Middletown transcript., 1883-11-09
The Blue Blood Marriage.

The Blue Blood Marriage.
1t is most laughable to read the
articles in the New York papers about
the blue bloodn aristocracy, and the
airs they put on over those who have
made money by speculation or in manu-
featuring. The recent engagement OF
son Of Jay Gould to daughter OF
one of the Astors has caused new
outbreak, the aristocracy which has
"blood" to back it claiming that the
girl is lowering herself by marrying a
man whose money has been made in
speculation, and who has not always
been rich. The Astors are considered
the leaders Of blooded aristocracy, and
the Goulds are considered as leaders
Of shoddy, whose money has not been
handed down. The Sun has tried hard
to fathom this mystery of blood, but its
editor is not cut out for solving such
problems. To a common, ordinary
nine-spot, it looks queer to see the
descendants of a man who traded in
bad smelling, raw furs, by which the
money was accumulated, putting on
style over a young fellow whose money
was made in buying and selling
nice clean, sweet-smelling railroad
stocks. If you look back to the time
Jay Gould, the father of the coming
bridegroom, was working in tannery,
or peddling tinware, you find an Astor,
blue-blooded Astor, spearing musk
rats through hole in the ice, skinning
the game speared, and selling the pelt
to make a seal skin cloak. If you are
ashamed of Gould as surveyor, how
do you feel about an Astor going about
in a canoe, through marshes, taking
dead muskrats and minks from steel
traps set the night before, and baited
with liver This girl who feels that
she is lowering herself by marrying a
man who made money by building and
buying and wrecking railroads, would
probably blush to see picture of one
of her ancestors, dressed in a buskckin
shirt and pants, packing green hides
from Green Bay to Milwaukee, and
trading them for whiskey and salt pork,
two rations of whiskey to one of pork.
By invest iii Teestifas ing skins in real estate on
Manhattan Island the Astors got their
wealth, but where did they get the
" blood" we read about ? The same
blood is landed at Castle Garden every
day from emigrant ships. All the
emigrant of to-day has to do, is to take
his short waitsed coat and high
water pants away out west and catch
rats, and make a fortune, and he can
go back to New York and put on style
over the starspangled American citizen,
with as much gall as the Astors do now
over the Goulds. The San holds that
young Gould, an American citizen,
lowers himself by an alliance with the
descendants of foreign rat trap
per, and the society" that
holds the family of the foreign
muskrat skin dealer above the family
of man who commenced with moth
ing and made colossal fortune by the
expenditure of brain power, is a sham,
a fraud, a disgrace. There is not a
man in all the West but knows enough
to buy rat skins for shilling and sell
them for fifteen cents. That is not
craftsmanship, it is not science, it is
not smartness. 1t is just common, or
dinary business. But the man who
can build railroads across a continent,
open mines of coal and iron, and create
a business that will bring a hundred
fortunes, is prince among rat trap
pers. When the son of a man who has
made hundred millions for himself.
while he has paved the way for thous-
ands Of others to become rich, offered
his hand in marriage to this girl, he
very likely did it because he loved her,
and if her aristocratic relations and
friends had kept their mouths shut
about her lowering herself by such an
alliance, nothing would have been said
about it, but it makes the blood of every
honest American boil, to see these en-
igrants forget the muskrat pelts,
which are the foundation of their for
tune, and put on blue-blood airs over
young American citizen, one drop of
whose blood has got more vinegar in it
than two quart pail full of the slug
gish blood of the rat trapper. George
Gould is hereby requested to break off
the engagement until the trappers apollo
gize for the insult they have offered
his country.-PecE'S Sun.
Didn't Agree.