Show HOW NATIONS DECAY I 1 ta LA says bays that we all h have ave strength to bear the misfortunes of 0 others it did not require a very at strong ro n 0 ro roan am or a deep thinker to say that it if there Is anything that mankind can take philosophically it i la misfortune that Is the misfortune of his neighbor there are a 0 great many who imagine they could bear the good fortune ot of their neighbors it they had a chance we do not know a gentleman in this city or territory who would not be willing to undertake to stand all the cares ot of a rockefeller Koch ereller to have secured to hint him the rockefeller income dicome our people ought to have for themselves I 1 every opportunity to increase their fortunes but there Is another cither thing than they need much more and that Is 13 to learn the lie tact fact that there la Is nothing in a a great fortune which secures happiness to men or insures them against immediate sorrows so great at that money no compensation tor for them it looks to us as though with the increasing output of the mines that tills this race tor for money will e tor for perhaps a hundred years the danger Is that with the abnormal fortunes given to some and the awful poverty held beld upon that by and by the loan hood of american men and the womanhood of american n women omen wt will I 1 I 1 break down find and after that gold vill not secure tor for a day the life or the honor of our nation our institutions under that dry rot will crumble to pieces and make us the prey of 0 the first strong patriotic power that may happen to arzeall us wo we nave have examples enough there never was a grander race in some respects than that of old rome it took but a little while for that power to descend so low as to become the pity of 0 mankind for rive live hundred years there was not one unfaithful matron known A few hundred years later out of five hundred roman there were very few who nho were known to be faithful because poverty and misfortune had done their perfect work tho the womanhood of tile great nation had broken down under the strain and after that the child of the roman mother mas not fit to become a roman soldier the same disintegration and decay overtook overlook spain commencing when the treasures from the new world began to tall fall olt off and our people are not stronger than were the men of rome not stronger than were the men that cortez led into the depths of mexico or those that followed pizarro to encompass COM po 49 tho the overthrow of the inca i we need some better schools and more ot of them but we need more than fill all else that sterling ancient integrity in the humble homes of 0 our countrymen where every child Is to useful and where honor Is cultivated aiom loin the cradle up |