Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-12-05


Pity the poor rich. like that young
man. heir to many millions. who re-
Gently declared that the life he was
almost compelled to lead by the size
of his income and the standards of
his friends was to the last degree re.
pellent to him! Half of his complaint
will be comprehensive to everybody.
The standards of friends make trouble
for all Of us sometimes. But when
they call for excessive expenditure and
foolish display It is time to stop and
consider whether it would not be bet.
on friendly terms with ourselves.
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1f the business of the people IL used
to further the political fortunes of men
1t is inevitable that they will at times
be used to further the financial for
tunes of men. How long will the
great American people permit such a
degradation of themselves? For such
it Is. degradation of public standards
and ideals, a smirching of the national
character. We do not meet the case
when we ferret out and punish the
miscreants. Such thing is temporary
merely: the cause of the disease Is
touched and there will be another out.
break. 1t Is the system.
As the collection of the tax under
the new English education act pro.
ceeds the opposition to the law does
not diminish. Large numbers of PEG.
| pie are refusing to pay the tax on the
ground that its imposition violates the
principles of religious liberty by bur.
dening people of one churcl, with the
cost of the maintenance of another.
The tax IL collected In spite of the
passive resistance" Of Its opponents.
In Cambridge, on a day In September,
the goods Of forty citizens were seized
ana sold by auction for the collection
Of the unpaid tax. varying from five.
pence to few shilllngs. Among
those whose property was thus sold
were three members Of the city coun.
ell. seven ministers ana the editor of
the leading newspaper.
Very few men make good lions. An
enterprising public Is forever taking NJ
some one and converting him into d
hero and spelling him by covering him
with gnrlands and crowns. Just as thu
work Of making this king Of beasts
seems to be reaching success something
IL found to be lacking which makes the
whole enterprise a sud failure. Never
theless the excitable. ELUSIVE, unwist
public keeps on with the futile attempt
Unfortunately good man Is generally
selected on whom to try the experiment
and the result Is the more painful be-
cause II spells a good man and makes
a very degenerate type Of lion. Exten
sive fiattery, excessive praise and full
! some compliments turn the head that
2 heeds them.
One hundred and twenty-five years
ago Colonel EdmestOn was compelled
to flee from his home In what IL now
the town Of EdmestOn, New York, Il
, escape the Indians. He directed ser
p want to bury chest Of dishes. intend
ing to eXhume them when he returned
but the dishes remained In the grOun,
until last spring, when the tenant O
the farm unearthed them with plOw
The plow broke many of them. bu
more than fifty were unharmed. III,
: Supreme Court has recently decidet
that the dishes belong to the owner Of
the farm, and not to the tenant VIII,
found them. Inasmuch rs six thOusant
} dollars hns been offered for one OF tn,
dishes, the decision IL Of cOnsldera hi,
/, Importance to the parties concerned
f.. The incident itself might interest thOs'
! who desire to provide for their descend
ants. a twenty-dOllar set of dishes o
good design. buried now with instrnC
lions to ones heirs to leave them I'M
' disturbed for Il century. might be wort
: several thousand dollars when the pee
pie of 1908 begin to study the pcriO,
& OF American colonial expansion.
That the growth Of luxury in tn
United States has not been accOmpaI
: led by social decentralization and d.
cadence is the conclusion to whic
> Ralph ID. Paine, writer In tn
y Worlds Work. has come He finds tina
the Increase Of wealth has brOugt
about II great but healthy development
Of Open-alr sport. Twenty years ag
two millions Of dollars were spent !
@ year for sporting goods. Last yea
@ the outlay for that purpose was te
t millions. Architecture. both urban an
0 rural, has improved. There Is II fins
q taste prevalent In landscape gardenin
L and interior decorating. There are II
alarming symptoms Of ldleness In In,
ury among the sons Of the very ricl
Twenty-three out OF twenty.elght {
the sons of milliOnaires whose name
are more or less public property, graf
u uated from Yale In recent years, al
working as II they had no other NEAR
Of support. Only very small pcrcen
I age of the rich In this country live
i idleness. Work IL fashionable an
2 idleness still Is deemed disgracefu
4 The coterle of Idle rich people, such 4
}. those that gather ut Newport In Il
: summer are conspicuous because the
!. are so few. Standards are being CO..
n stantly raised In the American unive
stiles, and there are no peffunctOl
pass degrees, and yet fair numb'