Appendix
the road. The tragic end of Fisk was for a time an
object lesson. It let in a flood of light and gave a
moment's pause to the orgy of license which was exceed-
ing its natural bounds and beginning to make its influ-
ence felt in dangerous proximity to those regions where
wealth was recognized as paramount.   It was this
which secured the modification of the Stokes verdict
from death to a short term of imprisonment.
  The noxious weed, however, had taken root. The
bucketshop was to become an institution, the stock
gambler a power, the market as familiar to women as to
men. Mr. Carnegie may give all of his millions to the
noblest works. The Messrs. Rockefeller may endow
a thousand schools and charities, while a dozen billion-
aires may show by their wise and lavish use of money
how ill they think of it except as the means of doing
good; but, as the poor are always with us, so are the
vulgarians, who, given money enough, set up a volupt-
uous principality, call it the Four Hundred, and, hav-
ing made sure of its boundaries and their isolation, pro-
ceed to make their own moral code, hardly deigning
even to ask the rest of the community, "What are you
going to do about it "
  The sea-going palace; the modern auto; the struggle
for equivocal notoriety; the strife for titles; the eating
from the tree of forbidden knowledge; the aping of the
manners of the foreign swell and the fancied great; the
marriage as an experiment and the marriage of con-
venience; the hot pursuit of pleasure at home and
abroad-in short, the constant striving after the osten-
tatious display of wealth inevitable to the sun-worship
of money-these are among the features that distinguish
the Four Hundred from other rich people, who do not
need to affect anything, who heartily despise such pro-
ceedings, who, with fortunes secure and social positions
fixed, live without scandal and travel without adven-
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