The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27

is it not magnificent he asked his guest.
The guest replied that it was certainly
the most wonderful bed he had ever
seen. With sly wink the Russian re-
piled: "But you do not suppose, man,
that sleep on top Of that? | sleep un-
der here" He lifted the covering and
showed q mean trundle bed beneath the
great bed. You could not make a man
like that rich. Put him in a palace; give
him a bed worth million dollars to sleep
in; he would not sleep in it; he would go
out and sleep with the dog. II is his ma
ture. He has not the capacity for riches.
Wealth is not question of arithmetic
merely; it is a question of capacity, of
power in the possessor.
MONEY FICTION.
Fifth-Money in itself is so weak that
| it has no intrinsic value. Money, wheth-
er it be Of gold or Of silver or of paper,
has in itself no inherent value. The gold
bug believes that gold is the cure for all
| ills. The silver fanatic declares that the
evils of the financial world are due to the
| demonetization of silver And the green
| back dreamer declares that all we need
| is for government to print the money.
| Now, as matter Of fact, the man who
supposes that either paper or silver or
| gold or copper have in themselves any
intrinsic value makes fundamental er-
ror. Money in itself has no value 1t is
valuable not in itself but for what it sig
nifes in the community.
Suppose that millionaire turn his
fortune into gold. Suppose Mr.. Gould
had liquidated all his possessions in busi-
ness, placed the result, $7j ,000,0 900, in
his yacht and started around the world
in q pleasure tour. Suppose he had been
cast on a desertisland, his vessel wrecked,
he alone surviving, having saved his
money. He piles it up i'll the sand; there
it lies. He sits down on it and proceeds
to starve to death. How much is he
worth as he sits on that pile of yellow
mold2 He is worth nothing. He is q
pauper; he is beggar. The gold is all
there. The coin is Of due weight. It is
not short, has not been injured in the
transit; it does not tarnish in the water.
And yet he is worth nothing. Suppose
q passing vessel takes him aboard, trans
ports him to New York with his money
and again lands him in Wall street. He
has his money in the vaults Of the Safe
Deposit company. How much now is
he worth? He is worth the face value of
his coin-$75, 100000, 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, Noman there
fore has the right to do what he pleases
with what he may possess A mans
money is not simply his own. 1t belongs
; in one sense-and a high sense-to the
community. No man has a right to dc
what he plesses with what he may pos,
sess. A man only has the right to dc
not what he pleases, but what he ought
to do. Money is power, All power is q
. trust.
JAY GOULD OR MRS. BOOTH?
Sixth-As u matter Of fact, money is
so weak that it does not touch the heart
1 range of real life. A millionaire died
the other day and was buried, and no
/ body cared as TO where he was buried
1t was a matter of no importance. As
: to the incidents of his death, they did
not touch the heart of the people. He
owned money enough to shake the finan
cial world from ocean to ocean.
A woman died in London recently
I who had no money, but thousand.
Z thronged toher bier and begged the priv
. ilege Of looking on her dead face. Fol
: days and weeks the procession filed by
the body. Day and night, an unceasinl
stream, thousands and hundreds of thou
4 sands of eager faces, looked into her face
! with love and with infinite tenderness
p Men who had been lifted from the ditcl
: and the gutter and clothed and in theil
right minds stood over the coffin ant
cried like children. Women who ha(
been abandoned to all hope and life ant
: who had been snatched as brand from
the burning stood with tear stained face
: and kissed the cold lips with passionat,
love.
q A mother passed by the bier anC
4 looked with longing eyes into the face O
n the dead Those who were standing il
g line, impatient to see, fearful lest tn,
body would be removed before they
Q could have their longed for look, crieC
S to her that she must move on. She lift
/ ed her streaming eyes to them and 10
e piled: Let Others move on. have tn,
e right to stay. l have the right to lool
Q into her dead face. She saved my child.
Q Kings and princes and mobiles, emperor
8 and chiefs Of the race, have been burieC
t in pomp. Nations have done honor t,
n their honored dead. But this earth neVe
s saw such a funeral as that which wa
spontaneously, was resistlessly given t,
Mrs. Booth, the mother of the Salvation
: Army. Wealth has been defined to b.
Q power over men. Money does not toUcl
\ the highest realm of this power.
. MANHOOD OR MONEY?
: Seventh-A word from the lips of man
$ backed by manhood, can do what all tn
I gold Of earth cannot accomplish.
4 Money is mighty power, but manhood
is mightier one.
: Wealth is power over men. Let u
gee what can be done with money
Q When Napoleon was engaged in one o
t his great wars, you remember that tn
town of Ratisbon was taken. He depu
. ted his chief marshal to do this work
b Ratisbon was a walled town, PRACTICAL.
a impregnable. Napoleon saw that it wa
the key to the situation. The marsha
commissioned his officer to do the work
Q He drew up his soldiers before the tow
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