Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — The Prosperous Dutch. [ARTICLE]

The Prosperous Dutch.

These people, and indeed all Dutch people, are beyond doubt contented and comfortable. The have the happiest of temperaments and no anxieties. They are the wealthiest nation in Europe. They have the best of food and wines and music and education; their climate is healthy; their history ts honorable and stirring; they smoke cigars at one cent apiece that would be dear in New York at twenty times that sum. Their homes are beautiful to look at and delightful to live in. Their country is.a miracle. The men who made New York and have stamped themselves all over the United States came from this little land, whose total population scarcely equals that of London. If I were not an American I would be a Dutchman. Np other nation of Europe comes into competition with them.—Julian Hawthorne.