Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-26

ton at the gaming table or other i'm.
proper places lar into the night, his
health will go with his wealth. So
again it often happens that he cannot
have Goth an excess of health and an
excess Of wealth at the same time. He
often loses his health acauiripp his
wealth, and if he has to care anxious]y
for his health he is not likely to acc,i-
mulate wealth.
Again health is like wealth in that !,
man may accumulate health not only
without Wronging anybody, but in do.
ing so actually benefits the world. 4
man who gathers health and vigor
from the air and the water, from prom.
er exercise and correct life, does not
take one particle of health from any,
body. There still remain in the earth
and atmosphere plenty of the elements
of health for all the rest OF the world.
He, moreover, provides in himself and
his offspring certain number Of per-
sons who will not burden the commu-
nifty with sick and feeble mem bcrs.,
So, too, man by his labor and his
self-denial may, without injuring any
person whatsoever, gather wealth
from the soil, from the manufacturing
forces Of nature and art or from his
capacity to organize business enter
prises and SO reduce the friction
Of commerce. The wealth thus
created is besides positive addition
to the comfort and The prosperity OF
mankind
A nam cannot vo],,u .arily be de-
prived OF his health. He may sacri.
nee it himself, just as he may sacrifice
his wealth, for the benefit of his tel
loW-men. But no one can take it from
him. It there were any way of do.
ing SO there would be but Que result.
No man would deny himself Ut take
any pains whatever to acquire or pre-
serve this health, only for the sake of
being obliged to give it up to some
person, too luxurious OF too lazy to
acquire it for himself.
The same Is true Of wealth. No
man would accumulate wealth if he
knew it would be confiscated by
the self indalgent or the lazy the
moment he had got enough of it to
tempt them to take it from him. This
is the fatal defect OF all socialist and
communist schemes. If put in prac-
tlce, men would cease to acquire
wealth and the civilization would de-
generate into sayagery.
In some conditions men are forced
to give up their wealth to other PEG.
pie. Slaves have to do it. Heavily
taxed people have to do it. What is
the result? Slaves and the heavily
taxed cease to produce much more
than enough to keep themselves alive,
and the races or nations which long
suffer such state of things become
impoverished aud 60 to decay
There is one particular. however, in
which health seems to, but really does
not, differ from wealth. If it were
possible for a shrewd and cunning
man to obtain health from other peo-
pie, leaving them sick and feeble, he
would then be like the speculator or
gambler who obtains prosperity from
others without productive labor. But
q man who should get health in this
way would add nothing to the COM
mon stock of health. He would
merely transfer it from other people to
himself. This, however, would be an
unequal distribution, not IN accumu-
lation of health. So the gains OF a
gambler or Spectator are NOT an &C
emulation OF wealth but an unequal
distribution of property,
Such transfers add no more to the
gcnt,nl wealth Of the country than
transfers of health would add to It's
general henlt5.~ But any man who by
self-dcnial or Labor accumulates either
health or wealth is not only eutt ed to
what he acquires, but bis acquisition
is q positive addition to both the
health and the wealth OF the world