The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-05-09
MEXICAN 'VIEW0F
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AMElCAN' LIFE.
CORRESPONDENT ASK WHAT is
TO BECOME or THE UNITED
STATES WITH IRIS LORDS
OF MIsRuLE,
Question will be solved through an ev'
o'utionsry Proeess-Too Much In
te|iigenee for anything else.

Every year more Of these smart peO-
pie, those who are reaping the harvest
Of PROSPERITY in the United States;
for them roll the freight cars, for
them the noise and smoke and din OF
the great steel works. the running to
and fro Of clerks and messengers, the
tap-tapping Of the multitudinous
writing machine. Down below the
surface Of this life of travel and .cusl-
Toned ease is the grey, workaday world
made up Of men. women and even
children, the toiling masses. People
who say that the United States is still
a. democracy, that it is Jeffersonian,
deceive themselves. well-developed
aristocracy, feeling itself privileged
class. taking on the airs af feudal
barons, has arrived in our erstwhile
Republican America.
One looks on at these new lords of
America and wonders what will come
of it ala Socialistic wave overwhelm-
ing everything, and leaving all things
flattened out, leveled, and dismally
uniform; or whether the opulent and
forcefful will rule, dominating wholly
In our government. More aristocratic
than the men in feeling are the women,
for, like all Of their sex, they take to
palaces and yatchs, ind they padded
Well-fedd life as it 1t fere hte best aof
palaces and yatchs, and the padded,
Well-fed life as If it were their by right.
Dainty, luxurious, petted, already half
spoiled, are these women faVorites Of
fortune, who talk Of the middle class"
and the lower classes" strange terms
in the mouths Of the descendants Of
farmers, plainn mechanics and pushful
tradesmen. Good to look at, these pro-
ducts Of prosperous, syndicated Ameri-
ca; their gowns perfection, all their
graceful feminine equipment betoken-
ing the enormous wealth fast being
concentrated in the hands Of a small
minority. Perhaps, after all, this is
what evolution is for. to produce, the
lover man. and his consort, the aris-
tocratic dame. The mass Of humanity
below serves but to provide their
splendors, as the dim, struggling majo-
rity did In feldar Europe; as indeed
it still does. One gazes adnlirlngly, for
well-fed, slightly arrogant. naughty
women, dressed in the purple and fine
linen of the world, make a pleasing
picture.
1t is commonplace, that for these
women the American men weave their
financial webs; for them all the mani
fold activities Of a great nation. These
men of the upper class lit is hardly
worth while to mince words) are strong
men; they are the survivors of the
struggle for existence; they are, the
brains who manipulate the: stock mar
ket, and take toll of all transactions.
The new American Of the baronical
class is an output Of the Anglo Saxon
race placed in a great and immensely
wealthy country, country Of mex
haustible resources. Usually Of good
stature, strong Of jaw, and with the
nose of the ideal general, Of Napoleon;
eyes mostly gray or steely blue, de-
cisive, used to command, are these
domineering Americans. Inherently
aristocratic is the Anglo-Saxon race,
loving wealth as the source of power,
executive and masterful. No wonder
Washington takes orders from the
money kings, from the captains of in
dustry. The big brains rule. But the
old, democratic, equal-opportunity
United States has shot the cascade!
The triumphant race of the American
barons has arrived.-Mexican CORE
spondent of the Boston Herald.