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The Daily record and the Dresden daily : 20.10.1909
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Office: DresdenA. Telephone 1755. Btcortr and THE DRESDEN DAILY. Office: SMIr.5,L DresdenA. Telephone: 1755. The First Daily Paper in English published in Germany A& 1,125. DRESDEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1909. 10 PFENNIGS. Monthly Subscription Rates: Fo, Dresden, mark for the rest of Germany and Austria, mark 1.20. For other countries, marks 2M. ENGLISH IN DISGUISE. Mr. Robert Blatchford—Socialist, journalist, war correspondent, and special reporter of the Dan r Mail —is now writing a series of articles for Chat news-* paper on his trip to Germany. Writing from Munich, lie says • “1 have always marvelled over the mart who, o.i the strength of a few weeks’ sojourn amongst a foreign people, presumes to criticise their insti tutions, to explain their characteristics, and to pluck out the heart of their innermost mystery. 1 have always envied this person his god-like cheek.” And then he goes on to say: ”1 have discovered the Ger man people. Discovered them ? Detected them: seen right through them, and all in less than three weeks. The Germans are nothing but Englishmen and Eng lishwomen disguised by foreign names.” This sage comment is indeed worthy to rank as ‘‘To-day’s Great Thought.” Six months ago Mr. Blatchford’s own Pc-pci, the Clarion, was revelling in an extraordinary' meal ut Teutophobia. it scattered dire warnings of Germany’s awful intentions in regard to England and tnc Empire, and predicted the German invasion within two or three years. We have certainly no fault to find with Mr. Blatchford’s change of front, belated as it is. But we respectfully submit that his pendulum has swung him from one extreme of bellicose frenzy to the other extreme of witless ex uberance. In these Da : ly Mail articles he claims to have dis covered that English and Germans are precisely the same people,-in thoughts, manners, morals; in all except speech. “The Germans, indeed, I feel sure,” he says, “are nearer to the English and Scotch than the Americans are.” And again: “Let any open- nrnded Englishman -stand for an hour in a German crowd and try to pick out the English. I have tried and felt completely baffled.” The open-minded Eng lishman in question tfould have to be so very open- minded that all his mental faculties had escaped. Everybody who has been in Germany for more than three weeks knows the fundamental differences in physiognomy and even outward apparel winch in stantly distinguish English and Germans. We are compelled to assume that Mr. Blatchford is suffer ing from a sort of sentimental myopia. For half a column further he succeeds in dealing out fulsome praise to Germany without reflecting too severely upon Ids own country, but then the strain becomes too great, and he succumbs. “So far as my knowledge and observation carry me I have to say, and I -say it regretfully (?), that 1 believe the Germans to be a more efficient people, a nicer people, and a better people than our own.” Now tins typically Socialist idiosyncrasy of running down one’s own country instantly stamps Mr. Blatch- lord, in spite of his ephemeral association with the Impel ialistic, anti-Socialistic Daily Mail. We contend that it is bad manners and worse taste to thus pubiii 1 v belittle one’s own compatriots in favour of i for eign nation. Mr. Blatchford may think what he pleases and confide his opinions to his own admir ing circle, but it is nothing short of impudence 1o inflict those opinions on the British public, and it •s, moreover, eminently calculated to arouse bad bl'ood. It is not our intention to enter into an in vidious comparison as to the exact degrees of ami ability and goodness of Englishmen and Germans. Mr. Blatchford, who for more than a dozen years has lived, moved, and had his being amongst Euglhh Socialists of a rabid type, may be excused for think ing the Germans more efficient, nicer, and better than his own countrymen, since he is doubtless taking *he English Socialist as a typical Englishman. If that is his standpoint, we heartily agree with him, but he ought to make the distinction plain. We do not doubt the good intentions of Mr. BJalchfprd or of the Daily Mail, but we fail to see what practicable purpose is to be served by this sort of nonsense. Every decent-minded Englishman and German is desirous of seeing better feeling be tween the countries. Opinions may differ as to th MixpHDrinkc • ^" Sherry Cobler fACU LSnnKS. CccktaU, etc. Whisky & Soda, Cognac, as wctt as Port.Sherry etc in glasses! Champagne! Cor.-house: WaisenhausStr. 14. hntiante on Pragir Stiasse. Conjpaiuj Established 1864. Established 1864. Fur (Uorehouse Paul Koehler, Landhaus Str. 6 For many ycais fitter at the International Fur Store, London. Not being in a main street, my prices are * Prices are marked in plain figures on the most moderate. g 00 |( S> Hotel New York nr. the Central Stn. DRESDEN Prager Strasse 47. Steam-heat. REALLY WELL HEATED HOUSE - Pension on moderate terms. Elevator running day and night. DRESDEN CHINA :: Own workmanship :: Lowest prices :. :: Retail Export Wholesale :: A. E. STEPHAN, 4, Reichs Strasse SD Trade Mark. Establ.1843. succ. to Helena Wolfsohn Nachf. Leopold Elb. best means of creating this better feeling, but we do not think there can be two opinions of Mr. Blalch- ford’s method. Are two estranged individuals likely to become reconciled because they are told that there is an uncommon similitude in the shape of their noses; o> that they both laugh at the same joke Is it not an historical fact that internecine conflicts or those between two nations closely allied are in- \aiiably more desperate and -savage than ■'xui fiicts between widely divided races? Are the members of one family always on the best of terms, or is it ■.not a recognised fact that near relations are larel-' good friends? Ties of blood