The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-07
COL WATTERs0N AGAIN
HITS -FOUR HUNDRED.
Kentucky Editor Replies With Bitter Elo.
quence to the Jest Of Colleague.

Henry Watterson. under the title THE
tour Hundred Again." takes notice of a
remark by the Washington Evening Star
| that Mr. Watterson's paper may be ex-
pected to get around to the Four Hundred
again IN the regular course of events, -
and OF like suggestions in other news
papers, and says
cit must be, it can only be, recognition
| Of the Courier Journal as a leader of the
| moral no less than the political thought
( of the time, else how could so many join
| in directing our attention to the scan
dalous disclosures which have overtaken
the smart set of Vienna and the unsavory
| incidents attending the elopemsnt of the
Crown Princess of Saxony? They are in
| deed held before us as proof of the claim
| sometimes set up in defense of the Four
Hundred of New York and other American
cities, that these latter are no worse than
| life is much the same the world over:
which is true enough
Truth 10 say, these recent examples
of titled depravity are not worse than
many of their precursors. Assuredly.
| they are not nearly so tragical. But
Yesterday it was the Iiason of a Crown
day it is the liason of a Crown Princess,
resulting thus far in nothing more than
a runaway and fisticuff The suicide Of
| Rudolph threw a momentary glare upon
the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the Austrian capital,
which these later revelations merely am
plify and heighten. The escape of Louise
| is simply comic opera of the kind that
OHcnbach delighted to revel in.
NEXT SUMMERS BAD EXAMPLES.
"And, speaking of comic opera. What
| is the matter with King Leopold of Bel
GUM, asked one of our appellants.
''Why, look you, gentlemen, we shall
| have on our hands next summer not only
| his Belgian nastiness, but mayhap the
| Crown Princess and her Frenchman, and
| brother Leon and his inamorata, who
| ever she may be- Boris was not cir
| cumstance to these.
Newport will lave to give two mon
| key dinners. and have two monkeys at
each dinner. We mourn for Oscar-not
the King of Sweden and Norway; he of
| the Waldorf Astoria. With the King of
| Belgians giving a state dinner in the As
| tOria dining-room upstairs, the Crown
Princess and her suite in the south palm
garden down stairs, what will poor Oscar
| Ischirky do? Figaro ci, Figaro la, and in
| the outer corridors all the divorces sit
! ting round and murmuring to one another.
| Wouldn't it be Just too lovely to be
| here?
The smart set of the East is like a
| fire in a certain district-the house or
houses afre are doomed there is no saw
| ing them; so the energies of the force
are bent to the rescuing of the adjacent
tencmerts. New York-the city, we mean
is able to take care of it's own licen-
tiatcs. Newport, being wholly lest,
| doesn't mind.
| FEELS CALLED TO "HOLLER FIRE
as the Courier Journal far out of its
| duty when it raises its voice now and
then to "holler fire. and thus perchance
| to reduce the area of the confagration;
| to keep it where it is; to warn the vul-
gar and brutal men Of its own baili-
wick that money cannot always bring i'm
munity from misdong. nor silence scan
| dal: to intimate to light-headed and vain
women, newly used to riches and untu-
| tored in the wickedness of the world,
| that approval of the smart set is their
| first step backward,
each and every community has its
would be Four Hundred. Must VIC he
condemned, if in a general way, we hold
I'D the aegis of tho republican idea-of
| the home. of the fireside-and remind
| them of our common birthright, our title
| deed to the simple, homespun origin Ct
| the whole ships crew of us. better than
the crowns of kings and the diadens of
! dukes and princess"