The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-03-24

or 4 NINruUnt master OF Il merchant snip.
II was the same abroad. The illus
t.'iogS D. MrI;ciS t:,t her and son. were
III r,'hants and Presidents of the Flor
cntinr Republic, equal in greatness
and power to any OF the kings of their
time. The DoIcs and State Council
lorS Of Ncnicc. whose faded spicndors
are the marvel of Europe. we're mer
chants and controlled the trade OF the
East
How paltry and pi,able have been
the methods 10y which class has in
trcLchcd itself from contact with class,
each feeling that it must draw Il line"
in its own favor, and making every
town and village in the kingdom hot
bed Of iealousies and hatrcds. Money
less proprietors of land disdained the
landlcss propricto:s Of money. The
man who could let his farms on hire
scorncd the man who made them fruit
full
"Wholpsale" would have nothing to
say to ''retail.' Small gentry cooked
their noses at the apothccary. but adj
mitted a physician. Clergymcn ofthe
| Established Church refused to shake
hands with Dissenting Minister'S
When merchant or manufacturer
| bought an estate and settled in the
country. he was 4 nourcaa rtchc among
the landed proprietors, not worth call
inc upon, and the new-madc noble was
4 parrenu to his titled brethren. The
royal source of honor was not suli-
cient guarantee Generations of idle
ness and uselessness. usually accom-
panied 10y debauchery and eNtrava-
gance. can, however, convert pnr0emH
family into truly noble one.
Yet we are proud to know that
large number of England's most hon
ored families are derived from the hum
ble ranks Of industry, and from the
trading classes. The ancestors of Lord
Foley and Of the Earl of Dudley were
poor StaiIordshirc nail-makers; those
Of Lord Leigh, the Earl of Northbrook.
Earl Fitzwilliam, and the Duke of
Leeds were city merchants, to say
! & ~ har I
nard Burke, in his " icisstudes of
Families" says, "The present House
of Lords cannot claim among its men,
bers single male descendant of any
one of the Barons who were chosen to
enforce Magma Charta, or of any one
of the Peers who are known to have
fought at Agincourt.'
Not one-fourteenth Of the peerages
that had been created up to 1913 exist
today, Notwithstanding, the Peerage
of England is, as Disrarli said, 1.-The
| finest in Europe" No greater tribute
Of praise was ever paid to it than by
Observation-Disclosures and demo-
crat that he was-where he says in
"Nouvellc !Ieloisr, III YOU know the
English nobility, you must be aware
| that it is the most enlightened, the best
taught, the wisest. and the bravcst in
Europe. This being so, it is unneces-
sary to enquire if it be the most an
cient, for, in speaking Of what it is, no
question arises of what it has BEEN
The peers o! England are certainly not
the slaves of the prince but his friends;
not the tyrants Of the people. but is
clictS, its guarantees of liberty, stls-
! tanels OF their country, and supporters
OF the throne, they form an invincible
equilibrium between the people and the
sovereign. Their first duty is to the
nation, their second to him who gov
! crns it: it is not his will but his right
that they consult: supreme admins
traitors of the laws in the House of
Lords, and sometimes law makers,
they render justice equally to the peo-
pie and the crown, and they allow no
one to say God and my sword but
only God and my right.
Were it not that law. politics, and
trade are constantly recruiting the
Peers with new blood, they would
| dwindle into insignicance for no fam
| ly, plebeian, noble. or royal, can escape
the vicissitudes OF time As Lord
| Chief Justice, Sir Andrew Crcwe, in
his splendid charge said Of the De
eres:-'''r!mc hath his revolutions:
there must be Il period and an end to
all things temporai-,fn rerun,-an
end of names and dignitarics and what
soevcr is tcrrcne, and why not of De
| We're! For where is Bohun? Where
| is Mowhlay? Where is Mortimer?
Nay, which is more and most of all,
where is PIantagenet? They are en-
tomb1d in the urns and sepulchres of
mortality And Yet let the name and
dignity Of De We're stand so long as it
pieaseth God"
Extravaganza, gambling, racing, and
betting, ar" the means hy which old
| families arr brought low. Idlcncss
and pr"ti2aoy rNtimgui>h them. 1t is
| just, thea. that those who have risen
by their industry. ability. and moral
superiority, should take their places in
the councils and honorS of the country.
For labor restores. rcncwS, and re-
creates: and is therefore GoN-likc. The
raw material neglected it may he for