The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-03-08
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Keep Him Out


"What noise is thnt!" said judge disturbed
in the hearing Of case. ats man, my
lord" was the answer of the doorkeeper.-
'Whnt does he want1'' "He wants to get in,
my lord.' "Well, keep him out!"
The audience is comfortable seated; the
case IS gong forward; to make room for the
newcomer, some must shift their seats, and
perhaps be jostled about little; so they are
all perfectly satisfied with the judges dictum
OF keep him out"
You have yourself been in an omnibus when
stout passenger has presented himself to the
conductor, ,1snd petioned for place You are
all saugiy seated-why should you be dis.
turbed sThe seats are full!" "Keep him
out!" Batthe intruder is in, he presses for
ward TO the inner corner, perhaps treading on
some testy gentleman's toes. How you hate
that new. conner, until you get fairly "shook
down" and settled again in your places
keep hiai out" cry the company, and
strange to say, the loudest yociferator Of the
whole, is the very passenger who last came
in lie IN his turn becomes conservative after
having fairly got place inside.
1t is the same through life. There is
knocking from time to time at the door of the
constitutions. "What's that noise Z" ask the
men in power. "It's lot of men, my lords
and gentlemen" "What do they want p
"They want TO come in." "Well, keep them
out" And those who are comfortably seated
within the pale, re echo the cry of"Keep them
out. why should they be disturbed in their
seats, and niade uncomfortable n
But somehow, by dint of loud knocking, the
men, or rush of them, at length do contrive
TO get in; and after sundry shovings and lost
lings, they get seated, and begin to feel COM
Portable, when there is another knocking loud
ef than before. Would you believe it 7 the last
accommodated are row the most earger Of all
to keep the door closed against the new cem-
ers; and keep them out!" is their vociferous
cry.
Here is a batch of learned men debating the
good of their order. They are considering
how their profession may be advanced. What
is the gist of their decisions 1.-THE enactment
Of laws against all intruders upon their COM
fort and quiet. They make their calling a
snug monopoly, and contrive matters SO that
as few as possible are admitted TO share the
good things of their class. "Keep them out ="
is the cry of all the learned professions.
keep them out' cry the barristers, when
| the attorneys claim to be admitted TO plead
| before certain courts. "Keep them out!'' cry
| the attorneys. when ordinary illegal men claim
| TO argue a case before the county court
| "keep her out" cry both barristers and at
torneys, when Mrs. Cobbett claims to be heard
in her imprisoned husbands cause. "What!
woman plead in the courts If such a thing
be allowed, who knows where such license is
to end 2" And she is kept out accordingly.
| "keep them outn' cry the apothecaries
when surgeon from beyond the Tweed OF
the Irish Chapnel claims TO prescribe and dis
pense medicine to English subjects. "keep
them outn' cry the doctors, when the Homo.
| pathst offer the public their millionth-grait
doses. "keep them out' cry physicians
and surgeons and apothecaries of ali ranks
when it is pa4sposei to throw open the profes
sion to the female sex.
| But you fad the same cry among the work
| ing classes OF every grade. Mechanics anC
| tradesmen insist ON all applicants for ad,nis
sion 10 their calling serving long apprentice
| ships. Ii the apprentceships ale not sery ed
then "keep them out!" is the word. Shout
| der to shoulder they exclude the applicants
| for leave TO toll. "knobslicks' are pelted.-
They must join the union-must be free o
the craft-must conform to the rules-sub
scribe to the isads-pay the footings, and sc
on; otherwise, they are kept out with ven
| geance,
In the circles Of fashion the same cry is fre
quent. new man appears in society,"
"Who is he 2" "Only So-and so!" He is ,
retired grocer, Or as Cobbett called Sudier, q,
linen draper" and the exclusive class i'm
tnediately club together for the purpose O
"Keeping him out" He is "cut." Even tn,
new man of high-sOunding title is accounted a
nothing among the old families who boast o
| their "blue blood" Wealth goes great way
but still that does not compensate for The ac
cident of birth and connexions among thes,
| classes.
Every class has its own standard. Th,
money classes have theirs too. Even trades
men and their wives go in sets, and there il
| always some class outside their own set whicl
they contrive to "keep cut.' The aristocrat
ic contagion thus extends from the highest I,
the verge of the lowest class of society in Eng
land. is not monopoly the rule among us
whenever we can find an opportunity of estab
lishingit? Monopoly or exclusivism in art, i
theology, in trade, in literature, in sociology
Look at the forty Royal Academicians Sc,
ting their backs up against every new-come
in art, and combining with one accord I
"Keep him out" That is the monopoly c
art; and people at large call it a humbug
but they are not more tolerant or wise he
their own craft comes 10 be deult WITH
Each in his turn is found ready to combin
with somebody else, to keep out'' all intruder
| on their special preserves. The "Flamn
Iinman," in Lavengro, pummels and puts t
fight the poor tinker who intrudes upon hi
beat: the coasters combine to keep out fresh
men from theirs; English navies band tog ethe
to drive Irish navies off their contracts; an
Irish tenants pick off, from behind hedge, tn
intruders upon their holdings. Even th
searches OF the sewers maintain kind of mt
nopoly oftheir unholy calling, and will recog
nize no man as u brother who has not been d,
Iy initiated in the mysteries of the search.-
The sewer-searcher is as exclusive in his VIII
as the leader of fashion at Almacks. "Kee
him out' is, in short, the watchword Of a
classes, of all ranks, Of all callings, of a
crafts, OF all interests. We used TO keep oui
the foreign cornsgrower, bur, though he ma
) now come in, there is exclnslyeness and m,
, Hopoly intea III lusand other forms, which u
: legislation can ever touch.
common gfape shoi, weighing about half
pound, was found in mans skull which Wa