St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-17

If our society has fault, it Is excess
i've humility. 1t knows what are true
crterions of manly and womanly worth,
and il consequently feels an awkward
shame i'll insisting upon its own claims
to right distinction. 1t is humbly eager
to Shun the praise that attends on what
is truly praiSeworthy. If an anceS-
tor is properly entitled to the credit
of being Self-made man, the family
which he has founded seeks to waive
that credit and hunbly confesses that
he was so unfortunate as to have royal,
or at least noble blood i'll his veins.
DeSpiSing etfete ariStOcracy as we DOVE
are yet 50 sincere and SO single-mlnded
that we openly admit any stain of ais
tocratIc lineage in our own blood. Per-
haps we carry this self-depreciatiOn too
far and frequently accuse ourselves
without any just cause. There is such
a thing as morbid humility. We must
guard against this.
Let us throw off all false shame. Let
us. not blatantly, not boastingly, but
with manly pride, assert cur true titles
TO consideration. even going so far as
to claim kindred where we justly may
with that great democracy which it Is
the glory of the American people to
have established. If we ourselves or
our ancestors were brainy or brawny
enough to make a coup in trade, to cor
ner the market in stocks, if we or they
have earned the need of popular re-
spect in such usefnl avocations as wait
ing on the table, or tilling the soil. or
washing the linen of our or their neigh
bors, let us not hesitate to blazon the
fact upon our eScutcheonS. 1t is only
false and meretriciOus pretensionS that
are ridiculous to the true sense of
humor and prOpriety. An honest pride
in honest achievement is always re-
spected.
1t is with this feeling that the World
has, with infinite pains and the incest
feeling for the due honor of all parties
involved, prepared a series of armorial
bearings which might be adopted by our
representative families. and by such
leading citizens as are now engaged i'll
founding the representative families OF
the future. The cunning of the skilled
artist has been called in to make these
bearings as pictorially effective as posi-
bic, and to bring out all the points
wherein they may claim to be dis
tinctively applicable.
But few words OF comment may not
be entirely unnecessary. 1t will be seen
that the lowly pun has not been de-
spised. Surely to para phrase Eustace
Budget and to ruin his meter,
What Henri Quatre did and McAllister ap-
proves
Cannot be wrong
An august precedent has been au
gustly ratified. If the greatest monarch
in the past of France and the greatest
social dictator in the present of America
see no blame in such a palpable play
upon words as is presented by d'lnde,
neither one nor the other could find
aught to object to in the quotation from
whittier, in which another bird is made
the representatives of great American
family. Indeed, though we are not
skilled in chronological lore. it is not en-
tirely impossible that the very name
may at some remote period of the past
have been gained for the family by
some ancestor whose amiaOle gaTrulity
foreshadowed the qualities which still
attach to some of its living representa-
tiveS.
A special feature Of some of these
coats of arms, which should be empha-
sized, is their possible commercial value.
Trade rules the hour, the kings of trade
are the true monarchs of the period.
Why should not royalty use its insignia
to extend its dominlons? 1t is well
known that leading clothier in Chi
cago employed herald and genealOgist
to trace up his family tree and recover
the coat of arms that belonged to him
by hereditary right. And for what pur-
pose? Simply to stamp it as his trade
mark upon every piece of cloth that
went out of his shop. Surely the same
rule might be applied to their
majesties, the tradesmen in all lines of
business. Do not let them go to the past
to hunt up relics of ancient grandeur
which are not specially applicable to
the commercial splendor of the present
generation. Let them devise a new
coat of arms which shall incorporate
some of the unique advertising methods