Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12

| The Sea- and other notable noCcls. mas Wrt-
! ten TO his American publishers long tctfcr,
| in which he discusses the ignorance OF the
acreage EHglishmdn Of crCrVhing American,
| dRe to his education. system Wh'ch' hEc
| mat in rO1Wc in America, lays stress on
! the peculiarly local subjects. ignoring the
corM at large. NJ. NcFce pleads for
better understanding Of America By Eng
| I0nd. Thc letter is n rdlWnblo contribution
to The discussion Of Anglo american friend
ship. Mr.. NcFcc's father rds an English
sea captain, his mother is a Canadian.
WEARS ago when was little boy 1
first became aware of peculiar n1cc-
tion in ncighbors voice when he or she
| land it was generally shc) spoke of some
thing as distinctly American. Boys at
school dubbed everything from across the
water as Yankee At home | had big fat
volumes of Prescott. Washington Irving and
Browncll. | not only knew the exact rcla
ton between Balboa and PcdrarIas and the
details of cortcs's fights on the causeway for
Mexico City. but ] had ideas upon Sam
Houston. John Smith of Virginia. Dan
| Boone and Cotton Mathcr.
Now the point is that in school / not
only found boys rs innocent of all these
as 'Io"sh ,o'u'l'oue n"u ,u. neu oa'T
rrodToIy discoyornJ thot ,Lo co., ore ,,ero
in nrocisolv ,ir,ilor ooso ,rboy L,ou whom
Chaucer died and the date of the French
Revolution. but they had never heard of
llarpcr's Ferry or the Louisiana Purchase.
am speaking of the eighties and early
nincticS
Then | went TO another school and on
t,,L, ,o,,.arJ ,,,ar;nn ,rhin ahaaS hnl ~
rord ond r,n,hridro n,n,i,o,os g., ,,,n,tor,
onJ 90 inranor,o 90 49, ;..,,,a f ,L
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in,'ai',s s .i "i:l's '"'e VI
,iaaao -, ,hn L ~. s I;'.nT: n Ivy XII.
form master said as he checked nv "impot"
''MrFcc here is a Yankee. let him decide.
DO YOU believe in free silver. McFce:'
forget what | said in reply. 1t must
have been "Xrruciatingly funny. because they
all ShrlckCd with laughter | was pattcd on
the head and asked if | remembered Bunker
Hill. America was a great joke.
r'r WAS thc soro v,hor I booor ,,,, amman,
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:; NV ,p "' aI a" 'nI '",'' Wy 'ouiu ernse
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LHn :" =. I gu" ' i','m o"' nopouE
,"""sn' wv !" VIM, W '''i US WHY 'he
'.' =" W ""'H was '''To' "''u'
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| 'THf.N ! went into business and cncoun-
L tered yet another phase of the English
antagonism toward America. l found every
| where that American machinery. profting by
| free trade was cutting out my own FIRMS
| sprriaIticS. There was no comparison be-
| tween the two commodities, Just as there was
| ooods uoro mod, of soIid n,ill stool boi,or
| plates. riyctcd up. bronze castings carefully
| hand poIishcd. with interiors of heavy drilled
brass and glumetal housings. A good solid
| article. costing n fortune TO shin and ruar
nntccd for n thousand wears. ri American
| firms were countcring these with light welded
| galvanized iron contraptiops with mallcable
rastiron gadgets and self ceptcri,,g wood
| pullcyS. delivered free on rails, Livcrpool or
London. at a price some 40 per cent below
ours. The American importers did NOT claim
immortality for their goods. They claimed
| that the machine would last long enouph to
become obsolete and no longer. when the pur
| chaser could scrap it and buy new model
The purchaser did,
We voted Liberal or Conservative at tho