Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22
erican Monarchy Pooling a Mesnerize

nature we are all alike. we human
Il beings; and in our blood and bone,
and ineradicable, we carry the seeds
out of which monarchies and aristoc-
racieS are grown: worship of gaudS
titles, distinctions, power. We have
to worship these things and their
M possessors we are all born so, and
we cannot help it. We have to be
4 despised by somebody whom we re-
III gard as above us, or we are not
III happy; we have to have somebody
VI to worship and envy, or we cannot
i be content
In America we manifest this in
all the ancient and customary ways.
In public we scott at titles and
hereditary privilege; but privately
we banker after them, and when we
FL get a chance we buy them for cash
I'll and a daughter. Sometimes we get
FL a good man and worth the price;
Il but we are ready to take him any,
Oh way, whether he be ripe or rotten.
whether he be clean and decent, or
merely basket of noble and sacred
and long descended offal. And when
81 we get him the whole nation publicly
chaffs and scoffs,-and privately
envies,-and also is proud of the
III honor which has been conferred upon
iii us. We run over Off list of titled
lii purchases every now and then in the
81 newspapers, and discuss them and
Il caress them and are thankful and
happy.
Like all the other nations, we wor-
ship money and the possessors of it
they being our aristocracy, and we
have to have one. We like to read
about rich people in the papers; the
papers know it, and they do their
best to keep this appetite literally fed.
n leave out football bull fight now and
ct room for all the particulars of how, &C
D the display heading, Rich Woman Fell
llar-Not Hurt" The falling down the
no interest to us when the woman is not
no rich woman can fall down cellar and
arm to know all about it and wish it was us.
monarchy the people willingly and rejoic-
ere and take pride in their nobilities, and
initiated by the reflection that this humble
ty homage gets no return but contempt.
does not shame them; they are used to
1ey recognize that it is their proper due.
II made like that. In Europe we easily
,ly learn to take that attitude toward the
5 and the aristoCracles; moreover, it has
rived that when we get the attitude we go
exaggerate it, presently becoming more
an the natives, and vainer of it. The next
rail and scott at republics and democracies.
ich is natural; for we have not ceased to
DeuSS DN DtCOIIlllS TAIllSIlSdHS, duu Iuc
&c was always intended to be governed by
not by popular vote.
,se we must expect that unavoidable and
: Circumstances will gradually take away
rs of the States and concentrate them in
al Government. and that the Republic
repeat the history of all time and become
ny; but l believe that if we obstruct these
nents and steadily resist them the mon
be postponed for good while vet.
Coming of the Mesmerizer
} DECEMBER L, Iooo.I
ting event in our village (HannibaD was
rival of the mesmerizer. l think the year
AS to that l am not sure; but l know the
was May; that detail has survived the
fty-fve years. A pair of connected little
of that month have served to keep the
f it green for me all this time; incidents of
uence, and not worth embalming, yet my
as preserved them carefully and flung away