The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-10

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Genseinkoopenhoffe or OF Russial
Prince Brandyandwaterovitc to sport dec
orations on the promenades and play rouge e
'aoir in the bells. But the effort to initiate
them at Saratoga has done nothing but cal
into being an aristocracy of.
SMITHS AND JoNEsEs,
grown opulent by the rise OF land, the posi-
b1lit1es Of crooked whisky or the opportuni
Ties OF earpet-baggery- aristoeracy whose
sell. eoroplacency usually springs from the
fact thasit is too ignorant to comprehend its
own vulgarity.
| Thus we observe year by year the growth
! OF caste in this country, by degrees which are
| imperceptible except when viewed in the long
run.
A year or two ago was travelling with d
philosopher He was an Englishman; d
bright young fellow, third son of an Earl and
a captain in Her Maiesty's Fourteenth Hus-
sars.
Bay Jauve,v said he, IT notice in your
country that there are two aristocraees the
money and the intelligence they hate
each other like the
CAPUIErs AND THE MoNTAGUEs |"
"By way Of example, he continued, while
| stopped In Baltimore / was introduced to
some people whom ] thought deuced nice,
but they were plain in their manners and GUS
toms. Well, they told me their ancestors
came over with Cecil Calvert. Soon after, at
party. met dashing young woman, cov-
cred with iewelry. Egad she would have
turned a French boulevard upside down with
her style! But she said, I heard you was
goin' to be at the pawtyr and when l mem
toned that / had met so-and-so, she said,
oh, they don't amount to nothing; theyr re
poor and amt got no style about 'em either
In day or two got an opinion
FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
TWAS equally uncomplimentary, butit had
the advantage of being stated in better Eng
lish. The people who dated back to Cecil
Calvert told me that the girl who had stunned
me with her style and shocked me by her bad
grammar about equally. was the daughter of
the richest butcher In Baltimore, and that
thirty years ago he used to peddle meat in
a wagon. Bay Jauvel it's bad enough in
England where money will make blood in
two generations; but where your butcher and
your baker get to looking down on you in the
course of thirty years
TT CAN'T BE ENDUREDT'
This observation would have been trite
enough for an American. Nothing is more
apparent than the fact that money and in
telligence seem to act upon each other like
oil and water in this country And the best
to study this national regularity
Of ours Is in the summer, and by watching
The habits OF different classes of tourists.
Yousee, ours is the only civilized nation on
The globe where money and intelligence re-
'use TO mix, as rule. Therein lies the most
interesting part Of our 'fexperiment." And
we are just beginning to realize the antago- |
lism which my Hussar referred to when he |
;aid we had
Two AR1sToCRAGIEs,
,he money and the intelligenee-and they
late each other like the Capulets and the
Montagues.'
The gap seems to widen every year. In the
ordinary society OF our great centres, the line
vasdrawn long ago. It is just beginning to
J tfghtened at the summer resorts. After all e
human nature could do nothing else. And in
he long run, brains, pride of lineage and tho
ulture OF generations, even though poor,
will get the best of
vuLGARITY AND sPLURaE
'acked by never SO many millions. ''Money
an buy" says Swift, Everything worth
Iaving, except force of character, grace of
'erson and courage; but, without these, what
8 worth havingy' Go to Saratoga to find the
wells and politicians and the no,tuea,Ar riches
n swarms. But il you want to find the really
high-toned' sets, the 'ful sets, so to speak,
'ou must search for them in quieter places.
nore and more year by year.
A. G. B.