Show DISCONTENT AND WORK 1 The gospel of discontent will not turn the bulk of the working people from their present employment employ ment mont to go idling in the streets They had enough of that before prosperity came There are hundreds yea vea thousands of persons who are poor This condition condition con con- always has been and it will continue to be so long as mans man's selfishness lasts When Then the law of mi might ht is superseded by the law of right as underStood understood under under- stood by the Master laster then men will have all things in n common and Carnegie will not live Ii better than Debs and Debs will not live lire better than the coal miner These wiseacres who know exactly how to toning bring n-ing this happy about would do well to remember 1 her ber that n actions speak louder than words Were Yere they hey to stop orating awhile and begin living liying their theories as Count Tolstoi does more progress would be made To prate against capitalism is pue pile rile It would be much muck wiser to prea preach h against the desire of r riches ches which is the root of the evil But it is that very desire which a actuates us all We Te want four dollars where we are now getting but two Debs wants well as Carnegie There is not one m man mn n in one hundred who other things being equal will not give gie up a five dollar job for a a. ten dollar job We Te all would like to be capitalists The gospel gos gos- pel lel of discontent does not need to be he preached to us Discontent is innate in us But most st of us know the wisdom of choosing the lesser of two evils It is better for ninety per cent of us to be employed at H ving l ipg Wag wages s as a's at present than for fifty per cent of us to go seeking work at any price as we did when Grover Gro Cleveland was running things eight eighty y years n ago |