Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1881 — Children of the Silver Spoon. [ARTICLE]

Children of the Silver Spoon.

Sometimes I favor limiting bylaw the amount of money a man shall leave his sons. Twenty thousand dollars apiece is plenty for them. Above that it might profitably escheat to the State. The consequence would be that rich men would do good while they lived with their enormous profits, ft is common to hear boys educated by bounty to begin the battle of life say, ‘ ‘ Oh ! I think I ought to have been a rich man’s son ! ” Look around you at the young women in the hotel. In every pair of ears is a pair of big diamonds, the aggregate being right here as many diamonds as a palace contains. Yet nothing seems to accompany the diamonds but a novel. You see nobody reading anything but that. A young womau in big diamonds hearing me mention Franklin, yesterday, said “Mr. Brewster, who was Franklin ? He was the inventor of printing, was he not ?”

“Yes, dear,” I said, “of printing and of thunder and lightning.” She said, “Oh, thank you!” and never knew ft was a reflection upon her. Now, her mother would have known who Franklin was.— Hon. Benjamin Brewster.