The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-01
VuIgarity in High Life.

If the full history of the recent rail
way excursions in the Northwest should
even be written some extraordinary in
cidents would have to be disclosed to
an astonished world. Afew odd things
have already been published. We hear
of foreigners in good social position
begging for invitations to a free jour-
ney and entertainment, and behaving
with such rudeness to their hosts and
ther fellow-guests as to be a nuisance
to the whole party. We hear of some
men whose conduct was so bad that
they were expelled from the train. We
hear of unparalleled liberties taken
with the purse and credit of the enter
tainers, who were obliged on several
occasions to interfere for the purpose
of keeping the guests within bounds.
Altogether, the noble and a~ristocratic
visitors seem to have regarded the yell
lowstone and Northern Pacific excur-
sions as public assemblies out of which
they were to get all they could. The
smartest man was he who snatched first
at whatever he wanted. As for the
mutual respect and courtesy which are
supposed to prevail between the master
of the feast and his company, of these
it is hard to find any trace.
The worst offenders appear to have
been English gentlemen. We use the
word gentleman. of course in the con
ventional sense, to indicate the posi-
ton which these persons are supposed
to hold In their W country. 1t might
| surprise us to observe such utpardona.
| BILE breaches of decorum on the part of
men who are never done complaining
of the vulgarity of Americans, and
whose newspapers lament the annual
| summer migration of Yankee tourists
as an irruption of barbarians; but
those who have studied the average
| British tourist are we'll aware that he
is one of the most unn1annerly of civil
lied beings. Whether he is a lord or a
bagman, whether he is climbing the Alps
or 'sdoing the States" he excels all the
rest of mankind in the faculty of max.
ing himself disagreeable. He is not
offensive at home; but when he goes
abroad he leaves his good behavior be-
hind him. He puts off conventionality
of manners along with conventionality
of dress. Politeness is q duty which
one assume along with frock coats and
silk hats; with a suit of tweeds comes
the liberty to make ones self comforta'
BILE and do as n pleases.
The origin of this odious hatGt is the
conviction deep-rooted in the breast Of
SO many Englishmen that nothing out.
side of England is of much account
1t is not necessary to be eeremonious in
the States, because the Yankees are
notEnglishmen. 1t is no shame to beg fol
%favors, because this country is not like
England. 1t is no disgrace to abuse
liberal mans hospitality; 'of course
one wouldn't do it at home, but here
YOU know, it is different" Most of thu
offenders probably do not cnre for thu
disapprobation of the people they have
offended; and we dare say that ever
the young men who were put off tn,
cars in the Rocky Mountains regarded
their expulsion only as a piquant West
ern adventure which could not possibl.
hurt their reputation ut home.
Nevertheless there is a considerabl,
section of English society which cher
ishes the idea that q gentleman d
home is also a gentleman abroad aut
which will readthe account from they'll
lard and Hatch excursions with morti
fication and resentment. And there
fore we are glad that some of the news
paper correspondents in speaking Q
the scandals to which we have ~referre'
have not hesitated to mention certain
names.-M. Y. Tribune.