Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-11

EUROPE, California the United states, ana
Canada. as the Millionaire Socialist" is
poking fun at us from his den in Toronto,
Canada where Third Assistant Postmaster
General Madden (himself a Canadian)
forced the sprghtly, clever, and wealthy
leveller to retire or shut up shop. In other
words Mr.. Madden denied Mr.. Wiltshire
the privileges of the United States mails
for his newspaper the ChdileHge where
upon Mr.. Wiltshire migrated to Canada
where the postal laws are more liberal, and
is now publishing and sending through the
aforesaid United States mails his magazine
under the postal treaty with that country
The only difference being that Canada reaps
the benefit of the postage which Mr.. viii
shire formerly paid the United States until
Mr.. Madden's autOcratic and it now ap-
pears foolishly, impotent order drove him
across the border.
Writing on the change of program OF
plan Of the visit of our Presidents daughter
to King Edward S coronation and the dis
advantage of not being a princess, Mr..
Wiltshire thus sarcastically and semi.humor-
ously says:
Democracy has its disadvantages with
out mistake. Here has been poor little
Miss Alice Roosevelt delighting her heart
with the promise Of being the distinguished
guest at the coronation, when suddenly her
dream is cut short, and she is told she can't
go, forsooth, because her going might cause
her pa TO lose the Irish vote Now, if she
were real princess instead of only four
year-term one, like her pa is a king, they
could both snap their fingers at votes of all
kinds and she could go to all the corona
tions she had mind to.
Why should not the American people
have their own homemade Princess Alices
and Heir.Apparent Teds just as well as the
effete monarchies Of Europe? We have
demonstrated that we can beat the world in
the making Of anything we turn our hands
to, and why should we quail at making a
princess3 Whya We have been long enough
complaining of the great drain upon the
country from the export of gold sent to
Europe to support the daughters of our
miliionaires who have been not only forced
to go abroad for husbands possessing the
necessary rank to cOmport with a million
aire wife, but have also actually been COM
PEELED 70 remain and live abroad in order to
procure a fitting euvironing society to
properly set of their exalted position in
life. Why should we send William Waldorf
Astor an exile to England, with his hundred
million dollars of American money, to buy
title when we can supply the demand at
homer 1t is true that there is some sort or
other of an antiquated clause in our con-
stitution that prevents any titles being
granted by the government, but I have no
doubt but that the U. S. Supreme Court
could find way round little obstacle like
that easily enough. Let the administration
drop a hint as TO what its wishes are and
the thing is done
One good argument against the present
system of our dependence upon Europe for
our titles of nobility is that our men are at
such a disadvantage compared with our
women. An American girl can make her
self duchess any time she will put up the
price sufficiently high to induce a duke to
marry her, but the American man has no
such matrimonial highway open to his
dukedom He must in the first place take
another man . wife to get woman with the
title of duchess, and when he gets her he
don't get the title. This is not right. The
American man has natural right to be a
duke, just as much as the American girl has
to be a duchess, and this country should
open the way to him. We ought to start
right in upon this proposition of manufac-
turing an American nobility before any
more of our money goes to Europe Inas-
much as the idea of instituting this order of
American nobility is simply to keep our
millionaires money at home, 1t would
manifestly be absurd to grant a title to per-
son who has not enough money to buy one
abroad in case one could not be obtained at
home. I would not have the titles sold.
Let them come as a matter of right simply
from the possession of so much money. To
begin with, anyone who could prove a mill
lion would be baronet Then we could
have larger amounts for marquises aud
earls and such like, winding up with, say
requirement of fifty million dollars for the
dukes. l think one hundred million would
be about right to make man prince. A
thousand million would, Of course, make
fellow anything he cared TO pick, Sultan,
Tsar, King or Emperor
II do not suggest that the holding Of a
title should confer any peculiar political
powers on the holder / would not
institute any new House of Lords. Il would
be useless addition. The rich already are
members et-O6fcfO of a third house which
is easily more powerful than all the other
branches of our government combined.
This house has no duties or responsibilities
it has nothing but rights and powers. It is
a much more attractive Legislative house to
LnE AANn AAAdu any hNW NAN AAAAN ~gHA0 EN'9~~
bly, be devised.
mo, would make the ownership of a
title convey no rights not already enjoyed.
In point of fact the political power of those
who would tall into the titles could not well
be increased anyway. / would not even
make it compulsory upon anyone to refer to
the holders by their new titles, l am too
much believer in American freedom to
suggest such thing as that. Of course II
anyone should fail 10 call duke duke he
would naturally be apt to lose his job, but
that would mean nothing much unless he
failed to get another one, and even then 1t
would only mean starvation"
The only exception the GLOBE feels
called upon to make to Mr.. Wilshire's
statements is the assertion that the visit
was countermanded because her pa might
lose the Irish vote"
The Irish vote is contingent on the Presi-
dent reforming acknowledging his political
errors. and becoming a sound Jacksonian
Democrat. In this event, and this event
only ne will poll the Irish vote whether
/ Miss Alice attends the coronation or plays
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