Show gur european and yankee mankee life contrasted A striking characteristic of the people of eu rope is the want of enterprise here everything contributes to progress and every man 10 is st striving to rise and he has a motive for he knows that iche if he succeeds in accumulating he will have more influence and a higher social position but abroad the poor man has no motive to scriv the mainspring is taken away property will not change his condition the mountain weight of conservatism keeps all classes as they were we are all heads ever subjecting the he elements to our uses and saving labor there is nothing of this abroad the reason is we have much to do and but a few to do it while they have but little to do and rid many to do it consequently we invent laborsaving machinery while they do as their fathers did without seeking to improve for instance in id italy you will see the farmer breaking up his land with wih two cows and the root of a tree for a plow while he is dressed in skins with the hair on in rome vienna or dresden if you hire a mach man to saw your wood he does not bring a sawhorse saw nw horse he never had one nor his fa father he r before him but he places one end of the saw upon the ground and the other against his breast and taking the wood in his hands rubs it against the saw and he will be all day doing two hours work it is a solemn fact that in Pl florence orence a city filled with the triumphs of art there is not a single augeri auger and if a carpenter would bore a hole bole he does it with a red hot this abi s results a want of industry I 1 but of sagacity of thought the people are by no means idle they toil early and late men women and children cli ildren with an industry that shames the laborsaving labor saving yankee the pope i does not allow the steamboats to come up to his wharves but anchors them a mile off of so that his ragged boatmen may make a few pennies by rowing passengers ashore thus he makes labor that the poor may live in rome charcoal is principally used lor for fuel and you see a string siring of twenty mules bringing little sacks upon their backs when one mule would draw it in a cart but the charcoal vender I 1 never had a cart and so he keeps his tw twenty n mules and feeds them there is no want I 1 of industry but there is also no competition I 1 A yankee always looks haggard and nervous as though he be was chasing a dollar with u us money y is everything every thing and when we go abroad WP are surprised to find that the dollar has ceased ceas to be almighty if a yankee refuses to do a job for fifty cents lie will probably do it for a dollar and will certainly do it f for or five but one of the lazzaroni of naples who has earned two cents and eaten them will work no more that day isyou if you offer him ever so large a sum he has earned enough for the day and he wants no more so there is no eagerness for money no motive for it and everybody moves slowly another phase of european life is to be seen in the modes of traveling here everybody every boy I 1 travels and consequently our means of traveling are the bestin best in the world but abroad governments ern ments does not encourage traveling it knows that there is a mysterious connection c between hurrying to and fro and dangerous knowledge on the part of the people so the modes of traveling are very poor in lyons one of tile the ingest cities in france I 1 have known a t traveler tr to wait a week to obtain a seat in a stagecoach stage c and in marseilles two weeks this explains eipl ins why wh y paris is france the people of that city ca can abolish one government and construct abnot another her before the people of the other cities can hear ot of it another characteristic of the people abroad is that they are economical and are not ashamed of it if a yankee tries to save a dollar there are nine chances in ten that he will te tell I 1 I 1 a lie to conceal it A frenchman would not be ashamed to own that he was trying to save a dollar coaches on oil the continent travel in the night because it saves time meals and a bed when a french man enters a coach chach he be puts on a nightcap and goes to sleep he resigns himself to government shuts his eyes and opens his mouth to receive whatever may be put into it thus if the stage stops on the way an hour he never asks the cause but sleeps on with the door locked upon him A yankee would be out asking fifty questions A marked distinction abroad is the culture and courtesy of the masses with one exception this relates to the stagecoach the english praise us for our attention to women and sick persons traveling ano and we deserve it compared with them on the continent the seats of the stages are numbered you tatie a particular one and are not expected to move to oblige anybody wendell phillips |