Democratic messenger., 1894-07-28

/ she VIII not take their arm. They make
their gateways triumphal arches; she
will not ride under them. They set a
golden throne before u golden plate; she
turns away from the banquet. They call
to her from upholstered balcony; she
will not listen. Mark you, this is the
failure of those who have had large ac-
emulation
And then you must take into consid-
Grafton that the vast majority of those
who make the dominant idea of life
money getting fall far short of afflu-
ence. 1t is estimated that only about
two ont of hundred business men have
anything worthy tho name of success.
A man who spends his life with the one
dominant idea of financial accumulation
spends life not worth living.
So the idea of worldly approval II
that be dominant in n mans life, he is
miserable. The two most unfortunate
men in this country for the six months
Of next presidential campaign will be
the two men nominated for the presi-
dency The reservoirs of abuse and dia-
tribe and malediction will gradually fill
up, gallon above gallon. hogshead above
hogshead, and about autumn these two
reservoirs will be brimming full, and
n hose will be attached to each one,
and it will play away on these nomi-
nees, and they will have to stand it and
take the abuse, and the falsehood, and
the caricature, and the anathema, and
the caterwauling, and the filth, and they
will be rolled in it and rolled over and
over i'll it until they are choked and
submerged and strangulatcd, and at
every sign of returning consciousness
they will be barked ut by all the hounds
of political parties from ocean to ocean.
And yet there are a hundred men to-
day struggling for that privilege, and
there are thousands of men who are
helping them in the struggle. Now,
that is not life worth living. You can
get slandered and abused cheaper than
that! Take il on smaller scale. Do
not be so ambitious TO have whole res
ervoir rolled over OH you. But what you
see in the matter of high political pref
erment you see in every community in
the struggle for what is called socal po-
sition.
Social Ambitions.
Tens of thousands of people trying to
get into that realm, and they are under
terrific tension. What is social position:
1t is difficult thing to define. but we
all know what it is. Good morals and
intelligence are not necessary, but
wealth or the show of wealth is abso
lutely Indispensable There are men to-
day rs notorious for their libertinism as
the night is famous for its darkness who
move in what is called high social posi-
tion. There are hundreds of out and out
rakes in American society whose names
are mentioned among the distinguished
guests at the great levees. They have
annexed all the known vices and are
longing for other worlds of diabolism
to conquer. Good morals are not neces-
sary in many of the exalted circles of
society.
Neither is intelligence necessary. You
find in that realm men who would not
know an adverb from an adjective if
they met it hundred times day and
who could not write letter of accept
ance or regrets without the aid of n Sec
retary. They buy their libraries by the
square yard, only anxious TO have the
binding Russian. Their ignorance is
positively sublime. making English
grammar almost disrcputable, and yet
the finest parlors open before them.
Good morals and intelligence are not
necessary. but wealth or show Of
wealth is positively indispensable. 1t
II
got your wealth if you only get it. The
best way for you to get into social posi-
tion is for You TO buy large amount
on credit, then put your property i'll
your wifc's name, have few preferred
creditors and then make an assignment
Then disappear from the community un
til the breeze is over and then come
back and start i'll the same business. Do
you not see how beautifully that will
put out all the people who are i'll compe
tition with you and trying to make an
honest living? How quickly it will get
you into high social position. What is
the use of 30 or 80 years of hard work
when you can by two or three bright
strokes make a great fortune? All, my
friends, when You really lose your mon-
ey how quick they will let you drop
and the higher you get the harder you
will drop.
There are thousands today i'll that
realm who are anxious to keep i'll il.
There are thousands in that realm
who are nervous for fear they will
fall out of it, and there are changes go
ing on every year and every month and
every hour which involve heartbreaks
that are never reported. High social life
is constantly in flutter about the deli
cate question as TO whom they shall let
in and whom they shall push ont, and
the battle is going on-pier mirror
against pier mirror, chandelier against
chandelier. wine cellar against wine
cellar, wardrobe against wardrobe, equi-
page against equipage. Uncertainty and
insecurity dominant in that realm,
wretchednoss enthroned, torture at n
premium and life not worth living
A life Of sin. life Of pride. life of
indulgence, life Of worldliness, a life
devoted to the world, the flesh and the
devil is failure. dead failure, an in
finite failure. / care not how many pres
cnts you sent to that cradle, or how
many garlands you send to that grave,
/ you need to put right under the name
On the tombstone this inscription, Bet
| ter for that man if he had never been
born.
Living That Is Worth Something.
But shall show you life that is
worth living. a young man says: Il
am here. am not responsible for my
ancestry. Others decided that. ! am
not responsible for my temperament;
God gave me that. But here ] am. in
the afternoon of the nineteenth century,
/ at 90 years Of age. am here, and
| must take an account Of stock Here
| have a body which is divincly con
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