Show mm wealth is no true indication of a mans worth but it is nevertheless t true hat it gives social caste and influence in all parts of the globe A person may bo a libertine and if he has money his faults are slyly winked at he may be illiterate and still amonoy can secure diplomas and in many instances gain admission to the halls of the learned true be is liable to make an ass of himself but his ignorance is not noticed if he has y plenty of shining shekels and how very impartial dame fortune is with her smiles if it were true that labor valor or merit were the only roads to wealth none could justly murmur but how often do we find abat tho most wealthy have climbed neither take for example JOHN JACOB the son of the great millionaire WILLIAM the young man was born and cradled in wealth and last tuesday ho married the charming daughter of a millionaire and received over two million dollars worth of presents when his father dies he will bo left an heir of all of which will come to him without a struggle on his part in such an instance the glorious principle first enunciated with the founding of our government that all men arc born equal loses its force A young millionaire like jon is born into alb much power and influence as though he wore bom a king and all of this isan the free land of america at in any light tho anes kioa 0 wealth is a serious one and it will yet cut an important figure in the government of the united stated our advancing civilization seems to give capital more and more power and flomo combined effort on the fey part of the people must yet bo made against it |