We are pleased to present, in installments, a very rare yet
significant book written by former Congressman Henry George Jr.
in 1905. Earlier installments are available at the Progress
Report Archive. end of CHAPTER 7, ARISTOCRACY, A FRUIT OF
PRIVILEGE Pomp & Privilege Erode Democratic Institutions such as
Suffrage & Juries. ...And in a speech before the Democratic
Presidential Convention at St. Louis in 1904, Captain Richard
Pearson Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac exploit at Santiago in
the Spanish War, declared that "intelligence must govern," with
what appeared to be an intimation that intelligence was confined
to the more or less select. Can such sentiments be unnatural in
men reared as the officers of our regular army and navy are?
Taken for life under the Federal Government's care and expense
before they are of voting age, given the highest technical
training in its military and naval academies, on graduation
given command without having, like the common soldier, to begin
in the ranks, or like the commo