Show IVA ITE LETTER respectability respectability and cowardice of the wealthy in new york 9 ki rr WANT ANY rig WITH S rain SPAIN AND CRIES OUT rn I 1 i A THE MAINE DISASTER WAS WAS AN ACCIDENT BUT AT THE ree borca torca an ALL right FIGHT BOSS iras STO EArED THE SOCIAL PEISE AT JUDGE CLU CLUB CI B 7 if THE YOUNG NEW WHO SAD HAD NO A ATM IN LITE alii E at inai ER SIZED ul arf TO A DOT i kli nil Trl tribune bune yes now york I feb eb il nh ethor r or not faun w as right in thinking prop joiy ray to be robbery robb try there cam be no tom tt at all that it to 1 cowardice new is 9 to 0 be e human and An tiff lM but bit its lt acquired respect for or lih ocal wai gods ds over overlies overl lea lies and e rl lle feeling the local gods are C thim of it the li eathea nood and stone sa 4 alro t brick they their rise to twenty 2 and nd in reverently these the work of 0 his big own wd the new tw yorker thinks ho be be 5 b hiu the lenad and roost most admirable exy exi I 1 faeo ot of civilization he would t re bar that t his big soul should be damned A atul that they should be injured for or 4 tin jore they to topple nothing would con tte itsu hin I 1 that the foundations ot of the lt CWM had not blown into baar dust Z it they efly 1 remarked an agitate ea 7 wd sa very mell iel dressed old gentlemen N wt me in an elevated car on tho the mom r when the new of 0 the making of 0 11 maln was received ree elid they 4 out t here let me point to the remark siam of the fact act that a well armel d it 08 gentleman should speak at all to a gaer csc in an elevated cur car tho the new yorker li in quite as averse to that sort gore As e thing as aj an englishman Js ja but patt at public calan altic a break down g serve reserve and push puh our corn com aca humanity ato to the sur Bur taco faco I 1 re rc rebr a like disposition ot of men to ut one to the other in public places von TI lincoln mas tia assassinated eky sity observed this agitated OR ife gentleman rent leman made human and natu til rj by eni BUon they say bay on the stock that it m was as an accident nen I 1 asked him liow low the stock exchange could know any more about jt it thin than anybody rim else ho he glared gfred blankly at me that wasl was a new idea and a stunning one lie he hod had lived for or sixty nw five years at least leant and never before had heard tho the stock exchange Ex Eit chango charge spoken ot of as mortal to a twenty story atory office building could not have lave shocked and confused him more mor ile iia presently turned awny away from me as a doubtful character acter and bestowed hl his prattle ort on the lh man on tho the other side of efm thre he had comforted this second new yorker exceedingly cee to loarn that the stock exchange thought it an accident if the spanish should shell the ton domn and destroy halt of lt it new york tork would lean to the theory of 0 accident or at least accept the explanation that the captain had yone gone mad in preference to holding spain responsible the advantage of 0 the accident theory Js IS that flier it cl ant require you to do anything and when you dont have to do anything nobody nc booy has reason rea on to bo be provoked into punching your head or laying hand on your pocket As one who ov own n any twenty story etory buildings I 1 could almost wish to see some spanish shells phella go through a few of 0 them idolatry Is odious to a true chriatian and to his soul coul it Is a pleasure to see the bely gods toppled for when they are overthrown thrown their worshipers logo falth in them and are arc jn in tho the way of belna being converted A stout and grizzled seaman arnan pe who arho 1 had been drinking on his big way to tho he brooklyn navy yard anil and Punish punishment mc eyed the extra in my hands in a bridge car and said paid everybody was talking that day J by god if that spanish ship cornea in hero here she ought to be let we ro out alicel and I 1 but feel that hat that ond and dissipated sailor was waa more of A man than the well old gent lemait and more worthy of respect than the iho accident eager stork lock S L akym anyway oy in case oft of trouble r ho he would bo be expected 4 to do niom more fighting aing than either cither and being of limited i intelligence and holding no stock in story atory buildings he would bo be absurdly eager to risk his big life for his hl country countr we admire such men though we cant help looking down on oil thorn and feeling that they need our direction its odd that mince they do tile iho work and shed the blood they should be so 0 o humble avirt 11 submissive and with perfect rood good faith accI accept plit the superiority jr ot of ourselves ourse Ives who talk lalk and write and draw dividends of course if it mould t come to wor wax new york tork not lot because tt 11 Is 1 america but because it la human would rise to a height kurpa that of its fid build jogs ines and be prepared to sacrifice fico cv Pry lhing but choit of actual compulsion it wont wall street will not live poetry to any other music than that t of bombardment should that happen such 14 q tho the constitution