| Show H OX o It is III heng II use lax Americans Americana c cored r d ar ser what the Ute lou of ot w Hd ottI ot of their country went wet And Ad 0 there t Mr I It M no a tM tI tt lon OH catho part rt tf of f r i er of ot which Lowell complained fOID somewhat peevishly It cannot be bt denied Still l I F r t oro an ant Americans ate are Interested In what V at dis distinguished foreigners think of QC their country are not nol totally Indifferent In nt to 10 the tho view they take talle whether good or bad The latest distinguished hed foreigner r to toIve giVe girt Ive his lits Impressions of ot America Amerl B Is Mr Frederic Ir Harrison It may flay bo be said at a atlace lace that they are arc favorable As All was natural his hiti first r t desire was Will to know If it Americans At its a whole were very ery different front from Englishmen Ho lID noticed no radical difference o between bet them Ht lie U says that physically they are Ite the same race face with the same strength energy and beauty and that except for tor superficial things they live the tho same live hives 11 And Anti what does he find rid the Influence of the vast valt Immigration from Europe to have Jut vc bc been botn n upon tho the character and habits of ot the native natle Americans That It Is III rather slight ht that the tho native Americans AmerIcan rap rapidly rapidly idly absorb anti and Incorporate the foreign element and that In the second cond or third generation all differences arc are merged In Mr Harrisons native Americans are doing more their than I holding their own OIn they the are arc assimilating 1 ing In nil all II who corns come to their shores mores In Instead I stench stead of being gradually isolated and I exterminated ext I ItIe He tIe has ha a good word for Chicago winch which he says struck truck him ns as S being un unfairly unfairly fairly condemned no nil devoted to noth nothing nothIng ing but Mammon and pork He lie heard Mard nothing of shop heard nothing but talk of ot it the of or education tint uni university endowments libraries tort lure art science antI and the tho like He lie says that no io doubt he tie saw the tho city under favorable conditions but hut tho the Impression Im res lon sion left on his mind was that the he etti Zen un of Chicago were bringing their extraordinary enterprise to bear quite as al much upon u on social Intellectual int and interests as ItS they the do confessed confessedly ly upon grain and other matters of ot commerce That which winch struck him as tie the char characteristic note ot of ht the United States was the freedom of ot the tire career open Ol to n a seniO enso which Is I entirety to Euro luro Europeans l penne and can hardly be bt conceived by b bern thIO It 11 was Impressed upon him that here litre every overy man mart may aspire to the most exalted social or fi tJ financial I and that In III this irIs ambition every girl may share The ease with which men can call pass from froni one locality to another from one climate to another er from one Im business to another nail and the absence of ot rent real social barriers was Willi to him Intro a II new In a II measure n a 1 wonderment Equality to him as ns to Do Dc appeared to o bo be the dominant feature of American life lICe and soil It struck him as ns being far more national and universal In America than In France 1111 lieI lIe Ho says tays that Liberty Equality Fraternity 1 Is III not InscrIbed on public edifices In the tho United States be because because cause here hero no American at least no white citizen can oan conceive ot of tiny any thing Hut Dut this Ingrained sense of ot the tho absolute equality ot of nil 1111 white citizens reacts on all all cays says Mr Ir Harrison Tire The congressman Is la at nt Washington n a successful politician but outside Congress he be Is III on ont one of oC seventy millions A senator a n cabinet minister or a n PresIdent la Ie merely merel n a by ballots tram front the tho ranks rank to return to the ranks when his term lerm of ot office Is ii I up ull He lie wee was struck with the capitol capital at Washington the mass of which stem seem od ed to hint him to be bt the tho most mOlt effective of ot any nn public building In the world And ho declared that Washington tIre the youngest capital city of ot the thu world orld bids fair to become before tho the twentieth century ends tho the mot most beautiful rind and certainly the tire moat mOlt commodious lint Hut of or all nil ho Ito taw saw this the home ot of Washington at nt Mount Vernon Vornon ornon stirred most m emotions In him and ho lie thought the Spartan elm of ot the tomb torah of ot the thc father of his country countr far more moro fitting and touching than the tho grand mausoleum on all tire tho banks of tho the Hudson where lie the re remains reo remaIns mains ot of General Grant For a It century or ur more foreigners have hao been wont to dub tuh our country tho the tholand tholand theland land of ot the dollar but Mr Ir Harrison says nyS that ns ire to the worship of ot the al ai almighty almighty mighty dollar he neither saw it nor heard of ot It hardly so o much as we do doat at homo borne Nor did ho ha meet with or see Ree the famous yellow ollow press the tho brutal and gutter press about which Dickens had so much to say nay nor did he meet with any one ono who rend read It We close our review of ot what he lie has hns hasto hasto to say of ot America and Americans by II quoting his hi remarks on the relations of ot the sexes I 1 received r a n deep dM Impression Im that In America the th relations of the sexes are In a 1 state ata te far tar more moro sound BOund and am pure theta than they Iho are ali In the Old that the Ih original feeling of tire the Pilgrim Fath Foth Fathers ers Cr rs about woman and about man has hns tto to color the mental atmosphere and anet rim to give ghe all sexual problems a 11 new rind find clear field to develop dolop In normal ways trays a |
