Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-15
A LIVE PRINCE
For NEWPORT
cAUsTIC COMMENTS.

Newport you may remember, Is
located in the particular vest-pocket
Commonwealth known as Rhode
Island. famed principally for the
production of politics and a vacuum
known as wetmore.
Il is the summer home of the
swell and the near-swell. 1t is the
Annual Summer Camp OF Snobbery,
where many Daughters OF the Amer
lean Refrigeration emerge temper
arily from the ice-chest and. few
Sneeronial Danes hunt the human
lion.
Just now Newport Is i'm such a
futter. The dear Prince Is coming to
see America Prince William OF
Sweden IL is, and he is coming on
mis- battleship.
Nobody In Newport owns single
battleshipl They can't pronounce
the name OF williams. and nobody
knows what Williams own last
name is but history will never
enumerate the number OF tear,
stained pillows that followed the
triumphant capture of the disting-
uished royalty by certain aspiring
society leader.
He is going TO be her own little
tame Prince. She viii wine him and
dine him and smile at him and show
him of and drag him around and
nh him with champagne and stun
him with food and think she is hav-
ing such lovely time.
And then all her select friends
Will grab him and they viii wine
and dine and natter and drag and
stun him and think they are having
such a lovely time
And all the poor miserable out
siders who haven't been invited.
they will gaze wistfully from afar
of, and wish they could wine and
dine and fatter and drag and stun
him, so that they could have a lovely
time.
Then the Prince Ca Kings son be-
ing called a Prince just as a man
who runs an engine is called an en-
gineer)-then the Prince. II he is
half the man he IS reputed, will say
to himself. and they told me at
home this was democracy"
And he will wonder whether he
has really arrived.
The unfortunate part IS nobody
will correct him. Nobody will point
out TO him that he is seeing only the
slde-show, and that the entrance to
the big tent where the sure-enough
American people are on exhibition
Is on little further.
Nobody Will say TO him: This
isn't America. This is only the
Fungus ON the side OF the stron.
old oak. It's only the parasitic
growth that feeds on what II clings
to-"
These people never produce any
thing. They never put their shout
dcrs TO the wheel OF government
They don't care anything about IT
except TO cheat II when they can"
These are only the drones. the
idlers, the fragments thrown on by
the machine OF industry. They are
not our citizens"
And they are not doing all this
because you are you. It's because
you are Your Higness. IT'S be-
cause they think you are so much
better than they are. They will
fawn and natter for ten days: next
week they'll have another monkey
party"
Perhaps some day along in the
millennium some time. another kings
son viii come over and pass by the
toothless remnants OF Newport very
quickly, and go TO the factories and
see the producers and 10 the stores
and see the workers. and TO the 1T
tie homes and see the voters. down
into the mines 10 talk with the Ia
borers. out 10 the freight yards to
watch the switchmen.
Into the little back streets to be-
come acquainted with the people
who don't know the French for
PLEASE pass the salt" but who are
making the big clean wheels Of
government 20 around and around.
helping and working and thinking
and voting and caring about the use-
fulness Of their own lives and about
the need and purpose and splendor
OF a great peoples nation. and then
he will say TO himself.
How the country has changed
from what my sreat-great-grand-
father said"