The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
THE SEDUCTIVE BATH TUB.
Explanation of the Defeat of the
Kansas Populists.


Kansas Populists.
T. A. McNeal In the Topeka Mail.
We have heard a deal of talk since the
late unpleasantness as to the causes of
the defeat but the real cause has not
been told.
The real cause is the affeminating habits
of luxury and plutocratic tastes adopted
and cultivated by the leaders of the Co
horts OF reform. short time before the
election bis home paper called attention to
the fact that Senator Titus, of Harper
county, had put in his home a porcelain
lined, roll rim decorated bath tub.
When the leaders Of The cohorts get to
this point the cause of reform, is on the
toboggan slide which leads to everlasting
destruction. What caused the downfall of
mighty Rome? When was it that she
starred on the downward slide from her
high plain of greatness and world wide
power toward her decay and final de-
struction? 1t was when the Roman SEN
ators and consus began TO use porcelain
! bath tubs and lave themselves with 'ler-
! fumed water
In the early days of the Populist party
| we would like to observe the color of the
mans. hirsute adornment who would have
| acknowledged that he had a porcelain
| lined bath tub in his house and still have
| asked for the support of the serfs who
were writing under the heel of the money
power. There would have been no more
| demand for a man Of that kind than there
| would be for a winter overcoat in the
| neighborhood of the central furnace of
hades
Those were the days when a Populist
| candidate announced to his enthusiastic
constituents. "Gentlemen. my wife is just
| as dirty and greasy as any of your wives.
We might say, in passing, that we are
| informed that his wife was neat, clean
woman. who had more sense in a minute
than her husband had in a day and half
but his language shows that no effeminat-
ing luxury was allowed to mix up with
the early movements of reform.
Senator Titus is not the only sad ex-
ample of the way In which plutocraiC
luxury is sappng the very foundations Of
the reform movement ana luflhS us lead
ers into habits of ease.
When Jerry Simpson was the idol of his
constituency the hair on his ankles grew
rank and unshaded by conhning hose
Then the sarfs contributed freely of thei
hard earned silver coin chat Jerry migh
be elevated 10 place where ne eoul'
heard the red dragon in his LAIR
But. like the Roman senators, Jerr,
Welded to the seductive temptations o
Terminating luxury, and his power begal
10 wane. In golf suit and silken hosier!
he coasted down Pennsylvania avenue u
company with bloated millionaires. II
attended the banquets of the -Four Hun
dred and filed his interior with h4gi
: priced and phizzing wines, while ms eye
,,era dazzled by the appearance and con
zion Of hlgh-born danes dressed de
couete That settled It. The great leade
az reform and champion OF the plain, com
mon Deople who was supposed TO b
! --,,,,ey,lino il up in their interest like Johl
M Tantist crying in the wilderness, an
. dining principally on jack rabbits an
, via onions. was now in the clutch Of tn
octopus and eating and drinking with tn
. plutes. ~. a. ~,
/. rof.rr, movement. could only restral
, himself from violence by a mighty effor
: | 49,, The name of a corporation was men
ttanea-a began riding on pass fur
: nished by a heartless corporation.
we might extend the list We Nigh
;. sneak Of Judge Foote, al urst plair
| oan,y,on wind-hlled reformer, going abou
!, ,,it, the soft summer air stealing throug
= tbe rents in the basement OF his panta
Icons. next a road agent, filing himsel
,, Win rare and hgh-priced viands at Ia
trntai savoy. clad in soft raimeut sue
:, az vyould have made Solomon gasp I'm th
II days of his glory.
The porcelain bath tub the railroa
nass The soft raiment and other evidence
~ nlutocrauc procliyitios tell the sad stor
p Of che popuAst iall
+ n the leaders had turned their back
d upon temptation; u they had. instead Z
n pitting in porcelain bath tubs, let the rte
e red or cream coiorcd Kansas soil aecum
IS ulato on thcir necks. taking an occaaiona
T. hath in a band basin on the back 6oroi
I % dino
4 | Hotel. with ils silver service ana hca
walter 30 gorgeous array, they bad ua
n uu with ne plain aIp 30 Hfmaufs ~ l. Dul
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