The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-04-12
VARIOUS
SORTS OF
BLOOD
The IcOnOclaSt on European
AriStOcracy.

What is blood?
What is the distinction between
persons OF royal or noble blood and
those who do not claim to have It.
In Europe we have royalty and the
titled nobility. In this country we
have q few titles; a great many des-
cen1ants of old and well-known fami.
lies, some with hyphenated names
due perhaps to inbreeding - and a
great many, who, after amassing
wealth, discover by some means that
they have blue blood" in their
veins.
And they all hold aloof from the
common people because of the dis
tinction given to them by inheritance
They assume to be born with a certain
superiority over the rest of mankind
which manifests itself, neither in
brains nor quality but in blood.
There is no physiological difference,
and predominating qualities that are
laudable; but there is ignorant pre-
sumption. ridiculous pretensions, In
ordinate vanity, imbecility, ard that
ever present egotism which places
them on higher plane than common
folks. In America royalty don't as
sert itself to any extent, but its imita'
tors and representatives are here In
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monarch whose divinity is second
only to Jesus Christ, condescends TO
send over one of his royal relatives
for our appreciation. Then It Is that
our blooded aristoracy gets up on its
hind legs in its frantic endeavor to
pay homage to this man of blood.
Who is he2 He is a relative OF an.
other man of blood and there his
greatness ceases. He knows who his
great.great grandfathers were. He Is
able to trace his lineage through roy.
ality--bacl5 to a timo when a leader
emerged from the common people,
and was made a king. That ancestor
was his greatest ancestor -- upon
whose laurela the succeeding gener-
ations rested 49, and degenerated.
Even the first king must have had an.
cestors, aud they were Of the common
people. SO in tracing the lineage OF
any royal family II finally becomes
obscure at a point just beyond royal.
ity, or among the common people.
This is the approximate history OF
every royal family In existance. Its
> beginning is always marked with
some quality OF distinction which
placed II in power. The incentive Ia
greatness was then removed and re
progression followed. Where is the
honor in belonging to such a family?
Is II a satisfaction TO know that one OF
your great.grandfathers was a man OF
prominence and that you are all that
there is left to show for it2 Is there
any glory In knowing that the family
has deteriorated through several gen.
erations?
Doubtless some OF the sausage ba'
> rons, and the ex-section bosses and
ferrymen OF our blooded set, who en-
! tertain us with their Grass manners
and suddenly become" become ex
pressions believe this TO be real hon
/, or Without regard 10 their own
, fitness or unfness, this set OF semi
Simians set themselves up for what
one OF their ancestors may have been
, and proceed TO gloat. They are near
+, lily all Christians and ignore the fact
that Adam was the progenitor OF the
, race. Darwin's theory seems bettel
to Al the case. Were IL possible tC
trace lineage from the present human
family 10 the anthropoid ape, II II
probable that some OF our patriciar
!. contingent would be found millior
years nearer their hairy ancestori
than the balance Of mankind.
> There are persons who have bettel
blood than others. but is not exem
plified In the characteristics common
TO American or EuropeOn aristocracy
Pride and vanity. ostentation, greed
envy and selhshness are all attributes
of the peacock and the hog. The!
good by comparison, for no man Il
perfect. There is not one dominating
attribute OF this clique oil asinine pre-
tenders, that Is not manifested 10
fair degree by some one animal o
other Yet they prate of blood ant
! family and got exclusive, They d.
not realize that the greatness OF
man may be totally absent In his son
The necessity for having two parent
makes possible In the offspring i'm
proyements or the reverse. according
10 the combination. II one does no
possess qualities and traits abov
those OF the beasts OF the feld. hi
blood is not good. II one does no
posses the greatness and rehnemen
OF a noble ancestor. he hasn't tina
noble ancestors blood. Every man
the exempllhcation Of the blood ther
Is In him. No person Is nobler bor
than another. unles he has the qual
ties that make him such. In the Uni
ed States one may hnd many person
OF good blood who cannot trace thel
= lineage four generations.
i Then what Is biOod7 Blood Is cha
3 acter. gentility, justice. beneyOlenc