsible for forceful and nervous
women getting such voices. In the
chapter Our Monopoly of Wit, Mr..
Brooks gives delightful specimens.