Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-08
FAwN1NG ON ROYALTY.
An Indignant Correspondent Makes Some
Pertinent Remarks.

An Indignant Correspondent Makes Some
Pertinent Remarks.
EDS. RECORD UNION: In the estimation of
sensible minds it seems TO me there can be
nothing more ridiculous and sickening
than to see or read of persons in no way
noted or distinguished, either at home or
abroad, striving to boom themselves into
notoriety by the lavish expenditure of
money. We find this disposition to pre-
vail not SO much among people of either
sex who have inherited great wealth from
succeeding generations, nor with those who
have honestly and deservedly acquired it by
fIugality and industry, but among the vain
and simple minded whom tickle fortune
hiss suddenly made rich. Il is q notable
fact that in the estimation of the last
named class there is nothing in our own
favored country capable of pleasing the eye
or gratifying the taste. There is neither
climate, scenery nor society sufficiently in
viting or attractive, and off they fly to for
eign lands with no other object or purpose
ing in idleness aud dissipation their sud-
denly acquired wealth.
The telegraph informs us of one person in
particular who has been an untiring aspi-
rant for aristocratic fame. Her frequent
entertainments, both in England and
France, and to which only the nobility
were generally invited, were of the most
costly, gorgeous and elaborate kind, Ii
appears that few of her California friends
did succeed in obtaining admittance to the
magnificent reception given 10 Princess
Louise and the Marquis of Lorne. After the
withdrawal of the royal pair the supper
provided for Americas eommoners was no
doubt hugely enjoyed.
Now individuals have unquestionably
the lawful right to dispose of their fortunes
as their inclinations direct; but the moral
right of so doing is in utter violation of
every good precept and virtuous example
practiced in the land. The useless sauan-
dering of our property is not only abso-
lutely wrong, but positively wicked. If
from across the great waters there came the
pleasing intelligence that Mrs. A, B or G
had contributed large sums in support of
charitable institutions, had erected and
endowed an orphan asylum, or had pro-
vided home for the deaf and blind, the
aged and infirm, instead of wasting fabu-
lous sums of money in the futile effort of
purchasing renown, then, indeed would
they have achieved distinction far more
precious and enduring than the smiles and
idfOIS Va VI Tue
and applause of the wise and good, the
gratitude and prayers of the befriended,
and, far greater than all, the approval OF a
beneficent God. 1t is extremely fortunate
for suffering humanity that they are not
dependent on the miserable miser, or on
that portion of the wealthy class whose
self.love and its qualification render them
entirely oblivious to the needs and neces-
sites of others.
Happily we have among us noble and
generous souls who, however much alb
sorbed in the accumulation of wealth, or if
freely expending it in the pursuit of ra.
tional enjoyment. they are never unmind-
ful of the poor, but literally and cheerfully
respond to every charitable appeal, thereby
relieving distress and Frightening the path
way of life. Our demised millionaires and
those surviving them have left and are
leaving imperishable monuments of their
benefcences. Upon such men and women
the favors of good fortune are Justly be-
slowed; the world will applaud them, and
in the hereafter "great will be their re-
ward" INST.
Auburn, Cal, August, 1889.