People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — SOME FUN ABROAD. [ARTICLE]

SOME FUN ABROAD.

HOW OUR SOLONS ENJOY THEMSELVES IN EUROPE. What We Need Now Ig Statesmen That Are “Good in Europe” as Well as Dollars —Here Jg an Eye-Opener. The following which we clip from an exchange may serve to enlighten those readers who believe in pure and honest statesmanship, of the necessity for a change in this country. While the gentleman’s name is withheld we have no doubt as to the truth of the situation: “The United States senator and the New York millionaire who came home from Europe last week in each other's company after having been caught in a London raid upon one of the unspeakable resorts of that metropolis, are affording those men who indulge wanton tendencies a very valuable and much needed lesson. It is pretty well understood that resorts exist in both London and Paris frequented almost exclusively by Americans of means. In fact, it has become notorious that our countrymen of means on the other side take advantage of their isolation and freedom from observation to plunge into the wildest and most reckless dissipation. New York has one citizen of great wealth and high position who goes abroad every year fer the sole purpose of reveling in Bacchanalian orgies. So thoroughly is this tendency of our countrymen appreciated in European capitals that the proprietors of questional resorts bid against each other for the patronage of liberal Americans. In both London and Paris there are professional guides whose business it is to escort visitors to and from these haunts of iniquity. These guides are liberally fed by the proprietors of the dens. The stray American is taken from one to another and revels in the vileness of all under the impression that he is seeing foreign life. The innocent fellow never supposed that but for fools like him these places would not exist. The average Londoner or Parisian has never so much as heard of them. Once in a while the carryings on in these infamous resorts become so frightful that the police are forced to interfere. It invariably happens that an American of almost national prominence is caught in the police drag net. A few months ago it required the utmost exertion of our ambassador at an European capital to prevent the exposure of a man thus caught whose name has been prominently mentioned in' connection with the governorship of one of our largest states. Vienna is particularly rich in episodes of this description. These prominent debauchees are a source of infinite annoyance to our diplomats. One senator honored and respected at home was put in a pen. over night with a pickpocket and contracted a loathsome skin disease which prolonged his stay in Europe considerably. It is said that at the seaside resort which he frequented to effect a cure, this great man had a spy glass with him continually, and when he saw a countryman approaching in the distance he got up and fled. He is now a rising star in politics, but has not been to Europe lately. The recent London raid, therefore, is very gratifying to our diplomatic service. Meanwhile, American travelers will find it profitable to keep away from the primrose path of dalliance.”