The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-02

FOFTeSIOu ana w dAdndCHlS, hh .
travelled from Dallas as far south as
Waco and at one time spent the day
at Hillsboro, have covered the dis
lance between Grand Saline at the
east to Glenrose, Sommervell county,
at the west. mention these facts to
show my cosmopolitan qualifications
to sit in judgment on the social frall-
ties of such people as | may meet in
any community AS whole the citi-
zens of Waxahachie are as genial,
whole-souled, social, companionable
and capable of adapting themselves
to environment as any people
have met in my vast experience with
the human race. 1t is worth king s
ransom the welcoming smiles OF her
fair ladies on the street, at their
homes or at public gatherings; the
hearty hand shake of good fellow
ship from the men causes one to con-
graduate himself that he has cas-,
his lot among queens and noblemen
minus that cloak of excluslvenss
usually enveloping those who bear
such titles only by law and custom,
TO the real live man whose pulse
beats in harmony with the plan OF
ages whose belief in the brotherhood
of man Is not mere mental asset Tor
use at summer revivals and frater-
nal gatherings but is deep seated
conviction prompting him to know
no north, no south, no east, no west
Nf ynalth
pect the judicial ermine only In pro-
H.. ion to the virtue it covers, to see
no difference between rags and fine
linen except with reference to the
comfort of the wearer, to pass by the
distinction between ignorance and
learning and pry into the workings
of the heart and even enables him to
apply the moral x-ray and peer down
beneath colored skin in search OF
moral excellence: hearty reciprocal
response to his longing for good
comradeship drives away somDel
thoughts and converts this world OF
activity into a field Elysian. Human
harmony, human sympathy. unlver-
sal peace, legislative rest, absolute
Justice, the crucifixtion of selfish
ness, the eradication of self concell
and that am holier than thou which
characterizes so many lives would
usher in, in all it's respondent glory
and ineffable happiness, the millen-
MUM ! believe our citizens have
travelled as far on the highway to-
ward that true civilization which
must become the common heritage
of all races before humanity shall
have attained that exalted position
of moral perfection for which we
should be qualified. as most any 9th
err community of this selfish, greedy
arrogant standardization. | wish
sauld bring this deseription to a
.nI cIfer2 comm en-
but there Is here well as every
where else | suppose species or the
genus homo which while not worthy
of the notice of sensible, decent peo>
ple II Is poss BILE some OF them nave
sense enough to reform II once per-
mitted to see themselves as others
SEQ them. They are not as class
real idiots, but with rather weak
mentality, have dwelt upon some
ancestral or self attained position IN
society until they have degenerated
into snobs snob, not accordine
to Webster, but according to later
authority. is celluloid aristocracy'
The members OF this class have nv
ed and travelled in but not through
a great many states, viz; ignorance
arrogance. insolence. intolerance,
insigaificance. sycophancy, and self
conceit. An investigation OF
their own position and their
antecedents Will usually reveal
the fact that their claim to distinc-
ton is not altogether without fouh-
dation, grand father was Justice
of the peace, road overseer, postnas-
ter or school trustee in Arkansas IL
father shook hands with Abe LIN
coin or jeff Davis, or possibly owned
his home and kept horse and pug
ey. The snob himself has possibly
served on grand jury, been elect
cd to an office or having come from
a home of poverty has by ms own
efforts accumulated the price OF an
auto. II u female of the genus shop
II is possible that some unconscious
able man has told her she was a
beauty or perchance she once reao
an essay at the close OF school on tue
subject, Passing Away and was
told she possessed the talents to De-
come a great authoress. When we
carefully contemplate If not the aae'
ouate causes at least the mitigating
circumstances conspiring together u
promote snobbery We are inclined u
throw the mantle OF charity over the
victim. The symptoms or snobberS
are many, one of the most common
of which is rigidity of the neck
the chin usually resting AS nearly Oh
the chest as possible, there Is hnc
of self assertive yulgarity IN int
walk. an inability to see persons wh'
are not of equal or superior rank II
snobbery, for the snob is IN every
walk of life, but they are more apuh
class NEAR