The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-21
AR sToURArs IN TRADE.

From Casse!i's saturday Journal
Not so very long ago the line between
the aristocracy and other classes Of the
community was very decidedly drawn
at trade A poor family might Law
claims to gentility, and one or more IF
its members might now and then figure
at. say. a country ball. but a trades
man ; familv-never Now IL Is other
wise. the aristOcracy themselves having
stepped over the dividing line. Lord
Shrewsbury and Talbot. for instance,
who takes precedence Of all other Earls,
unblushingly became a cab proprietor;
Lord Rayleigh" is the inscription that
NAV oe read on the signbosrd of one or
two London dairies. The marquis of
Londonderry is prepared to deliver
coal by the ton. No agents'->uch
are the final words of this nobleman' >
advertisement, put IN just "a any trader
born and bred might put them in. This
decent from aristocratic seclusIon into
the arena of commercial conflict il not
confined to the male portion of our
nobility. Titled ladies under disguised
names carry OR millinery establish
ments and run cafes. Their dainty
fingers. too, are not above manipulate
ing flowers for profit 30 generally,
indeed has the sacred thirst for gold
infected the upper ten, that whereas
they were won't TO be accused Of living
in idleness, they are now accused OF
taking the bread out Of the mouths Of
those who depend entirely upon busI-
ness for their support.
Ear beneath these noble ranks can
be traced a similar descent. Street
music. for instance, used 10 be dis
coursed by the utterly abject and
brolIen-down; now men and women,
warmly clad and well fod, 20 about
with organs. Troupes OF men sing.
rattle the bones. and do a breakdown
In the public thOroughfares % the
tune OF not less than the
better part OF q sovereign day per
man. Two hundred pounds year IN
an assured situation was the salary
that one young man threw up last sum
mer 20 join a niger troupe - the sea
side. and he doesn't regret Il. ~ the
end of the season ne mad more money
than he ever had before and during the
reason he ate better dinners and drank
better wines than he had ever eaten or
drank before Hawking matches, or
faces, or any other trifie in public house
bars used 20 be and still IS a way Of
evading the law against begging In
deed the custom OF singing on the
streets arose out Of the same necessity
for those IN want not 20 iucriminate
themselves. Now you VIII BE- in the
saloon bar % first rate refreshment
house. In comes a top-hatted. we!l-
dressed man with bag. Some success
fuI stock broker. you think. = i be n
the CITY. You fancy you are the victim
OF delusi0a- Here j. this man, as
well dressed as your principal, holding
his open bag before you ana asking you
20 buy a box Of vestas, Well dressed
women are going about from puolie
house 20 public house pursuing similar
ealiings They speak well, too %
these people, bet-ayiuF fair amount
Of education u trEtcsr1rn have any
grounds FOR complaining % The artstOc-
racy trenching on tae-r territory surely :
the poor and needy have grounds q
raaAAaanf4 CON -S.e At-+AA- VI ara .tt~
instruments OF their profession thus
confscated by an apparently superior
class Of course. with such n down
ward trend The poor and needy ar-
driven lower still. and this in q nc1s-
ure is seen u the eve- Increasing char
its bic institutions. relief agencies, soup
kitchens and - forta- and tE> ever IN
cressinZ strain on Tie resources q s2eo
establishments