Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-23
THE GOvERMMGHT wilt PAY
THE BILLS.


TmE GOvERHMEHT WILL PAY
THE DlLG1.
The government will pay all bills
presented for the entertainment Of
the Duke Of veragua and Infants
Eulal;e. OF what benefit, we'd like
to know, TO tho people Of these
United States, is the visit Of these two
people? They are no brighter, no
better looking, and no better than
the average Of humanity. They are
titled descendants Of titles, but that
fact gives them no special qusIi6ca-
tions nor gifts in any direction. The
cIaim Of such people to superiority i :
sham. II turned out into the cold
world, like other people, to sink Or
swim, they'd very probably sink.
That is, if they were left TO climb up
on their merits and not on the
strength Of ancestral lineage that has
nothing to recommend it beyond bo-
gus title also, they wouldn't climb,
perhaps, for the simple reason that
they do not possess climbing quali-
ties. Those who strut on tho
strength Of title instead Of merit are
frauds-nothing more nor less. Amor
ica has no titles, but merit il pre-
sumed to be recognized, no matter
by whom possessed, and for this res
son empty title should rot be toadied
to by the government. There have
been kings who, If they had not been
born kings, would have been in in
sane and idiotic asylums. They were
luuatics and idiots Notwithstanding
the accidents Of birth. No one
should be honored merely on the
strength Of . title, which comes moi
through merit but merit is entitled
to honor, whether titled or untitled
merit. That is, title, in itself, is bogus
spurious and disgusting, and for this
government to toady to it, is still
more disgusting. The Duke of Ve
ragua and the Infanta Eulalie have
done nothing especially for the bene
fit of the world in general nor for thi'
country in particular, and there il
therefore no reason for paying thei
expenses for . high old time. Th'
Duke may be distantly, very distantly
related to old Columbus, but if he i
he is entitled to credit for that. HI
gave Columbus no pointers in regart
to the discovery of America nor di,
he instruct him in the art Of naviga
tion. He is altogether too subse
quent. When one man starts ont +
strut on the strength of the merits Q
another man, he's fraud of the frs
water. Whenever the Duke does a
much for the world as old Christie
pher did, or half as much, or eve
} tithe as much, then it will be tim
! enough to pay some attention to hin
But as he has thus far accomplishe
nothing more meritorious than layin
clam to a relationship with the gres
old navigator, it would have bee
: Just as we'll, and perhaps good de,
better, for this government to hav
, given him an invitation to come owe
| and pay for his own drinks. Th
r government, and the people of th
} country, are getting to toadying a
, together too much to shams, and th'
is what titles are. If a titled ind
vidual attains distinction, which
few do, it is well enough to give the
. credit for the distinction after fir
= subtracting the title, which Is notl
: ing but shoddy and sham at best; b.
J. as long as shoddy and sham and b.
q gus pretensions exist there'll be pleI
S ty of toadies and poodles to crawl
0 the feet of such cloth.