The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-22
OUR USELESS ARIsrocRAcY
Or. Woods Hutchinson Says Country
Should Get Rid Of It


New York, Nov. 21.-"The best
thing for this country is to get rid
of our useless so called 'aristOcracy.
In truth, there is no such thing as an
'aristocracy' here. Il is the most
arrant piece of nonsense for any one
to claim that there is an aristOcracy
or old families, or strains of the
best blood here.
The truth is that there isn't an ar
istocratic family in this country that
couldn't be produced in so years if all
the present members were to die out
from the so called lower classes.
Il am not sure but that the strain
produced by the Tower classes won d
be better than that of the present
T aristocracy This latter class by the
way, usually assists the defamation
of their number by drinks and other
I vices"
This is what DR. Woods Hutchinson
said in part in lecture before the
members of the League for Political
Education. The audience about him
included many OF the -Four Hun
bred" of New York.
Among the members of the league
are Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. J. P,
Morgan, Miss Anne Morgan, Miss
Grace NJ. Dodge, Mrs. j. Borden Har-
riman. Mrs. Charlotte b. WilbouT,
Mrs Albert Able, Mrs. Fritz Achelis,,
Mrs Thomas Blagdon, Mrs c. Led.
yard Blair, Mrs John c Breckenridge
Mrs. John Newton Newall. Mrs. A.
Barton Hepburn Mrs. f. c. Have
meyer, Mrs. Albert Lewisohn, Mrs
Philip NJ Lydig, Mrs. Clarence Mack
av, Miss Marie Winthrop and Mrs
Herbert l.. Satterlee
DR. Hutchinson declared that II
proper preventive measures which
sciences present knowledge can die
tate were legisiated into law, tuber
culosis could be rendered as rare
as smallpox within five years.
Consumption is one of the dlsgra
ces of civilization he declared
What does it profit a nation to gair
the trade Of the whole world and lose
its own health? The most important
the most valuable product Of any in
dustry or enterprise, is the type, no
of the goods that it turns out, but o.
the men. Also of women and chill
dren who have to live on the wages
of the men
Consumption although caused BY
a bacillus, is only a symptom O
something rotten in the hygieni,
state of Denmark We have beef
sparring with the disease Ion,
enough, the time has come to go TO
the solar plexus. We know wher,
this bacillus lives. how it spreads
what causes II. The only thing 70
us to do is to put into practice wha
we know.
THE tubercle bacillus is a terrible
bug. But we are made up of score
of billions of terrible bugs, each on
of which is worth ten OF him 70
, fighting purposes. All we have L
do is to train and feed our native
born armies. and they will llterall
eat 'em alive He's only a vegetable
and we're animals
, After dilating upon the virtues o
, sunlight as cure, DR.. Hutchinson
said: Let in, or rather out, anothe
form Of imprisoned sunlight, tn
, flame. Let us make a law providin
that every house intended for humal
, habitation, after II has stood for 8
| years, should be burned down II
is below the then hygienic standard
for light and air.
"All this would cost money but |
! would be the best investment tn
. community ever made Not onl
: would consumption disappear, bu
with It two-thirds of our pauperisr
, and dependency; one.third OF our IL
i sanity and half of our crime; an
, something better than any imagine
J. millennium would come"