Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-04
The Duke of Manchester Ingeniously Argues That
! Those Who Patronize Actors Artists and All the
By His Grace the Duke of Manchester
The Duke of Manchester.
Written Especially for This Newspaper


WOULD like to take issue to-day with that old prin-
ciple of political economy which teaches us that ex
travagance does good to community. This theo-
is based a complete misunderstanding of human
nature The old political economy never took any notice
If psychology The political economy mostly psy
hoogy-because, after all the psychological part of
the only thing that any of about and polti
al economy is designed to bring in harmony with
environment and make all happy, therefore modern
POLITICAL economy is ninetenths psychology.
The political economist bases his ideas of extravagances
mainly upon theory that money which is not spent in
luxury but is put in bank some useful enterprise
eps to keep useful industry going What is
useful Industry And what is luxury9 And, after
all, what is extravaganza
Everyone does not want be engaged in making bricks
breakfast foods such useful" substances
There many human beings who have mission for
more cheerful life Broadly, we divide the world into
the rich and the poor The rich per Sc except such note
worthy examples old John Rockefeller and Mrs Hety
Green picture butterfly beings fitting from gilded
lower to flower slipping all day the nectar Of pleasure and
eepng it off with more or less success during the few
tours of the night.
The poor picture people whose every moment is
Engaged in getting for themselves the 'tnecessaries Of
ite As matter Of fact the poor have great de-
Ire for Injuries for exravagances and for things ont
side of those marked 'necessities" have the rich
Everybody IS after all or less alike win admit
Hat hrickmakug etc. supports many thousands Of es
m0blc people. But the things call Injuries support
artists singers walters mancurc jockeys, sports chorus
tdps picturesque persons These the busy little
social bees who up the JOS OF life for the brick
makers and their kind
Until that day which The political economist appears
a consider ideal whom everybody win spend their every
waking hour Ia work with short intervals for food every.
iedy win want and will have luynrics
Md again ash What aW m1uresi Everything /
tasweF NOT necessity
And necessities eouss, 81 water food soap. clothing
and In all but tht tropics foot over NE head These
The only real necessities Outside az these everything
Is luxury But n everyone n ths woFd restricted
himself n these four h0w MANY people wonld starVe
doathi How many trades would 81 sfit The butcher
e baker he soap maker iha bHgkIaygr This would
naan that about two thirds 81 ths population would "a
rdused uko thr ssl'y Islanders Is tarbug preearaaa
livelihood hy taking IN tafh otkgf washing
This iak about injuries absurl People have d..
ushtful way Of talking dsparaebsy about lueutiet but
hey almost always mean something ihsy themselves can
te without "a g mvsl hoe-inthf mauear idea 4 AZ
va use aae powder af n al,e la ANY eFfsl tttrut ha
Do noe therefore think ihat eTegons should ra uthas
We would she at ~. the nayaF out ~ hta IA thag db
u amounts g. iaM ihat t's hta developed uatN new.
luturits have become necessities q, ttt majority ne