INDICTMENT OF RICH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 249, 17 October 1908, Page 16

INDICTMENT OF RICH.

;| J 1 j ERRATIC YOTNG MAN WRITES RE- j -j MAKK.UiLE BUOK. I I Joseph Medill Pntterson, the brilliant, though decidedly erratic son of Uip editor tj of the "Chicago Ti-ihuue." related to a :- j doxon of the rk-best and most socially pru- !. j minent families in the I'nttPd States, has 1 capped tlie climax of his rrrcnlrlr i-arecr I by writiug a book called "Little Brother of t the lUcb." Sensational to a degree in his theme, daring in its treatment, brutally frank In its ', lanffuajrp, lashing society aud Its practices as it has never been scourged before, young l'attersou's book will, beyond question, cxc cite such wrath and indignation unions hi* c i friends and associates that by publishing it 3 ! he 4s virtually senilis his own death war - ' rant as far as the people among whom he - J and his wife., his sister and his family have t been brought up, are concerned. I MAKES ATTACK UN WOMEN. I Summed up in a sentence. Patterson's i book presents a. picture cf society, and inj cidentally of the stage, which, if it were I true, is too vile and revolting for words. ' I According to "A Little Brother of the t Kieh." every fashionable woman drinks to c I excess, is untrue to her marriage rows, is r animated by absolutely no thought except vulgar display, the gratification of animal c passion, and an insatiate greed for money, i- i and cares nothing for the menus by which n ! this money is obtained. t- The author pays this tribute to New York: s " 'Look,' said he, pointing to mc, 'there's c j New York—New York, strong enough to C ecslave a continent, filthy enough to poison heaven above.' " , I Another extract: "Men are natural poiy c j gainists, anyhow, I guess, and it is not vir- ! tue so much as want of the price which .. keeps most of the straight ones straight." ,| Of a millionaire's home at Newport he 0 says: " 'Home!' he suddenly burst out, •home! Do you call this home? Do you j call it home to live in a marble palace with a woman who would only bear you one J ! child—and that one's dead—for fear of miss- * J ing a season and spoiling her ligure? Who '» j tells you to your face in your tantrums that she only married you for money? Who -• considers you nothing but a combined pearl h fishery and a diamond mine?' " ° WHOLE LIFE A GREAT LIE. , Of the society ixmn he says: "My whole JJ i life since I came to New York, since we ; knew each other In Indiana, has been a lie. !My smiles have been lies my haude I shakes have been lies, my kisses have j been lies, and here I am now a successGod save the word — a success in the eyes of our home people: and the most ghastly " failure that ever dragged one weary day " after another, mean, petty, trivial, moneyie J worshipping." I The sole decent figure in the pageant of ' T physical and moral gluttons Patterson dc- - 7" ! picts is a hard-working, self-respecting ] f I actress who, beginning her professional work in a neighbourhood stock company In it Chicago, carves out a great career.