Show too much talk of birth when nhen the society of the cincinnati was formed there was the most vehement opposition to the principles of founding here an hereditary order there is less danger to day of an aris of birth winning any real as tendency cen dency in this land than there was when the nation was just breaking away from the eng sh tradition but there Is to day ln some quarters an unmistakable development of snobbery which las an absurd emphasis emp nasis on the circumstance of birth A line of worthy ancestors Is an excellent thing it any ancient virtues have been transmitted to the children an honored name Is an enviable posses sion when its living owner bears himself worthily membership in an hereditary patriotic order Is 1 possibly an advantage so long as it inspires the member to serve his country today I 1 in causes no less holy though maybe less heroic than those which his order commemorates other ad vantages than these birth does not confer philadelphia ledger |