| Show AXI U Very Vry ery often Europeans I who visit tItle country for Cor tho thu purpose of forming nil all Idea 1 of at conditions here hore fall fail to perceive what Is 1 essentially good because they view everything through their own highly hight colored glasses Holger I rach mann a u well oIb known knowlI Danish root and author Is nn nil exception to this rule lie Ilo visited this country last year and spent several months here hore and his continual communications to a the Danish press now flOY prove provo that his hili Impression of ot this title nation tire lire different trout from those many others have havet curried t 1 Way away to theIr respective coun countries countries tries According to the Chicago says saI the great reat merit of America Is U that bitt It has Ims hn discovered that money moncy alone Is 19 life poverty Is l death This fact Is also known In Europe but there hypocrisy prevents people from confes cantes confessing sing that they believe It to be true He Be tho the Americans because they are ure honest enough to admit that they are mo striving for tor power rower and am for money moner which gives alves power He lie assorts asserts that the American millionaire appreciates Ills his responsibility better than the time European nobleman lees docs The Tho wealthy In Amer America AmerIca ica lea are nr not Idle They are oro constantly branching out into active participation In everything pertaining to public life lIro and progress The Tha rh American idea Iden l Is that every man capable of or working shall work Wuk and Americana Mr Mc Ir says hivo tried to convince the time American people that their Ideas about wealth are ure nil all wrong that the European cant which tries to ignore money n nR an a It legitimate legitimate mate source of or power Is a 1 higher and nobler conception Tim The subject which Mr treats on In title this rational and practical manner la is one ono of considerable Interest From tho the early ages of our era an tm Im Impression has been heen formed that there li lt some special virtue In poverty It has hal halcome come down to us tie from the ancient reliC religions ions that produced their hermits men mell and beggars who claimed to 10 have renounced the world and there therefore therefore fore foro were bettor better than II their fellowmen In the time old oW world this idea Iden prevailed largely and ns liS time the majority of oC men inca and I women found It necessary to labor and ami amito to accumulate wealth ft a contradiction between belief belleC and amI practice arose aros which to this day lay has baa existed exl more or cr orless orless less le 8 In the tho Now No World however much of that lint superstition found no M suitable soil soli Here a ii more natural view of OC life He and Its obligations obtained And paver poverty poverty ty was looked upon no nil a II misfortune rather than a n virtue That there Is n a danger langer of oC going to the other extreme extremo here cannot bo be denied but the time principle Itself that It Is i the time duty of everybody to labor honestly to tho the best be t advantage he can nn Is I certainly correct The danger of or accumulation of or wealth Is hardly greater than would woul be the time danger of ne as neglecting tho the offered for tor remunerative activity For or n a country with a 1 proletariat prevailing Is worse off ort than n a country with general prosper prosperity prosperity ity and somo some nabobs The Jho fact Is III that each human Individual ual Is III endowed with his special sifts gIfts Some Sorno have n a 1 faculty for accumulating wealth and others for Cor gathering knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge Some Same are lre of or a n practical turn of oC mind and can clIn lay plans platis anti and schemes schemeR of lC successful others live IIvo nail move In an all Imaginary world of oC poetical al beauty All 11 gifts arc are good and anti be cultivated And If they are lite used not for purposes but the limo good of oC mankind their exorcise exercise will bring happiness to those that possess posses SS them both hero and hereafter |
