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ments of God and the conventions of man, or buy im-
munity from the consequences of lawless indulgence.
  A very rich man was reported not long ago to have
said that he would be ashamed to face the courts of
Heaven with only his millions to pay his entrance fee.
Another declared that the time is coming when excessive
riches will need to make apology for their existence.
That such sentiments find expression in such quarters
is of good augury. They should be supported, not un-
dervalued and decried. There is a way of making the
money standard odious, and that is by making its corrupt
and corrupting use odious. The Smart Set are a living
reproach to riches. They furnish a striking example of
the base use of wealth. Make their haunts of luxury
and alimony not only infamous, but uncomfortable;
drive their murderous White Ghosts and Red Rovers
and Purple Assassins from the speedways; put such a
brand upon their nomenclature that each individual will
have to outlive it, making his own separate record for
good and not for evil, and in another generation we shall
see, at least, less brutal parvenuism and ostentatious dis-
play for the perversion of the young, if not cleaner con-
ditions in the parent nest.

THE SMART SET, THE NEWSPAPERS,
              AND THE TRUTH

        Courier-Journal, September 17, 1902.
  When Ward McAllister, a rather absurd, but yet a
well-born, gentleman, invented the Four Hundred, it
was his purpose two parts flunky and one part flam-
to pay a kind of obeisance to certain families supposed
to be rich enough to form a court-circle in the great and
growing city of New York.
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