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dren are familiar with very few titles.
Even your exceflency," when applied TO
the president of the country or the COVER
nor of the state as usually uttered with
bad grace Your honor to a judge or
mayor has come to be an empty sound.
Ex-Presdent Harrison is only "B. Harri-
son" and so signs his name
Here now is the official and fun title OF
the Prince of Wales: 1.-THE Most High,
Most Puissant and Most IllustriOus Prince
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of
Saxony, Prince of SaXe-Coburg and Gotha,
Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl OF
Chester Garrick and Dublin, Baron OF
Renfrew, and Lord of the Isle, Great Ste
ward of Scotland, K. g., K. T., X. f.,
Great Master and Principal Knight Grand
Cross of the Order of the Bath, G. c. S. l.,
G. c. NJ G., G. c. I. E., Knight OF the.
Elephant of Denmark, Knight of the Gof-
den Fleece and knight of the White Ele-
phant of SIAM and Bailh Grand Cross of
the order of st. John of Jerusalem, Hon
crable Knight of the Order of st. John,
Germany, p c." and colonel, aide, mar
shall and whatnot in no end of regiments
Of the military. The one human being VINO
carries this load of empty honors would
be a plain man did he vote in the United
States When he ascends the throne ne
will drop all Of these titles and become
plain king, and his address Majesty"
Then he viii resemble the American citi-
zen. who is also a sovereign, and whose
most lofty address is Mister"
The advance from the traditions of. saw
agery made by the American people when
at one stroke they swept the whole tangle
of crests and titles and graces and orders
"a way behind them nowhere" was, indeed,
a grand step. 1t was superb declaration
of a superb principle. But, notwithstand-
ms, all this, there are Oct us blush to
saw ~ few Americans who brag about
their coats of arms" and ancestors"
with as much JUNCTION as any degenerate
Norman nobleman in the United Kingdom.
If they can show that one of their FORE
fathers fought in the revolution they are
grand: If that he came over in the May
dower they are grand, but il he was
third cousin or some sinister kin to some
one with a title-grandest. These quite
foolish persons are responsible for the
rnockery with which American "blue
blood" is treated abroad. They are respon-
sible for the foreign sentiment expressed
in the lines:
A thing for sneers aIEY.!.
And fieers and jeers, Stlln
Is American aristocracy.
But. fortunately, such Americans are
rare enough not to be intolerable. The
broad base of American political liberty Is
strong enough to hold them up, but they
do not deserve a place in the structure.
My strong sense of political equality was
rudely shocked the first time 1 met an
earl in a London drawing room. There
were present too a lord and baroness
These individuals In nowise betrayed any
symptoms of any conviction that mans
a man for all that. but to me they were
living object lessons of its truth. How
Britons ever get through all the bowling
and scraping their political system forces
upon them is a marvel. Princes scrape TO
the sovereign, dukes scrape to the princes,
marquses to the dukes, earls to marquses,
viscounts TO earls. and barons to viscounts.
Below them come all sorts of titles scrap
ing In concert to all sorts Of titles above
them, while the plain people scrape to