IDEALISM OF DOLLAR KINGS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12254, 3 June 1914, Page 8

IDEALISM OF DOLLAR KINGS.

April 18. Ludwig Fulda,- Germany's noted tvritor, speaking at- the banquet of tlic American Association of Commerce arid Trade, at the Atlantic Hotel to-night, paid glowing tribute to the "wealthy men or America- for the work they are ; doing to encourage science and art. He declared that the idealism of the so-called American dollar and ; wealthy men greatly surpasses that of j the rich men of any country in the 'world. The Europeans' sneers at the alleged lack of culture of Americans. Dr Fuld a said, were unjust and were! based entirely on utter ignorance of the high intellectuality and idealism of the American people. Dr Fukla, who recently returned from a tour of the United States, said lie •defied any country to show that its men of wealth had given proof of so much idealism or had done so much for the

people and the country in the way of education, philanthrophy, the establish* mentof hospitals, etc., as the rich men of America- had done. Dr Fulda, is: now writing a hook on America, which he calls "the land of unlimited possibilities." The book will soon appeal- under the title of "American Impressions." Dr.. Fa Ida declared that the German conception of the United States as only the laud: of dollar-chasers was wholly erroneous and unjust,. American rich men, he said, were far more idealistic with their wealth than the German princes and capitalists. Americans were setting an example in ideals which the Germans might well follow. A delegation of Americans from Berlin, headed by .T. Wolf, junr., the president -ol : the association, and George S. | Atwood, the secretary, and including Mr Gerard, the American Ambassador: Major. Langhorn, the military attache at the Embassy; Lanier Winslow, secretary to the Ambassador, and others attended the banquet. Among the guests were, representatives of the burgomasters and Senates of the free cities of Hamburg., Bremen and Lnbeck. Mr Wolf, who presided, wa/nert Germany in his speech to cease its attempts bv pressure and by criticism and denunciation to. get the United States to make any further- change in its tariff laws, rr-; a new revision would be certain to ]_>•;. upward and would be less satisfactory to the Germans than the present "rates. He also declared that the Germans would not stand for it if the United States discriminated against German goods as Germany was doing against some American article:-;.