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Samuel Langhorne
Clemens
My kind of loyalty is
loyalty to country, not to institutions or officeholders.
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the
eternal thing; it is the thing to
watch over, and care for, and be loyal to;
institutions are
extraneous, they are its mere
clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be
comfortable, cease to protect the body
from winter, disease, and
death.
Monarchies,
aristocracies, and
religions ... there was never
a country where the majority of the people were in
their secret hearts loyal to
any of these institutions.
The
perfection of
wisdom, and the end of true
philosophy is to
proportion our wants to our possessions,
our ambitions to our
capacities, we will then be a
happy and a
virtuous people.
The
political and commercial
morals of America are not merely
food for laughter, they are
an entire
banquet.
cakewalk
"It was not altogether a matter of the lavender
trousers, nor yet the straw hat with its bright silk band. The change was
somewhere, far in the interior of Henry. But there was no cakewalk hyperbole in
it. He was simply a quiet, well-bred gentleman of position, wealth, and other
necessary achievements out for an evening
stroll, and he had never washed a wagon in his life." - Stephen Crane
Our Negroes in America have several ways of
entertaining themselves which
are not found among the whites anywhere. Among these inventions of theirs is
one which is particularly popular with them. It is a competition in elegant
deportment.
They hire a hall and bank the spectators' seats in rising
tiers along the two sides, leaving all the middle stretch of the floor free. A
cake is provided as a prize for the winner in the competition, and a bench of
experts in deportment is appointed to award it.
Sometimes there are as many as fifty contestants,
male and
female, and five hundred spectators.
One at a time the contestants enter, clothed regardless of expense in what each
considers the perfection of
style and taste, and walk down the vacant central
space and back again with that
multitude of critical eyes on them.
All that the competitor desire of
fine airs and graces he throws into his carriage, all that he desire of
seductive expression he throws into his countenance.
He may use all the
helps he can devise: watch-chain to twirl with his
fingers, cane to do graceful things with, snowy handkerchief to flourish and
get artful effects out of, shiny new stovepipe hat to assist in his courtly
bows; and the colored lady may have a fan to work up her effects with, and
smile over and blush behind, and she may add other helps, according to her
judgement.
When
the review by individual detail is
over, a grand review of all the contestants in procession follows, with all the
airs and graces and all the bowings and smirkings on exhibition at once, and
this enables the bench of experts to make the necessary comparisons and arrive
at a verdict.
The successful
competitor gets the prize
which I have before mentioned, and an abundance of applause and
envy along with it. The Negroes have a name for
this grave deportment-tournament; a name taken from the prize contended for.
They call it a cakewalk.
"In the US cotton states,
after the war the Jew set up
shop on the plantation, supplied all the Negroes' wants
on credit, and at the end of the season was the proprietor of the Negro's
share of the present crop and part of the next one.
The Jew is being legislated out
of Russia.
The reason is not concealed.
The movement was instituted because the
Christian peasant stood no chance against his commercial abilities.
The Jew was always ready to lend on a crop.
When settlement day
came, the Jew owned the crop; the next year he owned the farm.
In the England of John's time
everybody got into debt to the Jews.
He gathered
all lucrative enterprises
into his hands.
The Jew was the King of
Commerce. He had to be banished from the realm.
For like reasons,
Spain had to banish the Jew 400 years ago, and Austria a couple of centuries
later.
In all ages
Christian Europe has been obliged to curtail his activities.
If he
entered upon a trade, the Christian had to retire from it.
If he set up
as a doctor, he took the business.
If he exploited agriculture, the
other farmers had to get at something else.
The law had to step in to
save the Christian from the poor-house.
Even bereft of employments the
Jews found ways to make money.
This history has a most
sordid and practical commercial look.
Religious prejudices may account for
one part of it, but not for the other nine.
Protestants have persecuted Catholics - but
they did not take their livelihoods away from them.
Catholics have
persecuted Protestants - but they never closed agriculture and the
handicrafts against them.
I am convinced that the
persecution of the Jews is
not in any large degree due to religious prejudices.
No,
the Jew is a money-getter. He made it the
end and aim of his life.
The Jew was at it in Rome. He has been at it
ever since.
His success has made
the whole human race his enemy.
You will say that the Jew is
everywhere numerically feeble.
People told me that they had reasons to suspect
that for business reasons, many Jews did not report themselves as Jews.
I am strongly of the
opinion that we have an immense Jew population in America.
I am assured by men competent to
speak that the Jews are exceedingly active in politics." - Mark Twain
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