The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-02
IMPOSSTBLE.

The Register again surprises us by
another plea for Adam, whom the Jour
nal and Courier has declined to ack-
nowledge as Society man. After
reading the Registers latest plea we
are moved to suspect that after all it's
pretensions and its Society Notes, the
Register hasn't really taken the thirty
third degree in New Haven Society,
which is, of course, the top-notch of all
Society. 1t seems to us that if the Reg
lister had taken that degree, and If it
had the place in that Society that we
have, it could not be so false to it's
order, as Ouida would say. 1t would
understand why Adam is impossible,
and it would not persist in urging us
to be bad form.
In its elaborate and mistaken plea for
Adam the Register unwittingly holsters
up our side of this vital matter. 1t
points out that Adam was q farmer
and that he fell We would like to ask
the Register If there is any place in
real Society for a fallen farmer. We
mean a farmer that cannot boast of
ancestors. OF course the son of an
English lord who has become a fallen
farmer, a fallen gambler or fallen
horse-thief can get on in Society by
the power of his ancestral halls or his
ancestors hauls. But fallen farmer
who cannot trace himself back to some
kings or queens favorite is decidedly
out of place in Society, just as fallen
job printer is. Surely the Register
knows that from it's own Society Notes,
even il it does not know it from that
inward note of warning which protects
all the members of the thirty-third de-
gree of Society from undesirable and
detrimental associates Adam had no
lordly ancestors. Good authorities say
that the dirt Of which he was made
was dirty dirt, and not the same SUI
perior dirt of which Society now has the
monopoly. He fell and after that he
had to eat his grub in the sweat of his
face. 1t is all right to have some SYM
pathy with the poor cuss, but as for
crediting him with being fit for place
in such Society as that of New Haven,
well, not much! If they want to recog-
nize him in Bridgeport or Hartford all
right, but he wont go here as long as
the Journal and Courier exists to guard
and protect New Haven Society
The Register intimates that it is lit
to go back on the old man. Well, it
would be il Society didn't demand it,
But Society does demand it, and it will
have to be done. Society can do its
duty by itself and it will Not long ago
one of the most beautiful and shining
male members of New Haven Society
set an example that we proudly hold
up for imitation in the present crisis
His old father happened to be man
who was not in Society. Some of the
sons Society friends. happened to drop
in on him and were chatting with him
in a Society way when the old father
also happened to drop in on him. The
old father tried to make out that he had
speaking acquaintance with his son,
but the son calmly and superbly ignored
him in the interests of Society. What
that Spartan and Society son did to his
old father we who are in Society can
do to the father of us all. If the Reg
lister can't do it it will simply show
that it isn't in Society to the extent that
it has been letting on that it is.
This is the way the matter stands
and the way it will stand unless that
which we do not now look for comes to
pass. Adam will not find favor in New
Haven Society unless the Register can
show that he became worth a hundred
million dollars and had the "Yale
spirit" If it can do that the Journal and
Courier will tumble over itself in it's
eagerness to do him honor and will
never again mention that little scandal
and the rest of the things which, with
our present light, debar us from such
recognition of his standing in Society
as would warrant us in encouraging
the organization in New Haven of a
society of his sons.