AN OPINION OF AMERICANS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 February 1917, Page 4

AN OPINION OF AMERICANS.

Mr. D. Stewart Dawson, of the well known firm of that name, who is vis- > iting from London via the United States, does not think much of the Americans: "The American usually shows a bright, cheerful, and obliging fellows-lip, but he persistently overraces and proclaims his personal ability. In this respect the Americans J are blind to the aid conferred on them J through excessive protection; they i ara blind to the responsive character jot' the natural resources of their counI try; they are blind to the ever-in-creasing population, demanding ini creased supplies; and they are blind i to the fact that they are using, free of ; charge, most of the world's industrial ! inventions, "'which cost hundreds of I years of human effort, and millions of capital to produce, now daily used by J them without a penny cost, or at least ' the dignity of consideration. The 1 above are only a few; of the economic I conditions existing in the United • States .which further the object cf ! ability, but which, for his own glorij fication, the average-minded Ameri- ' can assigns the total as solely the j product of his own ability."