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It is generally not expected that the makers of ruling-class munitions should face the dirty and perilous work of the trenches; but ten years ago, during a raid by an active squad of muckrake-men, Chancellor Day astonished the world by rushing to the front with both arms full of star-shells and bombs.
But now those commercial classes, set free and highly privileged, are silently and swiftly ousting the aristocratic ruling-class from power, are becoming supremely important. And under the new order of things, forms of social misery, never before known in the history of the race, are being developed.
The little dons who career about Oxford afoot and awheel, wearing old gowns and mortarboards, giggling over Spooner's latest, and being tremendous "characters" in the intervals of concocting the ruling-class mind, had turned my mind away from such matters altogether.
No one should tolerate the offer of such a house as this at such a rent to decent people. It is unrighteous." At the house agent's he asked in a cold, intelligent ruling-class voice, the name of the offending landlord. "It's all the property of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners that side of the railway," said the agent, picking his teeth with a pin. "Lazy lot.
To see them now, dozing in huge leather-cushioned arm-chairs, you would have had a hard time to guess that they had ever been lean and hungry heroes. They were diplomats and statesmen, bishops and lawyers, great merchants and financiers the men who had made the city's ruling-class for a century. Everything here was decorous and grave, and the waiters stole about with noiseless feet.
In this they were like the ruling-class of any other country, particularly of Great Britain, but they differed in being more vigorous and in actually trying to produce the accepted standards which all classes, everywhere, desire, but usually despair of realizing. The longest struggle of the Good Citizens' League was against the Open Shop which was secretly a struggle against all union labor.
It had become a cult of the ruling-class, the esoteric religion of the state; everywhere its defenders sprang up it seemed as if all the intellectual as well as the material power of the community was under its spell. To oppose it was not merely bad form it was to incur a stigma of moral inferiority, to be the victim of a "slave-ethic".
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