a sound dinner he must go to a restaurant to get it, just as if he
wants to refresh himself with the society of charming and
well-behaved children, he has to go to an orphan asylum. Only the
immigrant can take his case and invite his soul within his own house.




IV


Woman Suffrage


31.


The Crowning Victory


It is my sincere hope that nothing I have here exhibited will be
mistaken by the nobility and gentry for moral indignation. No such
feeling, in truth, is in my heart. Moral judgments, as old Friedrich
used to say, are foreign to my nature. Setting aside the vast herd
which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the
minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess
of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished
by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me
that the average wine-bibber is a far better fellow than the, average
prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the