Show THE EUS11 FOE KICIIC I The arrest of ALFRED DOWXIXG president presi-dent andN B TOLLMAN president of tho National Capital Savings Building and Loan Association of North America together to-gether with more than a column dispatch in THE HERALD yesterday describing the methods of fraud practised by tho association associa-tion is a gentle reminder that we are living liv-ing in an age of avarice when the one object ob-ject of mens lives appears to bo to get rich and that in haste This association with such a ponderous title was organized less than a year ago yet it has its agents according to the evidence in the hands of the postoffico officials who caused the arrest ar-rest of the president and vicepresident in nearly every state of the union selling its 20000000 of capital stock and although its organization was so recent thousands of people have been defrauded and the net gain to the swindlers amounts already to a sum between 200000 and 300000 This gigantic system of fraud may arrest the attention at-tention of people for a brief moment because of its immense proportions and the boldness of the schemes but only the careful reader of the treneral current news items seen in the dispatches of the daily press and those who with something like philosophic attention are noting the trend of affairs of our age arc aware how much space in the press is occupied with accounts of fraud and schemes for plunder which are daily uncovered The one burning burn-ing desire of the people of our day is to get rich The one characteristic of our age which stands out more prominently than any other and by which it will bo best remembered in tho years to come is its avarice And the most deplorable feature in this overwhelming desire for riches Is that wealth is not desired because it enlarges en-larges the powers of individuals for doing good but that it may administer to the selfish pride and pleasure of those who possess it Without much effort one could believe that wo have fallen upon the times described in the Holy Writ where men are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of GOD and when the shrine of Mammon I bath more worshipers than the other of Jehovah In their unholy haste to become be-come rich men are running wild and are forgetting such oldfashioned words as honor integrity and truth Friendship Red sociability are neglected for it the duties imposed upon men by the family and by society are sacrificed that a more abject devotion may be given to Mm mons shrine that pleasured cup may be filled yet more full and held without interruption in-terruption to the pleasure worshipers lips False notions of life are engendered in the minds of men a stream of corruption corrup-tion that threatens to poison the life blood of the nation has sot in upon us and unless something shall occcur to stay or divert into other channels the mad career upon which we have entered there will come a crash or a succession of crashes that will bring sore disaster to the people of our I times |