Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-23
EDWARDS PIERREPONT &C.
The telegraph brings the following

tuallv pettioned Earl Manners, the head OF
the so-called Pierrepont family Ill England,
for permission to use the family crest ON his
carriage, and has availed himself vi the Earls
gracious acqulescence.
This special narration concerning our Min
lister at st. James may be a lie Quite as
likely as not it is. But it might very consist
emily be true. 1t describes Pierrepont in just
such snobbish attitude as We should suppose
would be the most natural to HIM. But Is he
out of place at the British Court Think Of
the mummeries and costuming and STACEY
nonsense that Disraei suffers himself to take
on because it is the custom of the English
peerage and requirement of English pagean-
try to 90 through such solemn masqueradings.
He is thorough man Of the world and an
hghtened litterateur he knows how absurd
q man looks rugged out with hOrse-hair wig
and q lot of misplaced gold-leaf and gew gaws
on and about him. But he goes with the
show with sOlemnity and zeal, never faltering.
Why should not Pierrepont have a crest, even
if he has to borrow it! \ sturGier American
might blazon a big yellow pumpkin or a cod
fish ball, or a dOughnut, rampant, on his coach
panel. But PieTepont represents the knick-
erbockers and why aren't they as good as
the Southdowns or the Ramsbottoms or the
Dukes of Bunghole, We cannot think of any
better place for the aristocrats of America
than in the foreign diplomatic service, Charles
Sumner the chief of the type. He never
ceased to model his manners, his dress, his
speech and the fashion Of his so-called states
manship after his notion of the English arti
Gle. He was a most tremendous snOb. So
was Motley; and he is not any the less a snob
now that his daughters are married into the
English peerage. 1t is all right. The diplo-
matte service itself is mere feeble imitation
of a very meaningless relic of English formal
itv While We are initiating it at all We might
as well go the whole figure We hope Mr..
Pierrepont will get crest, even ii it be moth
down upon an English grindstone, argent and
or and sables, with a streak of fat and a streak
of lean, sinister. We have about as much
use for a Minister at the Court of st. James
as the State of Nevada would have for Sec
rotary of the Navy. All that is required of
Minister is to eat good dinners, attend snobby
weddings and look as much like glorifed
footman as possible. When any trouble
comes, all he has to do is to pack his carpet |
bag and come home. The only good any
American Minister ever did that We ever /
heard of was Schencks teaching the English |
to play poker, and what Washbu1ne did in
Paris by way of lending aid and protection TO !
the Germans. Finding Washbume useful,
Hayes had him brought home. Elsewise our
foreign Ministers are simply ushers. Mad
lme Heavysterne of Boston goes to London
with her Harvard bred son and wishes to go
to Court Edwards Pierrepont, having ac
lme has visiting acquaintance on Beacon
street, proceeds to lay the wires. In due
lime her ladyship and son are presented
This establishes her and him in the seventh
heaven of snobdom, and the most sacred func-
ion of the Minister'S office is accomplished.
This character of accommodations going on it's
egular round, the Minister is fed upon the
,est of viands and treated to the choicest
vines, and his beloved country is exalted and
endered respectable There is no harm in all
his. 1t is only ridiculous 1t comes of the
Whole business being sham, or an imitation
which is the same thing. 1t is quite as I'M
merican as our imitation of old English uni
ersity life and education. They have the
est of us in England because they are dis {
1ally and stupidity in earnest in all this bust {
ess. We do not believe in ourselves while l
e are doing these things. We feel that our
eighbors are laughing at us and that we are c
ubjecting ourselves to John Bulls criticism. I
t has always seemed to us that Grant could '
se right through all this preposterous non 6
,nse, and that he valued it at its true worth. y
hats how he happened to send Pierre f
ont to England and Ned Beale to Austria h
S We say, Englishmen, sober sided hard =
eaded John Bulls, are religiously in earnest :,
zee. Sir Edward Thornton is as plain man st
Thurman. He has the stride and general Il
ok of sturdy carpenter. His clerks and .
wants look like Pierrepont- hair is e.
ligiously parted in the middle and whose n
it and address are as good an imitation of II
at of respectable London haberdasher as -
lie will find off the provincial stage. We do .,
It know what Earl Manners's crest is but T