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Show DENOUNCES WORKINGMAN i Barrett Wendell, professor of English at Harvard university, who recently startled Chicago iPRfcx w,t" llls hysterical denunciation of tho working- f man, Is chiefly known to famo aa tho fathor .of I ioSw Barrett Wendell Jr., tho athlete. Somo of tho I W statements attributed to him aro tho following: ("tc l" ''0no ot tao moat P0I'ular caricatures In tho nSy ,OPS comic papers today represents a blg-bolllod, r . Mpl bald-headed, thin-whiskered, brutal, grinning man &iti jy trampling on his worthy follow cltlzon, and ho Is V'-jV xl' (fl supposed to personify wealth and fashion, tho hnSj )y upper classes. If there Is anything on earth llko 1 if f' ifMlnV 1,10 ulB,uelllotl nionstor I havo spoken of It Is tho vYv. nr Ulfr laboring man with his pall, who usurps my prlvll- I iflllflir---.ltllllllilllllllllllllll Again: "This privileged Individual with tho tin dinner din-ner pall also combines with his kind to crowd out all competition, and to do It resorts to tho most brutal and Intenso physical force. Ho destroys competition com-petition and keeps up prices by violence. "I havo said enough to show that I am not In public life. To bo In public pub-lic llfo In any nation ono must show proper deforonco nnd adulation to tho sovereign, whothor the sovereign bo a shah, a czar or tho peoplo. Tho deforonco defor-onco shown to tho worklngman has novor boon equaled In abjoctness boforc any privileged class tho world has ovor known," Prof. Wondoll was tho first American professor to lecturo at tho Sor-bonno Sor-bonno under tho International agreement for au oxchnngo of professors. Whllo In Franco ho mado a spoclal study of tho history of tho country and Its social system and has published Mvoral to.ilin-it-.tiva -vnrkn on tho sub Ject |
