The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-12-14


the man Of letters whose name appears
daily.
SO the poor man Of letters sighs for
the gold of his neighbor and resolves
that If he ever gets enough Of II he will
never write another line.
So when we aspire we hope to climb
from class to class.
WE LIVE IN CLASSES.
We think in classes: we forget the hui
man. In proportion as O class is a class,
II Is not human. The class idea is the es-
sence Of self--that Is, brutality. The So
cial ideal in which we are willing to sub
ordinate self to the good of others-this
Is the very essence of humanity.
IL this exposition can only burn this
great thought into the minds of the mil
lions who saw its glories and wept
with the rapture of its beauty and har-
mony, it were worth twice 5000, 100000.
Scarcely day passes in our history
but that the cable brings us the news of
o divorce suit or separation between an
American girl whe married titled brute
under the impression she was getting
into society" When will they learn
they are getting out Of society and join
ing a contemplate little mob, the founda-
ton of whose class is the brute part of
mans nature2
The last news we have from the old
world is that the daughter Of man
who rose from the ranks of the poor TO
be many times a millionaire and married
q title has sued for divorce from her
"prince." This prince we are informed,
is a young debauchce, whom no decent
man could allow TO enter his home be-
cause of his sdisreputable habits, and who
bcasted that he would yet take the indie.
pendence out of his American wife.
Well, the American girl who marries a
titled brute deserves no better than she
gets. And get, the pity of iti
But ONE GOOD TITLE.
Let om girls and boys know there is
but one title to nobility-the nobility OF
% great nature. The man who separates
himself from his fellow men by class oI
clique wall is by its limitations SC
much smaller a man. The man who be
lieves the SIN rises and sets for 400 peo
pie and aspires to be one of them has
only 400 people, and very small people
at that. in the world in which he liyei
and reduces himself to stray poodle
whining at the gate and hoping for ad
mission in the dim by and by, wheI
Ward McAllister or some other grea
butler shall smile. This exposition will
teach us here u most important lesson.
This triumphant expression of life b,
the common people is the sure prophec,
of the day soon to dawn when they vii
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 tn
common people, seem to have a practica
monopoly of patriotism. Such a fai
was first supreme expression of ma
tional consciCusne. IS. Society" has n
| national consciousn ess. Society" take
no note Of any of the vulgar affairs o
this dirty earth that; originate and hav
their being outside their "set." Tn
smaller the "set" & le more perfect it i
considered.
There is no room II set for a nation
| and national consci business among sue
people is as unreason able demand as +
suppose them capable of thought.
Vacuity il the ideal aimed at in thei
mental development.
PATRIOTISM OF GREAT MINDS.
The love of country is a large thought
1t cannot dwell in sn lall quarters. No
can it live in a vacuul n. 1t presuppose
company. 1t presupp oses something o
the human-somethin of human broth
erhood and fellowship upon the larges
lines.
Tolove ones country means of neces
sity to love the people who make it love
| able. Society" by i is very cardina
principle is forbidden under penalty o
deepest damnation fro u loving larg
numbers Of peopleoor frC 'm even takinI
note mentally of their eA istence.
Besides "society" is for hidden to low
anything. For lcve is an emotion
/ Worse, it is a passion. And emotion
and passions are extremel Y vulgarl Vic
lent emotion, indeed any movement o
| the soul one degree removed from vacu
ity, is therefore strictly forbidden
Hence the only love society" does no
/ forbid is the love OF aspoodle.
Not only is it impossible for society
to love country because the country con
tains millions of conlmnn people, and be
cause love is vulgar passion, but now
| it made skill further impossible because
the love of country really means the love
of ihumanity-and this is too large 6
thought even for the gTsat buffers Of
"society" who write its guides to con
Eder.
True patrie tism is to love ones coun
try not as against the world-it is tc
love ones country because it is part OF
Gods world, which he has given to man
Every true patriot has heart as big as
the world. He loves his fellow man al
man, and is as, ready to fight mans bat.
ties in other chimes and beneath other
skies, as beneath his own flag or his own
soil. SUCH world embracing emotions
are entirely impossible in vacuum.
THE vAPID SOCIETY" INTELLECT.
Hence any great function which has
as its basal principle the national con-
sciousness is utterly foreign to the genius
Of Society Society" does not even
deign to adjust its single barreled eye
glass to see what tits all about. "Soci-
ETY." simply plays with the poodle and
drinks tea until it is over. Moreover,
such grand exposition could never be
conceived, much less carried to sue
cessful issue without a cooperation,
which means the subordination Of self to
thegood of others. Subordination of self
ls the great unknown in society" $50