The Hardwood Record 



VOL. XIV. 



SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1902. 



No. 8 



The Hardwood Record. 



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THE AMERICAN MAN. 



The inroads whicli the Americans are 

 making into the affairs of Europe are 

 wonderful. In almost every line of en- 

 deavor their all pervading personality is 

 felt. Through the efforts of Rockefeller, 

 Morgan, Yerkes and others, portions of 

 Europe are being turned ups-ide down. 



For many centuries after the settlement 

 of America was begun by the nations of 

 Europe, all the ideas and civilization 

 America had came from across the At- 

 lantic. America was looked upon by the 

 people of Europe as a crude and unformed 

 nation, whose iwople were uncouth, half 

 educated and wholly inferior to the aris- 

 tocracy of Europe. Blinded by their own 

 self-complacency they failed to note it 

 when the Americans caught up with and 

 then passed them in the race. That fact 

 was first forced upon them when the 

 European merchants found themselves be- 

 ing crowded out of the oi>en markets by 

 American goods. Then it began to be 

 conceded, reluctantly, that as an indus- 

 trial and commercial peo'ple the Americans 

 had made some advancement, but tliere 

 was an impression that they were only a 

 nation of money grubbers with no thought 

 or inspiration above the almighty dollar, 

 and the contempt of the swash-buckling 

 aristocracy of Europe ■ for everything 

 American was only increased. 



The first jolt their S'elf-complacency re- 

 ceived was the result of the Spanish- 

 American war. When that war began 

 there was no European counU-y aside from 

 England in which there was any consider- 

 able number of people, even among so- 

 called "educated classes," that would con- 

 cede the United States had a ghost of a 

 show to win. The fact that we had 70,- 

 000,000 people did not impress them to 

 any extent. They believed that a large 

 portion of the population were Indians, in 

 perpetual warfare with the whites, and 

 negroes who were only awaiting the op- 

 portunity to revolt. As for the white peo- 

 ple, they were merely a lot of money 

 grubbers and would fade before the ad- 

 vance of the high-spirited troops of Spain 

 as mist before the sun. 



There is not the slightest exaggeration 

 about the above statement Such was 

 actually the belief of the people of Eu- 

 rope and the result w^as as great surprise 

 to them as any other result would have 

 been to us. 



It would seem that they should have 

 reasoned that the mechanical genius 

 which had made American machinery so 



pre-eminent, would, when applied to the 

 construction of battleships, have produced 

 good results^ that the deftness of hand 

 and quicknes's of eye which had made the 

 American artisan and mechanic the best 

 ever produced, would prove very efficient 

 when applied to the manipulation of fire- 

 arms; that the indomitable spirit which 

 had overrun and sub<lued a conUnent 

 would not flinch before a few regiments of 

 half fed, ragged "dagoes." But there are 

 none so blind as those that won't see— 

 and they had to learn. - 



Now it has occurred to the American 

 that there is a lot of money to be made 

 by taking real twentieth century civiliza- 

 tion over to Europe and s-elling it to the 

 people, and they are doing it. And the 

 people of Europe don't know whether to 

 get mad and have nothing to do with it or 

 whether to go ahead like good little chil- 

 dren and accept the benefits. 



Under the pressure of circumstances 

 the foreigners are b^innig to recognize 

 the good points of the American people, 

 biit they are doing it very grudgingly 

 and are beginning at our women. Ameri- 

 can women, they admij, are mighty fine 

 wcmen— in fact, about the finest in the 

 world, and far superior to the Arnericaji 

 men. The American man, being merely 

 a money grubber, and— yes— with some 

 plebian ability'" in handling his shooting 

 machines— is Inferior, physically and in- 

 tellectually to his women folks; but it is- 

 thouglit that maybe the American women 

 may be able in time to make something 

 out of him. 



It would seem that the fact that the 

 American man has outdone them In every 

 field of human endeavor, from putting the 

 shot to organizing the industry and com- 

 merce of the world, would convince them 

 that he was really a superior sort of a 

 fellow. It hasn't, however, as yet— but it 

 will. 



The American man is the foremost man 

 in the world to-day, and his superiority 

 will grow more apparent with each pass- 

 ing year. He is' a king and his crown is 

 a workman's cap. 



It is probably the workman's cap whicli 

 offends the European, but he will have 

 to accept it and acknowledge the man 

 wearing it to be his master. If there is 

 anything in his old-fashioned, out-of-date 

 continent which the American man, < r his 

 women, wants, he will take it. 



As for the American woman, .''he is 

 what the American man has made her; 

 and of his many noble achievements there 

 is nothing of- which he iv so proild. 



