The Wilmingtonian., 1885-07-18
MISPLACED DIATRIBES.

York Times and other metropolitan journals
that all those, almost without an exception,
against whom the Pail laR Gazette is rails
ing its crusade of righteous execraton, are
members of the titled classes or the aristoc-
racy, may be properly contradicted and un.
doubtedy condemned as rash and pre-
Judged assertion.
Taking up the eudgels of defence in dis
elimination Of an aristocracy, will not be
looked upon with favor in Republican
community. 1t should be remembered how
ever, if we wish to Judge dispassionately in
this matter, that our social education is too
ready, at any moment, to blindly condemn
and join in the hue and ciy against the IT,
tied classes of England, that the traditions
or the h.t,~y IF ou iar.' Wv also incline
us too readily to accept the merest assertion
as fact and that we may too readily confuund
legitimate political animadyerSon with
cause for social and religious condemna-
ton.
The New York journals would place the
American people two hurriedly in the posi-
tion of the Red Republicans (the term is
used iu its contemporaueuus value OF the
time of the French revolution) Of ths Reign
of Terror, and would call for wholesale
branding of the titled classes of England as
wholly infamous and rotten to the
core.
Now, this is absurdly ridiculous and as
far away from actual fact as the rash an.
thors Of those articles are from any concep-
tion ofthe responsibility they take upon
themselves in manufacturing false histo-
ry.
1t is not attempted here to defend any
who have done wrong, but to assert unre-
seryedly with equal right as regards knowl-
thors OF the articles referred to- that this sin
procureurism is not necessarily one that
is the peculiar outcrop, or of a belonging of
the titled classes specially.
To affect surprise and indignation at these
revelations is, as was stated in the last issue
ofTnE W,LMINeroNrAN the stupidest Phar-
isasm. The fact is they are no revelations
at all. If the occasion deserve the dignity
} ofthat term it can only be on account of
the remarkable fact, that any Journal in any
J city OF the world even New York or Phia-
delphi, had the courage to point out the
vices of its richer classes. And here is the
:. trne noint. Aezr--.- -, vyri
, 1t is not the titled classes, the aristoeracy
J who are specifically to be condemned and
whom the sequel will disclose, but the plu-
tocracy the rich classes, whether common
ers or aristocrats, just the same as we have
in New York, and where probably if there
we're any journal that had sufficient mettle
to brace itself for the fight, disclosures might
be made of vicious living perhaps not so cx-
tensive as in the larger city, London, but
equally disgusting.
Yitlation in the metropolis of this country
! has not reached the climax that it has IN
London, or not to that extent, most proba-
bly, because we have no Pu Mall Gazette
here to show it up, and that cur largest city
is but fourth the size of London. What
, money will do may be readily conceived, and
it would be more logical for the Times to set
f about its own cnvirons of the "new rich''
f and with new broom sweep clean its own
doorstep, save its horror and execrations as
f moral motor power for flushing the sewers
/ of immortality that infest New York
f City.
The accredited homes of the social evil,
f some of them well knowa to the police are
not referred to for the consideration of the
! New York journalists, but those recherche
, high toned private resorts where the ordina-
3 ry police dare not enter, whose doorways
are locked by an impenetrable barrier of al
| mighty dollars, whose owners have for years
paid heavy tribute that the portals be kept
sacred. It is the most contemplate afIecta.
tion furany New York journalist to affect
ignorance of having heard at least assertions
! of nameless vices and brutishness existing
in the Avenues. Let the community chat
. has not the sin cast the first stone. Plainly
the lesson to us from the text of the London
Gazette, is more tu clean our own Augcan
$ stables than to sit down aud howl in horror
: over the sins of our neighbors.
; If New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Chicago are siulcss we must be satisfied
with the silence of there journalists. We
are glad to believe by implication that those
moral pest holes, the Social Evil and Pro.
cureursm do not exist there, for if it did,
consistency would call for an admission in
, that direction simultaneous with their exc
crations upon London.
The terrible vice now being disclosed in
t the last mentioned city, is a corcomitant Of
, excess of wealth. luxury, etc and is indig.
enOus to such conditions always, not to aris.
tocracy necessarily, but necessarily to pluto.
cracy. However strange the assertion may
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