The labor world., 1898-07-09

another million or so, they will be OF
the elect. Side by side and correctly
booted and cropped to the uttermost
demands of the mode, ride the insensate
son of wealthy statesman and the
daughter of former matchmaker, who
became jeweller and then a money.
lender, and then government bond
holder, and then conveniently died.
Here, with heavy figures and vacuous
faces, are some men and women who are
the modern representatives of the orig.
inal Dutch settlers. They trace their
ancestry back to the truck.patches and
one acre dairies of two centuries ago,
and their course breeding, the peasant
blood of them, still shows in their shape
less hands, fiat feet and ungraceful pose.
They have been made into multi.million-
aires by the appreciation Of Manhattan
island real estate, and rather look down
upon the others. The descendants of
ferry boat captains, of fur traders who
caught and skinned skunks with their
own hands, of mouse-trap inventors, of
stock gambling thieves, of swindling
bankers, of pawnbrokers, of small gro
GERS, of butchers, of bakers, Of hostlers,
of farriers, of grooms, Of valets, Of own
ers of bawdy houses, of whiskey sellers,
of the lowest and least valuable citizens
of century gone swing by in stream,
their harness jingling, the hoofs Of their
blooded beasts shifting the boulevard,
their fine raiment shining in the sun,
and their essences turning the live air
SICK" They do not notice me-. They
would not notice you. We are of the
hoi polloi. We have no money. We are
honest, which is out of fashion. We are
-virtuous, which is slow. We believe in
God, which is foolish. We work for our
livings, which is s'low." r.
But "low" as we are, there is about
this crowd nothing to challenge our ad
miration or enforce our respect. Their Q
are good men and women among it, but
not many. Some there are whose only
crime it is to be. too dull to know any
better. In; the main, however. it is hol-
low, meretricious. useless, un-American.
This is the crowd which sold it's private
yachts to the government at twice their
original cost when the war with Spain
began. This is the crowd which does
not pay taxes upon one.f .fiftieth Of its be-
longings, and has refused to help the
government with a dollar. This is the
crowd which consistently opposed the
war, and now cheers for American gal
lantry, only because it is afraid to, do
otherwise. This is the crowd which re-
CARDS the other seventy. millions Of its
countrymen with i'll disguised contempt.
If Charles Eliot Norton, Of Harvard,
were in New York today, he would be
riding with this gang Of incompetents
and self-sufficient asses. Like Horace
Walpole," he says, II could be proud Of
my country if it were not for my coun.
trymen." These are tho people who
make Europe fat with their dollars be-
cause America is not good enough to
spend them in. These are the people
whose budding daughters are in the
market only for the titled rascals of
syphilitic blood and un savory records in
the divorce courts. The Vanderbilt
Marlborough alliance is sam
pie, no better and no worse than
others. I saw that couple out driv-
ing two days before their wedding.
The girl held the reins. He is five feet
three with his boots on, and weighs 100.
She has in her the rugged muscles and
red blood of her swearing old pirate of Q
grandfather. He has in him muscles
weakened by centuries of dissipation.
and blood made weak and pale by the
excesses of a notoriously corrupt ances.
try. It was sacrifice of virginity and
money for title. 1t always is. The
bloom of the maiden is brushed off
upon the yellow cheek OF the confirmed
roue. The fresh body Of the girl is
clasped by the hairy arms of foreign
Silenus, who has been disgraced by q
thousand amours. His ruined castle is
rebuilt. His ruined relatives are pen.
stoned. His bastards are sent to COL
lege. His starveling mistresses have
rooms reftted and carriages re-bur.
nished. He gives in exchange name
plastered foot deep with the slime of
debauchery, and he forces heart-sick
wife to bear offspring, which show the
scrofulous taint in early childhood.
have every confidence in the Ameri-
can people as a whole. believe that no
people have so grand destiny. I be-
lieve that the o-Saxon of the west:
ern hemisphere will grow and broaden
into the archetype of man alive in the
future centuries. For every Goldfish
aristocrat there are thousand healthy,
sane, honest energetic men and women
I look on these people as excrescences
They are warts. They will be removed