The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-30
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Jack London
---Plutocrat
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The Argonaut.

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Others beside Jack London will de-
plore the Uncomfortable and mon
strous' cost of the Shark Mr.. Lon
| don assures us that the craft in which
he is voyaging in the South Seas pre-
liminary to other voyaging in other
seas cost $4,000. AS he is still
somewheres east of Suez,' and, as
we have it on the authority of Rud
yard Kipling that in those ATTITUDES
s.there aren't no Ten Command
ments,'' we are at liberty to receive
Mr.. London s statement at any worth
we please, or to reject his estimate
wholly. It is not the cost of the
Shark in itself that will be regarded
by the socialists and anarchists of Mr..
London s intimate acquaintance as
.ineoneeivable and monstrous -; many
yachts in which hated plutocrats and
despised millionaiI- IS sail the seas cost
even more than Mr.. London tells us
he paid for his boat; the inconceivabil-
ity and monstrosity of the statement
is in the circumstance that Jack Lon
don, the self confessed hobo, the avoW-
ed and implacable enemy OF the rich
and prosperous, the notwithstanding,
money -fiouting, poverty Boosting Jack
London, should openly, unashamedly
and unblushingly declare that he could
afford to pay 100000 for something
that, owned by John d. Rockefeller.
Pierpont Morgan, or E. FL. Hartman,
would confirm Mr.. London fellow
anarchists in the opinion that they had
been robbed on the highway by those
eminent captains of industry and
finance.
Mr.. London's description of the
Shark and her fittings and appurte-
nances is enough to turn the stomach
of the hardest of his ancient COM
rades in Coxey's army; his proud an
nouncement that among other elegant
accessories of the yacht there was
bathroom which was "a beautiful
dream of schemes and devices, pumps,
and levers, and seavalves,' will GER
tainly procure his immediate and igno- /
niinious expulsion from every chapter
and conclave of the Order of the Sons
of Rest A bathroom A place where
Jack London could enjoy the Ebeauti-
full dream of making himself cleani
What self-respecting tramp could for
give such sybaritic luxury in one who
had written volumes in praise of the
never washed2 To be sure, Mr.. Lon
don says nothing of soap as an ad
junct of his palatial bathroom; blt
soap is always an inference when
bathrooms are mentioned, and the
damnable suspicion that there was
soap in the bathroom of the Shark
persists in spite of all that Mr.. Lon
don has written or spoken in dero-
cation of those who battle frequently
and use soap as a necessary compile
ment of that sacred rite.
The former friends and intimates of
Jack London might condone the offeQse
of temporary possession of money, but
they will never stand for the ostenta-
ton of its use and the shameless
parade of the wealth London himself
has never denounced the rich for their
riches; his grievance has always been
hat the possessors of great wealth. in.
stead of giving it to the poor, spent it
lpon their own comfort and luxury
'quandering it on yachts and super.
iuously fxtured bathrooms. He has
ilwavs commended that the selfishness
II the rich was the gravamen of the
Door man s indictment against them.
As Socialist, Jack London has preach
I'd that the first use of wealth is to
enrich the poor and to reduce the hours
II necessary labor to a negligible mini I
mum. AS an anarchist, he has advo-
'ated the abolition of wealth. In re-
urn for the PRONUNCIATION of these doe l
rines he has received enough money to .
il out yacht, including a bathroom !
which he says was a beautiful dream
# schemes and devices, pumps ana
evers and sea-valves. for which he paid 9
10000, cost which he tells us was !
Uncomfortable and monstrous. - Now
DIR. London is making more capital out 7
f the shame of his treason. He has
syndicated' his base treachery to
he Order of the Sons of Rest, and
e is t7affieking in plutocratie doctrines
nd ideas. He acquired his wealth by
enouneing the rich and he is acquiring A
lore wealth by denouncing those to
HON he has been compelled to pay his u