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Show Wi , It is very interesting to note how nn- Vff tional qualities and characteristics express IIP & MoilGV nn1 revcal tllcmselvc9 through the pocket', lIJi Tfc l 'l0W' muca a nat'on's spirit may give jj . -J L eLgVGOlLGY iteclf body and substance, may become ob- llj , r jectivc, through tho manner in which it j uses its purse. A great while ago an old U CllOr&Ctcr writer and keen observer of life said : "Tho HI love of money is the root of all evil." And I J by this sentiment this very notable man I . By Her. William Oirdtm, simply meant that monoy was n large me- dium through which life revealed and ex-I ex-I I pressed itself, that the uses of it told much I of the story of life. There never has been a timo when the mission and business of money Bk ns a revcaler engaged the world so largely as our own. There never was IlL- a time when to possess money meant so much and when to use it revealed II so much. One may know an individual, a city, a nation by tho spirit I v ,v that governs in the acquisition and tho uses of money. One gets at the I ruling characteristics of a people through tho study of how they fill and I m empty their purse. n Tho world is the Ameriean's undoubtedly. No citizen to-day has so fS much economic room and bo vast a kingdom of opportunity as tho Amcri- M ' can workingman. He has all and abounds. His patrimony is so largo that IK as yet he has not been driven to the finer arts of economy. Ho has n jtim theory of thrift and a genius for it born of Puritanism. And yet he is IK by no means a rigid economist because tho stress and strain of lifo never H liad driven him to it. Ho dreads poverty nnd pauperism ns tho plague IH nnd has n theory that to bo poor is to bo improvident nnd 'incompetent H both. It is not because he is so much smarter and more gifted than his European brother, but he has so nmch vaster an inheritance and has n p choice of pursuits denied to tho crowded and hard pressed workingman of tflZI Europe. Ho dresses better, livjes better, looks abend with more hope and mm confidence. Family cares are more eusily handled by him nnd ho is a good fill' liver and a good spender. Of courso ho has his problems with vested and mM. corporate and monopolistic interests; ho has his battles both in progress flr nnd battjes yet to bo, but if ho does not hold his own nnd win out he enn- JH nol lny the blamo to conditions or tho inevitabilities of life, for tho power really ia in his own hands. And nn interesting study it will bo to note how lie manages his interests and conducts the campaign of his own rights H and his own kingdom in tho coming American economic world. |