Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — As the World Revolves [ARTICLE]

As the World Revolves

G7>e "DuK.c as Comtvall. It is announced semi-olfic.ally that the Duke of Cornwall, son of the English King and heir to the throne of Great Britain, will not come to the United States. He would like to come very much indeed and to study at closer range the men who are causing his native land so much trouble. But he is afraid that the Americans will not receive him respectfully. His idea of a proper reception in New York would involve official recognition of his superiority, based on the fact that' his father spent more than fifty years of a worthless life gambling and waiting for a place that he ought never to have had, says Chicago American. The millionaire idiots who produce so rapidly In this country, the foolish, empty-headed eo-called society, which divides Its time between toadyism and snobbery, are sufficiently anomalous In a republic without inviting visits from the regularly appointed ridiculosltles of monarchical rule. We advise the Duke of Cornwall, who seems to be an amiable young saphead fond of being photographed In a very large top hat, to confine his visits to Canada, where they still prefer being ruled and protected at a distance to the responsible work of ruling themselves.