Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — Titles In England. [ARTICLE]

Titles In England.

Forty or fifty years ago few people in England had titles. There were only a few decorations which entitled their owners to put the prefix “Sir” before their names. We all of us looked down with lofty contempt upon the counts and barons that were so plentiful in continental countries. Now we can do so no longer, for probably there la no other country in the world where the traffic in titles is so open and so indecent as in England. What the number of our decorations is I do not know, and I imagine that few do. Every few years some new one is created and an Englishman with a taste that way can easily manage to exhibit himself covered with metal disks and bits of ribbon like some successful cow at an agricultural show. These embellishments may flatter the vanity of their wearers, but they do not increase the respect that is felt for Englishmen. —London Truth.