| Show ENGLAND AND AMERICA we americans are a fairly capable anti adaptable race some few things we can teach the world nay we hava done it already but some other things we are not so good golod at eng land could give us points on municipal government our cities are scarcely so go well managed as manchester and birmingham england prepares her diplomatists by natural selection ana systematic training we trust the fits ness of ours to luck she has stand ards of public character and conduct in office it Is questionable whether we have any she cultivates and defer to expert opinions on finance political economy and the like we hold pro 16 lessons lessors and theorists in some oon con tempt and consider one mans mana notion as good as an others when nw new dangers and duties confront us olle 0 happy go lucky temper recalls the mw man in dickens who supposed he could coula play the fiddle he had never tried now britain can as a rule rely on oa the qualities needed in any of et her ha public servants it to is not that ang 2 lishman are naturally better or brighter than americans they and we lim af built on the same foun foundation datto 11 but they are trained tor for their wo work rk chiw have to be it is not so 80 long appointments with them came bp y r conage and pulls much as with aa u 4 now but they found it expedient ta substitute a merit system that alip ays tern tem has had a good deal to do wibb En glands prosperity and pro greAk 1 with her recent strides toward widened empire with her present isolated greatness frederic M bird in september lippincotts Lippin cotts |
