The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-13

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the faisehood, and the carlcature. and the
auathe ma. and the caterWauling and the
ilth, and they viii be rolled i'm il ana roll
ed over and over in il until they are chok-
ed, and submerged and strangulated. and
al every sign of returning consciousness
they will be barked at by all the hounds
OF political parties from ocean 10 ocean.
And yet there are hundred men to-day
struggling for that privilege, and there
are thousands of men VINO are helping
them i'm the struggle Now, that is not a
life worth living. You can get slandered
and abused cheaper than that, Take it
on a smaller scale. Do not be SO ambitious
10 have a whole reservoir rolled over on
you.
But what you see in the matter of high
political prcfermcnt you see in every COM
munity in the struggle for what is called
social position. Tens of thousands of Deo-
pie trying TO get into that realm, and they
are under terrific tension. What is social
position? Ii is a dGficult thing to define,
but we all know what it is. Good morals
and intelligence are not necessary but
wealth, or a show of wealth is absolutely
Indispensable. There are men to-day as
is famous for its darkness who move in
what is called high social position. There
are hundreds OF out-and-out rakes in
American society whose names are men
toned among the distinguished guests at
the great levees. They have annexed all
the known vices, and are longing for 9TH
en- worlds of dlabolism to conquer. Good
morals are not necessary in many of the
exalted circles of society.
Neither is intclligence necessary. You
find in that realm men who would not
know an advert from an adjective if they
met it hundred times in a day, and who
could not write letter of acceptance or re-
grets without the aid of a secretary. They
buy their Libraries by the square yard,
only anxious to have the binding Russian.
Their ignorance is positively sublime,
making English grammar almost disrepu-g
table. And yet the finest parlors open be-
fore them. Good morals and intelligence
are not necessary, but wealth or a show of
wealth, is positively Indispensable. 1t does
not make any difference 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
pat your property in your wife's name,
have Il few preferred creditors, and then
make an assignment. Then disappear from
the community until the breeze is over and
come back and start IN the same business.
10 YOU AiOl see now btdullLully tNdl Will
put out all the people who are in COMPETE
ton with you and trying to make an hon
est living? How quickly it will get you into
high social position? What is the use of
toiling with forty or fifty years of hard
work when you can by two or three bright
strokes make a great fortune? All! my
friends, when you really lose your money
how quickly they will let you drop, and
the higher you get the harder you will
drop.
There are thousands to-day in that realm
who are anxious to keep in ii. There are
thousands in that realm who are nervous
for fear they will fall out of it, and there
are changes going on every year, and
every month, and every hour which in
volve heartbreaks that are never report
ed. High social life is constantly in
futter about the delicate question as to
whom they shall let in and whom they
shall push out, and the battle is going on
pier mirror against pier mirror, chandelier
against chandelier, wine cellar against
wine cellar. wardrobe against wardrobe.
equipage against equipage. Uncertainty
and insecurity dominant in that realm,
wretchedness enthroned, torture at a pre-
MUM and life not worth living.
A life of sin, life of pride, a life of in
diligence, life of wordliness, a life devo-
ted to the world, the flesh, and the devil
is a failure, a dead failure, an infinite fail
send to that cradle, or how many garlands
you send to that grave, you need to put
right under the name on the tombstone
this inscription; Better for that man If
he had never been born
But shall show you life that is worth
living. A young man says: II am here. l
am not responsible for my ancestry; others
decided that. / am not responsible for my
temperament; God gave me chat. But here
l am, in the evening of the nineteenth CEN
fury, at twenty years of age. l am here
and | must take an account of stock. Here
have a body which is a divinely con-
structed engine l must put il 10 the very
best uses, and / must allow nothing to
damage this rarest of machinery. Two
feet and they mean locomotion. Two eyes,
and they mean capacity to pick out my
own way. Two ears and they are tele-
phones of communication with all the out
side world and they mean capacity to
catch sweetest music and the voices of
friendship-the very best music. A tongue,
with almost infnity of articulation Yes,
hands with which to welcome, or resist,
or lift, or smite, or wave or bless-hands
to help myself and help others
Here is a world which after six thou
sand years of battling with tempest and
accident Is still grander than any archi-
tect, human or angelic, could have draft
ed. l have two lamps 10 light me--a golden
lamp and silver Tampa golden lamp
set on the sapphire mantel of the day, a
silver lamp set on the jet mantel of the
night Yea, l have that at twenty of
age which de6es all inventory Of valuable
"a soul, with capacity to choose or re-
ject, to rejoice or to suffer, to love or to
hate. Plato says it is immortal Seneca
says it is immortal. Confucius says 1t is
immortal. An Old book among the fam-
ly rehcs-a book with leathern cover al
Grated by oft perusal, joins the other books
ia saying ] am immortal have eighty
years for a lifetime, sixty years yet to
i've. l may not live an hour but then
I must lay out my plans intelhgently and
for a long life Sixty years added to the
twenty l have already lived, that will
bring me TO eighty. l must remember
that these eighty years are only brief
preface to the five hundred thousand mil
lions of quintllions of years which will be
my chief residence ana existence. Now /
understand my opportunities and my re-