The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-22

Advancement of the Age.-A London cores
pondent writes:-'You have perhaps seen in
our papers the important statement that the
Duke of Argyll is actually bringing up his son
TO be man OF business-l mean, OF course,
merchant-for since Charles Stanhope, fright
ened out of his wits by Robespierrism and the
rights of man. had his son Philip taught the
blacksmith's art in order to be prepared Tor
evil days, no peer of this realm has, believe,
gone lower than that. Our Morning PoSt is
shocked, of course; for peer here may be
railway director. and even sit at a board and
control the management of hotel kitchen, but
he must not be trader in firm. Neither must
trader in firm, unless 1t De banking hrnl'
brewing is accounted among us rather a
polite occupation--ever hope to gain u
footing in aristocratic circles. This is, perhaps
the most powerful reason for that oYer-crowding
of all the professions which is so much com.
planned of here; and this is why every one OF
those professions, as l lately showed, are SO
| jealously hedged in by what does not practl-
| cally differ from the much-abused wOrkngmen's
trades unions for restricting the supply of labor
| Mr.. Trollope has sketched the miseIies OF
curates, and in the Pal Mail Gazette has ex-
| pended much eloquent denunciation upon the
| clergy who, we are told so miserably underpay
| them, But the problem is how to make curates
| at once plentiful and dear; and for this 1t is
| hard to find solution. In vain the church, the
| bar the army, the navy, the civil service, the
| attorneys profession Is made thorny and eX-
| pensive. Gentlemen will bring up their SONS to
be gentlemen, and will send them, in Difference
to the absurd prejudice against trade, into these
! professions, there to barrcade themselves
| against the dreadful influx OF free competition,
| which they think so wholesome when applied
| to the mechanic arts.
| met lately with an amusing instance of the
| rage for protection amongst our genteel folks.
| Our chemists held great meetng-I beg par
| don, "British Pharmaceutical Conference
| at Nottingham the other day. By chemists"
| mean not our Farradays, but simply our apothe-
carries. These shopkeepers consider themselves
very much superior to groCers and cheese
mOngers, and look upon 1t as their own fauit II
they are not generally taken at their own Valua-
ton, and permitted to be exclusive, like the
LAWYERS and the doctors. At this conference
Mr.. Joseph Ince read long paper upon WhaI
he called pharmaceutical Ethics" which, says
the Chemists and druggists organ, "proYeu
sufficiently attractive to bring together the
| largest number of members that has YET
attended a sitting of the conference"
Before leaving the shop" said this pharnaGteHun, n
tical moralist to his audience, "may 1 press upon
| your consideration the desrabilItY of .caihng IL a u
| phdTmdcy' he word is English, not fanclIuli 10
highly expressive, and is on all grounds to DC IT,
Could subtler device for tiptoeing above lhe
head of the poor grocer or cleesemOnger DaNe
been suggested? Only fancy these poor raueS es.
attempting TO follow suit by calling their ,e. Vu,s y
emporiums groceries" >" or ''cheesemongerle',
and thinking to eYalt themselves by sucn S lllsS
rable titles. But the great feature in MI M
ethics was his scheme for making cnel1oh cnenrrSte
| shops, which now swarm in all our thorousn
fares great deal scarcer and more lucrauNe
5 Like a systematic reformer, he went to tns s
4 ioundation of things, and proposed 10 " ite
e tne supply OF pharmaceutical industry ~ '
;, very source:-
"The present indiscriminate mode OF taKibg ip dp
Ientices and pupils the sald) saps the very ra ~
on @ OF the professional superstructure We W, nnn
iaise If we consistently declined 10 takt Rupm am
q DeIOW certain age-made Virgil ana buonu nioDe,
oueh tones, and thereby left TO pursue tnelI 0ffe
AVoeations the haf-educated shop-boys Wno O NO.
l. themselves to us, ana too often are accepeeI ~
should soon rid ourselves of great cause =, M r
multitude of thrd-rate chemists shops WhCIh a. ~
a established around us and much injury 70 % i
= leRtmate phal aeeutiast compelling HIM " uuu q
sorts Of articles 70 his stock because he cannot MAX