The Commoner.
Dec. 26, 190a
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SIDNEY SMITH ON AMERICA I
Karl von Herrmann, writing in the
Chicago Itecord-HeraltJ, makes inter
csing reference to "What Sydney
Smith, thought of -Americans eighty
years-i'go." This writer says:
In. all that hUS been paid and written
about America's ommecoial invasion
of Europe I have failed tp see any
reference to the celebrated sneer' gra
tuitously hurled in our direction by
Sydney Smith, when, to the Edinburgh
Review for January, 1820, he "pro
pounded thatffamous and temporarily
embarrassing questidn, "Who reads an
Amorican book?" after figuratively
making sorry hash of our .fondest
hopes.' Mr. Smith was reviewing Adam
Seybert'ff "Statistical Annals , of jthe
United States," and seized the, occa
sion to lambast this puny little'atioh
to the best of his not-to-be-desplsed
ability. Granting, for the sake of
crowing louder afterward, thatjie in
nowise treated us unfairly in consid
ering us-, as We were then, t and' that
possibly we deserved worse 'than We
got, one cannot but wish that he tnight
return to his former haunts for a' per
iod long enough to enable 'him to re-1
peruse his own pompous balderdash
concerning the U. S. A., in the light of
things as they are. This is what the
gentleman had to say eighty-two years
ago:
"Such Is the land of Jonathan and
thus has it been governed. In his
honest endeavors to better his situa
tion, and his manly purpose of resist
ing injury and insult, we must cordial
ly sympathize. Wo Tibpe he will al
ways continue to watch and suspect
his gov irnment as he now 'does ''re
membering that it is the constant ten
dency of those intrusted with power to
conceive that they enjoy. it by their
own merits and for their own use, and
not by delegation and for the benefit of
An Unsubsidizetl Newspaper.
In a republic where the' policies of
the government are shaped and con
trolled by the people through the pow
er of the ballot it isof the first import
ance that every citizen exercising the
right of franchise should keep himself
thoroughly acquainted with political
affairs.. He should realize1 the respon
sibility he owes to himself; His children'
and future generations, to use his bait
lot judiciously and intelligently. He
must read and study, then act cour
ageously. The money power of the
country has realized the powerful in
fluence of the press and either owns or
controls almost every large newspaper
in the United States. Much of the
truth is kept from the people or they
are wilfully deceived by the publication
of only half the truth. Every public
man who dares to champion the cause
of the people is soon the target for
slander and ridicule by all the pluto
cratic press. He is lied about and villi
fled until his influence is destroyed and
the public plunderers continue their
work unmolested. -Howeverj there is
no rule but has Its. exceptibns, and so
among newspapers. The Independent,
published at Lincoln, Neb,, the na
tional paper of the peoplels party, has
always been true to the cause of good
government It discusses every issue
of state or national importance, in a
fearless, unbiased and scientific man
ner, and denounces wrong and injus
tice -wherever found, Everywhere it is
recognized as the most fearless cham
pion of the rights of the plain people
It deserves the support of every .pa
triotic citizen interested in good gov
ernment Write for free sample copy,
or, better still, send 10 cents for three
months' trial subscription. Address
your letters to The Independent, Lin
coln, Neb.
others. Thus far we are the friends
and admirers of Jonathan. 'But ho
must not grow vain and ambitious, or
allow himself to be dazzled by that
galaxy of epithets by which his ora
tors and newspaper scribblers endeav
or to persuade their supporters thajt
they arolho greatest, the most refined,
the most enlightened arid the mpst
moral people upon earth. The effect
of, this is unspeakably ludicrous on this
side of the Atlantic and even on the
other, we should imagine, must bo
rather humiliating to the reasonable
part of the population. The Americans
are a brave, industrious and acute peo
ple, but they have hitherto given no
indications of genius, and made no
'approaches to the heroic, either in
their morality or character. They are
but a rOcent offset, .indeed, from Eng
land, and should make it their chief
boa'st, for-many generations to come,
;that they have sprung from the same
race with Bacon, Shakespeare anu
Newton. Considering their numbers
indeed, and the favorable circum
stances in which they have been
placed, they have yet done marvelous
ly little to assert tho honor of such a
descent, or to show that their Eng
lish blood has been exalted, or refined,
by their republican training' and in
stitutions. Their Franklins, and
Washingtons, and all tho other sages
and heroes of their revolution, were
born and bred subjects of the king of
England and not among the freest or
most valued of liis subjects. And, since
tho period of their .separation, a far
greater proportion of their statesmen
and artists and political writers, have
been foreigners than .ever occurred be
fore in-tho history of any civilized
and educated people. During the thirty
or forty years of their independence
they have done absolutely nothing for
tho sciences, for the arts, for literature,
or even the statesmanlike studies of
politics or political economy. Confin
ing ourselves to our own country, and
to the period that has elapsed since
they had an independent existence, one
would ask, Where are their Foxes,
their Burkes, their Sheridans, their
Windhams, their Wilberforces?
