The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20
ABOUT MONEY.
How 1t Should be Used Without Being
Abused.
New York Herald.]

New York Herald
st. Paul would have satisfied US bet
ter if he had been a little more definite
in his statement. BE was very prac-
tical man and must have been fully ac-
quainted with the uses as well as the
abuses of money. The civilization Of
his day was based on industry, maui
facture and commerce, and these mean
money. There has never been any
prosperous and contented community
in which the desire to. possess money
was not an ennobling and developing
impulse. That nation is most secure
in which the struggle to obtain money,
not for itself, but for what it will pur-
chase, commands the best energies and
controls the ambitions Of the people.
Indeed a society that despises money
is unthinkable. Money and human
progress are closely interviewer with
each other. You can hardly have the
first without the second.
But when the love Of money becomes
a passion it is an unmixed evil. The
man who is inoculated with this dis
ease becomes an easy prey to evil de
vices, for the devil is we'll nigh omnip-
otent when he holds lump of gold
before the eyes of avarice or covetous-
ness. ST. Paul must have known that
there could have been no schools in
Tarsus, 10 trade in Damascus, no pub
lie institutions in Rome. no architect
ure in Athens if the love of money had
not pervaded the world. Its clear,
therefore, that be denounced the miser
rather than the merchant and de-
plored robbery and rapine rather than
honest toll for honest wages or profits.
Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes
declares that "money is a defence" I"
and in another portion Of the same
treatise he tells US that "money an
swereth all things" A defence in
deed! The poor girl who in her ex-
treme poverty finds temptations too
strong to resist, who sells herself be-
cause she has nothing else to sell, and
must either do it or starve, would be
protected from the encroachments OF
dishonor if she possessed even a slender
income. A few hundreds year would
literally constitute for her "a defence"
And the man who has plenty of money
discovers that he is therefore able to
have everything else. The handful OF
coin is not simply useless metal; it is
like the magician who brings houses
and furniture and paintings and every
thing to make life comfortable and
luxurious. To him "money answereth
all things"
During the last few months the
whole American people have had a
painful experience. We have felt both
poor and depressed. The agonies
which business men have endured II
piled together in single heap would
moisten the eyes of angels with nity.
Scores of brave SOUS with families de-
pendeut on them have fought with the
courage of fnrlorn h"pr, grown ten
wears older iu three times thirty days
and died u thousand deaths in the
dread Of ruin. Daughters hurled from
the drawing loom to poverty, sons
taken from college and high prospects
these are not matters to be looked
upon with Indifference, and we should
hardly like to measure the amount OF
that kind of suffering which has shaken
the community with anticipation OF
evil. Twenty years of successful busi-
ness topping on the edge of the chasm
The careful savings Of lifetime blown
away like a mist in whirlwind!
And the same is true Of the wage
earners. They want bread, but there
can be no bread without work. A mill
shut down is like an avalanche that
buries them. The wife and children
ask in vain, and the poor fellow is
driven we'll nigh mad with DESPERATION
There may he money enough some
where, but like a frightened fox it has
rushed to cover. Money hid away is
money lost. When the rich hold on to
their cesh the poor must live on halt
rations. When money roams about
without fear there is hum Of indus
try everywhere and one need starve.
Say what you please, theD, it is
| money that builds homes and churches,
and gives an opportunity to philan-
thropy and charity. Savages carry no
pocketbooks, because they are savage
but when civilization begins its glo'
rious work money is worth all it costs
to get it. It must be honest money,
though, or it will burn the owners
fingers, whether that owner be 8 ma.
ton or an individual.
Still, the meanest and most micro
scopic man in the universe is he who
loves dollar simply because It is q
dollar. He is so small and thin that
there is no room for soul inside his
wretched body.