Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-10-10
THE STUCK UP MAN.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL
AND FALSE PRIZE.

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Society has no use for "stuck up"
man. Such a man is not liked no mat
ter where he may go. His friends are
few. and his enemies are numbered by
the score.
What. do we mean when we speak Of
"stuck up" man? 1t is one whose ey-
cry action indicates that he thinks he
is better than other people. he is a
Pharisee, who says, "I am holier than
thou" and he never loses an opportu-
nifty to demonstrate his superiority.
We cannas agree with such man.
We detest and despise him. We do not
think he Is as good as he claims to be.
He is no better than other people, and,
in fact, he is not as good as the aver.
age.
When we contemplate such charac-
ter, we are reminded Of the words Of
the Irishman, zone man is as good as
another and blamed sight better"
We all know that In many respects
one man is not as good as another. he
may not be as good morally, socially or
Intellectually, and yet all men are what
their environment has made them. The
tree that was planted in fertile spot
and that grew into giant proportions
may look down on the smaller tree Of
the barren land, but the latter can
make reply, eff I had been planted
where you are, I. would have been as
large as you"
It is evident, then, that IL we make
proper allowance for circumstances
and environment the spirit Of equality
pervades the universe. Every act Of
our lives Is In conformity with law.
This truth is recognized by the poet
when he says:
curse not nature, no, nor death,
For nothing Is that errs from law
While we are prone to abhor the
"stuck up" man, we must remember
that the proud man is not necessarily
''stuck up." Every man should possess
q certain amount of pride, but he
should not assume an attitude Of supe-
riority over the rest Of mankind. It
has been said Of Roscoe Conkling that
"he walked apart from men and Iept
the company of his self respect" and
that "he stood in the wide, free air as
If there flowed In his veins the blood Of
a hundred kings" And yet we do not
think that Roscoe Conkling was "stuck
up."
Nature has placed some men upon
pedestal. and perhaps she has placed
some higher than others. When we
think of "stuck up" man, we see Vi
sions Of dude-a brainless youth with
his hair parted in the middle. But
when we think of proud man behold
the shade Of Andrew Jackson!
OF all the people on Gods green
earth workingmen have the best right
to be proud. We are compelled to ad-
mire the man who earns his living by
the sweat Of his brow, the man who 10
''as honest as the days are long," the
man rrbo Tooo ,,ofo 9TH oro a q ba would
have others do unto him, the man who
delves the mine and fells the forest
and tills the soil and works in the mill.
The noble men and women who work
in our mills are Of kindred clay with
the pilgrim fathers, whose descendants
are scattered over this country from
Cape Cod to the Golden Gate and from
the great lakes to the Mexican gulf.
And well may they be proud, for in
their veins flows the noblest blood In
all the world
No man should be "stuck up" but all
men should be proud. THE working
man, each and an, should place himself
upon a pedestal and not be ashamed to
say, "I am as good as the best, as noble
as the noblest and the peer of earth's
proudest lord"
1t may be said that some work Is de-
grading and harmful to those who
have 1t to perform. That is true when
the worker has to toll for master for
mere pittance or bare subsistence.
There is no dignity In labor when the
worker is bound in wage slavery. But
there Is hope for the honest toiler. We
are reminded of Edwin Markham's
great poem, entitled "The Man With
the Hoe" The forehead may be re.
treating, the jaw hanging and the eye
dim, but there is spark Of intellectu-
ality left. This man has not ceased to
think, and thinking will make him
free. He is longing for the establish
ment of the cooperative common
wealth, In which the community will
employ all the Idle at remunerative
wages and all men will be content and
happy.
The stuck up" man has NO place in
the ranks Of the workers. What Is
needed Is proud, grand, heroic, godlike
men whose great hearts beat in gympa-
thy with the toiling masses and who
are ever ready to champion their cause
despite Of day and night and death
and hell"
The workingman 10 the noblest crea-
ture that breathes the air Of this num-
dane world. To champion his cause is
the proudest duty that any man can
perform, and to be accorded such glo-
rious opportunity should enable even
the weakest to say:
felt the thews Of Anadm,
The pulses Of TitanB hearth
John Allen Mette in Augusta (Ga.)
Voice Of Labor.