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DAILY

PRESS. TUESDAY., AUGUST. 1918,

THE DOUM OF THE MIDDLE|

CLASS.

** BACK BONE OF ENGLANDU POWERLESS BEFORE ORGANISED-

WORKERS

HY HAROLD SPENDER.]

When a speaker told a middle-class audience the other day that their class would be extinct within a century and half they laughed. The speaker thought that they meant to express a braten von- Adence in their inmortality. He was wrong. Their laugh voted a sincere aur prise that he should give them so long a reprieve.

For the British middleclass is at prós sent a very humble mod. Looking NEPORY. Europe it sees its counterpart in Bassin hunted to death like seriin.or reduced to the lowest class of pariah seri vitude. Nearer home, it ALA

in full Hight from Bucket and

HISTORIC ACRES.

A LANDSLIDE.

The Duke of Portland, in a letter to This tenants, says that in view of the pre- sens treed of opinion in favour of "kba breaking up of large estates and the cron. tion of small ownerships, he has decided shize property to dispos of a large portion of his Ayr- offers his agricultural holdings to the In the first place, he tenants.

while in Berlin they are openlydless Pevolution in the ownership of

The land of the country is no longer to unklæde the private preserve, the stately page and pirasure ground of a pré- dominant herohturs caste for which there 15 is parallel in real evilisation outsidey Br island.' writes a Surves or in the Dat. Neues, In s batter half of the second decade on the twentieth century wa are the direct witnesses ni no slow, In- perceptible evolution, bug of a veritable landslide in historig deres a mighty yet

thing that his gone before. British real estate far, transcending any

in

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with sucral extinction. His even here in London and the grent cities of England the middle-class, once the backbone of England," the most powerful of all the

There has been no such lural revolus classes in the 19th evit before our eyes.

is menaced ions since the passing away of the tential : with door.

We can see

Faristocracy, after the Wars of the Roses. DISAPPEARING SYMBOLS.

The economic cause and the consequences Note, for instance, the outward symbols ut the tremendous movement are fairly of setety distinctions of dress and habit. clear. Many of our territorial magnates In the great towns it is bernning more are parting with their cherished putri- and ditheilt to cistinguish between. the muny because needs mast t'when the devil clases. Where are the top hat and the drives. Thase of them who have been' trock cont!

years agy they were long shivering on the brink, without any the accepted wear ot the governing direct peren.ptory, necessity for closing class humble people rande way for them down, have probably, two reasons for in the streets and in railway trains; they were the marks and signs of success.

"their présent decisions to sell the Saw they have gone like the snows of

attitude of the average British elec Yesteryear. They

oftendity. d the opporto- are consigned to funerals, They hits come the ambosity that is directly before them of of grief and woe.

ethag at the top of the market at will be despatched on August 21st, to, The

reason is glear. No one is proud priers biele unless vendors are hopelesa any longer of being a middle-class num handicapped by mortgagest will yield The heftuur and glory has departed them a vastly better inicial return then Ichabod The ist thing is to resemble *anes to pretend to be a working man. treut

our famous hospitals, and City companies. nient. You escape conterapt... driver. will

that are preparing to part with their The girl con cent endowments m the shires and ductor will be just to you. The railwayasewhere. Already this latter class of porter may be last to you. You will be alte

the battle of life

sale is, being attended with remarkable,, in a frock-out, could lightly endure the

Yesuita, as, For instanc, the case whuru new perils of the streets the clamber on

a farm belonging to a public body on to the moving bus, the rush into the

which a reserve of £14000 had been fixed, Tubs the desperate clutch at the strap up to 220,000.

den, at any rate, you getThe sasi

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not

For who,

gir laid. And it is not only the

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the hand-to-hand encounter, the breathless Another cause of the prevalent un-

gertms

In such a daily strife-waanpled booms By the land hunger of the lot of most Londoners-broadcloth is farmer and intending farmer, small holdi almost as much out of date as a suit of

er and prospective small holder. Sitting mail

tenants will not infrequently go nr be yond market values to get security of Leure and the pleasant consciousness of proprietorship, whilst smaller men and

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WOMAN'S NEW FREEDOM. § Then once the homes and hote the

14 change in our social frie

the distinguishing characteristic of the middleclass in the nineteenth century to he waited on. That was what made a middle-class man

4 works foreman who engaged, a

his wile general passed into the middle-class.

ex-soldiers yearning for a peaceful coun try life. for themselves and families. are also prepared to pay the fullest possible figure for the gratification of their legs.

Jevel could be judged from the nura ate and praiseworthy aspirations.

DUKE SELLING OUT.

