Show Every Man Has His Master No man Is completely free Everyman Every-man has his master The suprcmcst despot is a thrall for there Is somebody some-body whom he fears nnd must court If he docs not dread the plebs he dreads the patricians J he Is not afraid of the people he Is nlmld of the army with which he cowes the people l there Is l danger In neither the rabble nor the pretorlan guard there Is a minister a majordomo a foreign nation na-tion a Jester u satirist a dynamiter or a woman who worries and frightens him and In a measure controls his actions Is the Czar of all the Russlns an absolutely ab-solutely free man He has not much moro liberty than a boy has at a board ingschool He cannot even marry whom he pleases but must be guided In picking a wife by reasons of state He would not dare to walk the streets of unattended Nicholas his capital unnlendec Nlholn cannot live In peace of mind either at homo or abroad He Ir I harassed continually con-tinually by poll both foreign and domestic by l Nihilists spies servants by Cosrick rcvojts and peasant rebellions rebel-lions IU must study hl < j every act lest be do something Impolitic In abort he Is the slave of his own cr ° alnes Toke the case of a monarch with limited powers such as Edward of England He tpo Is I n prisoner within that wall 0 majesty which doth hedge about a king His high eminence cur tails his freedom He has many masters mas-ters the people Parlament the Prime Minister the press the London tradesmen trades-men who clamor if he buys a hat In Franco So too In humbler stations everyman every-man has his master There Is I no boss so powerful that ho has not to do rev ciencc to another boss The errand man In a bank takes orders from the Junior clerks tho Junior clerks from the seniors the seniors from the cashier cash-ier the cushier from the president tho president from lie I directors the directors di-rectors from the stockholders and from the magnates of finance The magnates of 51000000 take t orders from the magnates mag-nates o 10000000 the magnates of J100QOOOO from those of J100000000 and the latter are slaves o their valets or their vices or of some titled person through whom their wives hope to be Introduced to smart society abroad Put two human beings together and each will acquire mastery In some respect re-spect over the other The human race Is a social body Men are Interdependent Interdepend-ent Absolute freedom and splendid isolation are alike Impossible Everyone Every-one must obey orders or suffer San Franclwco Bulletin |