Show Inheritance tance By Dr Frank Crane without flourishing an any dagger or threatening to throw any bomb we would suggest that tho average man think over this matter matter matter mat mat- ter of or Inheritance Go to to the bottom of It It and ask yourself yourself your your- our self sel whether after aller all you ou have any moral right to leave leA the money you jou have amassed to lo your jour children Gently let It be ber r repeated d. d gently Do Donot Donot Donot not I leap ap at condo condo- Do not cry socialism and an anarchy anarchy an- an archy and Isn't thore there such Bluch sucha a a. thing thinK ns ILS treating an art 1 ides Idea quite apart from any Ism or party part I Probably In our day things will ne never ner r be changed and we e will all continue to heap up ni what little wealth we wo can to leave leass to our offspring but lt its it's a good thing once In a a. while tf to think long thoughts and to wonder r about tho the thirtieth century And so fIO wondering perhaps Idly dh can you realize an any real equality of or opportunity nit for all men EO so lon long lone a as o n. millionaires millionaire's baby Is endowed with rule over his fellows fel tel lows and their labor and the paupers pauper's bab baby Is III ushered Into an nn environment en of crime and suffering Buffering Let us not ask now how we ar Mf are going to help It it- Nobody knows possibly But It ItIs ItIs Is II wise o to ask aek first If It a thing Is right or wrong wrong- being that all wrong wron things s somehow and some day daj- a will be berl rl righted A A. Fifth Firth avenue a. baby Is born with a a. silver spoon In itS Ite mouth a a. Bowery baby Is born with nothing In It Its mouth nothing nothing noth noth- ing all alj Of O it H It in In fact tact and through h It and around It but dirt Suppose we 0 C cease talking of ourselves and nd our rights right and consider tho thi babies The Bowery baby did ld not riot ask asic to como come here Society at large allowed him to come common human instincts forced him into this world And at least from the s 's standpoint he ha do does fl R not h have hite a a. square quare d deal 81 and that Is 18 c certain Furthermore do o you Sou realize that t the only r reel government In these mO modern times Is Is Presidents and 8 senators scott sena na I tore ton and ors mayors have hav very verv little to do with our actual every e or I day life lite The man manIn manin In control of money masses s has eVor everything everything every every- thin thing to do 10 with Ith It He decides ts how we weare weare e eare are to work ork and where and on what scale ecale our family shall II live and almo almost almot t all 1111 the details of ot material existence Wo We have long a ago o c ceased Med choosing our ostensible rulers by heredity as 85 Ute they do doIn doIn doin In Europe and no now choose them b by ballot ballot hallot bal hal lot and hold them thorn responsible And has haa hasIt hasit It ever er occurred to you jou oU that we ar are ara now electing our real rulers ruler to wit the men who control tho the money monc of ot the nation by bythe bythe the same antiquated methods In In which people once selected their political rulers rul rul- rul- rul ors ers to wit by bv heredity Perfect Justice Is not riot equality men deserve more than others But does not perfect justice demand that t the te e man who gets more should earn It And Arid even If It It were wore rl right ht that h ho should set get ct wealth for no merIt m of hl his own and only because he h l Is his fathers father's son Is it Il right that he le should continue to use Jt it and enjoy the tho profits of or It without having to give an account to the people for tor his hi deeds Isn't that essential monarchism monarchism mon- mon and absolutism And Isn't the endowed child a a. Russian czar in an nn American democracy Let us not contu confuse the I issue sue One thing at a a. time Dont Don't ask what wo we ar going to do about It It for in all probability we e shall do nothing for some somo time to tD come Dont Don't ask what b bettor better tt r system m can be ht initiated Dont Don't ask uk what motive would b be left for work vork Just JUIt ask yourself one ope i single le question I In 1 It right It Is worth while wIllie occasionally to u ask asic that one naked Question I |