The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-02-11
.'ARIaToCRACY II AMERICA .


the light of business and weigh
measure and value according to
real life. And all this IFS to what
| il abstract and concrete, subiec-
rive and objective, the inner and
the outer life and the comtina-
ton of both.
/ Aristocracv is a very well
known and understood In Amer
lea. As The Richmond Times sug-
gests, it is thing of trade and
commerce, as well as of social
/ and domestic life. And we have
taken specimens of it, tested it,
investigated it, "sized" it and
classified it, and get it in hand
perfectly and for all it is worth.
The old European notion of
the divine right of Kings and
hereditary nobility is to us a
thing very off, d myth belonging
20 another world. Between us
and it, there is a great gulf fixed.
We are in a new order of things.
The DRAGONS teeth or .eds of
heroes that have been sown in
this new world, though tares
were mixed with them, were yet
sown in new ground and fed up
on fresh al. an6 the rearing has
been in natures clear light. The
divine infants were not sucked
by a wolf, but by the very genius
of life and vigor OF freedom and
equal rights.
The essence of American man.
hood Is the ma, urity OF the hui
man race. And all the elements
of all the nations of the earth
nave met and been compounded
IN our citizenship. Briton, Ang-
io-Saxon, Dane and Norman
made up the English. And on
that basis all people have helped
TO build up the American. This
new being, from his elevation,
Jews the "motely route" of the
nations of the es.rth, aud with |
cold, practical Judgment, by the /
highest standard of measure and
manhood, considers the aristoc-
racies of the old world. The |
ilaunts of heroes and demigods
and great battlefelds and
achievements of Greeks and |
Romans are to us things almost
Of the nursery. Were not the
great Peloponesion wars waged
IN a little place we hear OF as
Greece, and did not a kingdom
OF Italy and city on the coast
of Africa make the Carthegian
wars? They split much blood
and found good historians to
teach their lessons. But one OF
our war steamers with a few
brigades and improved guns
could have cleaned out both in
six months. And we have our
Hercules and Ajaxes and society
and Venuses with
fathers tfa' could
INT the mythical and historic to
shame. And what are all the
great doings of all the past to
!, he gigantic achievements Of men
N our day i'll every department
Il science ard n, ard mechanics!
Indeed, all the ideas of old Eu-
rope and Asia are to US, in the
lighf of our civiliZat ton, but cur
'ous studies, and SO are their dy-
and patricians and nobil-
tiles and privileged classes.
Heroisn, the source of aristoc-
iacy, is here taught every w here.
1t is the keynote of American
life. Not only our firemen and
and policemen, but
hundreds of plain men in CON-
non offices live IN an atmosphere /
of courage and devotion-carry-
ing their lives in their hands.
R Responsibility makes character;
and character is the soul of aris-
tocracy. Every struggle and ac-
tive competitions ends in the sur
vival of the fittest. And the fit
test is the aristocrat. The ele-
ments of manhood insure q liv-
ing perpetuity, and the outcome
of our social machinery is the
highest naturala ristocracy. The
mean effort at social classes and
elite is three-fourths of the time
5, wretehed burlesuue and Darafie I