The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-17
The MetrODOlltan Kicker.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. A good
many people write to THE Sun complaining
about impOstions OF various kinds which
they have to endure. and they ask for relief.
Here comes one crying about tips: another
walls over the high price OF theatre tickets
and the spectators, another kicks because
restaurants charge 80 much another howls
about high rents: and so they go. They
make me tired. What do they ask help for?
Why don't they help themselves? Do they
have to give tips. or buy tickets. or eat fancy
food or pay high rent' Does 1t never occur
to them that they are TO blame instead Of the
so-called imposers' II they refused to give
tips, or buy tickets. or pay high rent or eat
fancy food. would the purveyors Of those
things offer them for sale at such prices?
Not much But the dealers in those things
know that the people to whom they sell are
not accustomed to denying themselves any
thing. no matter if they have to mortgage
their goods for the money. SO they slap on
the prices. I'm glad Of it. II | were in the
business I'd do the same thing. II they did
not they would be fools. as they are now
knaves by the dictum Of these kckers And
in these piping times Of plenty. which man is
more respectable, the knave or the fool2
We can have some regard for man who is
shrewd. even to the point OF knavery; but
what can be said in praise OF fool2
II these winners would quit whining and
get right down to business. they might do
something Let them get a poor meal oc-
casonally because they refuse to tip the
waiter, and let them get themselves together.
az large a crowd as possible it seems
as II they could gather In all the patrons OF
any place and some night at dinner. when
the restaurant man thinks he has a cinch on
about 200 dinners, let them walk out in a
body. and tell everybody why they walk
out Then the restaurant nan would whine.
Or let them go in groups to a thea tire and de-
cline publicly to pay an exorbitant price.
and 90 away without putting up the money.
R 9" ever he Do Not an q % by
don want to miss the show. and they pay any
price, and whine. Does the manager care
keep ' away in body from the fancy 1cy ' food
factory. Do they ever do that and 60 In
stead TO some. plain place. where there is good
enough food "a for anybody. but it is not fash.
Ing able TO eat anywhere except at the highest
priced places. because they are accustomed
lot Of common people wonder II they ever
at a fashionable New York restaurant and
q dinner with whine they have theirs that
way every time they 90 out, Or did they
ever make up their mind In the aggregate
nearly reasonable. and leave the grand apart
ment house TO stand idle2 | guess not They
would prefer to live In a swell shelter. and
inss, year" year after year Do they Day their
rentP or course. They have to. Not on
moral grounds, necessarily. but because
plain neishborhood, where rents were within
their means.
As announced elsewhere, these people make
me tired with their whines. Let them put
their troubles; and II they haven't the sand
In their craws necessary to apply the remedy.
for deoepCy's sake let them keep their troubles
out Of the public sight II they must kick,
let them kick themselves. They need II
more than those they complain about I'm
n kicker myself and believe in Kicking. but
not in public. and not unless ! can hit some
thing when ] kick. See'
Pro 'BoNo PuBLIco.
MADISON SQUARE. oct, IS.