Show AMERICANS AS SEEN BY OTHERS an englishman of genuine good sense and judgment hall caine sees in america the grandest of nations he noted the wonderful revival of trade following the spin ish war did not observe any demand for anangelo american alliance i this country Is master of the world new york yok dec 22 i A dispatch t to the new york herald from lond london says hall calne caine who is now at gra gm da castle isle of kan contributes a long article to the dally daily telegraph today entitled life in america he ile sa says ys in part did I 1 see any results of the war yes in the sudden and great revival of trade which Is now brisk in america beyond that not a great deal that seemed to be a direct result indeed it Is surprising how little impression the war has made on the minds and condition of the people of america they hardly talk of it at all the people give you the idea that they have turned down the page of the spanish war tor for good what did I 1 find to be the american attitude toward england not greatly unlike what it was three years ago certainly no such extra or binary change in the national sentiment appears to have passed over america as that which we have lately experienced in england nobody on the other side of the ocean calls for an anglo american alliance whether in the form of a treaty or of an understanding no one talks about it and I 1 doubt if it impressed itself on the american mind as serious at all this Is not to say the good feeling for england la is not deep and widespread in america it Is and En glands friendliness to america during the war has strengthened the ties between the two countries another reference to that friendliness Is surely to provoke 0 it does not require any knowledge in economic problems to see that in one particular america la Is master of the world that amazing country absorbs all races of the world ami and every race thai that it absorbs it feeds and strengthens it may be stated as a sure though astounding fact that no civil civile laed race whatever has yet been known to decline or ai diminish minish on american soli soil As tor for the wickedness of the big american cities chicago and new york it can anly seem plainer to the world to those who do 30 not know the wickedness of our cities at home the appalling stories of the foreign cities invariably come from people who lead the most humdrum life in london the secret Is a very simple one they are only when they go abroad it if I 1 were asked what was the worst re result suit which comes from the american thirst tor for prosperity I 1 should say the pride ot of wealth nevertheless ibe the corroding effect ot of great wealth shows itself on american society in more ways than one the marriages of englishmen to american women may perhaps bring about the anglo american alliance which mr air chamberlain so much desires but where the reasons for such unions are merely wealth on the and vanity on the other without any other apparent motive the loss will bo be to america in the lowering ot of the moral tone of that part ot of her people who come within the atmosphere ot of such transactions the quest ot of material prosperity by no means absorbs the energy of 0 the american people it would be impossible to find among the nations ot of the world more readers to the thousand ot of population and americans not only read more than we do they read better no other nation pays more attention to the education ot of its women and in no other country does woman stand so high or play so serious a part the religious life ot of america Is active to the point ot of fostering nearly every crazy notion that takes the form of faith as it also where the great wave Is more felt which IB is now carrying the christian church back to the early ideals of christianity the work of the slums Is splendidly done both by men and women and in america W where here there Is no state church reverence for the church and the things of the church is greater than ft it has ever seemed to me to be in england or even in rome 1 I love america because it Is bit big and because its bigness Is constantly the imagination and shimu lating the heart I 1 love its peddle because they are free with the freedom which the rest of the world takes as by stealth ind which thy they claim as their right I 1 love them because they are sire th tho most earned active and tind ingenious people on earth because they are the most moral and re helens and above all oil the most biber people in the world because in soll sn of nil the shallow judgments ants of observers rs are the most childlike in national character the earliest to move to laughter the readiest adleRt re to be touched to tears the most absolutely true la in their impulses and the most generous in their applause |