affect politics but little, and hardly ever favourably. In the American re volution Englishmen fought against Englishmen, an 1 for nearly forty years afterwards the most bitter feelings characterised the common intercourse between the lost Colonies and Great Britain. Civilisation in the twentieth century has not progressed so far as .»o abolish war; but the universal partiality for peace is such that a modern war is impossible with out a very grave collision of interests. It is be cause there are no -serious differences of opinion or of interest between Great Britain and Germany that the horizon appears clear, and not because the people of each country have certain points of resemblance. For the benefit of his musical readers Mr. Blatch ford submits Rie following proposition : “How is it that the Enghsii so love Handel? Because he wrote German music, which is English music. What is more English than the music of Beethoven and Bach f They aic as English as Dr. Watts or Browning.” i We agree with Bacon that, when fools speak, wise men should hold their peace. — /* a - . STRONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS MEASURES. T 1 1 • (From our New York Correspondent.) The District of Columbia, in which is located Wash ington. is now in the enjoyment of some particularly stringent laws framed with the object of combating tuberculosis. Persons suffering from this complaint are prohibited from attending theatres, -saloons, or other places where many people gather, and a recent test case proves the determination of the authorities to enforce this drastic rule. A man suffering from consumption was sentenced to three weeks’ deten tion in the workhouse for having visited three saloons in the course of one evening, and drinking In com- nnnv u/ifli AUTUMN IN ITALY. (From a Correspondent.) ROME.—The strike is on in Rome—la gryyc - il sciohero which is the outward and visible expression ot the sympathy felt by the republicani of Italy for the unfortunate Senor Ferrer. Mass meetings are called tor seven o’clock this evening. At noon all ti ahsportatio.ii stopped. Shop-keepers, knowing by ex- pei icnct as late as yesterday evening that the unoc cupied rabble may hurl stones and other missiles through their costly vitrine-s, have put up their shut ters. All the trams have been taken from the tracks, no can «ages are to be seen in the streets, and our little party of six have -spent most of the afternoon basking in the sunshine of the flowery hotel garden instead of wandering through the marble aisles of St. Peter’s as was planned. As I write word has come that the “strike” will continue until midnight of tomorrow, Friday. And this gives me time to say to whomever it may be of interest—perchance to some of the Daily Record leaders—that Italy in the autumn is more beautiful than those of us who have always seen her in her spring dress have even dreamed. In April and May, to oe sure, she is clad in delicate greens and the air is flagrant with the breath of the roses which fall m cascades over every gray wall, while scarlet poppies, yewow daisies, and pale lillies cover the ground oe- neath fhe gray-green olives, the tall dark cypresses, and velvet ponpons of the stone pine adding, a stronger note. But Italy in October-the fulfillment of the pro mise! The pale green leaves of the youngs vine swinging from tree to tree in graceful festoons have changed to leaves of golden hue, and from among them hang rich clusters of ripe grapes, all purple and gold. It is the vintage season and all the peasants in Italy, it would seem, in their picturesque dress are busy with their harvest. Men and women, boys and girls in trees, on ladders, under trees, fill to the brim baskets and vats which are heaped upon carts drawn by gieat white oxen, mild-eyed and majestic. It is a beautiful sight, never to be forgotten, for the silvery olive, new hoarding its tender young fruit, still holds sway and the cypress and stone pine have only grown a little darker. Do you know the pictures of the Primitives, the Pre-Raphaelites—Fra Angelico and Lippi ami Gozzoli and Botticelli and Perugino and the youthful Raphael himself? They are Italy in the springtime—of life and the year. But Italy’s autumn is given us by the magic of the Venetian’s brush alone. The warm mellow, golden tones of Titian and Giorgione and Palma are but reflections from the heavily-laden barges bringing in from the neighbouring isles their precious burdens of gold and amber and royal purple, b?ige and sail and fruit bathed in the marvellous light of sunsets which rival Egypt’s own. The season, too, has other charms for the earnest traveller, advantages not to be underrated. The mob of tourists has gone, the rabble has left to us and our enjoyment thereoBthe museums, the galleries, the streets, the hotels, and \he railway carriages. Serene ly, without care or concern, we loiter along or move briskly at will, glad that the rest of the world—of tourists—is otherwise or elsewhere occupied.— I. B.W. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION. In the fiscal year now closed 751,786 immigrants’ mved at New York, the smallest number, since the- year of 1902. Of the new arrivals 164,248 were Southern Italians, 25,150 North Italians, 77,565 Poles 58,334 Germans, 57,551 Jews, 39,021 English, 34 996 Scandinavians, 31,185 Irish, 20,262 Greeks, 20*181 Slavs, 19,423 French, 16,446 Scotch, 15,808 Ruthe- !“*»* >687 Finns, 10,038 Russians, and 8,114 Dutch. Machinist and mechanician represented the trade of 1,397, teacher 1,243, clergyman 771, actor or actress 674. musician 714, and skilled labourer 87,160 Reichs Strasse z By appointment to the Saxon Court Telephone 2456 ♦ ♦ ♦ KOrnbeiser Pltrtz 1 Telephone 3364 Paul MSrksch „ . , DRESDEN DYER AND CHEMICAL CLEANER First class establishment * * Branches In all psrt. of the town. StrehlenerStrassel5 Telephone 2456 ♦ ♦ ♦ Lllttlctiau strasse 15 Telephone 3878
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