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mass of well or partially-educated and, more 

 or less, law-abiding importations, consisting 

 in no small degree of Germans and Scandi- 

 navians. The Irish importation, its desira- 

 bility or the reverse, I will omit all discussion 

 of, merely remarking that, whatever its merits, 

 it is mostly en Evidence to the private citizen 

 in its least attractive guise, and that the ranks 

 of saloon-keepers, low politicians, and the 

 great Tammany itself, are kept well supplied 

 by the representatives of the Emerald Isle. 



As for that worship of Mammon of which 

 one hears so much, it was not until my foot- 

 steps turned Westward that they stumbled 

 seriously by reason of it. The West, railing 

 against the East as the idolater of wealth, 

 kneels in very truth far nearer to the god's 

 footstool, worshipping more blindly and 

 ignorantly. The vast bourgeoisie of the 

 Middle West (I know that many Americans 

 will jeer at the expression, but again there 

 are many who will consider it fairly apposite) 

 is a far-reaching power. Within its radius 

 are to be found strongly-defined, if to the 

 stranger sometimes incomprehensible, class 

 distinctions. Nevertheless, its aims and the 



