Show A A NATIONAL FAULT AME AMERICAN nICAN submission TO OF facial INSOLENCE citizen Is too prone to stand with j hat f at in ha hand I 1 act before mis his hired T man slime plain talk necessary Nece fary 4 i 1 i j the scot who boarded a warsh warship lp gohd sent word to its ito captain that otic obe of the owners wished to so see him alerted asEr ted a fact which 1 few ow ol of us haye have the backbone to stand bland up tip tal to that flint the humble masses eeB own the earth hy by right of hazing having paid for it with their more or less leas hard earned many mon ey it would ns as it if we the pro I 1 of tho the ever glorious republic ic anre especially meek tit in regarding yur our aired men from the president down no ng our masters masiers rather than our paid 9 arvans eor vante frank BI bicknell says saya in Lippin coVo anve V allow ourselves to be browbeaten by public and quast public officials to an extent that ati amazes lazes the foreigner A titled II englishman ng recently wasted much temper tempe r in learning that un tiu american railway conductor la Is allowed to be almost as aa autocratic ni aa tho captain of an ocean liner among the few strang era in our midst who have really succeeded cee ded in silencing a toplofty aty parlor ca car r conductor to Is max and the did it by bursting out with a threat to pitch him through tho the window about thy opening of which they disagreed itis it la not the highly placed hoi however Taver atit but A the ho petty gaii josuks ks ln in office who are anro abe moat bumptious their belief in their own importance appears t to be ba tn in direct proportion to their specific levity A smart young cleric in a certain cartain suburban pity jolty hall once tried 1 1 fa to baub and mako needless trouble bior for a hulets ault shabby abby elderly man who iiii had requested an item of information at his hie count counter or to the young fellow rf dao comfit the old gentleman revolt far as to tree free his mind RS as follows ast 1 my aly friend let me ask aak it I 1 am tn in your ser service vice or you in mine id always supposed roy my tax money helped you vim and these other chaps here to work for the city to the best olour of our ability arid and ao aa im a citizen of the city efty im one of your bosses mid and I 1 object eject to 0 o being treated as it 11 1 I was no bet better than dirt besides which on I 1 your you riwu own account t you ou want to be a little m mite lie civil or some day I 1 be hunting another job it n nver ever struck yau you in just that alia light before maybe ith a so BO allabe all the same U A bittic plat plain n tain of this blits sort con a wholesome lesson Is needed much mia than it Js la given most blast of at us submit to domineering rather tann make n fuse being surprised indeed it if bedont we dont get it it if the policeman on the corrini corri corner qi when Y ht ask k him n direction responds res ponda with anything bettor better than patronizing condescension we are absurdly grateful we nye approach the box office of a theater or even the desk of ji hotel bot el as aa supply cants ready to cringe at the expected rudeness or rebuff in the trolley cars of the large cities at least wo we avoid personal intercourse with the men in charge and look for only the replies if need forces us to interrogate them however there la Is something to be said on the other side wrid and if we do feel m oyed moved on occasion t put one of 0 these high and haughty officials in no I 1 roper place let us do it good torn tem pe not forgetting the hint given by i a certain street cir car company in its printed notice to th the e effect that while courtesy Is to bo ba desired from the C conductor on ductor its practice la Is not coning in the passenger |