The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22

NAXI1I DENOUNCES THOSE
WHO 1IRK'llIANLAL TOLL
Seeup Social Stigma Honest Labor They FLOCK TO London
Ind the lvmy Of. Frock.Coat Clerks
Especial correspondence
LoNDoN, May 81.

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s,r 11iran, Maxim. who proudly declares
TINT every day for the past forty years ne
has taken or his coat and worked with
h,s hands, yesterday gave to q reporter
soma trenchant criticisms on tho Black
Coat Fetish.
ut is impossible for me to go into
crowded Office" he said. and to see tho
rows OF pale-faced, narrow-chested young
men sitting bumped upon stools for the
snke of a nero pittance. without cer-
tain feeling of disgust. Heartily sorry for
them though am, l am forced to the
conviction that snobbery has for the most
part brought them to this pass.
.rhey have been to school, possibly a
hoard school, where they have learned TO
road and write, aud nrc therefore ashamed
~ q kc M an honest trade at which they
wonld have to work with their hands.
,"rh,s colossal snobbery is Indeed
rrent danger to the British nation, FOR y
crnnps honest work on every SIDE rake,
for instance, the man VINO mas q business y. ~
Eis main ideu In life is to scTape sum
Giant money together to enable him to re-
tirn long before he should. Then he goes
,vny into the country, and carefully COW
crinr up all traces Of his trading past
snonds the rest Of his days playing at ee-
Ing a gentleman. i.
with the working classes the case Is
almost worse. Every workingnan seems
to consider that he wears I! paose NJ, %
infamy because he uses his hanus. t ,i
rns,,ltVis that while he very oftcnloses MS
sanse OF self-respect and desire to DO BET
Ter for himself nc endeavors to make ms
son 'genteel' BY turning him into clerh'
Starvation Wages.
.1n consequence, the ranks Of the clerks
ara crowded with hnlf-educatcd youths
whose almost unskillcd labor reduces the
! reneral run OF wages to starvation pcia.'
or they had only applied their intel,i
| renro and education, continued Slr III
ram. ito the study OF mechanics ,heE
would have done far better. instead Oh
trying to be genteel on pouha VIZ ~,
md running their constitutions Wy
| AIR and Insufficient FOOD, they couiu ia ~
soon put themselves INTO po ,s, o,,,r ~
| cor, r,nnd three, four five ana BIN pou'iu'
| a week by becoming hie'''A''
| and mechanics. ~,
i.rrhn conditions OF their labor. TOO anu
| ~, Natter food they could buy because OF
h.tter wages would have made reai men
~ then, Instead OF miserable. understood,
undeyeloped creatures. But. no, the let
ish of that respectable black coat IS 100
strong for them
4 tho mechanic in America and the me-
chnnic in this country. ! know numbers
az English mechanics who are OF the
/ hiphest credit to the State, but on the
other hand, especially In tho North. thou
sands az skilled workmen can only be
ners,laded to work three or four days a
week because they can command so much
money. You never find that sort OF thing
"Then." observed Sir Hiram, here You
| And that the workman has an affection
for the CRIME OF his labor. Except on
sunday, his clothes nre never Cream. ~
~ states. on the other hand, the work
man turns out spick and span goes to
Ills workshop and changes into his work
4 Ing clothes. In the evening he has