The Washington times., 1894-04-22
GLEANINGS FROM EMERSON.

| How does this man get his living?
| He is no whole man until he knows how TO
| earn livelihood.
Society is barbarous until every industrious
| man can get his living without dishonest Gus
| toms.
Every man is consumer and ought to be a
| producer.
| Man fails 10 make his place good in the world
unless he not only pays his debt, but adds some
| thing to the common wealth
| Wealth has Its source in applications of the
mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of the
! AK or spade up TO the last secrets Of art
| Man bears the same relation to nature that
the thirsty stomach bears 10 the spring Of water.
| Poverty demoralzes A man in debt is so far
a slave.
Wall stree: thinks it easy for millionaire to
| be Of his word. but in failing circum-
stances no man can be relied on to keep his in
tegrity; and when one observes the hotels and
palaces of Atlantic capitals, the habit of ex-
pense the riot of the Senses the absence OF bonds,
cIanship, fellow feeling OF any kind, he feels
that when a man womaL is driven TO the wall
the chances of integrity are frightfully dimin-
ished
can Afford or as Burke said: "At market al
most too high for humanity
The manly part is TO do with might and main
what you can do.
The world is full of fops, and these viii deliver
the fop opinion, that it is not respectable 10 be
seen earning living. that it is much more re-
spectacle to spend without earning, and this doc
trine Of the snake will como also from the elect
sons OF light for wise men are not wise at all
hours, and will speaE i've times from their taste
and humor to once Tor their reason
No matter whether man makes shoes or
statues or laws
1t is the privilege of any human work which is
well done 10 invest the Gcer with n certain
hauGhtincss lie well afford not to concili-
ate whose faithful! work will answer for him.
Society in large towns is babyish and wealth is
made toy. The life of pleasure is made so
ostentatious that shallow observer must be-
lievc that i; is the agreed best use of wealth. and
whatever is pretended ends in cosseting. But
If this were the main use of surplus capital, it
would bring us TO barricades, burned towns. and
tomahawks presently.
And these, suggested by the above:
The making of worlds and Of social conditions
is the working of the inevitable law of cause and
effect Space was imp voTished of its world
making stuff that consolidated worlds might be.
Every colossal fortune is the result OF the col
lected seif-appropriatcd energy OF mankind.
Monopoiisls and all who thrive by the
changing of money and driving sharp bargains
should have a great respect for the law OF the
land, it is the only god they fear. The only
thing that diierentiafes them from the robber
baron and the hiChwayinan, the greed is one and
the same, is, ~ Will have all can GET One
is almost inclined TO respect the manliness of
courage and might above the entailed faculties
OF tho spider and the iox.
There is but one real law: "Do unto others as
ye would they should do unto you" An others are
makeshifts, changed from Limc 10 time to lit con-
dtions, clothes whereby Adam seeks to hide his
nagednes2
The American Adam has On abundant ward
robe but he is growing into the discovery that
these garments are Tor the most part "misfts,"
and, latterly, constructed under the sweating
system"
Spain became the poorest nation because she
had made herself tho richest b. the means of
robbery of her American discoveries. A nation
may be very poor when the census returns foot
hut a is,.tIt
try characteriZing the masses of the people can
be called national wealth
nation is fast approaching mbecility when
instead of providing fit and ample medium of
exchange for its people, the creators of its only
wealth, it prostrates Itself before individuals,
grown rich under unjust and unequal laws, ask
ing loan, please to discount my notes at your
rate, tho metallic substance called gold is
getting low in my pocket