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Show . ; RICHES FAIL AS CURE-ALL. B,M Bo 011 hanker for money? 'Do you envy R" the millionaire? Are ou longing for the time when you will not have to cook? Aroyou dls-K dls-K conted wltli your lot? Then load tho follow- Hii ,ntf from Tlie Denver Republican of recent K date. Under the caption "The Unrest of. the Hu Rich," the Denver paper tells somo great Hf truths in a splendid way, saving; Hf "Much talk is there of the unrest of the W people, of the evidence in what wo are pleased KM to call the poorer classes of a strulnlnR1 for re- tf ef from their condition. Socialism and its IV bad brother. Anarcliv. are simnosprl in hn Mm H uu uiuwicr, nuarcny, arc supposed to be tho 1 outgrowth of an Idea thn through some un- ff balancing or conditions the moneyless man has H$ been robbed of his power to be happy. " "What about the unrest of tho rich? They Lf may not be holding street meetings and listen- t tngtotho harangues of Socialist orators, but H f that they are every bit as restless, dissatislled l I and discontented, some of them succeed dally M hi making manifest. They aro llndlng fully as B t many was to be wretched as ever a poor man h dared. K "The mistake Is In supposing that the pus- i session of wealth stops the feeling of unrest Bi that Adam felt stirring within him and that K& the last child born Inherited in kind. Some MM time back In the tight whlcli man has always K' niade in response to that feeling, somebody told him that properly possession was the cure i for what ailed him. Ever since then he has V been hunting the cure. In spite or the fact v that nobody has ever been ablo to get a largo mf enough dose, the belief still holds general that H ' It Is possible to do so. j, "Two of the richest families in America , are In the limelight In today's news, brought there by this same unrest that some aro saying ' will undermine society. Tho parties to these ; stories of unrest all have more money than the K average man thinks would be enough to mako him happy. They have so much -that tiny ' don't need to be satisfied with anything, so aro K sanstleU with nothing. Because ihey might H live anywhero they live nowhere have half a H dozen nouses, but dart hither and thither around the world Tar moro discontented than K, tho Denver workman who has bought a lot in '. some outside addition and is laying away a few rc dollars when he can in the hope of some day Bf- building a Hi lie home upon It. Because tliey k are removed from tho necasslty to think of such ; helpful tilings as how to save enough this week - 'o t) ik- the kiddle soni- snocs, they nave plenty r of iimu to find tl.e Imperfections in each other ' and wonder whether some other man or woman : , would not make a more satisfying husband or Mi "It Is a 'nlstake to think that the unrest Is ml anything now or that thero Is a cure for It. It L is another mistake to think that happiness lies Mb In the escape from the necessity to work. Out Ev of the unrest of nature canio creation. Man. a ? Er?luc1t of ll- has- oi of that Inherited unrest, H built civilization and must goon building to f the end of lime. Only by making the best of Kf v.10 llerltaKe, holding a strong rein over and r directing it, can man do his part In tho scheme of things and feel that gratllled pride In woik H well done wiilch Is the nearest approach to H earthly happiness. l 'Socialism Is not born of any result of man's M"i w0,rk' D. Is il Potest against tho common lm- r pulse. It is the wail of the shirk. It will i "9v,ef undermine socletv. for this Is a gamo In Hf which the worker wins" |
