The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-30
stead Malignant and Ignorant

;usr S sisS h+Yiaof OF the Chronicle: | have
5 5ust tesd advance sheets of William T
STEAD : forthcoming hook, 'Satans invis-
Inle Wortd. or. Despairing Democracy
. ne EVIDENT purpose of the book Is 10 prove
suat republican government is a failure
ana interentiaily, that the American re-
PubHc must inevitably drift into monarch
ism. Ensishmen have been writing that
sort or philosophy ever since th.. SURRENDER.
OF the British forces at Yorktown. iib wears
ago. but the American republic continue
10 grow and prosper with unprecedented
acSfirfatioh- Despite this, Mr.. St.ad i'm
MS latest publication displays a more NAL
iEnant spirit against everything republican,
ana denser ignorance of everything
American than any of his predecessors II,
the role OF commentators and prtniasts con
point.
Mr. Stead bases his arguments on the
assumption that New York is not merely
the most typical and best-knewn American
city ~ IS the only window through which
me oid World peeps into the New And
the English sense OF the word there is no
longer any struggle in the city OF New
foTk The ahiest and most hopeful Amer
leans nave given IL up as a bad lob
II New York be a typical American city
an0 democracy there be given up as a bad
JOB, then 1t fellows that all or which New
democracy.
Right there Is the fatal weakness of Mr..
stead eHort TO prop up decaying men,
archy by impeaching the efficacy and sta
OF MS argument Is false, the superssruetnre
necessarily crumbles To the ground.
New York Corrupt Because European
The government OF New York city has
been VIGOROUSLY rotten. except during oc-
sasiona spasms of reform, No well-in-
formed American disputes tha. PROPOSE
ton. On the contrary, American ceuer-
ally acknowledge that the people OF the
metropolis as whole have proven their
utter unfitness for self-guyeramAaf RlIt
{stl AfNzay
lean city all Americans deny ernphatieaiiy.
far from being. tho most typical American
city, II Is I'm fac. the only un-Amertean
city on the continent OF North America
II is distinctively European city social
ly, financially. commercially and political
Y. EXCEPT IN its form Of government. 1rbe
New York city s are '''qsnlisn's foreisn bora 9i
or Or OF, OF foreis1.barn ore, s parentage II IS
tanning such a preiominancc OF aliens Its
population being so largely Eufopean tac
majority OF its newspapers panasr 20 the
tastes OF their constituents by publ safug
European news, 10 the exclusion OF amer
lean news of equal importance. The moral
ard intellectual status % those consts,a
ents = exemplsficd In the yellow Journalism
of New York u species OF iewd sensation
al!sm that ffourishas in no other American
city.
The Jaiis and penitentiar.eS and lnzans
asylunls aud poorhouses Of New yorx are
crowded with inmates OF European birth
The criminal calendar OF the city IS nor.
Tolumiuous than that OF the combined
states OF Ohio. Indiana, Michigan Mime
sofa, Iowa. Nebraska and Kansas, with Il
population seven times greater than the
population OF New York city, hCt princi-
raily American Statistics of the United
States prove t., There Is more distressing
poverty and tllNeracy Of European oTsgin
in the single city OF New York than liz an
the country west of the Aisa.sslppi riyer,
containing i2seg.ng people.
Even society Is Foreign
THE society of New York city apes the
society Of Europe and despGScs eytTy
American innovation II is the only ETY. in
the United States whose society RE- eEnetA flis,
American for the exclusive rsur6,asaa
mold. That is quite natural. for abnormal
wealth Is ce1tered there. and the pos
o7s Of u. being Idle. alsslpated and supcr-
fetal, lack the soiidity Of the average
American. and easily mistake the empty
gauciiness Of royalty for tge subs laiiai
merit of those toslers by hand and BRAN to
and the betterElent cf humanity are due.
Finally. New YORK IL the only city tn
the United States which takes the Euro
pean view OF every question Involving
American homo! and American welfare. IL
has done So habitua!iy from the tine % fhl
Revolution, waeu Il was hotbed o. TeeF-
ism. down TO the present day. Ia opposed
the formation Of a Federal union Ia I4s5.
fought against the adoption ~ the Fed
eTai constitution. synpathizg2 "hn the
British in the war of 1Sl2. aided and abet-
ted the Southern rebellion from fAnsj to isfS,
although .a:tenci on the tributes ~ the
Northern states: originated the draft riots
IN 1868 ani stll faithful so ToEyfsm vto-
Ienfly upDossA the recent intervention OF
the United states In behalf of Ven zBeia.
while every other American community
auded the intervention and halted the ag
grfaslons of Great Britain.
"as an appropriate climax. New York
* the only city IN all TIA. western b. mis-
phere where adulatfon unstinted r. the re-
ward Of every ricn mamma. lost 90 the in-
gt.ncts OF pure motherhood. WHO succeeds
in selling her daughters To titled M3erllnes
of forsi ign lands
"If New York he the most typical Amer
team city God pity America
'rOf course. / speak Of NeT York in the
aggregate. An honorable minority Of it's
inhabitants are now and have ever b1eu
TamnsnnS n Good Example.
And now for the rotten government Of
the American metropolis. Who are sae
rT5iers Of New York city? The szchems Of
Tammany Hail. And what is Tammany
Hale II "a an organization of public
thieves, an overw hesmtng ma 1ar3ty OF
gan<se YnsgnbF are natives or f.urofs.
Worse Sill. me leaders Of them and tne
dominating influence among them are none
products Of genErstion after geneFaslOra ~
oppression. OF poverty. OF sqgEa 4or--fhe
Irish OF the other elements nat make
UP Tanmany Hail, the greater part are
likewise the products Of European oppras-
sion. poverty and s1Qslor---ths Italians
the Poles. the Huns the sgsanlaras and
t3e.r Ike. Tas American mem gsalp IN
Tamrnany Hal Is infaiis z.mai.
Among the hor1ss % immigrants from
Europe there are FeeesssE1Ey many thou
thousands OF others not naturally Grim
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