Show SHAW KIPLING DICKENS George Bernard Shaw Is to O latest Englishman to speak unkindly of c the United states He has been Invited to vIsit America and he has replied f How can you America a 0 free country when you know of the poverty of the masses and the frightful condi condition condition tion of child labor fu the cotton mills of o othe the Carolinas which are arc worse than the mills of Manchester were a hundred years ago We found the remedy and the Americans know it but they wont apply It because they dont want to be befree befree free they want to make money and they dont care how they do It I do not nOl notI I want to see the Statue or of Liberty in New York harbor Even my appetite for Irony does doe not go so 50 far as that And there is some reason to admit truth In the indictment It Is not new of course Our own people know of the wrong being Inflicted on the youth of tho land In the mill u of the tho south But none the less lees that evil should be abated Americans refuse however to get angry at Shaw The people of the Unit United United ed States do not really care he comes or stays away They recognize him as n a v very ry talented man n a very brave man n a very valuable man They make their judgments of him entirely on the work vork he has done ilone and not at all allon allon on the basis of his uttered laudation or condemnation of the people here They care somewhat for his good opinion but even it if It Is unfriendly it does not at nil all n niter alter their estimate of his rank n Is as a 0 literary man That is quite another an another other matter This Is not the first famous English Englis I writer who has said unkind things of did the the people of America Kipling same thing twenty years ago If he had at the time won to the rank which ho he gained by the publication of Tom and East and West and The Recessional more attention would have been paid to his comments on America But the people of the states even then had bad passed far beyond the stage where their view of a foreign attitude to tow writer was based on his w rd them It Quite the same fifty years yearl agO Dickens came here end and was hand entertained When he returned richer for his sojourn in America he de delighted delighted lighted all the snobs In the United there were even more of them then than his American Notes He ridiculed the people of the newer nation and what lie he said hurt But even in that case Dickens did a service to the people whom he assailed He pointed out some habits that were better dropped and many of them have been wholly because Dickens attacked them but because they were unworthy the people Now Mr Shaw may come or stay away What he be says of the United States will be taken for the value it possesses What he says o on abstract subjects will be weighed without regard to his attitude to America Our people have havo advanced so far that he can get no advertising by maligning them |