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Show H a heap more interested In that art dtoplayefl on H bank notes thnn In the impersonal appraisement Hj of books, pictures, statuary and. music. H The English are rated a8 a very hard-headed H people and they 'are, in everything unrelated to H the titled aristocracy. It remains to he seen if that H same England which revolted against the Stewarts H because they accepted, Indorsed, practiced and en- H couraged the Lady Snehvllle system, will condone H in the twentieth century what was condemned H een to the extent of regicide in the seventeenth. H For the Englishman "dearly loves a lord"; and ho H may conclude, jpven against his sober reason, that H there must be mental and moral processes of which H he is unaware, else the lady would not have so H conducted herself. H one thing should be remembered, in all the H sordid prostitution of the Sackville people man H and wife; and that is the foreign substance which H this titled courtesan brings into the equation. She H has not typified aristocracy. At base that lnstltu- Hj ticn rests on honor, and Is maintained by rectl- H tude. The motto of those Knights at King Arthur's H Round Tablo, tho oath to which he swore thorn H when they entered that great brotherhood the- H firm foundation of all decent living; the origin of H all aristocracy not fit for hell tho ritual of rank HJ is there and here now and even moro the tost H below which, weak and wicked people fall the H ket-p-ng of which constitutes the title deeds of H eery human greatness: M To reverence the King as if he were M Their conscience and their conscience as H their King; H To break the heathen and uphold the Christ; Hj To ride abroad redrawing human wrongs; M To speak no slandd no nor llston to it; H To honor hia own word a& if his God's! H This bad-woman nnd-worso man have provod H Burns' analysis: "Tlra rank is but the guinea's H stamp" so far. as they ara conoarnod. Thoro is no H punishment for thorn. Whon a woman can sell- H herself to a millionaire; whon nor husband can. Hj live in idleness and vice on the proceeds of her M p.urchaw earth, has no punishment which can H touch them. When- a womiui, simply to keep the H dirty dalhus for which ah has bartered her body, Hl can take the- witness stand and paint the picture H of her own prostitution, there is no lower level to H yhlclx soeietj can consign her. And when a man HH can facte his- fUww with tha calm assertion that fl he approves his. .wC-'s mathed of purchasing his H ease, not even Whitsehtipol onn refuse contompL B And tho -atin ge oBt it is that whan thoy get low Hj they are indififtorent to tthiy-sentlmont of all clean H minds, throughout .the. earth; Tho rank of titlod H people- ovary where is nbnad by thorn. Tho fol- H lowship of human kind is stained by thorn. m And they don't oare! |