Show A BRITISH OPINION OF THE UNITED STATES the literary digest difed of new york reprints from magadie an article on civilization social order and abd morality in the united states the british writer is rather caustic in his criticisms of this country and her institutions in a former article he tried approve tp prove that the corruptions corrupt ions of republican government dmd dad resulted in the united states in widespread despotism and anarchy and that by political and electoral corruption the freedom guaranteed by the constitution had been nullified in his present article he tries to show that by reason of political eal environment social order and soolan morality in the united states are at a very low standard the cou contention is made that even in a commercial sense british royalty is lose leas expensive than american elective administration it to la admitted that the expense to the nation of a president to very meagre as compared d with that of E oglan s the in direct cost of presidential nominations and elections cause enormous waste of time and money lioney bring on de ing because of unscrupulous personalities threaten the internal peace of the nation it is also said that because of the general abuse of free speech and a free prom press by irresponsible citizens the finer susceptibilities ties of character have been deadened and the moral tone of the people lowered furthermore ther more it is ih stated that the laws and institutions of the union and of the several states favor lawbreakers law breakers and debtors it is ia charged that two thirds third of the people of the united states are wholly devoid of religion that atheistic missionaries sion aries are to be met on every hand that a majority of the professed christians are fir fact idolaters idol aters that the good and bad are thrown together and finally that we have no society in the proper sense of the term the comparison between the alien born inhabitants and natives is in somewhat original ri ginal to say the least it to is said that while the former excel in quaffing quaff ing the flowing bowl and in pugilistic per formantes for mances the latter excel as bank wreckers railroad swindlers lers shotgun murderers and breakers breaker of trusts the marriage relation is also touched on and the statement volunteered that it in im exceedingly loose the rhe following extract from the article will give a fair idea of its general tenor the boys boya and girls grow up like half broken colts and fillies the girls are often so BO perverse per verae as in pure cussedness to delight in skating upon all sorts of social ice many break socially drown while others hanew retire until their dirty linen is washed and dried these may inky hilve have another alliance and may even do well but as a rule ru lethey thoy may mav be considered as of the demimonde demi monde mone the stories of the unfortunate inmates of disorderly houses reflect unfavorably favorably Vu upon the unrestrained intercourse iner course of the sexes especially when girls are budding into womanhood and nave have not mature discretion and strength of will the demimonde demi monde finds very many recruits rom the ranks of divorced wives owing to the ly of society 1 a great number of black sheep of 10 both th sexes are found in the beat society liques social frauds are very numerous many little girls are outraged by human fiends many older girls and women are likewise victims it may pretty safely be asserted that no other country shows such a record even in proportion to the number of inhabitants there are more murders in the united states in one week than in the whole united kingdom during one year the number of suicides I 1 is f I 1 and reveals the fact that the countr country r is 8 aliu full 11 of suffering humanity hopeless and driven to despair the article though dictated by prejudice and political bias yet to is worth perusal there is a vein of truth iu in it notwithstanding the writer looks through partisan spectacles the fact is crime is increasing all ail the world over and england exhibits tier her share of the swelling torrent there are evils political social and moral both in england and in the united states but baft their removal or melioration amelioration will not be effected by recrimination or by charge and coun ter charge it to Is the duty both of the american and aid english educator and philosopher to point out thess evils eella and to suggest remedial methods the political industrial and moral inter esto eats of all the english speaking people are now more or less lees interwoven and what elevates elev atee one nation of them will have a beneficial effect on all the others othen and vice versa vena |