Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-11
LEADER OF sNoBILITY

for the biggest and hardest news col
umn In the country He also pays
them the smallest time rate per hour of
any paper in New York 1t used to be
30 cents per hour. Perhaps 1t is less
nowl Fancy college bred man, with
an expensively trained brain and q
body that needs it's regular nourish-
ment. hustling through New York
snowstorm at 30 cents per hour for
four or Ave hours in order TO catch n
few paragraphs Mr.. Reid does not
pay the lowest rate to his printers,
however. They won't let him. When
he was nominated for vice president
he unionized his composing room at
the urgent behest OF Platt, Depew and
The game did not work. Reid was de-
feated and dragged down his ticket
with him. But the New York Tribune
had been unionized, and unionized 1t
Is to this day. While unionl2ing his
office he discharged his non-union fore
man. man named Thompson who
had stood by him through thick and
thin, had borne the brunt of strike and
boycott. and-as the old man fondly
imagfned--had nailed the non-union
colors to the Tribune tall towers flag
staff There are people In Los An
geles who can remember the day when
Thompson walked out of tho Tribune
office. an 1shmaelite In his trade, dis
charged by the rich man who was
seeking office. repudiated and boycott
ted by the poor men whom no had been
lighting for the sake OF the vice presi-
dental candidate.
A great man Is Whitelaw Reid! II
Americans were as thoroughly ac-
quainted with the history of their am
hassador to the British empire as they
ought to be. II they knew every detail
of the scintillating career of this brain
grabber, they would appreciate the In
congruity of the startling fact that his
excelleney has kept house in London
In n style 80 sumptnously extravagant
and senselessly magnificent" that no
ordinary American who succeeds the
son-in-law OF Croesus Mills and the
dlspossessor and heart-breaker of
Horace Greeley can possibly hope to
keep up the pace set by this most ex-
travagant of ambassadors and most
nlggardIy of employers.
one OF Reid's most honored guests
at his English country house is his
imperial and sacred majesty. Edward
Guelph Victim. the Lords anointed
king OF Great Britain, Ireland and the
colonies and emperor OF India. Ed
ward likes TO stay at Reid's because
Roid spends freely In entertaining him,
Reid IN the true style of the English
snoblity, maintains two establish
ments. He has city mansion and
country house aptly named Wrest
Park. Don't forget the w. We do
not know from whom it was wrested
by the Englishman who sold II or
rented 1t to Reid. but we do know
more or less about the persons from
whom Reids newspaper frugality
wrested some of the money he paid
for it,
Tho Pail Mall Gazette. which seems
TO be nervously Frustrated and on the
verge of historical tears over Reds
extraordinarily magnificent and splen-
did snobility. says: "'It Is exceptional
for even an Ambassador OF the United
states to be IN occupation of both u
country house and a town house. both
80 adapted for the reception Of so
AUGUST a visitor as King Edward. II
Is also noted that Whitelaw Reid ia
the only member of the diplomatic
body in England who Is so sumptuous-
ly domieiled." "Sumptuously!" Isn't
that the very word the Biblo uses i'm
describing Dives? "He Jared sump-
tuously. and was clothed in purple and
inc linen" our American ambassador
fares sumptuously Whether he affects
purple and fine linen. or adheres to Il
more conservative and less "magnin-
cent and spendeed costume" we do not
know.
but what about the ambassador who
may succeed Mr. Reid? He will be
required 10 spend the whole OF his sal
airy to pay the rent for town house
80 NiiANAA AiN 'ttiA AlNt III a Aal itSH pre-
tentious style than Mr. Reid. and he
cannot entertain royalty nor lead the
social whlrl unless he has large pri-
vate fortune" What. and can't he
represent the common people of the
United states, whose hired servant he
is, unless he apes the nobility and en-
tertains that barrel-shaped parsonage
In whose rotund form at present reside
all the virtues OF the glorious German
Georges, the illustrious Hanoverians
whose inflated notions OF themselves
disrupted the English-sp speaking race?
As between tho nobility and tho
snohility the former is the more toler-
able. rhc nobility apparently can't be
| hclped-and the dukes ANA carls cam
not prevent their heredity. But the
mohillty can be helped The first ac-
tion Of the Democratic administration
viii ho 10 replace the American snobi-
/ itN with real American men,
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