People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-03-28
1T Is A NEW DANGER.
LESSON FROM THE GOULD.
CASTLLANE NUPTIALS.
Plutacracy Means to Establish = Mon
archy on the Ruins OF the Republic
Menace to Liberty and Popular Gov
eminent


headlines announced it, pictures Of
bonnets. dresses and faces illustrated
1t. Congress and its adjournment
were forgotten: business was sus-
pended and a nation of jays held their
breath until the ceremony was over.
Who were the high contracting
parties, whose wedding could thus
bring everything to a standstill in a
republic? A profligate foreign count
and the giddy daughter of a railroad
wrecker. Anna, daughter of the de-
ceased Wall street gambler, Jay Gould,
Doodle heiress with her blood
stained money, coined out of the hearts
and lives of her fathers victims, buys
a title and pays s15,0OO,0OO for the
privilege of being called Countess de
Castellane; yea, she gives also her
life, her flag, and her country, that she
may crafty this ignoble ambition.
Just as her father sold his soul for
dollars, so she, with barter in her
blood, sells herself for a title.
The most sickening phase Of this
un-American affair. is the trucking,
seryile attitude of the great dailies, in
deyoting columns of space to the mi
nutest details of this nauseating event.
Had there been any exhibition of
patriotic feeling, the press would have
remained silent; but because bag Of
gold and title Of nobility were to be
Joined in holy ~ wedlock," these
cringing dailies applaud.
In 1893 Anna Gould went to Paris
title hunting, chaperoned by Mrs.
Paran Stevens. Her errand was known
and number Of titled paupers made
bids for her money, but without sue
cess, ana the heiress returned to New
York. The Count de Castellane, with
an eye single to her millions, followed
her home, and being a sport like her
brother George. they became chums
and he secured the consent which
won him the prize.
The transaction was as deliberate,
and as successfully carried out as any
which have rendered infamous, the
cruel father. There is little to be
said for the worthiness of either
party. The brides only distinction
is the fact that she is the daughter of
the man who earned infamy by pre-
cipitating Black Friday, which caused
the greatest panic this country ever
knew. His life, in fact, was spent in
bringing misfortune on others. Broken
homes, shattered fortunes and sui
cides mark his entire path. II there
is such place as hell and one corner
in it is hotter than another, then we
know where TO find Jay Gould, tor
tured by the wailing and crashing OF
teeth Of the lambs" he fieeced and
sent to perdition. His pathway on
earth was watered with the tears of
widows and orphans. Mechanics, mer-
chants and farmers were alike de-
voured by this insatiate monster,
making a dismal contrast to the $67,-
100000, his cruel grasp wrung from
them. To avoid taxation and rob the
state, these greedy ghouls change
their residence to New Jersey, and
escape the income tax by transfer
ring Annals share of the paternal
plumber to France, through the pock-
cts of a spendthrift count.
The other party to this nefarious
trade, is a titled nonentity, devoting
his time to fortune hunting, seeking
his prize as hunter does his game
The great dailies searched frantically
for his redeeming virtues, but in vain
and were finally forced to applaud him
for what he had not done; no scandal
had stained his name, he was not
Known as professional gambler and
had industriously applied himself for
many years to the manly sports"
What an astounding array of virtues!
Strip this dude of his title, and turn
him loose to earn his bread by the
sweat of his brow, and ten to one, he
would turn tramp. Without this title.
thousands of bright American working
girls would spurn his attentions. But
he is the son OF his father and the title
went with the transfer; and because Of
this, nation stands breathless to see
this adventurer capture his prize and
return with his booty to France. There
the pair make their permanent resi-
dence, she renouncing the land which
gave her birth and fortune. Brought
up a Presbyterian. she takes up the
church of her husband, abandoning
her own faith.
This wedding in itself amounts to
nothing. but for the fact that 1t is an
evidence of what is taking place all
over the country. II shows a trend
that is becoming a danger and a men
ace to our republican principles ard
our liberty. | refer to the feyerish
anxiety O. American plutocrats to
marry titled foreigners. This craze
IS spreading with frightful rapidity,
and while it magnifes the value Of
monarchy. it equally depreciates and
belittles the spirit of republicanism,
and entails upon our producers the
additional burden Of supporting
titled aristocracy abroad, as we'll as a
Goldfish aristocracy at home. For a
smaller offense than this, our FORE
fathers precipitated a revolution re-
fusing to pay a tax to monarchy in
England; but now we shamelessly
permit a drain of dollars to flow con-