Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — AMERICA MODEL FOR EUROPE [ARTICLE]

AMERICA MODEL FOR EUROPE

Baroness von Suttner Calls the United States “Land of Unlimited Possibilities.” “The land of unlimited possibilities and conquered impossibilities” is what Baroness Bertha von Suttner calls America. “It is to America, the young, new world, exuberant in strength, glad in its daring, that tired, cynical Europe looks to find new hope and faith in progress,” says the baroness, who declares that Europe is being Americanized by returning immigrants. “But,” she says, “it is a pity that so few people of our better educated classes travel in your country as you Americans travel here. But, do you know, I have often wondered if you know us as well as you know our art and antiquities. “One of my dear American friends confided to me that they, she and her husband, had never been in a private home in Europe until they visited me. "Even though everything is not rosy in your political arena, though there is brazen-faced practice of corruption —how do you call it, graft,, trusts, strikes, bribery—though you have conditions as complex and problems as difficult as everywhere else, we look to you for the solution, for America is full of hope, strength, and' you Americans are striving and working.”