Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1914 — Americans and the Rich. [ARTICLE]

Americans and the Rich.

The United States is perhaps the only country In the world In which money, in itself, carries no public honor with it, and in whjch even the most lavish heaving of coins to the rabbis goes unrewarded. An English Carnegie would have had a seat in the house of lords twenty years ago; a French Rockefeller would have sported the grand cordon of the Legion of Honor before he ever sported a toupee; a German Morgan could never have escaped the Red Eagle and privy council But In the United States a great fortune is the most effective of all bara to public dignity and preferment, and even to private respect Our Ryans and Harrlmans are not Idols, but gets; the one sure way to make a qtir in politics is to attack them successfully.—H. L. Mencken in Smart Set "Does your sonts new occupation as an aviator suit him?" "Well, not down to the ground*