Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-10-17
THE HERALD
PHILLIPSBURG. KANSAS
Healfh aud Wealth.

Health and Wea ca have MANY pc nts
in common. first of all IN their vrrv
names. To have health is t0 be-. weili
to have wealth is also 10 be welI-weA
of.
Wealth is for the most part got ia
three ways-bv inheritan z; by sell
denial; bv care. ltls0r- anal attention;
often BY some com b II;lt.On Of these
three. Wealth lost bY cxtraV tgant
expenditure or BY earelessIiess ami
neglect
Health NAV 80 be got in these
three ways. A man may inhrr.t 10
from his aRce5 ors; h mtv gan or
keep it BY deny NJ aPpetites for
luxurious bod and Dir AK, and for eX-
Ces<Cs Of all nds; he may BESIDES
have TO work Tor it. bv pa ~ taxing
exercise, and constant superv On
over his--fabsts. fJ--i,rTef,- unless -
man h 70 inherited = l,rke aud VlsOr-
GUS stock Oh health. he IpiiSt do as he
has TO do when nc does not 1nheE.t
wealth-earu It.
He may also lose health by eVtrav-
agant demands upon it, 10y reckless
expenditure or by Carclessness Ia
nurturIng and presery n it
Moreover the connection between
health aud wealth ~ 30 Close thai n ne
lessly Dn luxurious Hving and ssIpA-
ton at the gaming tab a. or OLRer Iin-
proper places ar into the II CHIT, h
health will. 20 W Tn his wea tn. So
again il often happens mat he cannot
have both Hn excess OF .hea ia aud II
excess of wealth at the same filSe. Ho
often loses las health acquiring his
wealth. and # he has tUcarc anN .ou>ly
for his health he IS not Hkeiy 10 accu-
mulate wealth.
Aga,E hca TN is Ike wealth in that
man may accumHlt e he.,nn not only
without wrORgng anyOttN, bat 90 do-
ing SO actually hcnsIts the world. A
man vino gather, alta ahd vIgur
from the arr ausl the water, IrOm prop
er exercise and cOrrec. life. doe not
take one, partIc q ot health from any
body. There stiil reua IL ia the earth
AMI atmusp Iere uleut. Ol the elem MS
OF health for ;tli Tire rest . tre wOrIt..
He, moreover, pray dies ia HIM elf and
his offspring IL Ger ain mum "a OI per-
sons who wIll not b4rIet III. cumtuL-
nifty with sick ana feeb members.
So, too, e m.gn nv Il lahOr ant his
self-den al may, without iuJurinr any
person whatsoever, gather wealth
IrOm the sph, from the manu:actUr ~
forces Of nature and arr -ur from ms
capacity 10 organize business enter
prise5 and So reduce tire friction
of commerce. The wealth thus
created is besides post VS. addition
to the comfort anI tue prosperity Of
mankind.
A man cannot volu tarily b. de-
privel of his hea tn Re may saari-
ice it himself, just As he INA, sacrifice
his wealth, Tor the bene..t of his fe.-
lOw-men. But no one ctH tLNe IL from
him. ii there were any way of do
ing so there would be but one result.
No man would deny himself or take
any pains wha ever 10 acquire or pre-
serve this health, only fOc the sake Of
being obliged to g.vo II up 90 some
person, too luxurious or too lazy TO
acquire it tor himself.
The same Is true of wealth. No
man would accumulate we attn # lac
knew it would be courscatcd by
the self iudul&ent or the lazy tile
moment he had got enough of iE 10
tempt them To take it from ham. Tins
is the fatal defect OF AL socialist afsd
communist schemes. IL pdJ ia prLc.
tee. men would ceISe 10 acgaire
wealth and the civilization would de-
generals into snvagery, ..r..
In some conditions men are force
to give up their wealth 10 other peu-
pie. Slaves have TO do il. Heavily
taxed people have To dO it. Wutt IS
the result? Slaves Hud the IA .itvIlY
taxed ce;Ase 10 pI D.luce much more
than enough TO Keep than selves alive.
ami the races or nations winch long
suffer such a state of things become
Impoverished and go to dec ~.
There is one particular, however, in
which health seems Ia, hut really does
not, differ from wealth. Ii Il were
pOss BILE for shrewd aud cunnin (
man 10 Obtain hedita from either poo
pie, leaving them OK and feeb;e. no
would then be Ike the speculatur Or
gambler who obtains property from
others Without prOdUctlvs labor. Bat
q man who should get health in this
way wOul,i-slgid HothiRg. to the GOAL
mon stock eli health. He would
merely transfer il from other people TO
himself. Tins. however. Would Is an
unequal stri 5utiUn, naU.an aCcumu-
iatiOn of health. 80 the gains of a
gambler or speculator are not an ac-
emulation of wealth but an unequal
distribution of property.
Such transfers add no more 70 the
general wealth of she country than
transfCs-s of health would add TO as
general heHlth. But any man who by
self-denat or labor accumulates either
health or Weisith Is not Only entitled To
what ne aCQu res, but his acquisit on
Is pos tive addition TO both the
heaithsRHut the wealth OF lhe world
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