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Show . REBUKE TO AMEBICANS. Mrs. John A. Logan Talks on the irinn.). n x.- ""5 o woiuup-iion. 1 xIrs. John A. Logan is the widow of I the famous General Logan, candidate for vice president on the same ticket with James G. Blaine. - President Roosevelt should feel that her advice applies to him, anticipating his readiness read-iness to allow his daughter to be present pres-ent at the coronation ceremonies of England's king. Commenting on a certain species of -American citizen desiring to be in conspicuous con-spicuous evidence at the coronation of England's king, Mrs. John A. Logan says: It is that fawning, sycophant class who have wealth without culture and ambition without pedigree, and are always out to see things when things of vast pith and moment are going on, whether it be a horse show or n "kins- show. Americans, with more. wealth than sense are spending more money on available processions for viewing the procession than they ever dreamed of giving to charity or of expending on their own education. IUhas long been accepted as an axiom ax-iom that a fool and his money are soon parted, but the biggest fools and the biggest money will, doubtless be parted when our vulgar rich and rich vulgars rush to the coronation. But tjiere will be a recompense. These cheap Americans will rush home again to boast to their neighbors auu uauu uown tn tne family the remarkable re-markable and congratulating fact that they were introduced to the third assistant as-sistant of the king's bootblack, or actually ac-tually caught a glimpse of the milliner to the queen's chief dishwasher. Why should Americans take anymore any-more notice of a king's coronation than Europeans take of a president's Inauguration? In the estimation of our loyal and intelligent citizens, is a king higher or of more divine right than a president? Do the English rich rush to our I presidential inauguration, ready to give fabulous sums for a seat in a shoe store window, whence they may view the parade, and do they com" prepared to rehabilitate whole families of aristocratic degenerates for the favor fa-vor of an introduction to tht. omi-xi .successor of George Washington? The English are not such vulgar fools. The have a more conscientious appreciation of the value and mission of wealth. There will be splendid and praiseworthy praise-worthy examples of stay-at-homes on that august occasion. Our best rich, our cultivated famines, fami-nes, who have long since risen above the vulgarity of wealth; our serious people of brains, -elf-respect and national na-tional pride, have learned to put money to a better use than by spending thousands thou-sands and millions to see a king crowned; their money is being invested in institutions of benevolence and education ed-ucation where our common, American manhood is receiving the coronation of ' education, mutual sovereignty and the genius of industrial empire. Honor to whom honor is due, whether wheth-er it be to president, king or mechanic; but self-respect always, national dignity dig-nity and good taste ever in the expression expres-sion of feeling, and even in the exercise exer-cise of pride and ambition! Let the rich Americans honor King Edward VII by remaining at home and in his name or the name of the King of Kings put the price of a trip to the w. unauuii imu bome- nooie cnarity, or into a monument to perpetuate the memory of an inventor, author hero or patriot. ' 1 |