Excerpt from America at Work But there is a lot of human nature in both the British and American people. Praise is accepted as simple justice; criticism is looked upon as an impertinence. In subsequent pages there will be found chapters dealing with American boot-making, and with the state of Chicago. When the chapter on boot-making appeared in The Yorkshire Post, the American newspapers said: Here is a sensible man with his wits awake, and who knows what he is writing about. The English boot manufacturers were indignant at my having said they were tod dling at the tail of American manufacturers, and they sneered at American foot-wear as rather less durable than brown paper. I wrote on Chicago. Oh! Exclaimed the Briton, I liked that article, showing what a sink of iniquity the place is. Men, indeed, who knew Chicago better than I pretend to do wrote me saying my pen was far too mild. The Chicago newspapers, however, poured verbal vitriol over me as one more of those hide-bound Britishers who could see no good in any country but their own! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.