The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-03

nonOf ono tne pocuufa<y re9ponSiotifty they
are Of executors and of administrator, aud
should be taken by men who accept these
trusts. Well, we have had upon the stand
this week man OF wealth and position who
unbiushingly testified that he deposited $50,-
600 OF the funds OF an estate with this man
Fish, oetensibly at per cent. per aanum.
Grant & Ward, transferred from the bank 10
the Golfers of Grant & Ward, allowing this
man therefor an extra . per cent per month,
"a per cent. per annum, and sometimes IS
high IS % per cent. per annum. for his own
individual benefit. Now, no man who needs
argument on this point is worth talking TO-
ALI the argument in the world COULDN'T pen.
citrate cuticle OF conscience SO fabby as
TO require calculation OF the contemplate
conduct of this man. Nothing is more com
mon in the periodicals Of the Gay than jokes
about plumbers and plumbers bills and
plumbers diamonds and all that sort oil
thing. think you will find that all jokes
of that kind have an origin. in fact there
must be something in the course pursued by
the mechanics and trsdesmen in this day
and generation which leads up TO warrants,
and makes universally understood class of
jokes like that. 1t is precisely like the
mother in.law talk. No one will dare say
that the women of the world are transformed
into devils the moment their daughters
marry. That is silly. But what does this
universally accepted and Endorsed joke
about mothers in-law mean? 1t must have
had q basis; it must exist, or ii would fall
fiat. You never hear anything said about q
father-in-law. Nothing about q brother-in.
law is eyer brought out on the stage or
in the press. So say there must be some
thing in the general course pursued by
mechanics and tradesmen which makes this
plumber Joke universally appreciated. Well
now, let Us see. Within o week q row of
houses eight think to all external appear
ances first class brownstone houses fell with
crash. Investigation shows that the build
er has been in the habit of putting up hous-
es all over the city with morter in which
there was no sand, and which to all intents
and purposes was as useless as so much mud.
Just now
PUBLIC INDIGNATION
is boiling over this particular man. This
conduct of his was not confined to this par
ticular row of buildings. He has put mp
houses all over the city, but more especially
in that part known as the East aiee, where
material development during the past ten
years has been something phenomenal and
utterly beyond ordinary comprehension.
Almost ell the houses In that section are
snowy on the outside, tall brownstone, hand.
omely capped, finished inside with hard
wood, cut in fancy shape, the Queen Anne
bad, the drainage insufficient, the ceilings
crack after few months trial, the walls are
so thin that piano playing can be heard from
one end of the block TO the other. In other
words, it is an era of sham. Builders. car.
penteIs, masons, plumbers are no longer
content to do honest work on the plane of
life where they find themselves. They see
the universal tendency toward the geal of
mammon. They recognize the Potentially
of money. They see how the gilded crest
bursts forward in the social van, and they
too, absurd as it may seem, emulate the con.
duct, ape the airs and follow as fast as their
legs can carry themthis great proc sssion to-
ward a common Mecca They live in superb
houses, they drive magnificent horses their
tquipages are really splendid, they cit in the
front seats OF the synagogue. their wives and
daughters have haunting planes and exc site
coioriDg. their diamonds are quoted In the
paYts. Have they tho solid foundation of
common sense. with the delightful permea.
ton born of a love of literature. of = desire
OF self improvement? GA. not at all. Tney
are like the houses they have butt, all for
the outside. nothing solid. nothing substau-
tial. What Is the end? Sooner or later the
end must come to then, as it has to Fish
the banker. as Ii will come TO the false nd
as il is fast appro aching Bui-
densiek the bogus bailder sb )ut whose neck
the halter of the IaR is fast tightening Al
r.,
very taut. It is difficait in talking to
mixed audience, without stepping on soma
body's toes. or traversiDg the whinl, caprice,
pre- JUDGE or pet theory OF this. that or the
other. Nevertheless, If man has an honest
end In view. which he seeks with due regar ID
to the proprieties. it seems to me he need
never hesitate TO ray precisely what he
me ans. l want TO call attention. If ] can,
without hurting the feeling OF any butchsr
or baker or caDdiestick maker. to the fact
that, so ar as New YORK city is 1ncerned
ale iunan nature is pretty much the same
ID ODE |, lece as it Is in another, the possession
of wealth appears To klnole il the breasts OF
common PEOPLE
DFsIRE OF DISPLAY
that spreads a.. over the realm of ostenta.
ton and ,teleIs on hs verge of the ridicu-
lOus 10 he eDttJtai ment of that vast army
of IL ecia ols kDown as the world in general
The hal dtOm.st turnout, judged by the dis
play Of gCid sLd Ell. er upon the harness of
the hCise az Il rhe commentator of the car
rieees. Ia his city belongs to brewer; q
very ice fellow who started in life without
4 doi'ar ~ q hiss rapidly risen the ladder of
wealth, Deglec,fnl, nO~ever, OF his culture
AT d, 10 fact OF everything bat his pocket.
BE 10 ~ ormously rich, and now q desire has
seized him and his family to get into 80
ciety." Well, We have discussed 'sociesy'
before. There Is 70 such thing possible in
q C mopoiian 7 Gee like this as society.
We spiit up iuto dozens OF circles.
There are litsTSry sets Dy the score:
denomination al tefs By the dozen;
fDaBciA sets, JrJfe sional sets and hundisis
OF CoIu.sIlc seis, auc tbeie - absolutely no
one plane upon ~uiCn gather s1y consider
able Dun Der Of people. IOrmif what eau tie
oalleo tie society Of New YORK. So waeu
| hear a II 81. lac my friens, TIE brewer,
talk about settspg iuto society, / iDsts ltiy
lcok al him aud zee hss lie means by so
eiefy. sp0 ind ia be calls society nun
be OF olEer rich ueeBie. not with brains es
1. cielly, not with put bra'ns esps caily, bat
.,ol IL rhO male GlsD az, who show their
hors,s and their carriages; who tax about
their TIcinrss aud their malt houses, who
wsDt tosbow you this that and the Other,
snd to talk of its cost; who have but ooe
idea in lie, and that IS glitter, glitter II
isn't so much the so i1ity and intrinsic
valUe of the diamond IS it Is the glare aad
glitter of the paste We have butchers here
" hes G gcrgeouaness OF -uo4rel q discounts