New-York tribune., 1874-10-15
THE LECTURE.

The aristocracy of country are they who
WELD its resources other words the strong men who
possess and control In all the tribes and nations OF
which have any knowledge. we ind the strong Ior-
ing O class by themselves usually In the older coun-
tries king and nobility descended from the ancient
strong who banded together to defend the State against
foreign foes and internal anarchy But In our modern
world war having become the occasional instead OF
constant necessity of nations the soldier recedes the
man OF business comes the front. Nobilties decay
The great houses country are mercantile, not feuda
II we by chance hear the names OF YORK anu
we do not think white and red or cracked CROWNS
ON bloody fields but ask, perhaps, whether tney are
in cotton sugar. whether they are iron men or pork
men. And this is not retrograde as some would have
nc thipk Int advance signal and glorious advance. In
country governed by law and devoted to the arts OF
neace men of business are the natural cneIs
Of the community. I have visited more than
once the frontiers Of the United States ana observer
the new settlements and the rising towns where every
thing arranges itself IN the natural way In the dense
magnificent forests of Wisconsin, where timber tne
staple commodity what is 1t that the settlers want ana
must have and can't geti saw-mil VINO buiids N'
The strong few and around the sawmill. which Is the
life and opportunity Of the place, the town gathers as
in the oden time the retaDers nestled in the protecting
shadow Of the lords castle. But on the rolling prar'es
OF need Of the people Is the steam eieva
tor which towers aoft, visible for many mlie the
center OF the grain growing system On nue. oay III
Winter as the eye can reach, You see the siegns
beaped with sacks and the farmer in his Overcoat and
can of buffalo skim with wife daughter by his side,
moving at gentle trot towards this tower OF reIuge,
which sucks up the grain on one side and on the other
pours 1t out the freight car, while inside Is the
office where the farmer gets his money and near by are
the stores in which his vile can spend IL.
These giant structures belong to the stronR
men of the prairie world the successors OF the ancient
mobiles 1t is not the eemnate idlers who have inner
tied the names and titles OF the old dukes and barons
that ara their true successors, but men VINO I'LL the
place in the modern world that dukes ana oarons ao III
the ancient In the counties OF fertile Iowa some
thing es is required The farmers there cannot seho
their corn to us to eat until is condensed The leaders
of the people erect those establishments lnVehteo
at Cincinnati where at end OF the building the corn
goes IN pig and on the other comes out salt pork
So in the region north OF the AdirondacK "huer-
ness, where corn will not always rpen' tne
men OF force have lined the frontier WIN
huge factories where the bulky and heavy potato is con-
yered into starch, which ia sent to the ends OF the
earth and has enriched line Of country which other
wise would be scarcely inhabited. Cross the frontier
into Canada 20 into the Ere pch villages. and you do
not find such things. 1t IL because their strong men oe
come priests and expend the resources OF the country
in monasteries and other huge ecclesiastical edinces.
The land grOans under the weight OF them the country
swarms with jovial and fat priests; and the people,
into Vermont and New-Hampshire in carts drawn by
one COW half a horse.
During the last 30 years men OF business nave gained
an ally that prodRiousy increased their power-he
m-epginewhch to-day has done about three times
as much work as the whole working population couid
have done without its assistance Hence the magnitude
OF fortunes and the vast, fafIeacmhs enleiPses o"
conducted by individuals.
GAS rich Cresus" is proverb all over the civzed
world and Cr9sus really appears to have had good
deal OF gold lying about in his house Herodotus' 70
whom he owes his Immortality, records that ne re-
warded one Of the generals by letting him 80 into his
treasury and take away as much gold as ne couid
carry away on his person. The general improved
his opportunity. Cresus, too, was gentleman
conable Of proptating Apollo with Offering Of 1900
oxen and o solid golden hon as large as me- But no
was king who had s nations pns 10 asd the
sports conquered accurseS IN tne
pan mem Of business WELD and
direct farreaching enterprises which nave no
them And as the Cr1sus with his heaps or god there
Is a carman in New-York, at the corner OF broau anu
Wa-ss who often day carries three TONS OF eou
Wv hs cart but it is not to Apoos shrine that he takes
this interesting metal. 1t Is surprising now sma!
msnse OPERATIONS OF our day The last time was in
WaLst heard noted banker say Win great earnest
Would rather retire from business with only single
million with the reputation OF o good banKer' than 10
he ever so rich without that reputation
THE MAGNITUDE OF RICHES
o. Only single millionn You cannot imagine how
small that million seemed when be uttered those words
"a kind Of honorable poverty-a Dioaenes tub with
man inside Of It, You thought OF his children boasting
that their parents poor but honest can well be-
neve the familiar story Of John Jacob Astors saying
tat man who IA worth t250000 is just as well on as
though he were rich" The mind easily become habitu-
ated to these new maenitudes Thomas Brassey the
English abroad contractor had at one time $4,000 men
in his employ whose wages came TO about s5oOOoo
week, and they were at work in eight countries
Spa Tfalv
Australia. He wrote a note one day ordering 1000
wbeelbarrows and 5000 wagons In the course OF ~
and he did all this with less fuss and worry than many
nreaer than Thomas Brassey In Cornelius Vanderbilt.
wbo eighty quietly makes up ms nS ta1 rad tns
eeIWeea 9 % New.York and Buffalo Some said to him,
p" / don't know OF any fOur-track roads DON'T, saI
hone 70 live TO see them LAID" And probably he will.
The care of an Of 00000 and the management
Of ali his railroads only occupy him two hours day,
and during that short he does not appear to be very
busy BY three o'clock he is usually on the ROAD erect
magnificent, driving pair OF fast horses, In an open
There are higher spheres Of labor than making rail-
nes are employed with widely beneficial of
other kind. Many Of You have seen In broadway the
Ascend the fourth and you ind apartment
about 90 feet square tted up with desks and pigeon
holes, and occupied by about 80 or 40 gentlemen,
writing, studying proofreading. most OF them ad-
vanced in age. and several venerable with
for the writers for Appetons Cyeopedia In this
room the whole OF human knowledge IN all sub
jects IL gathered, and resated In such
manner TO make IL conveniently accessible 10 all the
American people who read And this work went on
for TWO years before the first volume ready for the
printer No individual college for the learned, could
produce such work II becomes possible only by the
union of body OF learned persons with the capi
tai enterprise and skill OF OF business Similar
NOT doubt that the system Is destined TO sihl more
remarkable triumphs III the future.
And now the question occurs, Who are these
uncrowned monarchs of the modern world Z what
they Where do they originate BY what means do
they accumulate these great resources In what
respect do they differ from the men who attempt stint
Lar career aud fall out OF the course disabled aud