The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-02-25
Is HE RICH.


his residence. Naturally enough people talk
over the circumstance and inquire concerning
the personal attributes of the young man.
Is he rich? This is the all important ques-
ton. 1t is chance if anybody inquiries con-
corning his character. Characters belong
only to servants. What does rich young
man want with a character?
Society does not care whether he CANDLES,
and drinks and deceives women or not Old
fogyish. Only old fossils of the last century
trouble themselves about such little things
Young men will be young men. Wild oats
mnst be sown. Is he rich?
Pretty, pure young ladies ask the question !;
and when the affirmative response comes,
visions of stately mansions, and costly furni-
ture, and gilded carriages fit before their i'm
aginations, not to mention Paris bonnets and
Lyons velvets, and diamonds like the Kohl
moor. And these innocent little darlings are
quite ready to sacrifice Charles or Sam or
Thomas, for the sake of the newcomer who
is rich
Old ladies ask the momentous question: and
wipe their gold-rimmed spectacles in ecstaey
when they learn that lie is rich. They glance
affectionately at the manageable daughters,
and at once set themselves at work to get up a
party for the young man, "who must feel SO
lonely among q community Of entire strang-
ers.''
Bless their tender and charitable old hearts
1t is beautiful to think of so much goodness
embodied in these female patrarchs but
seems little strange that they never get up
parties for any of the hundreds of poor young
men who wander lonely and forlorn the streets
of our great cities
Portly papas ask the question, and twirl
their gaudy watch-seals, and ask Brown to
introduce them, because, forsooth, young men
need encouragement, and it is duced un-
pleasant not to know anybody"
And while they look over their bank ac-
counts, they think how convenient would be a
rich son-in-law in case of breaking down OF
some "corner," or financial crisis Is he
rich?
The door of society is flung open at once to
him if he is rich. Gold is the "open sesame y
to the gilded portals of Upper Tendon, whose
aristocratic curtains never unfold to the man
who counts his dollars by the score. The
silken robes of wealth do not care to touch the
floating rags of poverty.
The rich young man is received without
question. No matter though his hands be red
with crime or extortion-though he may have
taken bread from the mouth of the fatherless.
had crushed the heart of the widow in the
dust-if he has stakcd his money at the gam
ing table, blasphemed the name of God who
created him, hardened his brain by the fool
stuff called alcohol, and betrayed the woman
who loved hint is no hinderance to his sue
cess in what we call fashionable society.
Out on such standard of morality.
Shame upon people who, born and bred
(as we Americans have been) in an atmosphere
whose every essence is freedom, pass by the
man whose heart is pure, whose hands are
clean, whose record is chaste, but whose purse
is empty of gold, and bow down to Worship
the besotted and beastly libertine, simply be-
cause he is rich
Lift your standard of nobility higher. De-
mand of your friends that they shall be honor
able and just, that they shall have good char
acters, that they shall be able to raise their
faces to God, who watches them, and declare
in all sincerity, +" I have led life of which no
man need pc ashamed KATE THORN