Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — Who are Aristocrats. [ARTICLE]

Who are Aristocrats.

Philadelphia Times. Twenty years ago this one made candies, that one sold candles and butter, another butchered, a fourth carried on distillery, another was contractor on canals, others were merchants and mechanics. They were acquainted witii both ends of society, as their children will be after them, though it will not do to sav so out loud. For often you find these toiling worms hatch butterflies—and they live about a year. Death brings a division of property, and it brings new financiers. The old gent is l discharged, the new one takes revenue and begins to travel—towards poverty, which he reaches before death, or his children do if he does not, so that in. fact, though there is a sort of moneyed rank, it is not hereditary; it is accessible to all. The father grubs and grows rich; his children strut and use the money. The children in turp inherit pride and go shiftless to poverty. Next, tlieir children, re-invigorated by fresh plebian blood and by the smell of the clod, come up agijin. Thus society, like a tree, draws itssap fromtheearth, changes it into seed and blossoms, spreads them around in great glory, sheds them to fall to earth again, to mingle with toil and at length to reappear in new dress and fresh garniture.