where their Arkwrights, their Watts,
their Davys? their Robertsons, Blairs,
bmiths, Stewarts, Paleys and Mal
thiise's? their Parsons, Parrs, Bur
neys or Blomfields? their Scotts,
Campbells, Byrons, Moores or Crabes?
their Siddonses, Kembles, Kpans or
0'Neils?-r-theIr Wilkies) Laurences,
Chantrys? or their parallels from our
little island, who1, in the course of the
last thirty years, have blest or de
lighted mankind by their w8rk, inven
tions or examples? Insofar as we
knpw there is no such parallel to bo
produced from the whole annals of
this self-adulating race. In the four
quarters pf the globe, who reads an
American booli? or goes to an Ameri
can play? or looks at an American
picture or statue? What does the
world owe to American physicians or
surgeons? What new substances have
their chemists discovered? or what old
ones have they analyzed? What new
constellations have been discovered by
tho telescopes of Americans? What
have they done in mathematics? Who
drinks out of American glasses? or
eats from American plates? or wears
American coate cr gowns? or sleeps
in 'American blankets? Finally, under
which of the old tyrannical govern
ments of Europe is every sixth man a
glave, whom his fellow creatures may
buy, and sell, and torture?"
It would bo vastly instructive and
entertaining to take the trouble to an
swer thfs document piecemeal, but It
would require a whole series of large,
fat volumes and what's the use?
Verily, times have changed since
grandpa was a little boy!
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O. K. BUCKHOUT. '
Chairman Kalasaazoo Tuberculosis EemedyCo.
(Ltd.); Member of British Tuberculosis
Congress; Member International As
sociation for the Prevention
of Tuberculosis
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ture tiny more, as the long-Iookedfor core for
consumption hns at last bn found, and a care
To Hatisfy yourself of this yon have only to write
tho Kalamazoo Tuberculosis Kcmedy Co., KV&
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British Tuberculosis Congress and aUoofthe
International Association for the Prevention of
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An Abortive Cleveland Boom.
Tho democratic "reorganb.ors," who
so signally failed to demonstrate their
strength and Influence In tho recent
congressional and -state elections aro
making a desporato offort to "rejuven
ate" lr. Cleveland as a -presidential
possibility.
It is pointed out that he is the only
democratic nominee elected to tho .
presidency since tho war, and It la'
gravely contended that no other man
of the present day can win as' a demo
cratic endidate.
In tho first placo tho contention Is
unsound. It is mere assertion to say
that the democratic party contains but
one man In whom tho country has suf
ucient confidence to make him presi
dent. If It were true, then his elec
tion would be a personal triumph and
would signify nothing for democratic
principles; and if that be tho condi
tion wo should surrender tho party
name and disband, for if wo have noth
ing more cohesive than Mr. Cleveland's
personality we do not deserve suc
cess and we cannot endure after he
passes away. All of which is the rank
est nonsense.
In the second placo the election o
Mr. Cleveland, conceding for the mo
ment that ho can bo nominated, will
mean the certain and speedy revival
of populism and the disintegration ut
democracy. Tho anti-Cleveland dem
ocracy is not Identical with populism,
but tho two elements entertain in
common an unyielding hostility to tho
greedy money Interest which Mr.
Cleveland represents as truly as Mr.
Hanna represents it and more than
Mr. Roosevelt represents it Indeed,
it is plain to see behind the Cleveland
movement a design to commit both
parties to a Wall street policy aritf to
anticipate a possible anti-trust cam
paign by Roosevelt with a positive
pro-trust campaign by Cleveland.
It is true that Mr. Cleveland la
strong in certain quarters of the east,
a id it is true that the party needs
help from those quarters. But Mr.
Cleveland would win, if he should win -1
1 all, not by reason of his democracy,
but by reason of tho policies on which. ,
ho is in a state of antagonism to dem- .
ocracy. ,
The Cleveland promoters are count-,
ing upon a solid south, and they would. '
likely receive it in the election, though
this must not be too confidently as-,
sumed. It "is altogether possible that'
a revival of populism and a coalition
with the republicans might cost ono'
or more southern states. But one thing
may bo assumed for a certainty, and I
that is that Mr. Cleveland cannot bof
nominated by the help of a s!nglo
southern state, and the south has a
right to protest against tho false ex-,
pediency of a nomination which will
wreck the party and expose this sec-
tion again to the terrors of nonulism.
If Mr. Cleveland is unselfishly de-
slrous of democratic success he will'
hasten to forbid the use of his name' v
in this connection and then throw
the weight of his personal following
to tho cause of the party under such
leadership as the party may choose.
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