Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-08-09

rSiy escort; she will not take their
arm. They make their gateways tri-
umphal arches; she will not ride under
them. They set golden throne before
golden plate; she turns away from
'he banquet. rhey call to her from
upholstered balcony; she will not lis
ten. Mark You, this is the failure OF
those who have had large accumulation.
ana then You must take into consid-
GRAFTON that the vast majority of those
VINO make the dominant idea of life
money-getting fall far short of affiu-
ence. II is estimated that only about
eWo out of hundred business men
nave anything worthy the name of sue
cess. A man who spends his life with
the one dominant idea of financial ac-
eumulation spends life not worth liv-
ing.
30 the idea of worldly approval. If
that be dominant in mans life he is
miserable. The two most unfortunate
men in this country for the six months
OF the next presidential campaign will
be the two men nominated for the pres
laency. The reservoirs of abuse, and
dlatribe, and malediction will grad
nally till up, gallon upon gallon, hogs.
mead upon hogshead, and about autumn
these two reservoirs will be trimming
full, and hose will be attached to
each one, and it will play away on these
nominees, and they will have to stand
It, and take the abuse, and the false
hood, and the caricature, an the ana
thema, and the caterwauling, and the
NTH, and they win be rolled in it and
rolled over and over in it until they
are ehoked, and submerged, and strangu-
lated, and at every sign Of returning
consciousness they will be barlxed at 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 got slandered and
abused cheaper than that Take it on
a smaller scale. Do not be so ambitious
to have whole reservoir rolled over
on you. But what you see in the mat
ter of high political preferment you see
in every community in the struggle for
what is called social position.
Tens of thousands of people trying to
get into that realm, and they are under
terrific tension. What is social posi-
ton? 1t is difficult thing to define,
but we all know what it is. Good
morals and intelligence are not neces-
sary, but wealth, or the show of wealth !
is absolutely indispensable. There are
men to-day as notorious for their liber-
tinism as the night is famous for its
darkness who move in what is called |
high social position. There are hun
dreds of out-and-out rakes in American
society whose names are mentioned |
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 necessary 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 ac-
rcptance or regret without the aid of
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 a show of
wealth, is positively Indispensable 1t
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you got your wealth, If you only got il.
The best way for you to get into social
position is for you to buy a large
AMOUNT on credit, then put your prop 4
,rty in your wife's name, have few
preferred creditors, and then make an
assignment. Then disappear from the
until tn breeze is over. and
hen come back and start in the same
business. Do you not see how beauti-
ully that win put out all the people
Who are in competition with you and
rying to make an honest living? How
uiclkly it will get you into high social
,osition! What is the use of forty or
fty years of hard work when you can
" two or three bright strokes make a
reat fortune? All! my friends, when
on really lose your money, how quick
hey will drop, and the higher you get ,
he harder you will drop. :
There are thousands to-day in that I
calm who are an xious to keep in it. I
here are thousands in that realm who I
re nervous for fear they will fall out /
I IL. and there are changes going on r
very year, and every month and every /
our which involve heartbreaks that i
re never reported. High social life is '
INSTANTLY in a futter about the deli i
ate question as to whom they shall let I
and whom they shall push out, and n
,e battle is going on-pier mirror =
rainst pier mirror, chandelier against c
,andelier. wine cellar against wine a
liar. wardrobe against wardrobe. /,
,uipage against equipage. Uncer- $
Iinty and insecurity dominant in that n
aim. wretchedness enthroned, tor :