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Show Some Of The World's Wrongs THERE are some curious anamolies in our national na-tional life. For instance, the struggle to obtain ob-tain wealth was never more general and never pursued with more energy than at the present pres-ent time. This applies quite as much to individuals indi-viduals as to corporations. There are, too, a great many newspapers which to make a sensation are always ready to publish any scandal, or to publish as facts what they do not know to be facts. They come under Hon. Ogden Hiles' classification of "those who tell so many things that they do not know." Yet this class of newspapers is sought for by a very large portion of the public and quoted, with glee, because a largo portion of any community com-munity is made up of men and women who love to hear mean things said about those people who are more fortunate in business than they are. Men are heard denouncing the grasping methods meth-ods of corporations who personally would squeeze a dollar or a twenty-dollar piece until the eagle shrieked, and put them in charge of a public corporation that draws its revenue from the public pub-lic and their study would be such as was told of a great railroad magnate a generation ago, who was charged with saying to his attorneys: "I do not want to know whether this program would, if carried out, be legal, but what I desire is to know how far I can press this program with out going to jail." A wise writer long ago spoke of "those greedy of other men's property and prodigal of the!r own," and those men abound as much as ever now, and pursue their calling with increased energy." en-ergy." And the editors some of whom are in this city are more numerous than of old, who "by appeals to popular prejudice, attempt to obscure ob-scure all distinct views of the public good, to overwhelm all patriotism and all enlightened self-interest self-interest by loud cries against false danger, and by exciting the passions tt one class against another." Again, look at the way the politicians and demagogues treat the men who live by manual labor. They are eternally told that all there is in this world has come of labor and that it is samefully unrewarded. Now, men who talk that way are the real enemies en-emies of laboring men. Instead of pointing out to them that they are better rewarded than men of the same class are in other lands, so well rewarded re-warded that they can, by prudence and Industry, raise themselves to a higher plane; the burden all the time is to make them believe that the man who has more money than they have has obtained It through an unfair division. And while it is true in a sense that all that has been created since the woi'ld was a wilderness, wilder-ness, has been through labor, it must not be forgotten for-gotten that there are many kinds of labor an'', manual labor has created but a small share of it all comparatively. The manual laborer at first with a stick could rudely cultivate perhaps sixteen square rods of land. When another man invented the spade, the first laborer could cultivate by its help 160 square rods. That is, the1 mental faculties which invented invent-ed the spade increased the eifectiveness of the worker ten times. When another man trained the horse and made him an obedient slave, and still another invented in-vented the plow, the effectiveness of the first laborer la-borer was multiplied fifty-fold. That is, the work of the brain from the first has made the work of the hands available, and it is too late In the world to discount what has been the real creator and to exalt the instrument. It is true that the world is carried on by labor, la-bor, but vastly more of it is due to brain than to muscle. Hence, the effort should be to incite laboring la-boring men to greater efforts to exalt themselves, than for a vile purpose, to make them feel that in some way they are always being oppressed, for it is not true, and moreover, it is' not fol- " lowing the original design, for that waB that brain should rule this world and subdue all its i hostile elements. Again, it is Idle to inveigh against the legitimate legiti-mate power of money, for money is labor, both the labor of hand and brain, concentrated into an imperishable form, and is not only tha one i thing that all men covet, but is the mighty instrument in-strument through which the world's work is carried car-ried on, and by which civilization itself is measured. |