The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
As South America Sees Us.
From the Riv.r Plate American.

from 1ne MKT late American.
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hey are not complimentary. they are funny in spots $50
Asa an Illustration. herei is one:
This dhe United states) is the country Of dollars and cents. Every ne hers
Is a non maker Business is h God of the country. With is thu first
question is: How is you famny?' Here the usual greeting is: "IIow is
business The men are like "a horses to whom the beauty If the grand
blinded b " heir mat haste to reach the goal which in h EN- is-the dollar,
the mere dollar, the hundred dollars. the thousand dollars, h millions. yes
event The billion of dollars. So
There is a cult for speed in this country Here they hav the fastest train
in the worldly which dto pay a indemnity to the passengers II It arrived late
Automobiles take the lead at full speed to the cemetery. There are express
evators shat AXE yu p o floors on their shops advertising their quick
service; they resolea piro of shoes Wills you wait as d h tauors clean NJ
press you suits. A the BARRIERS shop a customer. has his hair cut his nails
and hissh oe cleaned att the same time. A Frenchman wonders h
americans have 10 invented a machine to permi them to work with heir
feet while they speak over the phone.
Calnness is o understood in this country. If say to a n American that we
W laughing. When a man is yer A he is looked W upon. He has been
used. He is n o good NJ more. n or country women lie about heir ages; thu
pretend to be younger Eerem men he;t they Ia Ito appear young in order to
keep heir positions. ecaus money is Of more value than men You kno the
of one of ur countrynnen who was drowning in h sea. Two Americans
we're watching him from the shore a he struggled for life. A Chilean who a
the tragedy was fastening % hisr rescue. But one of the Americans said: mo
reach HI shore" #@@&
Weight, bulk magnitude so ominate some persons that they look upo a
skyscraper, without arto or grace reid, its 40 storesd isfguring HI earth and
The heavens as greater achievement than q SotreD Dame, a Museum of Cluny,
an Alhambrao OF a Milan Cathedral You will understand that theses kyscrapers
lend themselves only to the furthering of business needs.
Money money, money, that is al in this country. Cities are mad or
unnade ir response to money propositions. Here, in Chicago. here is a service
of elevated trains o a horrible structure that makes ugier still the horrible
streets. why I've hy lot buIt a iowa as IN Paris London or uenos Aires,
ast they are immensely rich? Simply because it does not mattert % themt that thu
streets are ugly. The important thing for them is to tear through them rapidly.
The fact hat men are appraised here only for heir money is crystalline
even in their language. We say: Una persona tiene un million de pesos"
The French SAY: "Quequun possede un million d e pasres" The Germans say:
E a eie million mark" Naturally to possess s1OooOoo is something
accidental, like having d house T an estate; but here tey say u a man lie is
worth 100000" which means that thsi is his value the pubHcs appraisement
off him. He is wortha Is much as the number OF his dollars.