Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — DOES NOT LIKE NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

DOES NOT LIKE NEW YORK

Fact That Would Seem Evident From Comments Macft by San Francisco Writer. New York was made by and for New Yorkers, and those that love |t deserve no better fate than to live In it, writes Bailey Millard in the San Francisco Bulletin. That babel of self-assured greatness is a terrible place to me. Carlyle called London a wen on nature’s face; but what would he have said of New York, with its fervent money worship, its “society” folk with their inane and perpetual discussion of stocks, its thousands of other idle gamblers in drawing-room and den, its thousands of lackeys in an<i out of livery, Its other thousands of make believes who would have you think they were somebody, and while buying $lO dinners, are letting their washwomen go unpaid; its blinded slaves of trade In their whirling strife, so complex, multifaced, confused! • And then its “dandiacal body” in their exclusive clothes, exclusive hats, ties and shoes who belong to exclusive sets, wholly exclusive of brains! And then its millions of half-clothed, half-starved “people of the abyss,” living in dark, effluviated hells Instead of homes, suffering the cold, un-Chris-tian contempt of their “betters!"