The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-06

cue of this private firm of bankers.
THE SOUTHERN coNFEDERACY.
The money center is the center Of
government. It has been SO through
the past centuries. 1t is more true TO-
day than at any time within hundred
years. The southern confederacy failed
long before Appomattox. The south
ern confederacy failed long before a
single brigadier general had surron-
dercd. The southern confederacy had
already failed when it cost $100 TO
buy pair of cowhide boots. The south
ern confedcracy failed for o very
simple reason-not because they had
not soldiers, had not generals, had not
fighting genius and were not desperate.
They had all these powers. They had
the inspiration of home, society-the
very foundation of the social life at
stake. The south failed in its attempt
to establish nation because they had
no money. Tho center Of a nations
government in this age is its money
center. This is the one resistless power
of the closing days Of the nineteenth
century.
Second-Money is the greatest power
that moves upon the surface Of the social
world today. There was a time when
ancestry counted when the pride of an
cestry was the basis Of organization Of
so called high society. Today that power
is money. The power that makes So
cial prestige-the power that organizes
social cGques and classes--is the money
power. Money can buy its way into any
social order of this century-from the
honors at the disposal of the queen of
England down to an entree into Ward
McAllister's Four Hundred. 1t does not
matter where n man made his money or
how he made it so he has it. The spirit
of this social struggle has as its standard
of measurement the question of posses
sion, the question of brutal success.
Nothing succeeds like success is one of
their vital notices. The whisky manu-
facturer, the brewer, the ward politician
who has stolen his money, the Napoleon
of finance who has wrecked thousand
homes by his gambling schemes, the man
who kills pigs in Chicago and the man
who owns real estate in New York, all
take their seat in the same banquet hail.
There is no aristocracy of brains and of
moral worth today in the regnant circles
of modern society. Money is the magic
power that dominates the social sets of
the present century.
THE MAGIC WAND.
Third-Money, when properly used, is
today one of the mightiest powers for
good in the world Of philanthropy and
of real charity in our century Money
is the magic king whose wand opens to
| the human race new empires, new king
doms. 1t is the power that explores un-
| known seas and gives to humanity the
results for an inheritance even for gen.
! erations yet unborn. 1t is the power
that tunnels the mountains, opens unex-
| plored continents, crosses unknown
seas and binds the nations Of the earth
in the bands Of commercial if not fra
ternal unity. 1t is the pioneer power
in this age which leads the vanguard
in the army of human progress.
1t is tho power that develops and
| gives to the world thousands of in
ventions and that has stimulated inven-
tions to a point at which the progress Of
the race is the miracle before which the
philosopher stands in increasing wonder.
It is the power today that is being used
by thousand ready hands for the sal
walton Of the race. 1t is the power that
crosses the seas with thousands of ma
chimes as messengers Of light to worlds
that sit in darkness. 1t is the power that
prints millions of Bibles and sends them
around the world upon their mission of
truth and Of life. 1t is the power that
builds our churches and orphan asylums.
hospitals and homes, that builds our pal
aces for the poor, and the lame, and the
halt, and the blind, and crowns the civili-
zation Of the century with its real honors.
THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
A man passing along the streets of
Baltimore hears the cry of q sick child
and draws his check for $1,000, 900 and
builds the great hospital and university,
with its 30 magnificent buildings, whose
central dome is set with a coronet as
though God had blessed it with his own
hands from the skies, Last summer as
went out of the city on a hot July
night heard the patter of hundreds of
children's feet in the great fe1ryhouse.
heard their prattle, and their bolster
Gus laughter filed the building asked
what it meant. The people in charge
said they We're taking the little waits
from the back alleys and crowded tene-
ments out into the mountains OF Penn
sylvania for two weeks of life, for two
weeks of field and meadow, of sunlight,
Of nature and of natures God. Itmeant
that hundreds of little wan faces, grown
l'pale and wrinkled with bad air ana with
bad food and insufficient clothing and
hard tasks, would grow young and child
like again; that they would be given life
instead of death, strength for weakness,
health instead of disease. sew them
with the great bundles of tickets. 1t
costs hundreds, even thousands, of dol
lars to do this work Of love.
When Russia sat in her starving how
els and stretched her helpless hands
across her cold waters, it was rich Amer
lea that loaded her vessels 10 tho waters
line with bread and grain, and on swift
wings, with tireless lungs of steel driven
by steam, we sent our messengers on
their mission of love and mercy. And il
took thousands upon thousands of dollars
to send this greeting.
Money properly used is the king whose
magic wand transforms the desert into
the garden, clothes the orphan, feeds the
poor, dries the tear of the widow and
makes the world place for man to live
in. 1t is this power, properly used, that
has made some names an inspiration to
the race in this latter end of the nine
| teenth century. There are millionaires