Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-17

J. B. M'CARROLL.
President of the Ottumwa Retail Mer-
chants Association.
and power has grown out of the joint
labors of great men. The Englishman
does not like to be hurried, he hates
a fussy, nervous individual. A known
saying by Lord Chesterfield was, IF
you are in a hurry, it shows that the
task which you have undertaken is
too much for you 1 remember once
trying to hurry up ticket seller at
one Of the railway stations in London
by telling him I was in a hurry. With
broad cockney dialect he said, '1f
you are in a hurry wait huntll your
'urry is hover" Yet, however much
the individual greatness of man is
recognized in England, England
stands first and last in the hearts Of
the Englishmen.
1.-The English are quick to perceive
the man who only labors for his own
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land will give great man great hon
ors but she is jealous that his labors
should be for her first, last and always.
Patriotism in England is a supreme
essential in the nature Of the people.
The Englishman dislikes to discuss
technical details and psychological
subtleties. He believes in and &C.
cepts the achievements of individual
men but does not want to bother with
the methods. He does not wish to be
ruled nor does he wish to rule by
a creed or system. England has
Powered, she has given the world the
spread civilization into the remotest
and darkest corners Of the globe, but
above all she has given the world an
ideal more precious than all her
wealth and that is the creation of the
gentleman. The word gentleman en-
braces all that is heroic, great. and
ma gnanimous In a modern man. No
greater achievement has been made In
history than our conception OF what
constitutes a true gentleman anu
there is not country in the world to-
day but where the greatest comp]l-
ment that can be paid to man is to
say he is true gentleman. May we
never forget this, the first gentleman
was an Englishman and whatever our
political views may be, hold this in
mind,
The French nation is an amalgama-
ton of families. The family is the
cell, the unit crystallizing with other
families, cells or units, into an organ
ic whole. The French are technical
people, a. people where the detail and
the immediate surroundings are the
essential. Their sharp capacity for
analysis is always concentrated on
the perfection Of the family in pro-
viding for their children and creating
rational marriages. Their saving
strength is marvellous. No country In
the world can show such general pros
perity as the French. The glory OF
France is the glory Of the family.
The government is means to an end
and the end Is the family. In England
the government has been the means
to an end but that end has been pow
er, the power and glory of England.
The reason the Corsican Napolean
could lead the French through the
greatest adventure in history was be-
cause of the very fact that the
French are not objective, because
their daily reasoning runs along prac-
tical, subjective lines Of how to i'm
prove their individual prosperity and
happiness. For that reason, when
anyone commands or aWakeHs their
imagination they follow blindly as one
who is hypnotized follows the COM
mands of the operator.
As soon as France is liberated
from the excitation or the impulse
created by the outside suggesting ele-
ment the people sink back into their
normal habits of hard work and sac
rifice for the family. The Swedes
have been called the Frenchmen OF
the north and there are many similar
tiles, If the difference in climate and
geographical position are taken into
consideration.
The wild wars and mad ambitions OF
Charles the Twelfth and the good
people who supplied the blood and suf-
ferings for his stupendous adventures
have many similarities with the Ma
poleonic wars. The Humbert affair,
Panama scandal, the Dreyfus affair,
the Steinheil affair, the Calmette af-
fair, do not show corrupt France,
they only show and illustrate the gov
ernmental limitations of France,
the childishness of the people, their
inability to grasp things as whole.
Someone has called them the Chi
nese of the west. They are conven-
tional to degree that almost makes
it impossible for foreigner to gain
entrance into their intimate society.
The Frenchman has seldom men
friends. His confidant is his wife,
mother or sister. No business rs done
in France without the women, every
Frenchman consults the women folks
in all his business and its the excep-
+ie,, that hc a1ra,: decides on an impOc: