Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

build their castles. and they open
their picture galleries, and they sum
mon prima donnas, and they offer
every inducement for happiness to
come and live there, but happiness
will not come.
! They send footmanned and postil-
lioned equipage to bring her; she will
not ride to their door They send
| princely escort; she will not take their
arm. They make their gateways
triumphal 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 fail
ure 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 affiu-
ence. 1t 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 finan-
/ cial accumulation spends a life not
worth living
| So the idea of worldly approval If
that be dominant in a mans life he is
miserable. The two most unfortu-
nate men in this country for the six
months of next Presidential campaign
! will be the two men nominated for
the Presidency. The reservoirs of
| abuse, and diatribe, and malediction
will gradually fill up, gallon above
gallon, hogshead above 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 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 in it until they are choked, 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 privi-
lege, 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 thatl Take it on smaller
scale Do not be SO am bilious to have
a whole reservoir rolled over on you.
But what you see in the matter 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
position? 1t is difficult thing to de.
fine, 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 libertinism as the night is famous
FOR it's darkness who move in what Is
called high social position. There are
hundreds of out-and-out ralles 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
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 a hundred
times day, and who could not write
a letter of acceptance or regrets with
out the aid of secretary. They
buy their libraries by the square
yard, only anxious to have the bind
ing Russian. Their ignorance is posi-
lively. 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 indis-
pensible. 1t does not make any diff
ference how you got your wealth, if
you only got it, The best way for you
to get into social position is for you to
buy large amount on credit, then
put your property in your wife's
name, have few preferred creditors,
and then make an assignment Then
disappear from the community until
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 com
petition with You and trying to make an
honest living? How quickly it will
get you into high social position!
What is the use of forty or fifty years
of hard work when you can by two or
three bright strokes make great
fortune? All! my friends, when you
really lose your money, how quick
they will let you drop, and the higher
you get the harder you will drop
| Amid the hills of New Hampshire,
in olden times, there sits "a mother
There are six children in the house
hold-four boys and two girls Small
farm Very rough, hard work to coax
a living out of it. Mighty tug to make
the two ends of the year meet The
boys go to school in winter and work
| the farm in summer. Mother is the
chief presiding spirit. With her hands
she lSnits all the stockings for the lit