The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-02

fresh encouragement. He will feel that
he has a chance, and will set to work to
make the most of il. BY making him pay
for what he receives, you keep him from
becoming a pauper. BY making him pay
as little as possible you do not make his
attempt to rise to a better condition i
hopeless one.
"Ths is my idea of the most useful
charity to-day~-to hep the honest, the IN
fortunate, the deserving poor man to help
himself. And there are enough such men
and such ways of employing money to uSe
all the spare millions in the country to-
day."
j. j. Hill.
James j. Hill, the railroad king of the
Northwest, who has developed a vast sec
ton of this countTy's territory within the
last two score years, at tfe same time ere
ating one of the more noteworthy private
fortunes of the age, believes that men who
have large sums of money at their COM
mand should devote it to the great work
of bringing the country and its people to
the highest possible state of development
5 speedily as may be. For those men of
wealth who devote their time and their
means mainly to the promotion of their
personal comfort, who live chiefly for the
purpose of going through certain social
programmes from years end to year s
y.
nor does he consider them OF sufficient i'm
portance to warrant discussion. He looks
upon the world, especially this part of it,
as a vast and splendid field of labor and
has little regard for all those, whether rich
or poor, who refuse to ODey the call to
work therein. His views upon the correct
use of money were indicated in outline in
a recent private conversation, the parties
10 which We're discussing the education of
rich young men:
In these days the greatest dangers
10 the sons of rich men, said Mr. Hill,
substantially, ARE Incidence and the ten
dency to disregard the obligations every
human being owes to his fellows. 1t seems
necessary to send such young men to the
great universities that they may be fitted
properly to play their parts in modern life,
which is far broader than any which has,
gone before There are many influences
at these universities which are not good
for young men, but which must be met
fairly and not in any sense avoided. If not
combatted, these influences would tend TO
foster selfishness, triviality, love of ease
and disinclinaton TO meet the real prob
lens of life. Every rich young man who
manfully overcomes these influences IS a
distinct addition to the valuable forces of
the entire nation, besides being far better
fitted than he who weakly yields, to live
q life in which he may take proper per
sonal pride. Young men VINO pass through
the period of education without loss of
moral fiber win use the money they in
berit to their own credit and the moral,
material and intellectual uplifting of the
race. The others will come to naught:
they will be the victims Of Natures mex
orable law as to the survival of the fit. and
in this country, which has no law of en-
tail. they will be speedy victims too. 1t
A. IN for the re4llblfc that there is no
law of entail here; It is a safeguard to the
institutions of the country that those who
through incompetence or disinchnation
rightly TO employ their wealth, misspend it,
are certain, soon or late, to find that it
has flown"