The Irish standard., 1898-03-05
REVELRY OF ANGLG-MANlACS.

While the American nation was in
scamen who died in it's service in for
cign barber. and while throughout the
cities OF the land requiem masses were
being celebrated for the souls OF the
Catholic members of the Names crew
who without a moments warming, We're
hurled into eternity the unseemy spec
tace was witnessed in New York city
among the 400" Of grand ball in dis
regard of all the proprieties to be
observed on the occasion of a national
calamity.
All England. according to the cable,
was in crocodile tears over the disaster,
but on Manhattan Island the men who
roll up heir par:a.ccns when it rains
in London. ard the women whose sole
aim in life Is to wear title by marry
ing duke. baron, or marquis, at
tended what is known as a vegetable
ball" and conducted themselves in a
silly manner. One of the society papers
says that women arrayed, some of them
scantily as peoples. carnations, pansies,
nymphs. and bacchantes were accompa-
MED by men arrayed as beets, carrots,
cabbages and other vegetables"
The man who gave the ball to the
gilded youths of New York society is
a pronounced Anglo-maniac. His name
lie hray,,
Of Gotham, and a representative in con-
gress who was retired to private life by
his Irish constituents on account Of his
bigotry toward their race, which he man.
ifested on various occasions. At some
other time he could give an entertain
ment Of the nature described without
subjccting himself to criticism, but just
! after the awful tragedy in Havana har-
Dor there is no Justification for his con-
duct. Congressman Mahaney, of New
York. denounced the unseemly revel In
scathing language. He compared the
conduct of the purse-proud dudes and
dudcsses of Greater New York to that Of
the London aristocracy at the time of the
sinking Of the warship Victoria by the
Camperdown, and exclaimed: in Lon
don on that occasion there was every
where the black badge of mourning,
every social function was abandoned,
while in New York the social leaders
wearied high heaven with their revels."
Had the fashionable idlers of New
York been in London at the time 1t is
most probable they would have donned
the habiliments Of mourning as an evil
dence of their sorrow with the mother
country" Though accidentally born in
the American metropolis and vicinity
they are lacking In patriotism and look
down on their countrymen with super
clious contempt. They have acquired
their wealth through the medium of
trusts and stock gambling and spend 1t
in revclry and dissipation. 1t never en-
tered their Silly heads to have charity
ball for the benefit of the widows and
orphans of the Inflated defenders of their
country's flag on the ocean. A Belshazzar
feast was more to their liking. But let
them beware. In u time of national
grief it is not safe for them to indulge
in such orgies with their ill-gotten mon
ey We dare say that many Of those
creatures who attended the vegetable
ball Of Abram S. Hewitt, the mugwump,
would be glad to see a war grow out
OF the trag edy at Havana In order to have
an cppol tunity Of buying the government
bonds that would be issued to prosecute
the war The handwriting for these revel-
lcrs is already on the wall, but they see
see it not in their blindness.