St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
WEALTH. IN COLLEGES.

tauuua assembly of Maine town Mr..
BLAINE took occasion to inveigh against
1.-The aristocracy of wealth in colleges" and
commented upon the demoraliZing effect
produced upon less wealthy youth by the
ostentation and extravaganza of rich young
men. His statement that the possession of
wealth by undergraduates gives them a
pre-eminence and induces false standards
according to which other young men, much
to their moral detriment and the material
injury of their parents purses, try to live.
is doubtless true, but the further observa-
ton that this false distinction is maintained
after graduation is not so well founded.
1t is more frequently the case that the
young man who has been furnished with
liberal allowance during his college course
finds himself handicapped by that very fact
when the doors of his alma mater close
behind him. When it comes to a
question of making his own liveli-
hood, the youth who has acquired
expensive habits and tastes and who in all
his previous existence has never had a
wish ungratified which unwise indulgence
could procure for him, when he finds the
hard fact confronting him that he must
thereafter depend upon his own resources.
discovers that he has not the same
capacity for ''rustiing," to use an expressive
Western expression. which is possessed by
his poorer fellow student, accustomed to
many little privations in his college days.
The world is becoming all the time more
inclined to judge man for what he is
rather than for what he has OF
claims to be, and even if the ''aristocracy of
wealth. of which Mr.. BLAINE speaks has
obtained foothold through the speedy ac-
quirement and the retention of riches it is
becoming more and more hard pressed in
its supremacy by the only aristocracy which
has in liberty-loving and equality profess
ing America any excuse for existing. the
aristocracy of brains. In any contest be-
tween these two, wealth and brains, the
former must eventually go the wall.
A WORKING PRESIDENT.
A friend of the president says that the APP
pearance of Mr.. CLEVELAND is almost
pitiable, so severely has the hard work in
cident to the closing weeks of congress
told upon him. 1t is stated that he fire.
quently prolonged his working hours far
into the night and that even the early
morning found him frequently at his desk.
AS natural consequence the president
looks forward with more than ordinary
eagerness to the brief period of rest and
recuperation which his vacation will give
him. He has well deserved his vacation.
and he has, besides, shown the people that
ton to public duties on the part of all sub
ordinates does not shrink from setting the
example himself. Under no other admin
istration have the people been so fai thfully
served by public officials as under the pres
ent one. Under no other has so much and
so efficient work been performed in
every department. Government Of
fcials of every grade have had
it impressed upon them that their places
are not sinecures, but that in return for the
generous salaries they receive a proper
tionate amount of work must be accom-
plished. The contrast between the exist
ing order of things wherever public business
is conducted and that which obtained under
previous administrations IS too marked to
need further comment. The credit for it
belongs to the president. and though to
bring about the result it has been necessary
for him to labor long and hard, it was for
that purpose he was elevated to his present
lofty position. Mr.. CLEVELAND may not
be CHESTERFIELD in manner nor BEAU
BRUMNlEL in dress, but he has proved him.
self loyal, untiring and efficient public
servant well worthy of his hire. The
American people will hope that his vaca-
ton may bring him renewed energy to con-
tinue in the good work.