of flesh and it blood a broker would show himself to be a man as hotly as my sailor of tho the bridge civilization 19 but a garment thin warlike excitement has for ali tile moment reduced jn in interest matters that otherwise would have absorbed metropolitan attention mr ir croker has been doing notable things and having notable things happen to him this man bred in the slums saloons dwelling all his life in the shadow of the penitentiary has had special apartments apartment for himself fitted up at tho the democratic club apartments gorgeously furnished and finished in rose pink silk fine enough for a bride more than that he has haa been forced socially upon tho the local aristocracy nt at a musicals musicale given by perry belmont tho the millionaire mIllion pIre who wants to be governor at any other time this fatter event would havo have appalled new nem yoi boik k which views the four hundred with a rever i enco equal to that 0 of a british shopkeeper for the nobility but I 1 daro dare say that croker after the first shock felt comfortably at home among belmontes belmonta Bel monta monts jaudy gaudy friends croker Is 18 able to size up of people quickly and he knew speedily that ho he was a better man in point of brains than any he met jn in the draw ing inc room he a great cicat deal dal of intellect but he has haa enough to do busl bubl bicas with and to free frea himself from ilu illusions lus lons H ile t a kes himself seriously too A man m ho he has bag captured the biggest and richest city la in the united states and Us its most opulent citizens to pay mm him tribute find and deference ian t going to bo be stunned by contact with alt its peoclia ornaments he looks like a criminal and cant speak decent english but as lie he Is unconscious of these hindrances to a fashionable career they are not practical handicaps handl capa henceforward tho the croke ft ill III figure among those present at the functions of the wealthy few that mill bo be I a solve to those gentlemen in public I 1 life its who have not dis din dalbed to join th ahe a boss ciuba find and so to lo confess tho the political Plin lacY of this successful tough he aa well as to come into personal contact with him I 1 am told that I 1 burai lard california by nn an flouncing ii this correspondence tho that cenec aman maguire tripod and d din caple of dc henry george had become a mf ins aber of crokers Cr club my ily authority for the statement vw a pst list of new proposed members published la in the dally daily papers here it Is I 1 certainly disgraceful that judge maguyre should associate him himself seli in any degree with a berbon hom henry george denounced from tho the platform RS as it ahloe whom ho he mould if elected send bond to jail or drive out of the he country try the explanation of abir judge maguire lid did tills lilg resta not on oil rno me but on judge maguire Macu lre ile ho may plead that many other men ot of goo booi gooi d repute have hav done don the same thins thing and an d among them friends friend find and followers fol lowera of henry george Gir paa afi for example sir mr wills willis J abbot chairman of the henry george campaign committee but it that la t act of sir fr abbots has haa astonished and shocked the Jefferson jeffersonian dan democracy of now new york and cost cont him his at standing am din g as it sincere man another L proposed for membership in Cro crokers kero tub H 19 senator white of oc mr white Is a not a george man and therefore his course in this particular la in not of tile tho same bam corn complexion alexion an am that ot of representative maguire mr white Is IB a democratic Democrat io it Is ig natural that ho he should wish to ally himself with strength in california I 1 used lined to be told that mr white and gov budd were both ambitious of the democratic vice presidential nomination the new nen york tork delegation to a national convention la Is large but I 1 hardly think it will be viry very influential in 1300 mr white who Is a much better politician than I 1 am la Is entitled however to s a different opinion or of greater weight but judge laguire 1 contest confess that his joining the croker club astounded mo me lie he Is a man ot of thought of 0 ideals and I 1 liked to think that ho he cared more daoro for or the single tax as a a pro gramme of regeneration than he ha did for or the th good will of 0 P pere oriS like croker and the be kind 0 f political strength that croker and white stand for and I 1 am not ready to abandon that belief judgie has been living too much among politicians politician this athla lies muddled its his ethical sense the number of re respectable pec table men who have joined the club of croker have bave not divided the shamo shame but multiplied it As for white hire lie Is 3 another mckenna a little larger but not much the unfortunate inhabitant of the provinces who la Is de barred from the th do da lights of metropolitan exia existence tence ana Is therefore prone to bellev believe in hell bell can only have it a pate pale conception of 0 the tha pleasures of life la in new