Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-01-19
" MONEY AND MORALS. n
Henry Watterson's Brilliant Lecture
Enjoyedby q Large Aud .enee.

Henry Watterson's Brilliant Lecture
Entoyedby q Large Audience.
The audience which listened to
Henry Watterson last night was very
large and its personnel was far above
the average. The lecturer talked
for over an hour, but it did not seem
to the audience half that time. The
orator was introduced by Col. A. F.
Fleet, President of the Missouri
Military Academy, in Q few appro-
pirate remarks. Mr.. Watterson,
after a FIVE minute Introductory talk
entered Immediately upon his sub
iect in mastery manner, using as
fine language as we ever had the
pleasure of listening to. It is i'm
possible for US to do justice to the
lecture in this partial report:
Contentment was the sermon he
preached. While not denying the
value of money, he said the great
national danger was Mammon.
Money was our God and Roths-
child his prophet" The value of
money was comparative. The poor
creature with his measly million
was a pauper to the man with a
hundred millions, and the man
with 500, 900 and $50, 900 worth
Of wants was worse off than the
beggar without money for his din
ner.
Money is the first great material
Of which life is composed-the pis-
ton rod that drives all else. The
one thing universally used and
abused, coveted and reviled. He
said he was never happier than
when he refused to borrow the
money be needed from an uncle
whose politics he did not approve,
and went with his watch to an un-
Gle who had no politics at all.
Nevertheless it was good thing to
have plenty of money honestly ob-
tanned. He hated to think that
money was a positive bar to saliva
ton, but he knew it would harden
and corrupt a hundred to one that
it would elevate and soften.
He said that happiness sought in
the pursuit of a success upon which
all depended was a phantom.
Happy was the man who believed
his wife was the best in the world,
and who wouldn't swap his red
headed freckle-f faced brat for the
best dressed kid in the world.
Some of the more striking of Mr..
Watterson's expressions were as
follows:
Millions won't cure sore toes.
l don't believe every man shorl
in his accounts is necessarily q
scoundrel.
That hot place with short name
Every man laughs when he wins
and-swears when he loses.
Canada country with more
money than it has legal right OIL
title to it.
Mexico-a land with no money ol
morals to speak Of.
The world is much misled by
some of its best maxims.
A lucky number is phantom
lottery.
A millionaire pressed about with
golden sorrow.
The clerk who sells prints and
plays baseball on Sunday for 81 pei
week.
We have the record of many {
good rich man on earth.
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The fatal mistake is when a mar
lays his hands on dollar he can
honestly call his own-seeking th'
dark alley short cuts to fortune.
How many a man has lied to saw
appearances, especially to his wife
when be might have told the truti
and gone about his business.
"Put money in thy purse" seemI
| to be our national motto-from th'
$4,000 pulpit to the $10O, COO sea
IN the Senate.
How long will this metallic senti
ment crush out all manly feeling2
Switzerland is the ideal land o
Jefferson Democracy. They hols
their elections on Sunday and vot'
in the churches.
We are going on from grace t.
grace to perfection.
Our two great moral dangers ar
the devil Of party spirit and th'
devil Of money.
The money devil stands like
| hungry lion across our nationa
highway.
Beware of the man who puts hil