Show THE PEOPLE who have been gulled by tbe bogus Lord BeresforJ or Lord CouMpnay crLord Arundei or Lord Pel bam Clinton or whoever the swell swindler may be who ia soon to reach this city for trial on tbe charge of forgery would not like 10 be referred re-ferred to as the snobbish element that pervades American society yet their conduct gives the modest people of the rcpub 12 the right to suggest that they are snobbish Suppose this fellow hd been a real lord instead ofR very common swindler would the case have stood sny difieront with IhosG who toadied to him who spent money lavisaly for bite entertainment and Quill allowed ba to roj tbem ic tif eefilaK pleasure Those persons per-sons in Parta d in New York in Richmond and finally in Salt Like wbobowed aoWnbetoft Irme Iud and opened ft their pryckalbooks at a wink fret him fcrcfieservldg of no sym pithy Indeed we are not certain that Beresord in the absence of his geautae na eougbt not ta be presented pre-sented with a series of resolut ona of thanks for trying to teach one cites Americana a lesson K it u a characteristic of Eophsh lords to go about the country borrowing money from stranger then they are a class of people to ba avoided as persona unworthy the attention duo to the hardhanded collier who pays his debts through his toil in an English coal mine Judging I from the number of these bogus lords and their success in this country not a few Americans bare an idea that lords are perpetually broke and always on the borrow But had Esreaford been a real lord should anymore any-more attention have been bestowed upon him than upon an American gentleman It is an Incontrovertible fact the tbf 1 gfngine lords as a t class are by no means honorable I upright or moral they are not as a rulefper sons whom tho ordinarily circumspect eesociatee 5L man would choose for associates I good many of them arc as precious a lot of blackguards as could be collected col-lected from tho low club rooms and I questionable houses of the American cities Then is it not a manifestation manifesta-tion of tho wore kind of snobbishness for gentlemennndTadies of this caun try to run aler and make much of these lords bogus andv genuine gen-uine Bere lonL isv doubtless ia looks and manners a more agreeable person than half theclass one of which he claimed ttt be j he baa shown that he is sharper than most of them and perhaps liis ideas of right and morality are as high as those of the average lord Unless soma fearfal Jies are told of the titled ones from the Prince of Wales down eociety might be guilty of a worst offense in lionizing a real lord than in doing the same thing for the sham one At any rate Americans will show more respect for themselves and for the ideas and institutions of their country if they will treat the titled people of the Old World no better than they do the honest ladies and gentlemen with whom they come in contact t |