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Starveling Nobility In Spain

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
January
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
Editorial
OCR Text

We have alroady said that a title was rir' r a thing of uiuoh iiuportance in itself in Spain; and the lavish manner in which ilicv have In;'1!! grantod ouring tho laat Imridnti! jvars or i-o has ccrlainly DOI tciiilmi to raise its value. ihiiiiIht hirtoly etoeds the aoitstl peetAet of ICnulur 1. 8ool)and and Irvlanü ; and it i.prubable that the litt doe not inclüde all tin' M ril 111 S;iiü whl 0Úlh writfi tlli'lli ■elve l-anin or count if ilu.y cbose. The re are uiany men v.ho prefer to dr p a title ridicikiUMji at variante wiih tbeir fortunes. Y u u i :iy b" .-I avcd by a marqiiis or iii'til apon ;it a rabie d'hotc bv a liaron; ind dii-. iliuimli all tlit' itM n a noKIc do not imIhim Uia tuii', as ii tbc "i-' in ROOM eoaaimW Tlii-i must Kpfn wben tMea xrf f'Vcn to men wlio liavc ih tbrtnne. The older MbrM tefnsê to recgnie the e uew men as their equals. Wliilo they addreu ona tnotber n the onrfearing sccond persyn singular used only by vory int imatu friends, ilioyive the ncw cimnt lii tilles wit h maticious elaboretion of detail. The people think woodrom litile of raoh oiarké of honor; indeed, tlicy scarcely knuw ilicin in some cases. Nobody ever thoueht of speaking of Espartero as Duke of Viotory, or Prinoe of vergara, ihougli all t lic World kinw those titles bad been conferred on biin. In the Case of Feu wfll-kii'nvn uien i'"' tiilc is in vrr mentío 1 at all. Hia ohildren will in all probability tlmi t i' their lathor can leave ihpno no rortune. Perhaps the f'nct (bat these bonor, il' they oan be m oailed; are gained iu civil war and of'ien by liarr:'k intrigues, hus - 1 n i h 1 1 1 i 1 1 !í to do witl: the Miiii'l estimation in whioh ihcy are ln-lil; perhapg, too, il"1 i-uriiiiisly liuiiililt! sooul poMMon of Spftnj h military men lias aome tnfluenoe oo it ; but the main reavon undoubtedly is that the thing it-cll' haa ceased to bê of nuicli valn". Perhapi the beat expLmatioo that can bf giyen ti r he eootinuea cxistence of' tilles is the Spanúrd'í inborn loje of fine aonorouH naoiea and phrases nbich ujean hothing, bul lili the ear wiih an ttnpcn-ing siim i, [f the Boldien who mak e tlic history of the oouDtry cannot raise the dm Dobility to dinnity, still le.-s can the civiliaos, on Imiiii the shower of titles falla in an aliuost equally copinus manner. Almist without ezoeption thuy are politiuul intriftueis, linancitr or oontractors. The first have ipenl their live in puljipg the wires at Madrid, and are looked on v. ry muoh as profesional politieianS are in the United States. The' latter have (iaiiied their tilles bjl fiuBOial services 10 thulioveroment ; and in Spain, to have been eugaged in Grovefnmenl fioanee is los-, ol oharaeter In itself -o liitle isa title now oonoidered tliat a few years ago the Ministry ui the hour - in tlie r-t i itt Dejuúng, almoet, of the word- cnuld think of nothipg more ai propriute ai a reooftnition of sn vires of' t be own.Tut'a decent provincial paper than to uake kim a marqnix. The title was nevor used exoepl by ilie Date man's