The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-23

give 1t to them half strong enough" are
several Nasons in high standing--not
M[asons who 90 to the temple only when
such occasions offer them opportunities
to air dress suits. One Of the highest in
degree, prominent business man
whose integrity will not allow him to
deny the statement il questioned, said
that "the way one particular clique kept
the dancing floor from beginning to end,
was not simply disgusting but shameful" 7"
Perhaps the certain journal not more
than thousand miles from the palatial
boudoir in which ! write, can afford to
defend the gross breach Of good man.
ners. lit can, II is no one else's bust.
ness. But If It insists upon making an
issue between the snobocracy and the
people, our side shall be--always-with
the people. By the way, since genoa.
ology has been mentioned, I am just
reminded OF some great literary man
can't think of his na'ne-who said that
he always felt like asking, when he saw
any one presuming to place because Of
distinguished ancestry; eyes, your
grandfather was Governor or General
So-and.So, but who the HI are you ?"
OF course do not desire to unneces
sarily wound any ones feelings, and
that some few danced that evening and
stood aside should not be forgotten; and
no one IS necessarily a william because
of little wealth or distinguished grand.
parents. If Sin some circles OF society
it is considered an evidence of bad
breeding for one TO complain of their
entertainment, no matter how badly
they might be bored" (Which is quite
true) it is also quite true and much
more incxcusable that few OF the en-.
tertained should monopolizc the enter.
tainment, regardless OF the rights and
privileges OF all, and to the exclusion Of
the commonest little courtesies that
should exist among guests under one
roof, where The rules that govern polite
society are supposed to be in force. Had
you thought OF that?
Perhaps, sweet reader (by which 1
mean YOU you hardly realize how much
of stir those half dozen lines occa-
stoned. 1t would be useless to attempt
to quote the congratulations l have re-
ceived, but one OF our most prominent
citizens, in speaking of the subject,
grew really eloquent. He was heard to
remark something like this:
"Some towns and communities in this
land OF freedom stagnatc because of a
superabundance of Il certain kind of
'eminently respectable element an ele.
ment that is too respectable to be useful
composed of strutting, pretentious
Turveydrop's, who imagine that they are
models OF elegant department and aris.
tocratic high breeding. Our village is
no exception. 1t has its quota of con.
ceited snobs, who base their imbecile
claims to distinguished consideration
upon what they are pleased to call their
family In other words, they boast of
blue blooded' ancestry, wherefore they
reckon themselves huckleberry above
the ordinary persimmon. They treat
'plebeians' with affected disdain, except
when they want to borrow money upon
their individual notes, goodly number
of them being obliged to borrow money
in order to live within their incomes,
for they are too proud to work and too
law to steal, consequently that genteel
kind of beggary that calls its aims getting
negotiating loans, better fits their birth
and high breeding and better suits their
fastiaious tastes than struggle with the
vulgar herd in the marts of trade for
the means OF subsistence.
"These people are lead quarters trying
to pass for half dollars drones in the
social hive; whited sepulchers full Of
rattling bones; still, if you could buy one
Of them at his real value and dispose OF
him at what he thinks he's worth there
would be larger margin Of profit in the
transaction than Vanderbilt ever realized
or Mulberry Sellars dreamed of!
"Of all the bigoted, narrow-minded
snobs that cumber Gods beautiful foot
stool, these fellows are the most often.
sive, with their upstart pretentions to
superiority based upon assumptions of
family prestige. Hustled out OF the
way OF practical, common-sense people
their insignificance finds refuge in the
obscurity OF what they delight to term
the best society," composed OF 'our set,
q small, Gerry small mutual admiration
clique, the aristocracy Of wealth in.
herited from some worthy tailor, or hon.
est pack-pedler and scions of the blue
blooded,' who trace their pedigree back
to the flunkey of some Duke or Earl of
the effete despotisms VI Europe, who
left his country for his country's good in
the days when many such gentlemen
found the colony of Virginia a safe refuge
from the minions OF the law at home"
II anyone imagines that the gentleman
Is too remarkably plain-spoken it should
also be borne in mind that no names are
mentioned, and that those whom the
shoe does not fit will not have to wear it.
Hillsboro dudes may be divided into