Which of these inferences is most strongly supported by the following passage (paragraph 1)?
For some months past the pages of our more conservative magazines have been crowded with pessimistic descriptions of the younger generation, as seen by their elders and, no doubt, their betters. Hardly a week goes by that I do not read some indignant treatise depicting our extravagance, the corruption of our manners, the futility of our existence, poured out in stiff, scared, shocked sentences before a sympathetic and horrified audience of fathers, mothers, and maiden aunts —but particularly maiden aunts.
A. The conservative magazines refused to publish the younger writers.
B. The younger generation valued the opinion and wisdom of their elders.
C. The younger generation admitted that the older generation was superior in certain ways.
D. The elders believed they were superior to the younger generation.