The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
IT is NEW DANGER.
LESSON ,M THE GOULD-CAS.
TELNlNE NUPTIALS.
PlutOcracy Means to Establish 6
Monarchy on the Ruins of
the Republic.
MENACE TO LIBERTY AND POP
ULAR GOVERNMENT.

A wedding occurred in New York
the other day. the account OF which
filed the daily papers. Great scare
headlines announced it, pictures OF
bonnets, dresses and faces illustrated
it. Congress and it's adjournment
were forgotten; business was suspend
ed and a nation of jays held their
breath until the ceremony was over.
Who were the high contracting par
ties, whose wedding could thus bring
everything to a standstill in repub-
lie? 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 vic
tins, buys title and pays $l5,0O0,0O0
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 am
bftion. just as her father sold his
soul for dollars, so she, with barter in
her blood, sells herself for title.
The most sickening phase of this
un-American affair, is the trucking,
servile attitude of the great dailies, in
devoting columns Of space to the mi
nutest details of this nauseating
event, Had there been any exhibi-
tion of patriotic feeling, the press
would have remained silent; but be-
cause bag of gold and title of no
bility were to be joined in "holy CT
wedlock," these cringing dailies ap
plaud.
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
success, and the heiress returned te
New Ys4K. The Count de Castellane,
with an eye single to her millions, fol
lowed her home, and being sport
like her brother George, they became
chums and he secured the consent
which won him the prize.
The TRANSACTION was as deliberate
and successfully carried out as any
which have rendered infamous, the
| cruel father. There is little to be
said for the worthiness of either par
ty. The brides only distinction il
the fact that she is the daughter ol
the man who earned infamy by pre-
cipitating Black Friday, which caused
the greatest panic this country evel
knew. His life. in fact, was spent ir
bringing misfortune on others. Brok
en- homes, shattered fortunes and sui
| cides mark his entire path. If there
is such a place as hell and one corner
in it is hotter than another, then we
| tured by the wailing and gnashing ol
teeth of the lambs he fleeced and
sent to perdition. His pathway on
earth was watered with the tears OF
widows and orphans. Mechanics
! merchants and farmers were alike de-
! voured by this insatiate monster
making a dismal contrast to the $67,.
600, 900, his cruel grasp wrung from
them. To avoid taxation and rob the
state, these greedy ghouls change
their residence to New Jersey, and es.
cape the income tax by tran sferring
| Annals share of the paternal plundel
to France, through the pockets of d
spendthrift count.
The other party to this nefarious
trade, is a titled nonentity, devoting
his time to fortune hunting, seeking
his prize as a hunter does his game
The great dailies searched frantically
| for his redeeming virtues, but in vain
and were finally forced to applaud
hirn for what he had not done: nc
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 atten'
tions. But he is the son of his father
and the title went with the transfer
and because Of this, a nation stands
| breathlesS to see this adventurer cap
| ture his prize and return with his
| booty to France. There the pair make
their permanent residence, she re-
| ncuncing the land which gave hel
| birth and fortune. Brought up a
Presbyterian, she takes up the church
| of her hus band, abandoning her own
| faith.
This wedding in itself amounts tt
nothing, but for the fact that it is ar
evidence of what is taking place al
over the country. It shows trenC
that is becoming danger and men.
ace to our republican principles ano
our liberty. l refer to the feverisf
anxiety of American plutocrats tt
marry titled foreigners. This craze i.
Speeding with frightful rapidity an6
while it magnifies the value of mon
archy, it equally depreciates and be
Titles the spirit of republicanism
and entails upon our producers the
additional burden of supporting {
titled aristocracy abroad. as we'll as {
Goldfish aristocracy at 'home. For {
smaller offense than this, our fore
fathers precipitated revolution re
fusing to pay tax to monarchy il
EnXland; but now we shamelessly per
nit drain Of dollars to flow continu
ously into the pockets of a pauper no
bility.
The majority of these titled jacka-
napes are bankrupts in fortune, profit
gates, with all the vices and none O.
the virtues of the ancient nobility
| The intermarriage of throne will
throne and title with title has viii
ated this blue blood till tits littl'