The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-16
YOUTH VERSUS OLD AGE.
WEALTH AN EXPERIENCE GAINED
EARLIER IN MODERN WORLD.


thing of Age.
From the London Spectator.
The young have recently scored a point
or two in their standing contest with the
old. and it was almost time they did. For
generation past they have been beaten,
as 1t We're, at every turn. The Old have
become so much healthier that they live,
in the better classes at all events, ten
years longer than was formerly usual,
thus keeping the young out not merely
from their inheritance. but from opportu-
mites of distinction. For the new health
prevents senility, 50 that peoples strength
and ability no longer fail them as they
used to do, but last apparently uninjured
to an unconscionable age. Formerly ev-
erybody retired" al 60, but now at 60 men
are just mature, their wits are as bright
as ever, they can dance if they care to
try, and they feel as if they were good for
another twenty years. 1t is a positive
fact that they stop on after their pensions
are due, and that those who should remove
them, and thus clear the road of promo
ton, hesitate 10 do it, saying they see no
reason for running the risk of new selec-
ions while the experienced remain so thor
oughly competent. This leaves the young
fellows, who are all wanting to marry, no
| chance, and they all complain that the
natural ladder is getting longer and that
| IT takes years upon years longer than it
used to do TO reach the top. The old will
| not take themselves out of the way, and
really" say the youngsters with a sigh,
they do the work, don't you know, very
| well. That is hard on the new genera
| ton, but of late il has seemed as IL they
mad in one department of effort quite
| new advantage. The, boys" to the sur
prise alike Of themselves and their seniors,
make fortunes quicker than the 'fogies.'
If there is one path in which more than
another judgment ought to tell, it is max
ing money, but the great accommodations of
recent years have been made by quite
| young men.
| me Jew SPECTATOR Mr.. Woolf Joel of
Barnato & Co., who has just been murder
| ed by a blackmaiIer, having originally
nothing, made a good deal before he gas
| l9, and million" or whatever hoard that
indefinite noun of multitude may represent,
before he was 30 and he was only one of
| many. Mr.. Letter of Chicago, who has
| just been spelling the wheat buyers of the
/ world to the tune, it is said, of 81, 600 COO
| We viii not vouch for the figures, but they
| represent very much plundeI-is under "a;
| and there is another speculator in New
| York who is said to have done as much,
| and whose wisdom-teeth are not all cut
| There are men among ourselves who are
| nearly as SUCCESSFUL. The great merchants
| are usually sgrizzed, but you never see a
South African who has made his pile" but
| you recognize, despite the anxious look
| in his eyes that he is still well below As.
| Mr.. Rhodes must have made himself rich
| before he was 49, and though Mr.. Belt,
| or Mr.. Wehrner or Mr.. Robinson are not
privy councillors, and their ages are there
| fore harder to ascertain, they must have
| been astonishingly successful before their
| acquaintance ceased to regard them as
young men. Mr.. Hooley made his great
| fortune at home before he was 80. Sir
| George Newnes reached Parliament at "a,
and Mr. Harmsworth is still only 3S. So
frequent, indeed, is the success OF the
young, or comparatively young, in bust
ness, that it looks as if in that department
the road were clear, and that the old fur
nished no such obstacle to the young in
getting on as they do in politics, and
above all in the professions including, we
| hear with some surprise, that of engineer
| ing.
So marked, indeed, is the change in the
| race of moneymakIng, and so considerable
is the influence of success in that race
| upon mems imaginations, that we should
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