fork to the other night no tower fewer than 0 people the P hero tore themselves away from the multitudinous attractions of 0 our rn ell grossini life and gathered eath gath pred ored tog tiner in madison square gorden garden for I or what jn in order to gee aee ft a darkey cakewalk cake walk and they enjoyed it too loo cheering in their excitement and joy till the rafters trembled how full our days daya and flights are of interest Inter eyt how free from tho the canker anker of ennui our souls way may bv bs judged from tills evidence of In differ ance nc to tame amusements tho the poor yokel who nho can find entertainment in a corn husking or spelling boc bee may dream of oc other and more intense en tran cements but while h remains away from new york ho he Is 13 condemned to false thim them thi m in the officio of the hoffman house last laai evening I 1 mot met a child of wealth and of the metropolis ire ho was overjoyed to see ace mp m ile he would have been overjoyed to see coe anybody or to havo have anything happen standing there in III evening dress twiddling his thumbs lie he said no devil take tho the tb aters rm im nick alck of thorn thom all having runs and ivo ive been to thern rill all theres no illing new theres nowhere to KO go no fights no billiard matches no anything it drives me mad to mako make calk this the girls are such twittering idiots and you can see se an inquiry for your intentions it i you stay more than ten minute 4 travel be hanged ive traveled till it means nothing but captains and conductor and row with baggage hingsberg and rage fit at cheating hotel keepers what the deuce can call a fellow do willing to do anything its the it la Is in barim and london every things stale ditale when you come to think of jt it thres terrea mighty tew few things one can do to amu alwo bonio got a body and when you start to blow it in you run up in a week against its ita limitations 1 tat ions A man cant havo have any tun fun really without smashing right up against what he la is yes tes I 1 guess SO BO one ought to go in tor for study and philanthropy and all that but it calls tor for a whole lot of 0 purpose p find and thinking and work oh damn the cakewalk cake walk ive seen been cake malks v mid 1 I dont don want to meet the tha women woman the hu hubband a b A nd hunten b V n tj ng bonien wo n they shock me dont you know the most sordid find and soulless thing I 1 know Is the women who to be ba better and higher than round erg like me but they aint high and ana low merchants by led I 1 wish wah they tor for id like to believe in something or other itna I 1 cant lets have a drink what that young man needed w hafl some poetry in hla his life faling 1 that a 3 stretch of hard crork aou would d tie be useful tor for it Is a mistake in the cose case of a youth capable of reflection to rave give himself over to to self indal gence to hunting hunt lop satisfaction outside 0 ot and on ng ot of poetry I 1 have just received fr rom the whit whitaker r ray company campany of 0 sail art francisco Franc laco the I 1 cro C complete ro lete poetical works ot of joaquin miller r nicely bound and well ell printed though on rather poor door paper now mow there Is a happy roan man miner was waa born to bo be happy none of the sadden lag probie problems ms of life trouble him god pave gave him a gift of sons gong and h he just sings and han ahn he singing he h fills jn in by taking a drink which makes aihini i him feel largo large and great and benevolent I 1 ile can wore more sonorous non orous about nothing thun than tiny any man I 1 know of ile he has hag absolutely nothing to in wiy ray but he tay says it in melodious numbers and a rood good part pan of the world listens and IS in agreeably impressed were wv stiller miller in iho 1110 place of in my distressed youns young friend of ft the iho notman man hous he would intone 91 L boeni and attract general attention find that out SS and uplift film attention banishes the blues utterly for A man of millers Ill leeg makeup make up qu buos quos ile he has haa coelus a genius tor for sound without that wonderful par far he would be as commonplace common pi isicc as 03 unknown as any man mho TV ho la Is working A farm and honestly bringing up a family in oregon lies HOS AS ft s empty as a drum a conscious a hallow pretender a n ampre humbug yet Y t h hf has brentus filid genius Is th the one an cad thin thana to men not gifted with it but endo endowed uPil with power to it take olt oft their hats miller aller nab has thi the divine nr and ther them la Is no ul use in quarreling with divinity for having bestowed on him a voice ie resonant sonant and fetching and withheld v mith ath held from him A brain capable of beyond the cor chorpash PaSH of a common man her he feels but lie li cant think and as hin hl emotions butt against the th wall of hla his in tol incapacity they give forth noise splendid noise the hubbub of a desperate deK struggle with will the unconquerable poor miller the almighty has bren unkind rt it la IS an electric el etric light in a cabin an arpan in a 0 shed MP WEN |