Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-05

comes into being in exact proportion 10 Inc
needless surplus monopolized by small
section of the entire community. One un-
happy result of such excessive inequality c1
wealth ia that the monopolizing few seek 10
perpetuate their petition. They wish TO
transmit their wealth to their descendants.
The consequence of this desire if tendency
to create families" possessed OF exclusive
privileges. Marriages are made with view
of adding wealth to wealth, and adding
luster TO the names of families OF
the first distinction" The next step Is TO
introduce the system of primogeniture, and
to secure the hereditary descent OF the wealth
that has been accumulated. This entails the
curse we hoped we had escaped-sn arisioc-
racy. That We are not mistaken in the
existence of this perfdious tendency to
return, among our wealthier people, toward
the worst features of feudslism, is evident
10 those who have seen how much the custom
of putting servants, "funkies," into livery
has grown of late years in the Eastern
Saies. We have a sill greater proof of
what this growing soil is coming to in the
formation of the Aryan Order OF America,
of which Gen. A. p. Stewart, president of
the University of Mississippi, is provost
general" aud which has just been in session
in Baltimore. This order is intended to
connect together native or foreign per-
sons residing in this country who
are "reslly Of gentle lineage" 1t is
10 consist of male descendants of colonial
governors, Of generals and chief justices, OF
signers OF the declaration OF Independence
also OF knights Of the Order of the Cincin-
matt, and resident scions of The European
nobility. A hersld's college is TO register
births, deaths and marriages among the
order; to collect lists of ancestry; ascertain
costs-of-arms and other distinguished
family" requisites. What coats oI-arms and
moftos members are entitled 10 is 10 be de-
cded, and all matters of pedigree, descent
in the eldest line, proofs of progeni' orship,
and other arisioerstic distinctions, dignilies,
rig hts of precsd nee, and SO on, are TO be
determined. This in republican land is
decidedly what the ladies call ga pretty state
of things," and it should be subject of pro-
found determination to kill this serpent,
that, il allowed TO live, will cast back these
United States into the mass Of evils under
whose intolerabIe infiction the European
kingdoms are groaning as the He
brews groaned in Egypt. To accomplish
the destruction of any scheme OF American
aristocrscy, the law mus be changed so that
it shall favor not the accumulation OF
wealth, at present, but its distribution, so
that there will be no excessive fortunes at
one end of society, and no blasting penury,
except what is the consequence of idleness,
on the other. Our republican system denies
the owners of property the privilege of con-
stituiing entail, TO this must be appended re-
quirements that the maker of will, when
his property amounts 10 given value, shall
leave it to at least two, three, or more, ac
cording to the amount bequeathed. The
less untqually wealth is distributed, the less
power has aristocracy to raise Its envenomed
head.