The Caucasian., 1893-12-14
The Peoples W ork
Continued from fir. paks-

aa-c Ex~~'
- tn- Wall s,rv-=t maErla;e vE~o once
male . sf~-ch ,. fulnats-s luuE a. diu-
r,-r AMI saw hss uasz- ia the paper next
morning. eavie- ta~ peculiar glory Il
. the man ot letters who's naris- apI--ars
daily.
+ - the p.9r man q letI-r~ ~ighs for
;ae gold of hi- u+lghhor and resolves
that II he ever gets euun-h uf :: T. VIII
never write another lu--
=, when we asplr- We hope - climb
from class - ClA~~-
UE LIVE N CLASSES.
We think III classes. we forget the hu-
man. Ii proportion a. class Is class
II i not human. The class idea i the -
s-uce II --lf-that J. brutality. The 50
clal ideal IN which We are willing 10 sub
ordinate self to the good ut others-thls
Is the very essence Of humanity.
If tins exposition can only burn this
great thought into the minds Of the mil
lions who saw its glorlcs and wept
with the rapture of lts beauty and har-
mQuy, 1t were worth twice $2U0, 600, 600.
/ Scarcely day passes IN our history
I but that the cable brings rs the news Of
/ a divorce suit or separation between an
/ American gIrl who married a Titled brute
under the impression she was getting
into society" When will they learn
4 they are getting out Of society and JOIN
inga contemplate little mob, the founda-
/ ton Of whose class Is the brute part Of
mans naturet
The last news we have from the old
i.
. who rose from the ranks of the poor TO
be many times a millionaire and married
a title has sued for "A divorce from her
prince" This prince, we are Informed,
Is Young debauchee whom no decent
man could allow To enter hls home be
cause Of his disreputable habits, and who
boasted that he would Yet take the inde-
pendenCe out of his American wife.
Well, the American girl who marries a
titled brute deserves no better than she
gets. And yet, the pity of 1t.
But ONE GOOD TITLE.
Let our girls and boys know there is
but one title 10 nObihty-the nobility of
a great nature The man who separates
himself from his fellow men by class or
clique wall is by its limitations SO
much smaller man. The man who be-
lieves the sun rises and sets for 400 peo-
pie and asplres to be one of them has
only 400 people, and very small people
at that. in the world III which he lives
and reduces himself to stray poodle
whining at the gate and hoping for ad-
mission in the dim by and by, when
Ward McAllister or some other great
|, n
teach US here a most important lesson.
This triumphant expression Of life by
the common people Is the sure prophecy
Of the day soon to dawn when they will
rule supreme over the whole social order
The same reasons make this a certain
: ty which made the absence of society
in attendance and management a for
gone conclusion.
: First-The vulgar rabble. called the
: common people, seem to have a practica
monopoly of patriotism. Such "a fail
was first Il supreme expression of ma
| tional consciousness. Society has nc
nation Il consciousness. Society takes
no note Of any Of the vulgar affairs ot
this dirty earth that originate and have
| their being outside their set" The
smaller the set" the more perfect it il
considered
There is no room III a set for nation
| and national consciousness among sucl
+ people is as unreasonable a demand as t.
suppose them capable of thought.
Nacuity is the ideal aimed at in theil
, mental development.
I PATRIOTISM OF GREAT MINDS
bo l,I-a ,f 1,r.ra ~ II :
l 1t cannot dwell in small quarters. No
| can it live in vacuum. 1t presuppose
company. 1t presupposes something o
. the human-something Of human broth
erhood and fellowship upon the larges
e lines.
To love ones country means of neces
sity to love the people who make it love
:. able. Society by its very cardina
: principle is forbidden under penalty O
deepest damnation from loving larg
: numbers of people or from even taking
e note mentally of their existence.
! Besides society" is forbidden to Low
anything. For love is an emotion
L Worse, it is passion. And emotion
/ and passions are extremely vulgar! Vic
! lent emotion, indeed any movement Q
the soul one degree removed from vacu
Ii ity, is therefore strictly forbidden
V Hence the only love society" does nc
: forbid is the love of a poodle.
Not only is it impossible for society
u to love country because the country cor
tains millions Of common people. and bt
cause love is vulgar passion, but nov
it is made still further impossible becaus
the love of country really means the lov
of humanity--and this is too large
1t thought even for the great buffers {
: society who write its guides to COZ
slider
e True patriotism is to love ones cour
II try not as against the wOrld-it is I
@ love ones country because it is part
Gods world, which he has given to MAJ
Every true patriot has heart as big 6
the world. He loves his fellow man
man, and is as really TO fight mans ba
ties in other climes aud beneath othe
skies, as beneath his own flag or his ow
soil. Such world embracing emotion
are entirely impossible in a vacuum.
THE vAPID SOCIETY INTELLECT.
Hence any great function which hs
= as its basal principle the national col
-, sclOusLeSS IL utterly lOTelSn 10 the genlC
Of society" Society" does not eve
ar deign to adjust its single barreled eye
glass to see what it is all about. Soc
n ETY. simply plays with the poodle an
drinks tea until it is over. Moreove,
a. such a grand exposition could never b
conceived, much less carried to a sue
cessful issue without a cooperation
or which means the subordination Of self t
Of the good of others. Subordination Of SCI
a is the great unknown i'll society" So
ciety' is born. lives. moves has its bein
strictly in and Of the exploitation Of sell
le To subordinate self would annihilat
u society at one full stroke 1t woul
ar destroy clique and class and exhalt hr
h., manity. Hence society" was not in i
And it could not have entered it with