The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-08
AN AMERICAN LORD.

Inefe are great number OF links
binding us to the apron of Victoria
and the links are increasing in number
and drawing us tighter along every
year. The existing Gordon Bennett
is one of the biggest Of those links.
Away back fifty years from now
James G. the First established the
''spicy little Herald as it was called
in those days. Little it was, that
fact was mathematical. But it's
''spiciness" was of an uncertain and
varied quality. There were pro.
blematical "dens'' in those days, and
some men, even at that early time,
were suspected of diving into them.
Not certain of this, and being anxious
about the morality of the city. James
Gordon the First set his 'cannie'
wits to work, and set at the same time
watch to see what might be true
and what false in the public suspicious.
Ii he discovered man high up on
change or in church, he did not
like to expose him, and so he listened
to reason in the shape of a ten or
twenty dollar bill--or whether it
would be two or three or five times
that amount it would be difficult at
this distance of time to determine.
But this much is known; the tariff of
it was on sliding scale-some more.
some less. according to the height in
the church, the standing on change.
and the bulk of the aberrator s
family. No one can say that this was
not profitable trade. both morally
and financially. The public morals
were saved from public shock, and
the money part of the Transaction prop
ped the ''spicy little Herald up on
its juvenile legs. The virtuous
founder of it had to go to the ..last
account when his time came some
years ago; but he has left a sprig
behind him that yibrates across the
ocean every year or two, bringing
With him either "airs from heaven or
blasts from hell' wherever he turns
the light of his countenance. The
man is an absentee lord sucking mil
lions-aye, millions Out OF America
to spend them where his heart lies
in Europe. 1t is not the American
money he wants. 1t is the money
that will pass in Europe. What he
has squeezed out of the public here
and his hire from the bondlords and
bankers he has put into our national
bonds and thus adds to the golden
tribute he floats acress from us every
year.
And so when the steamer Laurent
lands at New York the other day it
throws himself and his sister and his
six servants and his .23 parcels of
luggage--for he travels like lord
on the Jersey wharf. Then this hap
pens in relation to the Custom House:
The usual blanks that had been
filed up and sworn to, stating that
the packages contained nothing duti-
able. but the officers felt obliged to
make an examination, and the SER
wants remained to unfasted the pack
ages one by one"
Then this is added:
There were innumerable trunks.
travelling bags, and traps, heaps of
rugs, hat boxes. bundles of canes,
umbrellas. rifles, and shotgun cases,
dressing-boNes and eases and one case
of pistols, which the officer eyed
critically but did not open. In adj
dition. there were large number of
tightly fastened cases containing
various sporting articles. evidently
new purchases, none of which were
opened
None of which were opened. -
So you see the officers were ..obliged
to make the examination, but did
not make it after all. On one of the
packages was this classic Legend
whip manufacturers by appoint
ment TO her Majesty the Queen.
II. r. II. the Prince of Wales III. r. III.
the Duke of Edinburg. H. r. H. the
Duke of Connought, H. r. H. the
Duke of Cambridge
And this further legend stamped on
a plated collar round the neck of a
dog:
;'did ID. the property of James Gordon Ben
Taking care that, if nobody else
Titles" him, he'll title himself.
Then follows the new life" that
will spring up into Newport under
the returning light of his eountenance
and the momentous fact that his
polo horses are there already, and the
national fact additional that his sister
has hopes of marrying a.real .'live
lord So let as all pluck up courage!
Hean's =. spr0ut of rapid growth.
The black-mailing pimp Of yesterday