Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-25
UPPER TENS VS.. LOWER FIVES.

there are no classes in this country.
The claim is usually accepted as a
fact by the unthinking when it is one
of the most conspicuous lies in the
calendar of falsehood.
Some way or other the democratic
party always manage to get the worst
of it and is invariably charged with
the crime of arraying class against
class. In some quarters this has been
vigorously denied, while in others it
has been freely admitted. The Butte
Inter Mountain, the Helena Record and
all the scurvy brood of republican
newspapers that infest this glorious
state of Montana are slowly but surely
educating the people in the gentle art
of making a distinction where no diff
ference exists.
If your political principles are such
as to array the accumulated corporate
wealth of the ages against some poor
unfortunate devil carrying the badge
of ignor ance-a dinner pail--the Butte
Inter Mountain and the Helena Record
will 1aud you to the skies as scholar,
patriot, a statesmen and a gentle
man. But if your views are such as
to array the common herd against
the fruits of half century of robbery
then these papers will hound you off
of the earth with being neither d
scholar, patriot or statesmen, but
ranting, roaring, wild-eyed agitator
and demagogue seeking to array class
against class, inflaming passion end
prejudice for sinister purposes. 1t has
ever been thus since the days when
Christ made that inviduous compare
son between Lazarus and the rich man.
1t is not crime to be rich providing
we do not rob others by divers systems
of extortion to gain that wealth. Nor
is poverty in any sense a disgrace pro-
vided it is not due to our own inherent
laziness. Some are born with silver
spoons in their mouths, while others
inherit poverty. The person upon
whom these conditions descend is to be
neither credited or blamed.
However, it is not money solely that
creates caste. Croesus can be com
moner and not infrequently a few dol
lars will transform a Turnkey into a
plutocrat. 1t seems sometimes as if
there is really no yawning between
the rich and the poor. There is some
thing besides wealth that is needed tc
constitute the true blue Goldfish aristo-
crat. Therefore the line that separates
the" upper tens" from the Glover
five" docs not define the classes and the
masses. We find some humanity-lov-
ing, patriotic, rich people casting their
lot with the masses and doing their
utmost to aid mankind, while in other
instances many poor in tatters march
ing under the Haunting banner of the
classes. 1t is not in our poverty MOI
in our stars, but in ourselves that som,
of us strengthen the Darwinian theor,
that man evolved from the monkey
How admirable the man who begins
life with nothing but heart of oal
and nerves of steel, and by coupling
with it good business ability EVENTUAL,
accumulates houses and lands and We
ever acknowledges as his brothers al
the sunbrowned sons of toll. Dotr vou
your hat to him as the friend of tn
human race. On the other hand hoy
almost inexpressibly contemplate ar
the thousands of moneyless men VIII
are never happy except when they ca
bask in the cast iron smiles of som
purse proud idiot that has been exalte
to some high place in the financial {
political world.
These poor gillies cringe befo,