The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-07-27

ont and sleep with the dos. IL - as"
tur.- Re has not the capacity Tor r'ene"N
Wealth Is not question OF Aflth.iis''. !,
merely. !; Is a question Of capacity Oh
power IN the I.ossessnr-
MONTY 4 FICTION.
Ftftb-Nuu.v IN itself II 80 weak tnat
= I. has nu intrinsic value. Money, whetn-
.r,t l.. of gold ~ f SILVER or OF fSfst'
;. b,s;, ,f.,.lf NJ. inherent value. The gold
:. ~. believes tina, gold is the cure for all
J. i'll The silver fanatic declares that the
v evils of In. financial world sre due to the
+ demonstration OF silver. And the green
2 hack dreamer declares that all we need
e is for government 10 print the money
g Now. as a matter Of fact. the man VINO
1 supI-u~,s that either paper or silver on
gold ar copper have IN themselves any
: intrinsic value makes fundamental er-
! rur. Money IN itself has no value. III Il
q valuable not III itself. but for what IL sig
: MITES in the community.
Suppose that millionaire turn bus
5 fortune into gold. SUPPOSE Mr.. Gould
had liquidated ali his possessions IN bus'-
: nrss. placed the result, S15.ooO,OOo, IN
; Ills Yacht ana started around the world
IN a pleasur, our. Suppose he had been
cast Oh "A IeS' lsldllu, MS NS>SsA "ASN@S
he alone 81 living, having saved his
) money. He ,siles II up in the sand; there
it lies. He sits down on il and proceeds
to starve t. death. How much is he
worth as h. sits on that pile Of yellow
muid: He Is worth nothing. be Is
rauper; J." Is IL beggar. The gold Is all
there The coin is of due weight 1t Is
not short, has not been injured in the
transit; it does not tarnish in the water.
And Vet he Is worth nothing. Suppose
a passing vessel takes him aboard, trans |
| porte him to New York with his money |
and again lands him in Wall street. He |
has his money III the vaults of the Safe |
Deposit company. How much now is |
he worth: He is worth the face value Of
his coin-S77Jo 900 900. Why: Because
the community gives TO this metal the
supposed value Wealth is power over
men Money is wealth as it is power
over men.
| The true value of money is commu-
| nal value. 1t is one that is bound up
| with the heart blood of the whole COM
munity. 1t Is one that comes in and
through the community. No man there
fore has the right to do what he pleases
money is not simply his own. 1t belongs
III one sense-and a high sense-to the
community. No man has right to do
what be pleases with what he may pos
sess A man only has the right to do
not what he pleases, but what he ought
to do. Money is power. All power is
trust ;
JAY GOULD OR MRS. BOOTH? ,
SlXth-As a matter of fact, money is ,
so weak that it does not touch the heart ,
range of real life. A millionaire died ,
the other day and was buried, and mo- ,
body cared as to where he was buried. 4,
1t was a matter of no Importance As i
to the incidents of his death, they did t
not touch the heart Of the people. He t
owned money enough to shake the finan- A
clal world from ocean to ocean. II
A woman died in London recently h
who had no money, but thousands b
thronSed to her bier and begged the priv L
ilege Of looking on her dead face. For G.
days and weeks the procession filed by a
the body. Day and night. an unceasing d
stream, thousands and hundreds of thou 8;
sands of eager faces, looked into her face !,
with love and with infinite tenderness. d,
| h
and the gutter and clothed and in their u
right minds stood over the coffin and
cried like children. Women who had
been abandoned to all hope and life and -
who had been snatched as n brand from
the burning stood with tear stained faces Ii
and kissed the cold lips with passionate
owe.
A mother passed by the bier and
looked with longing eyes into the face of r.
The dead. Those who We're standing in
Inc, impatient to see, fearful lest the
body would be removed before thew e.
could have their longed for look, cried ,
% her that she must move on. She lift
"a her streaming eyes to them and re-
'iled: Let others move on. have the II
light to stay. | have the right to look |
nto her dead face. She saved my child. y,
Alngs and princes and mobiles, emperors ~
shd chefS or the race, have been buried W
n pomp. Nations have done honor To Is
heir honored dead. But this earth never in
aW such Il funeral us that which WA th
continuously, was resistlessly given to tn
lrs. Booth. the mother of the Salvation FRI
Army. Wealth has been defined to he an
over over men Money does not touch wi
N -9Ai~"' Ao'iiii VI tIllS power. ch
MANHOOD OR MONEY? al
seventh-A word from the lips of man.
acAed by manhood, can do what all the II
Ola OF earth cannot accomplish
Money is mighty power. but manhood
mightier one. tn,
wealth is power over men. Let ns ito
ee what can be done with money IS,
:. ilen Napoleon was engaged in one Of Blu
Is great wars, you remember that the El
'wn OF hatlsbon was taken. He depu- see
"a his chief marshal to do this work bri
atisbon was walled town, practically no,
npregnable. Napoleon saw that il was sn,
lie Key to the situation The marshal tw,
his officer to do the WORK co,
g drew up his soldiers before the town R.,
III called Tor volunteers. Immediately for
ie NUMBER OF men called for stepned
l"aro. They were ordered To the
large and CALAMITY made the assault
very soldier fell back from the walls Fol
'ad. Not man returned to tell the
DRY OF their gallant assault. \
Again the officer called for voIrn+oo-,
~ again they stepped forward, more -
owly than at first, but still a snffin;o,t
,,noer all that had been called for. Il
ev msdo 49, W 'he walls, again Is t
~ sam lhe assault, and again every pre-
al leli back dead. Not living sonl t,
. uineu TO tell the story of the struggle. Bar
gam tne officer called for volunteers 7,
" "a, man stirred. They looked upon to +
pie OF the dead that lay beneath The wb .
',is' ana no man would venture to NO;
axe tne charge. Now you NAV bring 10 =,
iore that line of men all the money on COW COW
Is Is earth, and you may offer it to them o o
lney viii make the charge, and there s s.yy.
ulo not be piled before them money 90; 20
ough to induce those soldiers to charge ~ me- :
'1 1nat pyramid of the dead, over those L W u
Pu+ 49, II