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Show , ", t- . AWAY WITH CLASS HATRED Distinction of Condition Should Be Forgotten If the Ideal Ever Is to Be Attained. Perhapa there le no feeling more subtle, more elusive, and more difficult dif-ficult to eradicate from human nature than the aeiian of "superiority. In a hundred different ways It manl-feme manl-feme Itself, and no clasa of eoclety seems free from It. The professional man's wife "condescend" "con-descend" to the grocer's wife, the clerk'a wife patronizes the mechanic's wife, the "charlady" looka down on the "stepslady," and ao It gone on. la It any matter for wonder, then, thut those who clothe themselves In purple and fine linen, who fare aump-tuotiHly aump-tuotiHly every day, who are surround-ed surround-ed by all the culture, all the beauty, and all the luxary which modern civilization civ-ilization can provide find It hard to believe that a common humanity blnda them to people who dwell In hovela, whose handa are beKtimed and knotted knot-ted with barren years of soulless labor, la-bor, whose backa are bent beneath the terrific burden Imposed upon them from their cradles, and who dwell continuously In the company of the grim specters of disease and poverty? The gulf certainly seema almost Impassible, Im-passible, hut It must be bridged he-fore he-fore any advance can be made In the direction of the abolition of class war and class hatred Chicago Tribune. |