The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-22

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Is there anything Ia mar the pro
peef! Is there anything Ia darke
the scene and dim the light,
there anything across the great high
way OF the future to obsfruet OF
march of triumph to glory as a n,
ton am! people'
| Yes, | think that there is. and if
sh lid be required to classify them
wohid put them into two geograpb
cal descriptions, Canada and Mexico
Yes, Canada and Mexico. Canada
Canada. the easy land of gentleme
who have more money than lega
rights. or moral title To IL: Mexico
the tiowery home of gentlemen with
out money and without any virtu
to speak of.
In the olden time a centlema
possessed of shady notions abou
meum and teum, or a gentlema
who had made himself responsible
for funeral not wholly sanctione
by the law, found easy retreat o.
that side OF the Rio Grande. Yo,
Will remember that the attorne,
beard from the client the full par
ticulars of an homicide he advis
ed the survivor to fly, and the eli
ent was most indignant. "What
hy" said he. ''Aain'tI alread,
in Texas" The lone star ha
deepened into forty-four star
since then, so now the excursionisr
who would escape the blandishment,
of the court and the opportunities o
the sheriff, must put the Sierras be
tween himself and the official civil
ties, or else 60 to Candada direct
which on account of its aceessibilit,
| suppose. seems to have been great
ly of late in favor of those who have
had to do with curious checks anc
have no time to wait for passports
SO say use the terms Canada anG
Mexieo'as geographical expressions
of thought that irresistibly call.
before us the bold embezzler and the
genial defaulter, to say nothing
about the obligiug but abscondine 9
cashier of the savings bank and the
dear. delightful custodian of the
trust fund that is no more, but not
as terms OF oAeAse or reproacE
against them, too friendly eighbors
out as IN the case of Texas, they
will one day rap at our outer gates
for adm ssion into our sisterhood of
states. Applause,s
| am going to talk a little about
what seems to me the greatest of ali
the dangers that overhang our COD
dltlon, operating upon the working
men OF all classes, rich as we'll as
poor. | mean the intense love 0.
money. An influence felt at Wash
ington and Harrisburg, and I sup
pose occasionally in Philadelphia.
Now ! am sure there is no one
here tonight old enough to have in
vaded an apple arphard or robbed a
watermelon patch, who has not
many a tlme and oft reflected what
a great thing is it to have plenty eff
money. All of US have turned that
matter eyer in moments of reflection.
detection aud embarrasment. Seeing
IN our day dreams fairy ship com
ing over from India, building castles
IN the air. On the proceeds of the
sale OF the cargo, or in those deeper
and more Responding dreams of the
night, when sleep is won't to triumph
overtoil and care, and the wheels of
fancy going ROUND and round the
darkened chamber. have thrust us
the lucky n9mher In the phantom
lottery. Who has not thought of
the good he would do with it, of
how he would minister here to the
wants Of the poor, and there to the
needs of his friendss What spend
thrift that has not paid his debts off
from the usufruct Of his vision9
How many child millionaire ever
pressed bout hY want and sorrow
and WretGhedness, though relatively
poor in money as call things alas
IN life. except wealth, and it is rel
atively-what rich man encumbered
by his possessions, yet unable to
meet the demands of his conscience
and his creditors, but has wished a
Thousand times over that money was
a vision, and only vision?
| say that money is relative, and
it is very relative. The circumstan-
ces which ought to bring considera-
BILE comfort to those of US who do
not happen TO have a great deal of
it. and the man who has ten million
dollars cuts a very poor figure by the
side OF a man who has one hundred
or one hundred and fifty millions,
whilst the poor creature who has a
measly million is regarded by these
as a kind of 2 pa1per. daughter J
The man who has a hundred thou
sand dollars' income and hundred
and fifty thousand dollars of wants,
is worse off than the man who has
nothing and wants his dinner.
Laughter.)
Thepe are men living in the great
money centers who contrive by dint
of the closest economy to exc out a
scanty livelihood on fifty thousand
dollars year, but these men cannot
imagine how it would be possible for
anybody to get on. let us say mp here
in the northern part of Philadelphia,
on less than twenty-five thousand
dollars a year, whereas l have an i'm
preston if l should go out into this
audience with a search warrent.
might be able to find a few of you
who might make both ends meet on
half that sum-. But money is not
only relative; it is full of illusions
and delusions. From the poor crea-
ture who is sure he will get it some
where, he don't exactly know how,
and don't much care, and who goes
into debt on the strength of his ex-
pectations, to the poor creature who
mas no hope in particular, but who is
solvent, from the wan women in the
attic waiting for the letter that never
comes, to the brave and houest lad by
the furnace, who believes that the
hammer In his hand is a wizards
wand as it often is, and who never
means to let go until he has struck a
fortune out of the earth from the
capitalists in the counting house to
whom money is al means to solve the
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