St. Landry democrat., 1894-01-20
About Saving.

About Saving.
No eXhUl tatIOn is SO often heard Il.
i That to save, to lay up something againsI
IL rainy day. And yet nothing is easier
/ than to show that all wealth is produced
! from day to day and wealth even in its
most durable forms quickly passes away
ana must be replaced by labor. pursl-
| mony can never make ii people either
prosperous or hatpy and is destructive
allke TO material prosperity and spirit
ual welfare. There is no limit TO the
production OF wealth except the limit
imposed 10y the lack of demand.
Ii every man, woman and child IN the
United States were to save only ) cents
day, the saving would amount to thlee
million dollars per day or about : ,000,-
OUU,0OO per annum. That means that
Que third OF the ploVs must stop, one
thlrd OF the mines and factories must
close, one third Of the employees Of rail-
roads, OF steam boats aud steamships
must be discharged, one third the mer-
camille establishments must close and
their employees be cast adrift at the end
OF the first year. Or suppose all the peo-
pie on the earth were to perish in il day
except Il family Of eight All the wealth
in the world would in that event belong
to eight survivors. At the end of half a
dozen years all the grain would have
been destroyed by vermln mldcW aud
rot would have destroyed all the manu-
tactured goods: buildings would be etall-
ing down, ships rottlng at the wharyes
bridges falling III and Trees growing on
the railway beds. One family of risht
would find themselves wholly unable to
fntatI thGnJSnIvnS t,n 70. ..I-
of wild beasts. And thus it is demon
strated on the lowest plane on which
the question can be rcgavded--the ma
terial plane, to-Wjt-that the whole race
OF man is a brotherhood. The inter-de-
pendence between the individuals Of
the human family is SO intimate and
complex that it we completely isolate
man from his fellows he must die. In
the language OF the late I. l.. MCready:
The very thoughts which are at this
moment tllrobbing in my brain are but
resultants from loug lines of antCcedcnt
phenomena, very few of which | can
trace"
Right here we run across the strange
paradox that a man may know a truth
and yet not know it, That is to say, he
may know it without being able to util-
j ize ze it.: il as a living force. Very few peo-
pie are ignoran ttf III he destructive effect
Of alcohol on the physical Imam. to tn-s.,y say
nothing OF its effects upon the real man.
But no one abstains from taking into
his system alcoholic stimulants on ac-
count of his knowledge of their effects
upon the physical man. 1t is only when
he comes to have dim intuti0nal per-
ception OF the exalted destiny Of the
soul that he begins to grapple with the
evil aspect in the astral light otherwise
called the serpent.
If we ask any one why he wishes to
save money he will probably answer
that he can invest it so as to produce
more money, then reinvest the income
so as to produce more money, and so on.
But IT you ask him to what end he
should do all this he will not be able to
give an answer. | have been among
rich peopl lie a great deal but have never
seen rich man who was any more con-
tented than the poorest wretch who liv-
ed from hand to mouth. | do not hon
cstly believe there is man or woman in
existence who would be willing to live
over again the same life he or she has
lived: M'Cready said of the "four hum
dred" that they followed each other
from house to house and from one wa
teringplace to another like 400 uncom-
monty stupid sheep. | have spent many
Saturday afternoons in the insane asy-
lum studying the inmates, and I saw
some OF them bedeckGd in their finery
strutting about and others gazing at
them and expressing their admiration
and delight in boisterous fashion. |
have seen the same thing on the outside,
only in the former case there was 90 en-
w and in the latter case there were sew
eral skeletons in the closet.
Vile Plate, La. D.C.DAy1D.
TO be continued.