Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23
ness to come and live there, but napp1-
ness will not come.

eQ oQu1pago TO BRING nefs she Will nOGr1
to their door. They send princely escort;
she will not take their arm. They make
their gateways triu1nphal arches; she
will not ride under them. They set a
golden throne before 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 &C
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 affiu-
ence It is estimated that only about
two out of hundred business men have
anything worthy the name of success.
A man who spends his life with the one
dominant idea of financial accumulation
spends a life not worth living.
So the idea of worldly approval Il
that be dominant in a 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
hogshead, and about autumn these two
reservoirs will be trimming full, and
a hose will be attached to each one,
and it will play away on these nosni-
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 chol1ed and
submerged and strangulated, and at
every sign of returning consciousness
they will be barked at by all the hounds
Of political parties from ocean to ocean.
And yet there are 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
thati Take it on a smaller scale. Do
not be SO ambitious to have a whole res
ervoir rolled over on you. But what you
see in the matter of high political pref
erment you see in every community i'll
the struggle for what is called SOCIAL 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?
It 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
lute1y indispensable. There are men to-
day as notorious for their libertinism as
the night is famous for it's darkness who
IL sol ><c5
ton 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 a day and |
who could not write letter of accept
ance or regrets without the aid Of a sec
Rotary They buy their libraries by the
square yard, only anxious to have the
binding Russian, Their ignorance is
positively sublime, making English
grammar almost disreputable, and yet
the finest parlors open before them.
Good morals and intelligence are not
necessary, but wealth or q show Of
wealth is positively Indispensable. 1t
does not make any difference how You
got your wealth if you only get it, The
best way for you to get into social posi-,
ton is for you to buy large amount
on credit. then put your property in
your wife's name, have a few preferred
creditors and then make an assignment
Then disappear from the community u1l-
til the breeze is over and then come
back and start In the same business. Do
you not see how beautifully that will
put out all the people who are in 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 40 Or so 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 in that
realm who are anxious to keep in it.
There are thousands in that realm
who are nervous for fear they will
fall out of it, and there are changes 60
ing on every year and every month and
every hour which involve heartbrealzs
that are never reported. High social life
is constantly in futter about the deli
cate question as to whom they shall let
n and whom they shall push out, and
5he battle is going on-pier mirror
against pier mirror, chandelier against
wine cellar against wine
cellar wardrobe against wardrobe, equi- ,
aaoe AGAINST enainaOe Uncertainty and |