Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-17
gueg phltras gassd II.

W Keep tHeHl IrOIl anarchy. Inc IdDQr-
er's wage here Is = pittance. his home a
howell. His food an American tramp
would reject at the back door with
scorn. For him and his children there
stretches out only future of the
toughest kind of a fight for animal ex-
|istence. The mechanic or clerk is only
one grade higher. His life, like his
clothes, is worn out rubbing in servili-
ty against the assumptions of his bet
tiers. Nothing In this world is so cruel
as the written English law of caste;
nothing SO pathetically hopeless as the
daily life of the under classes. That
they are satisfied is because they know
nothing different, and that they are not
dissatisfied is philosophically splendid.
With these classes and their rural pro-
|totypes, as to how they live, what they
|eat and wear and how they die, the ma
tive American has nothing to do. A $40
clerk is not in the same sphere of ex-
istence. Up little higher, among the
successful tradesmen and manufacture
|ers. life itself is different. Their money
builds homes-walled in and frowning
upon everything of a meaner scale-and
buys good things to eat and frock coats
and high hats to wear, and creates a
sort of solemn and oppressive atmos-
phere of physical luxury, but mere
money only goes that far. There it
stands and looks at the aristocracy
Now and then genius, or plethoric
purse, breaks through the barrier of
blood. but to all intents and purposes
the titled and landed aristocracy are
the only people in England. They toll
not, neither do they spin. but they back
the horses, follow the hounds and col
lect rents. They are lords by name and
by instinct. There is no assumption
about it. They are the people.
Rents themselves are low, but the
ltithes and taxes upon every piece of
land Gall about which you find out as
you progress) bring VI, the total to Just
about American suburban figures. La
Dor is cheap at go much per man or
woman, but it takes three of them to
do the work of the average American
servant and groceries come high. /
have seen two big men. one pushing and
the other pulling a little, top-heavy,
leight-inch lawn-mowei and taking the
best part of two days to cut a little
strip of lawn that Charlie Urine would
cut before breakfast as an appetizer.
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