The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-11-02

substance tba annro,ch ~ ,s,,,,,,,t,,,,
and seeIt the aoiitary places g., rvh,ch
to die.
Yet anotbar fect ann.r.nt,,, s,.o.r
nected. LORD E,rnass ona ~ Eng.
lands lords of commerce cells out HE
interest in the great ebinn,ng Arm ~
Furness. withv a CO ana rotires w,tb
$40. 900. 900. Ike him other corn
mercial peers are. under fear of the
rising democracy. "selline ont" ana re-
firing.
These men of money will endeavor
tn continue the Observation-Disclosures
found new and lordly houses upon the
ashes Of the old. And 40 the burning
Of aristocracy ana plutocracy goes on
its predestined course.
Within the memory of men still
cIosost a ss. soe'ey was .ne
reigned absolute. 1t would have been
as unthinkable at that time for tho
most beautiful and most intelligent
american woman to get her nose in
SIDE the doors OF the exclusive London
houses as 1t would have BEEN I'M
tnlnKapie that Lord Algie should sully
the watered blood OF a thousand years
oy mixing II with that Of either a
chorus girl or musical comedy act
ress' AT tnat time Camille Chhords
were unknown and unknowable.
Inen one day little American
woman with her naturalness, her
shrewdness and her humor-for even
the BRUSH aristocrat Is not so I'M
human as to be able to resist the IRE
sisuDie-got her foot inside. Then
came her knee--and then the whole Of
ner adorable self. After her-the
oelugel
Tradition owes its Immunity to its
completeness. Like the oyster, 1t can
only Keep out foreign substances so
long as 1t Is intact. A pinhole. and the
enamel OF the centuries crumbles.
w. A.. r..
Then the next act in the drama of
evolution. Labor began to raise its
head against its masters. It's demands
became insistent. Its raucous echoes
penetrated even the clustered fast
nesses Of the great houses. Aimed
primarily at the captains Of industry
with their factories and workshops
upon the economic plane, It struck
through the plutocracy at the ari-
stocracy on the political plane. IT
demanded not only power economic.
but political. 1t forced together the
aristocrat and the plutocrat. whom he
had hitherto despised. forced them to-
gether in a common cause That IL
doing to-day.
The value of land began to decline.
The Industrial began to replace the
AGRICULTURAL. Ruthless economies be-
gan to do its work. The land owner
was forced into business To save his
estates And so another link was
forged.
Sometimes. Incidentally. the fmna-
cunious aristocrat was forced into
.the CITY" where he rsve his Ais
ttnpuished name IN bip business IN re-
turn for the wherewithal m live T
have known mora than one of these
"p,,inea n,es" az thew have been
called contemntuouslv and often nm
feirlv 7 have known a lord IN whose
veins runs the blood of the CONQUEST
who has been a director of some dozen
Iim,ted Iiahilitv comnanses warning
from cola mines IN hrewer,es-of The
actual wor,ring ~ which he kney M
,,;ora thar thai now ext,nyuishad ais
,oc,o, ~ Ma nee The do6c
Rut the old fashion "a aristocracv
,vhicb .tiu either tbrouob I,,cL or
,oro beaaadness has heey arla- IA arr.
I'VE the daluoa ~ nIutocr,cv O. Aaw-
INC mora ana mora into itself IA views
the new ortstocracv ~ we.,th w,th
disr,av ana annrahenston. NOV c.r
-. - "a IL -.
with the animal which Is waiting for
its skin.
Despite the sale OF peerages In ex-
change for contributions to the party
funds, which has become such scan
dal that 1t has been raised in the
House Of Lords itself and which has
done more than anything else to Gre
ate the new plutocratic aristocracy-
the old. exclusive aristocracy will have
none Of 1t. The political parties dare
not overlook the holders OF the purse
strings, but some OF these holders. de-
spite their titles. suffer with their
wives the fortunes of the damned as
they peer through the gates Of a par
adise which all their golden keys have
been unable to open.
This old fashioned aristocracy was
the benevolent Bureaucracy OF tradi-
ton. 1t had high code OF honor,