ENGLISH AND COLONIAL

Evening Star, Issue 12623, 30 September 1905, Page 10

ENGLISH AND COLONIAL

The colonial says the Kngfoflimsn is a mixture of frog and detective; he con.siders lite .mixture unfriendly. The colo-, nial is to Maine undoubtedly; mistakes cxe inexcusable. If he greets the' Englishman ae he would a fellow-cokmial, quite affably and frankly, be will be taken for, and treated like, an inferior serf. To> get on with an Englishman (says a writer in tie 'World') the colonial should insult him; the Englishman will kow-tow* and be extremely civil if the colonial treats him with firm and energetic insolence. /This is a feudal country, and the inhabitants nke to be flouted. The railway companies put ' up notices: "Passengers" must not cross the line"; the notices in parks order you curtly to "keep off the grass." In England insolence and power are pretty nearly synonymous. If. the colonial is sufficiently and convincingly rude, the Englishman will take him for a robber baron or rich foreign middleman, or a Jew banker', for tbe Englishman cannot help his feudalism. He must kow-tow or snub; be is convinced thai frank, fraternal equality is a business ruse of the Americans.