The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-18
LoFTIER TYPES OF NOBILITY.

Baltimore American: It is to be
hoped that the disease known as
anglomania is not infectious, because
there seems to be a recrudescence of
the malady just now, due to the royal
tomfoolery which King Edward is con-
Quoting. Should the disease, which
at present is confined to a small CO.
terie of title worshipers, spread, it
will spoil the independent manhood
which is now our American pride.
When anglomaniac tendencies run so
far as to lubricate the knees of Amer
lean citizens, so that they will humble
themselves before a %potentate Of King
Edwards caliber, knowing that they
would not dream of bending before a
president of the United States, the
case demands attention. There are
signs at this time which suggest the
outcropping of this disposition today,
because, after all, the disease of anglo
mania is really nothing but a readi-
ness to truckle to the English nobility.
The glamour Of the kings coronation
has accentuated the proclivity. There
is a startling anxiety among certain
classes in America to figure promi-
nently in a ceremonial which in every
way is at variance with the essence
of true Americanism. Our bowings
and %scrapings and smirkings and smil-
ings are the offering of incense to the
naughty arrogance of royalty.
It is not tbs quality which has made
America what it is. The men who
are the typical Americans of today
are not the one who in their gilded
opulence are tumbling all over them
of his royal highness. The men who
are making America today are the
ones who are kneeling at the foot
of industry and are acknowledging
it as their sovereign. They are not
using their self-made wealth as a
means to climb into the lap of royalty.
They are not the one who are teach
ing their boys that the contamination
of bliss is to be received at the court
of the English king. The true Ameri-
cans send their boys elsewhere. They
send them to the foot of life's ladder
that they, like the father, may de-
velop their manhood by working their
way to the top. BY so doing they
make of their sons true noblemen,
! such as are we'll entitled to wear the
| crown Of success
It is this solid stuff of work and en-
ergy which has placed this nation
| ahead of the monarchy of which Ed
ward is the figurehead. While the
English classes are developing show
the American masses are developing
substance. Out of this English devo-
ton to show there springs a ruinous
pride which belittles it's young men.
| Out of the Americans love for sub
| stance the young men themselves are
being fitted for leadership. That is
why America, year by year, will
lish rival. The best sons of our best
| men, by a proper apprenticeship in
the rudiments of business, are quail
flying themselves for places of mas
terry. The best sons of the so-called
best men in England are prevented
by the frippery of caste and aristo-
cratic pride from preparing them
! selves for the big tasks of the empire.
That is why our leaders are growing
| bigger than are the biggest practical
intellects in England. Royalty is an
incubus, it matter not who be king.
A typical American who has made
| his mark is better at any time than
the best scion of all of Europe's royal
houses.