The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-02-28
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three millionaries IN this country.
Then they were very awe-inspiring
set of fellows. Now they. are SO COM
mon that there are none to do them re-
verence. While short on milhonaires
there were but few bread-riots, no
starving poor, few suicides and our
bank officials lived and died at good
old age, at home, not in Canada or in
Paris. In those good old days man
with twenty five thousand dollars was
a rich man, now man with only that
pitiful sum cannot hold up his head in
society, and life insurance men, before
they would take risk on him, would
want to bar suicide. Note the differ.
ence in morals betweeniUhs old days
and the new.gWe have hundred rob-
berries and burglarieE to one then. Then
lewd woman was rare avis, especi-
ally in domestic or private life. Now
how many gilded and painted ghosts
sit at every hearthstone almost in our
gilded and painted society? How many
women, seeing the power of money
among the leaders of society, are will
ing to sell soul and body to procure it2
How many men who would other wise
be reasonably honest, are now embez-
zlers or defaulters? One imagins if l
had ten thousand in ready Gosh would
speculate and soon possess a million.
1t wont hurt the bank or the business
if use the ten thousand short time.
Thus are thieves made, and we assert
fearlessly that it is the accursed and
unnatural power given to money these
latter days which is at the bottom of
nearly all this species of crime.
If instead of falling down
and worshipping the rick, or rather their
too often lily gotten thousands, we
were to investigate the means used in
their accumulation we would rate the |
rich more nearly upon reasonable
basis, and riches would have far fewer
charms for US.
We must set up other idols than |
riches. Fifty years since, honesty,
integrity, cleanliness Of living, utter
trustworthiness and kindred noble |
qualities were rated of more worth
than money. Money without honor
had little value. Now men steal, over
reach, and cheat all the early part of
their lives, to acquire riches, build
churches, endow hospitals and univer-
sities all the latter part in their vain
efforts atone by such means for the sins
committed in early life in their too
ardent pursuit of riches. 1t must be
but a sorry sort of happiness the mill
ionaire enjoys when he recalls the |
expressions of the poor, his dishonesty |
and cheating in the requirement of |
riches. The great founder of the
christian religion knocked the black
out of this subject in the brief contrast
he gives US in the tale of Dives and
Lazarus. THAT is very forcible lesson,
yet how few of us take it to our hearts
while in pursuit of gold.
Our government has sinned in this
thing most previously in adopting poll
cies designed to favor the rich while
they serve to grind the faces of the
poor; to lift the burdens from
the shoulders of the strong and
place them upon those of the weak.
All the legislation we have had since
the war, SO far, has been IN favor of
the rich and the powerful and against
the interest of the poor and the weak.
We are reaping the fruits of this sin
now in the general upgrowth of an
archy and lawlessness of all kinds.
This is only history repeating itself,
and the overturning of Rome will, if
change is not speedily made, have its
in the destruction OF this
the latest and greatest republic with
which humanity has experimental.