The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
HUNGRY FOR MONEY.
WHY is EVERYBODY GRASPING
80 GREEDILY FOR GOLD?
Meeting-Money il the Only Reliable
Basis for Human FsiIcity-No Mys-
terry About IL.

The air is full OF homilies on the
hunger for money. Why is every body
grasping so greedily for gold? Ask
the ministers and moralists. Yet
there is no mystery. The answer is
as plain as the road to meeting:
Money is the only reliable basis for
human felicity. Possessing it you
may be unhappy; without it you must
be. Why not marvel that tho hungry
eat, that the thirsty drink? Food and
water are not more necessary to man =
comfort than is money in civilized So
ciety.
What builds and maintains en-
plres? What are the ''sinews Of
war;" Upon what does the pomp
and grandeur of king and pontiff
rest? What is it that props families
through generations and makes aris-
tocracy possible? What builds
churches, parsonages, schools, col
leges, charitable institutions? What
filspdl pits, supports Sunday schools,
keeps the schoolmaster abroad
in the land? What opens up
the doors of society? What is
II the want OF which causes thousands
OF the ncblest and most accomplished
men and women to pursue their un-
cheered way under the sombre shad-
ows OF neglect? What is at the bot
tom of the worldencompassing con-
test between capital and labor? What
pays the poor mems rent? The want
of what is it that turns him out? The
absence of what is it that keeps his boys
and girls away from school and Sunday
school? What starts man bIoyant-
ly on the road of life, assures him in
his zenith, and sustains him gently
down the incline? With what do
fathers dress, and educate and start
their offspring? For want of what is
it that multitudes of men, women and
children tramp friendless and home
less in the cities? To obtain what is
it that the vast and draggled
Cypriau host ia being perpetually
recruited? What is it that enables
loving man and maid to unite
hopefully in matrimony? Wha, tIys
the home, furnishes the house and
procures help for the tender wife?
The absence of what is it that forces
thousands OF women TO sacrifice their
young lives and loves and grow old in
melancholy maidenhood? What brings
the doctor to feverish couch Of fading
wife and babe? What builds airy
chambers and equips them with
cheerful adornments? What pro-
Tides baths and kindred luxuries-
necessities is the word? What
Is it that transports the sick
wife and child from diseased sur
soundings into the pure air of the
mountains and calls them back from
she shadow OF death to eager arms?
mans wife and brood into close and
deadly quarters? The absence of
what is it that hollows the young
mothers eyes, brings despair and
premature age to midsummer face,
pales and enfeebles her children,
peoples her home with collins and
the graveyard with little mounds?
There is no question here that may
not be answered iu one word rd-money.
That a very rich man should want
more. and still more is fact so an
tagonistic to Christian doctrine that
its roots must suck their nourish-
ment from the soil of unbelief. A
poor man is selfish from necessity.
But this truth all may see who do not
bandage their eyes: There is no hap
piness for civilized man separate from
prosperity. Henry Clay Fairman in
Peoples Party Paper.