The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20
ABOUT MONEY.
How 1t Should be Used without Being
Abused.
New York Herald

New York Herald.
st. Paul would have satisfied US bet
ter if he had been a little more definite
in his statement. BE was very prac.
tical man and must have been fully ac-
quainted with the uses as well as the
abuses of money. The civilization OF
his day was based on industry, maui
facture and commerce, and these mean
money. There has never been any
prosperous and contented community
in which the desire to possess money
was not an ennobling and developing
impulse. That nation is most secure
in which the struggle to obtain money
not for itself, but for what it will pur
chase, commands the best energies and
controls the ambitions OF the people
Indeed society that despises money
is unthinkable. Money and human
progress are closely interviewer with
each other. You can hardly have the
first without the second.
But when the love of money become:
q passion it is an unmixed evil. The
man who is inoculated with this dis
ease becomes an easy prey to evil de
vices, for the devil is well nigh omnip'
otent when he holds lump Of goio
before the eyes Of avarice or covetous'
ness. st. Paul must have known that
there could have been no schools in
Tarsus, 10 trade in Damascus, no pub
lie institutions in Rome, no architect
ure in Athens if the love of money hao
not pervaded the world. It is clear
therefore, that he denounced the miSel
rather than the merchant and de-
plored robbery and rapine rather than
honest toll for honest wages or profits
Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes
declares that money is Defence u
and in another portion Of the same
treatise he tells US that ''money an
swereth all things" A defence in
deed! The poor girl who in her ex'
treme poverty finds temptations toe
strong to resist, who sells herself be-
cause she has nothing else to sell, and
must either do it or starve, would be
protected from the encroachments o.
dishonor if she possessed even slender
income. A few hundreds year would
literally constitute for her "a defence.
And the man who has plenty OF money
discovers that be is therefore able tc
have everything else. The handful o.
coin is not simply useless metal; it il
like the magician who brings houses
and furniture and paintings and every
thing to make life comfortable ano
luxurious. To him "money answered.
all things"
During the last few months the
whole American people have had
painful experienc-. We have felt botf
poor and depressed The agonie:
which business nen have endured !
piled together il Il sl:gle heap Woulc
moisten the ey-s of angels with lhty
Scores of brave souls with families de-
pendent on thein have fought with the
courage of f"rl"rn hope, grown tel
wears older in three times thirty day:
and died Il thousand deaths in the
dread Of ruin. Daughters buried from
the drawing room to poverty, sons
taken from college and high prospect:
these are not matters to be looked
upon with Indifference, and we should
hardly like to measure the amount OF
that kind of suffering which has shaken
the community with anticipation o
evil. Twenty years Of successful busi-
ness topping on the edge of the chasm
The careful savings Of a lifetime blown
away like a mist in a whirlwind
And the same is true Of the wage
carriers. They want bread, but there
can be no bread without work. A mil
shut down is like an avalanche tha'
buries them. The wife and children
ask in vain, and the poor fellow Il
driven we'll nigh mad with desperation
There may he money enough some
where, but like frightened fox it ha:
rushed to cover. Money hid away i:
money lost. When the rich hold on te
their cash the poor must live on hal
rations. When money roams about
without fear there is hum of indus
try everywhere and one need starve.
Say what you please, thep, it !:
money that builds homes and churches
aud gives an opportunity to phiian'
thropy and charity. Savages carry nc
pocketbooks, because they are savage
but when civilization begins its glo
rious work money is worth all it cost:
to get it. It must be honest money
though, or it will burn the owner:
fingers, whether that owner be q ma
ton or an individual.
Still, the meapest and most micro
scopic man in the universe is he wht
loves dollar simply becaase It is
dollar. He is so small and thin tha
there is no room for soul inside hi
wretched body.