The Alaska Daily Empire

Everybody Loves New York.
(Louisville, Ky., Times.)

James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to the German Empire, exposes his ignorance upon the front page of The New York World as follows:

Bringing the convention to New York will give us a chance to cure the country of its New Yorkphobia. This is a growing and malignant disease, calculated to put New York at a disadvantage with all its sister cities in the Nation. There is no reason for its existence, and New York is its own best cure.

Of course everybody loves New York. Everybody takes a pride in it. "Everybody" is not to be taken literally, of course. The term is used in its accepted sense. There are Hopi Indians who have no sentimental interest in the American metropolis. There are white Americans who, because of insuperable obstacles, don't go to New York. But America thinks almost as well of New York as England thinks of London, and as well as France thinks of Paris.

Mr. Gerard was born in the State of New York. A convention bringing many Americans to New York might be educative to him if he should become acquainted efficiently with the visitors. There are Americans, no doubt, who believe that Wall Street runs from the Bronx to the Battery, and that it is lined on each side with ogres' caves. But that is not majority opinion. America wouldn't, for anything, see New York abolished or diminished.