The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-03-14
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4 number of Americans waited upon
the Pope the other DAY and presented
him with an address, to which His
Holiness responded in mild patriarchal
benedictiOn, adjuring his hearers par
ticularly to .'guard against the excess
i've love of riches" Being Americans ,
this counsel must have surprised them. /
At home they had of course listened 20 ,
the passing parson what time he bump |
ed the cushion above their heads and /
enforced the lesson of the camel and /
( the needles eyeand that he who maketh
! haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
/ But they had probably given little heed
/ to this apologize, deeming it doubtless
> sufficiently applicable to old lapscd
! tribes living IN forgotten ages, but out
of place. unbusiness-like, and sentiment
tai in Jauncey court, or Broad street,
or on the Corn Exchange.
But we think not so, and the warn
ing of the highest priest of the oldest
church. offered to the representatives
of the Youngest and most mOney-seek- k
ing of the nations of Christendom, Is
worth needing May we indeed make
haste to be rich and still be innocent
grasp by force or indirectiOn the
fruits of labor without rendering the
labor and still find the work of our
hands blessed? In the great brawl
ing, noisy strifes which surround us it
seems as if every body were trying to
do just that-as if men writhing in the
cumulative and competitive coil Of bu-
sineSs and gain were like an Egyptian
pitcher of tanned vipers, each striving
Il
Several persons have tried it on he
+ role and historic scale of late-TritOns
, among r!innOws-thieycs that would
, have stolen the wings from Mercury's
heels or plundered the care Of Cacus.
, Tweed. for instance. In the first stages
, of his procedures he Yves certainly very
successful But the seqnci IS unhappy.
= The old ravening. vulturOus attOr!c,-
o host are rending him. He is chained
= TO the rock Of his misdeeds. like Pro
: metheus to his crag, and they are COr-
;, ing away at his liver. When they are
done with him his Golfers will be emp
ty. his bones bare. and his life viii
?. have pointed anew the lesson that ill
o gotten wealth enduTes not and rascal
dom has no stTonC-b0x. And those
frlons, little and large, who were
lcagued with him. who used to come
, 50 SNUG upon the matt" whose equip
ages shOne like meteOrs and whose
0 palaces rose like e1halatiOns " here
t are they? Nobody knows Some Of
:. them are not found out-peThaps vain
: " hope that they won't be others are
- fuCitiVes in the earth One hears Oi
: them now and then fitting about the
e Alantides with plenty OF money and
o no satisfactory identity now th5y turn
b up in Spain, where, perhaps. ther buy
e castles. Why should they not even be
5 | Of those VINO present addresses to the
Pope and receive from him the puDgcnt
ami appropriate counsel which welfare
recited. They hasted TO be rich. and
ROW are Outl2ws with & mark set on
= them. Perhaps some of them regret
: that they did not contentedlv abide
the moderation of their fortunes Who
shall say Colonel Fisk made haste to
. be rich 81 that is left of that un-
e happy man Is a mound of Vermont
) gravel beaten with winter storms. and
: q memory in which are mingled deeds
Of careless generosity. energy turned
5 to acts of wrong, violence secret and
t savage bat not brave, and immortality
e over which no veil of decorum was
i flung. His example was not whole
, some one to American youths. Better
. had he remained Vermont pedler or
9 Boston dry goods trader, needing the
:. Bible precept and tOiling faithfully
Q his appointed season in the VINEYARD
> 1t was at too great n cost that he pur-
:, chased his little season of coarse splen-
/ dor, the adulatiOn ofilliteratc parasites,
/ the caresSes of hafiOts.
= Make not haste to be rich" ought
to he embroidered in large. legible
: letters over the Vice Presidents seat
3; in the Senate and over the Speakers
: chair in the House, so that the legend
II should always be before tie ewes Oi
;. our lawgivers. Perhaps if it had been
s written there the members would have
p needed 1t and kept their fingers from,
Il the pitch of bribes and their tongues
q from the defilemcnt Of falsehood.-
: Ames might never have ventured -
distribute among the mem bers 2 stock
bearing so per cent. dividend with that
. inscription staring himi in the face. nor
e they have had the etfrOntcrv to take
! 1T. 1t would have rehul,ed their greed
: as the handwriting on tie Babvlonian
= wall rebuked and aweu the monarch
and the sOOthsayers. With that mon
t itory legend arching over his head like
: a rainbow ColfaX would have stuck
=; like man to his salary and his lee
4 lures, and let alone railroad invest
e nents and stationery jobs. So would
: Patterson. Poor wretch Truly each
S OF these has sold his birthright for =
miserable mess of pottage They sad
~ illustrate in their shame and ruin
E that it is not well to make haste to he
t rich And we hope that all young
G men who are entering or asn;r:.,.. =.