Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — Englishmen vs. Americans. [ARTICLE]

Englishmen vs. Americans.

The London World says that Stanley honjjstly-believes toatJgnglishmen are prejudiced against fiim»n account of his nationality. dwnot like American®” hl insjiste?; f th«y are jealous of WtnwrbKif andwtheiC j®lousy crops out continually. ” In this opinion Stanley is partly right and partly wrong.” It is not so much his jealousy that makes the average Englishman unpleasant to the average American as it is his self-suf-ficiency.. Hawill nqt meet the American cordially, because he regards Americans as an inferior species of Englishmen. This feeling, we are glad to say, doesnot exist to any extent among the upper classes of England, who by travel and education have become relieved from the prejudices long ago engendered by the caricatures of .Gb&rlea iWqkens and his imitators. Paiadfixical it may seem, the warmest appreciation of this country is found among the gentlemen constituting what is called the aristocracy of England. : - i