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David Graham Phillips. The Reign of Gilt
The Reign of Gilt
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. WE ARE NOT ALL MONEY-CRAZED
CHAPTER II. THE MANIA FOR GILT
CHAPTER III. PLUTOCRACY AT HOME
CHAPTER IV. YOUTH AMONG THE MONEY-MANIACS
CHAPTER V. CASTE-COMPELLERS
CHAPTER VI. PAUPER-MAKING
CHAPTER VII. THE MADE-OVER WHITE HOUSE
CHAPTER VIII. AND EUROPE LAUGHS
CHAPTER IX “WE, THE PEOPLE”
CHAPTER X. THE COMPELLER OF EQUALITY
CHAPTER XI. DEMOCRACY’S DYNAMO
CHAPTER XII. A NATION OF DREAMERS
CHAPTER XIII. NOT GENEROSITY, BUT JUSTICE
CHAPTER XIV. THE INEVITABLE IDEAL
CHAPTER XV. OUR ALLIES FROM ABROAD
CHAPTER XVI. THE REAL AMERICAN WOMAN
CHAPTER XVII. AS TO SUCCESS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MAN OF TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
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David Graham Phillips
Published by Good Press, 2021
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America will remain in the highway to freedom because printing presses are whirling, because railway trains are moving, because news is streaming along the telegraph wires, because schools and colleges and libraries are open—because intelligence is diffused and is ever more widely diffusing. Rights may be and constantly are assailed in isolated instances. But each instance remains and must remain isolated. None has become or can become a precedent. And there must be precedent or there can be no tyranny. Prejudice, even wilful prejudice, still thrives; truth and error have not yet been divorced from their unholy alliance which seduces honest men to the purposes of rascals; passion still rules the heart and the heart still rules the reason. But America must be free, however hard it may struggle against freedom; Intelligence is striking off the shackles. It can no more be stopped or stayed than the law of gravitation can be suspended.
The European, or the American returning from a visit to Europe, is always disagreeably impressed by the evidences of haste, of imperfection in detail, by “the ragged ends sticking out.” But after a moment’s consideration of the reasons for this slovenliness wise criticism is disarmed. In the busiest hundred years the world has ever seen the Americans have had to shape out of a trackless wilderness a complete civilization containing as many as possible of the good ideas of the world’s past and having also all the latest improvements. There has been no time to “gather up loose ends.” The filling in of gaps, the replacing of makeshifts with permanent structures, the finishing and the polishing, have been perforce left to posterity. And, thanks to the passing and the present generations, posterity will have the leisure and the resources, and also the finer qualifications, necessary to that part of the task of civilization-building.
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