The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-29
SUPPLEMENT TO
Weekly Chieftain
vINHrA, IND. TER.
THURSDAY, ocT. 30, 1908.


Vi viz AA0aAoNAhAN
Journal, has decided notions con-
cerning the "4oo." In lecture
delivered last week at PlttsbuTg
he used these words:
"Something over year ago
most lamentable tragedy, taking
for its scene the very vestibule of
the temple of fashion--the sanc-
tum-sanctorum of the Four Hum
dred--led me, In the line OF my
duty as a writer for the press, to
say some exceeding plain, and, 1t
may have been thought, some
very harsh things about the
nouveaux riches-the idle rich,
the God-forgetting, world-defy-
ing, pleasure-seeking rich-who
set themselves as law unto
themselves, who submit to no re-
straints except those fixed by ma
ture and the surgeons knife, who
have no intellectual perspective
except that the longest purse
brings down the biggest titles, no
rule of conduct except that inn
pelling them to eat, drink and be
merry, for tomorrow 1t may be
someone else's turn; a code which
am told became altogether the
rage in Babylon some centuries
ago.
"They society? Has Caliban
grace? Is Tom Thumb manhood
Must the monkey and the swell
be accepted as interchangeable
types, as alternating measure
ments of human breeding and
beauty? Indeed, one would think
so, reading some Of the reports
that come to us from the inner
circles of that apotheosis of bore
dom, that incarnation of stupidity
and affectation, which takes ite
cue from Leicester Square and the
Corinthian club In London, which
emulates the demi-mondaine of
Paris, which eddies round the
abodes OF luxury and alimony at
Newport, and thinks no more of
running down an ordinary pedes-
trian in an automobile than you
and / would think of brushing
away q spider or fly.
"Sursum Corda, lift up your
hearts. | at least have never
wasted my thoughts, or nursed
any serious fears about such cat
tie, nor shall do vo until monkey
dinners become as popular In
Pennsylvania as they seem to be
In Rhode Island. know that in
each of our eenters of population
and wealth there is a little coterie
of silly woE.en and simpering
Johnnies which would initiate the
imitators; but they are too shall
low and too scattered to make
much headway against society,
and by society men mean not
merely those who by their char
acter, their genius and their good
fortune, have earned the right to
dwell In great houses without the
ostentatious display OF wealth
20 have picture galleries and AZ
braries aud horses and carriages
and, II they please yachts anc
automobiles-but behind them
that great army Of the well-brec
and well-to-d do, that noble Ameri'
can oommonalty. clean OF birth
and clear of grin, those culti'
waited men aud women who LIVE
without scandal and travel With
out adventure-not rich, indeed
but quite able to pay as they go
the rose and expectancy OF tru'
manhood and womanhood, tn
very buttress and belltower OF ou
freg republic.
"Ihese constitute what cal
society. Radiating from the nom
thrice blessed In dad and man
and granny yea, in Bill an,
doe, Sis and Colts iniluenc
penetrates the dark and the light
reaching from the fireside TO III
counting room, from the countinI
room to the asylum and the hos
pital, and, somehow, finding II
way back again to the roof-tre
aud the hearthstone via the schoo
house and the house Of God