The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
,orrR NLILLIONAIRES.
OTHERS BEFORE THEM SOME
LINE ~ rooMsD TO o8scuRITY.

wav to Create Distinction by
Inc -, =. % Use It-some VINO WIZ
we" ,.mbered Thirty Days After
They Are Dead
u.to,don Spectator once published
Inc A". ,hose IL called "obscure mil
ssn m', who had died WITHIN the Pre-.
nona a zen wears. The list was rather
viOu' one This age is a shopkeeping age
lons un9 IL is apt, we say, to value
IL y ' "ooordipg to their property. Great
men a'' lives great consideration, and
We"'n otyithstanding the exaggerated
ye" l,orco Of money and money get
mp - apnears that wealth III the lar
. 'ast measure redeems no man rom oo-
ssonritv: that money III ltseii' py i's
40 nossession, conters no dlslhc'loh
luei ioh oven this age values. Its use, and
W.; zee possession, is all that can make
NV ottor of distinction. In our own
even more than in Europe,
'nith exapgerates its own consequence.
W. We" notnrol that it should. for here,
more than there, 1t Is personai il"V.
.Or The American millionaire mas
..'node " as he says, his own millions.
MI, ~" renrosent his own shrewdness, in
1nst,v tact, perseverance or good
,anr, y He is fond, it may be, OF re-
'inding Ms all that it is so. lie IS
lie made man." and recurs to the
.;,oo when he was barefoot boy, or
nenniless youth, with some pride as
proof of how bright man he is III nav
inc changed by his own unaided powers
the early poverty for the present wealth.
He feels in his heart he has done
oohle work and that he deserves the
no,rmendation of mankind for doing IL.
ue is liable to disappointment, as we
ali Lpow. and it is somewhat strange
that. shrewd as he is in money matters,
he is SO blind in others. For the rest OF
the world is very busy, and has little
time ~ trouble itself about his success
or his failure Neither can other people
coo ON exactly what grounds man can
claim its applause only for having taken
qood care Of his own interests.
The consideration given to him for
his money is given only to his face by
those who expect to get something by
il The community would look compla-
contlv unon the matter if sudden re-
yulsion should set him to sweeping the
streets tomorrow, would consider him,
indeed, quite as important IN the last
occupation us in that Of raking his
heaps higher. In other words, 1t is the
wealth itself that is important, II there
is any Importance in the case. The man
who owns it may be very unimportant.
In fact, if he is content to be merely Its
owner, he is sure 10 be So
The only way to create distinction
with wealth is by the use. What man
does with what he has determines the
question of his obscurity. The world is
very Just and forgets all but It's bene'
factors. The millionaire who uses has
millions for his own benefit is like the
ofliceholder who uses his Office for bis
own benefit, or the man of genius who
exhausts his genius for his own seliisl
ends, or, indeed, like any man who, en-
lowed with trust, uses the trust for HI
own exclusive use and behoof.
Men possessed of other trusts are no
as apt to make this mistake as the mel
possessed Of money. Genius, intellec
tual power, high spiritual gifts, we ar
all loud to claim are conferred for tn
good of humanity. We stand ready t
condemn relentlessly the men who, en-
dowed with such gifts, use them malnl
for their own advantage. But grea
wealth, especially if man has himsel
won it, is less apt to be considered
trust. The greed for it is great. 1t
often sought not for itself, but for tn
supposed distinction it confers Whe
the young man of energy and ambitio
looks forward to the attainment OF 1T q
the end of his endeavors, he is not lie
by any misery desire for money IN /
self. He has rather the nobler desire {
winning distinction and Importance b
its possession. 1t is means and M
an end. Pity he should in the years {
his pursuit so often change his motion
for his first opinion is right. Wealt
can confer distinction. 1t can bril-
honor and high consideration. 1t Ca
mako mans memory fragrant wit
blessings for centuries. But to do a
this it must DO used.
There are millionaires in our ov
country who will neither be remembe
ed nor cared for 30 days after their cos
ly funerals. Their passage from amor
living men will leave no void, for &
stocks and bonds and shares which alol
gave them their consequence renal
Mankind has lost nothing. misses not
ing. There are others who will lie mis-
ed in 1000 places and by thousands
hearts, for though the millions renal
the heart that made the millions ble'
ing is gone. The man in this case is Il
to us. and he was more than his none
There are again some few who SO d
pose Of their thousands that their nam
and memories are linked for years,
centuries, to tho monuments of BEN
icence they leave behind them, famo
the land over, not for their wealth, +
Tor the good deeds their wealth was us
Tor. The millionaire is nothing, his /