"SWOLLEN-HEADED INSOLENCE"
Douglas Sladen- has not the most ?leasant recollections of the American 'acific Coast cities :— "San Francisco. Seattle, Facoma, and other western towns were spoiled for me, because the working classes in them were so swoller-hea'.led aul rude that any educated or gent'y born person felt like a victim of the French Revolution as he was making his way to the scaffold, surrounded by wild mobs thirsting for his blood. The lower classes in the cities in the Pacific Coast insult you to show you that they are your equals. And except as manual laborers, they never could be anybody's equals, becai'KO God created them so common. lb is these people and unscrupulous speculators who make money. The- decent people get around between the upper and lower grindstone, in a land where living costs out of all proportion to the rewards of education."
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 6 September 1915, Page 3
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144"SWOLLEN-HEADED INSOLENCE" Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 6 September 1915, Page 3
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