So often we in Europe regard America as consisting of
none but the two or three million well-informed Americans who frequently visit Europe, and we are apt to accept the views of leading Eastern papers such as the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Ledger—the journals most frequently quoted in the British Press— as reflecting American opinion. Till we realize how ab- sorbed in his own affairs is the average American in the Pacific States throughout the Middle West and the South- West, and how very remote Europe seems to him, we shall not arrive at a just appreciation of the difficulties before us. But just because we do appreciate these difficulties, there is no reason for throwing up the sponge. Is not the average British elector very much like his American cousin, very prone to become- absorbed in the parish pump, and not particularly interested in events taking place five or six thousand miles away ? * * * *
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