The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-11
SNOBBBRY RAMPANT
Pastor Raboteau's Comments
on the Marlborough
Churchill Wedding.

The Rev. Claude Raboteau was regularly
installed pastor of the Parnly Memorial
Church last Friday evening. He had filled
the pulpit nearly two months and made SUCH
a favorable impression by his aggressiveness
that he was engaged. Already he has brought
back into the church members who had
wandered away. He has injected new life
into the church societies, and the old work
ers believe that they have secured the right
mar this time.
Last night the church was crowded to hear
a preclude to his regular sermon. Among
other interesting things he said:-
ssThe virus of aristocracy has broken out
with violence in America, and an epidemic
of ~snobbery has invaded the world Of society
The Knickerbockers, whose grandparents
were probably peddlers or dealers III rags.
ride about with crests on their carriages.
We. III whose blood still burns the ire OF
patriotism, who still stand by the affairs OF
our sacred institutions, the custodlans or
their treasures, who still keep alive the mem
ory of '76 and '62, are the saddened spectators
of a species of toadyism and snobbefy that
makes every fibre of our souls culver with
Indignation and disgust.
AMERICAN
sIt is none of our business, and yet we can
but deplore the rotten condition of modern
American society when the plain American
gentleman must figure at a discount before
the titled rakes of Europe. 1t is sad enough
to make our grandsires turn in their graves
to see how wantonly the uppertendom or
America tramples our most sacred Ideas
under foot and bow down in servlie worship
before the very powers which our Iore1atners
cave M their life blood to be free from.
2 tsWhen we lose patriotism we lose the most
sacred instinct of our soul, n this disgust
ing snobbery which has invaded New York
and filed our newspapers with the worst OF
balderdash, of sentimental trash, arouses IN
the heart of every true American a hearty,
righteous indignation If our American
heiresses want to sell themselves to the Titled
nonentities, let them do it.
400 VERY STALE.
1.-THE 400 nave become stale, and they
long for new worlds to conquer, and the
Jingle of the ducats is music that will bring
their titled lordlings to their feet. But be-
callse a certain little duke with a large es-
tate and meagre bank account comes over
here to replenish his fortune by buying a
wife with his title, is that any reason Why
the suffering public must have half OF the
newspapers taken up with his daily lie II
the minute details of how he kills his Tunes!
He play be a good man, but see no ten
column account of the doings of other great
men.
He may be a wise man, a learned man.. a
true gentleman, but there are thousands in
the quiet homes of New York that are never
heard of outside of their own little circle.
1.-THE Bishop of Long Island, in ecclesiasti-
cal vestments, came over to New York to re-
hearse the This is ecclesiastical
snobbery of the meanest type. We are max
ing ourselves the laughing stock of Europe
and disgracing our free American institu-
tions by the fawning sycophancy to the titled
class of Europe"