Let us run hightly over details says Surveyor, the opening mouth of this year the Duke of Westminster's out- lying (western) Eaton Estate extending to 180 acres, comprising twelve town ships on the borders of Cheshire, Flint, and Denbigh, including fifty-five consigler- of his Grace's tenant iarners took over: 8,900 acres, and there was a wholesale disposal of cottage property, the outcome There have being a total of 100,000. been other considerable dispersals; but

Imperiales, Perfectos, Estrellas, Retna Marla, Especiales.n the host more faride in the silver she farms-was broken up. A syndicate

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of your servants, A man-servant gave you a place in the country. How

pleasant it all was that willing service of the antique warid the old nurse cho brought up all the family, the housekeeper who knew the affairs of the house better than the suns and daughters, the parlour

mistress herself! They linger out-of-the-way places, but they are as a whole, is also touched with new wages are checking that steady How of the surplus daughters from the countryside which provided the pro the big things have yet to pass the test perous city classes with sore, cheap and of public sale. Forthcoming auctions of Contented service. The

include the. maintain his own daught abourer can the spring and summer

Woman Sutherland Estates, on the east coast of has acquired a new passion for freedom. the county from which the family title So the middle-class household, with all its is taken, comprising 114,500 acres, and arrangements for service, is left desolate. including a luch which bounds the pro- The Buttered inmates Hy in despair to perty for eleven miles, together with over-crowded hotels or search for flats Dornoch Castle, salmon fishing and deer that are not. It is vast social disturbualking. Then there is the Northern Bлce.. The clamour of its unsettlement Haddon House Estate of 37,000 neres,. the Elly the air with lamentations.

SMASHING THE OLI GUDM.

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the Gilmour Estate (Hussshire and THE EASTERN &

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MILLION OF ACRES PASSING.

One firm alone of Loudon auctioneera are submitting during the coming months; up to June, nearly half a million acres of land an aggregate made up of some thirty estates scattered over England and Scotland of commanding historical im portance; and the tate of most of these will be a piecemeal break-up for the bene- it of the sitting tenants and other prac

ical farming men who have an ardent natural craving for the cultivation of their own soil"

Leisure

is in danger and leisure was the note of the middle class-leisure for sport leisure for travel, leisure for

ciety, leisure for the arts, Society needs

but not

necessarily a Jeisured The demand of the new is that ali classes should have and

save some feisure,; class no

all the leisure, So we see #new leisure coming into being the lef sure of the eight-hour worker. The stalls are emptying, and the picture-palaces are 6lling. As the middle-class enjoys itself the working-class enjoys itself more Our turn now they seem to say, they take their plaers at the banques of life The tune of pleasure becomes more popular The masses call for strong ment, while the delicate tasters leave the tables and set their faces to unwonted toil.

It is not all a a gain. Watch the

the theatres,

Some industrious persons calculated a and note the steady decline that goes along long time ago that there are more acres with this new invasion. Matthew Arnold land in Yorkshire than there are lettere. called the middle-classes the "Philistines" the Bible, and the area of our premier.

the modern world, but it irony of the situation that he himself very There are those in

a curiocs county is elose upon 2,000,000 acres argely jeered them out of their Philistin confidently declare that the land which position to know who The taste of the British middle as changed hands during the past two class was never better than just before decline. The new

invaders will be or three years, including the results of educated in their turn, like the barbarian the bursting reason now upon us, will invaders of Italy. But, for the moment, Pproach, if it does not surpass the figure there is a a vast desire for shing of the old gods, just given. In 1918, one frm alone sold for sensation inviarlie ore than five and a half million pounds. Beerbohm Tree have

Irving and about half-a-million acres for a total of passed, Chaplin reigns in their place.

The total sales officially reported for. the year reached £11,352,598, as compared with £8,527,426 in 1917, £5.107,517 in 1916, and £3.570,724 in 1915-all statistics, be it remarked, which did not cover friendly arrangements between landlords and tenants, and innumerable other private

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THE CRAVING FOR DIVIDENDS. "Of what use are you? That is the question hurled at the unfortunate mid- dle-class by coal commissions, industrial councils, and Labour congresses. In the old days there was an answer. There is an answer even today for the old pro dealings." fessions for the doctor who goes his rounds, for th parson who visits his dock, for the layer who pleads, for the

lives by business?

Carson dwelt the other day, in the Budget

the sad of figer wih But what of that vast profesional man. The income-tak, that that easy and attractive magnet of revenue, There are still mut has completed his undoing. Not withou chants; there are still shopkeepers. But

red on the French, a nation the company system has gravely under-

of Bour- geois, regard our income-tax with horror. mined the great solid, able class that But the income tax could have been borne directed industry

in the old days. Then

Then If the middle-class had really shared the you had captains of industry; now you bave salaried directors and shareholders. fear is that while wages soar salaries the great war-bonuses. The dominant craving for high dividends has creep

honour pride in, good work, the ne

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Meanwhile the tragedy remains; for, great new Triple Alliance which has taken after all, great transitions have always triple Alliance of the trained and organ- the *place of Bismarck's creation-the an element of tragedy. Bir. Edwardsed workers of this country.-Daily

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