AMERICAN MODESTY.
Wh3e all the Avorld is wondering at America’s invasions, there are Americans across the water who are not by ah\- means sure that America would not do better to conserve its energies and “Morganiso” itself. It was one of those anxious citizens who Wrote to an. American editor complaining that the United States were dropping behind the European nations in literature and art. He must have been staggered by the editorial reply, which was prompt and pointed. “ Our inventions,” wrote the editor. “ are already supplying the world with valuable deirices. Maxim hmwjf is an American. Holland, of submarine boat fame, is an American. Europe has no such inventor as Edison. The telegraph and telephone are American inventions. In short, European manufactories are supplied with, mechanical inventions from this country. Don’t wony about art and literature. We have no time for them yet.”
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Evening Star, Issue 11626, 10 July 1902, Page 1
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144AMERICAN MODESTY. Evening Star, Issue 11626, 10 July 1902, Page 1
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