Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1892-12-06

know, so they must be forgiven.
A golden stable for the emperor's
horse in old Rome is not whit more
foolish than gold mounted railway cars
for American citizens to travel in in
1899. The only thing gold mounted cars
can do is to make vulgar display of
wealth which the owner has not sense
enough to put to wiser use. Perhaps
we shall have golden coal scuttles and
ash bins next, likewise golden cuspidors
and wash basins.
1t was the saturnine Dean Swift who
said that the Almighty showed his esti-
mate of wealth by the people he gave it
to. The barbaric degradation of the
beautiful and precious metal gold by
those who do not know how to use it is
enough to convince one that Dean Swift
spoke the truth. The person who has
great wealth is bound by that very
fact to use all above his personal ex-
penses for the good of those less for
buhdUc. UNIV POI no. iiDi diicSs pCduJi-
full landscapes, scientific investigation,
model homes for poor people, the con-
quering and retaining of waste lands,
providing homes for millions, the build
ing Of homes for working people in the
country and furnishing them rapid
transit to their city factories-here are
magnificent openings for the investment
of wealth, and the new rich man goes
and spends his money on the golden
cuspidor and golden coal scuttle plan.
He could show it off in less vulgar
way if he would simply have it melted
into large lump, and have a man hired
to carry it along behind him wherever
he went.
When plump, pretty Widow Hamers-
ley, of New York, married the repro
bate Duke of Marlborough she poured
out old Hamersley's American dollars
like water in the work of identifying
the dukes ancestral seat, Blenheim
house. 1t was as dilapidated as the
buildings Of an abandoned New Eng
land farm, glass out, hinges off, locks
broken and door stones fallen in. At an
enormous expense Widow Hamersley
that was fixed up the old place and made
1t splendid as the resider CO of an Ameri-
can oil or sugar prince. Then she rightly
thought she had earned her title of
duchess. But now the dissipated duke
up and dies, and the duchess becomes
only dowager duchess, and according
to English law has to give up all
her splendor and go off and live
in little ''dower house" on the corner
of the Marlborough estates somewhere.
A smiling young gentleman, by name
Charles Richard John Churchill, by title
Marquis of Blandford, son Of the Duke
Of Marlborough's first wife, who got a
divorce from him because he was so bad,
steps serenely into all the magnifcence
paid for by the Hamersley dollars, with
no more thought for the plump little
woman who paid the dollars than if she
were milkmaid on one Of the Marl-
borough farms. What fine thing it is
for an American woman to marry Eu-
ropean title and have the privilege Of
Smelling out her honest Yankee dollars
to mend the holes made in entailed es-
tates by the dissipation and debauchery
of the man who wears the titlel How
noble European nobility is!
Years Of valuable time are wasted in
the lifetime Of every individual by the
aunt for ideal people. There are none,
except the people who are dead. The
Ideal living persons exist only in the
imagination Of the enthusiast who looks
tor them. He may at length give up
The search in despair and settle down to
the belief that all the world is mean,
hard, selfish and monstrous, and he will
become soured, imbittered, suspicious
old crank, very unpleasant to live with.
Or he may give up caring whether there
are any ideal people or not and harden
into successful money maker who en-
Joys nothing more than getting the bet
ter Of some one less shrewd than him
self.
Yet there is sure way to produce
ideal people-those who are perfectly
lind, truthful, generous, good natured
Il just, likewise neat and pleasant
4annered. There is a time in the life
Of everybody, even the toughest old
hunks, when to somebody he is the ideal.
At that time somebody, whether moth
er, child, sweetheart or friend, believes
him to be the one piece of perfection
sought for. If now we snatch at this
and thereafter be through all
the years of our lives exactly what these
adoring ones believe us to be before
they find us out, then in due time the
earth will be populated with genuine
IDEAL people.