The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-30

svmnathv. This is an experienc
sS hich has been made thousanl
tines, and which may be mad
again any day. And it may b.
Carried beyond the range OF CONVEX
Sstion It may be extended to pleas
Tres reereations, eating and drink
70 and soon. In general the pleas
res eating and drinking, Of the
Enriish people, when you get below
hat MI. Lowe would call the class
IF gentlemen, are to one of thai
class unpalatable and impossible
In France there is no incOmpati
hiIitv. In all respects France is the
country where the people, as dis.
finguished from the wealthy, refined
class, live what we call a humane
1ife-the life of civilized man. That
we have a splendid aristecracy ali
the world is agreed. But the mid
die and lower classes, are after all,
the bulk Of the nation. Let US see
how the civilization of these classes
aDpears to a Frenchman. To such
an observer our middle class divides
itself into serious portion and q
gay and rowdy portion. With the
cav and rowdy portion we need not
much concern ourselves; we can
fcure it to ourselves sufficiently If
we conceive it as the source OF that
war song produced in these recent
DAYS of excitement:
We don't want to fight. but byljingo if
We've got the ships, we've got the men,
and we've got the money, too.
We may Judge of the standard of
its life and the needs Of its nature
bv the modern English theatre, per-
hans the most contemplate in
Europe. But the real strength of
fbe middle class is in its serious por-
fion. A correspondent Of the Paris
steele has been attending some of
The Moody and Sankey meetings,
and remarks that to understand the
success of these individuals one
mnst be familiar with English
manners: one must know the mind
deadening influence of a narrow
Biblecism, the want Of elasticity
and the chronic ennui which
characteriZes this class Itself
netrifed in a narrow professionalism
and in a perpetual reading of thel
Bible" Arnold continues: "This
IS the picture of q class who entered
The prison Of PuritaniSm, and has
had the key turned upon its spirit
for 200 years. After the middle class
our correspondent turns his atten-
ton to cur lower class. He says:
Il consider the multitudeS to be ab-
solutely devoid, not only Of political
principles, but even of the most
Simple notions Of good and evil.
Certainly it does not appeal, this
mob, to the principles Of 80. it does
not insist on the rights Of man.
What it wants is beer, gin and fun"
This is a description of what Mr..
Bright would call the reSiduum, only
our author seems to think the resi-
dunn very large body. How is it,
We must now ask. that having a
splendid ariStOcracy, we are yet so |
little ciYilized2 1t seems as if wei
could not avoid concluding that just
as France owes her fearful troubles
20 other things and her civiliZedneSs
to equality, so we owe Our immunity
from fearful troubles, and our I'M
civilizedness to inequality. In Scot
land, where the landed aristocracy
fills the scene still more, the people
are less weIl-bred, less careful in
their personal habits, and less REIN
ed. Let anyone who doubts it 90,
after issuing from the aristocratic |
solitudeS which possess Loeb |
LemOnd, and observe the shop
keepers and the middle class in
DUmbarton, Greenock, Gourock and
the places along the mouth of the
Clyde, and for the poorest class, who
that has seen it, can ever forget
the hardly human horror, the G9jec-
ton and the U7scSUiLi2ed71eSs of GIGS-
gO1C. What strange religion then
is our religion Of inequality. The
SplendOr Of station, wealth, show
and luxury Of our aristoCracy is
what the other classes worship, and /
this is not an eleTating admiration.
So that when Mr.. Gladstone invites
US to call Our love Of inequality the
complement of the love Of freedom.
or its negative pole, or the shadow j
which the love of freedom casts. or
the reverberatiOns of its voice in
the halls of the constitution, we {
must surely answer that all thisi;
eloqUence is not the least
to explain so simple a Il
matter. Our love Of inequality is {
really the vulgarity within us, and
the brutality, admiring and wor-
Shipping the splendid materiality. Il
Certainly equality will never of it. t
self give us a perfect civilization, t
but with such Inequality as ours. a
perfect civilization is impossible. 7
e correspondent writing from \
London thus deseants on certain s
features of that metropolis: "And s
first let me introduce you to the de- q
ectable Wells and Radcliffe streets. $
Every house is grog-shop, every t
nan is devotee Of vice, every wo- y
nan is-no matter what, poor souls. a
hey die young. It was a perfect G
arrival of debauchery. InIli
he rear of most of these drinking n
lens was a saloon where painted S,