The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-06-09
!. MRS. SAGE ON DEBS.
Wife OF the Wall Street Magnate
Talks About the Misguided
~ ARltatOr,

| Talks About the Misguided
| " ARitator.
| Russell Sage Qcaning over the stair vai
OF the second tloor)-I am too tirrl TO
talk about Dcbs. l am too tired to think
about Dcbs.
Mrs Russell Sagc-My husband has
been very busy today; he is too tired to
put his mind OH Del,s.
what does Debs want to do! We
know all about Dcbs and his followers.
| wall they work on farms il they get
them? ! doubt it. These men who lead
away others who work do very little
themselves. / remember Gen. Eckert Of
the Western Union used to say huring
thelr associates astray did not work
themselves. He had watched their
course from the beginning of Il strike,
and he found they were idle, restless mis-
chlet-makcrs. and from the hall where
tnsy made their speeches they Went to
time and money in amusing themselves
Nlh'tering to their own personal gratiticN-
| ton, leaving others to suffer and make
all the sacrifices of the strike.
sDebs wants the Workingmen to 90
West, l hear. What can they do; what
| " ~ ehSS w WHICH, IuSS Sct lItIc. uCoC
men of trades fresh from their benches
know nothing of farming, and l doubt
If any number of them worth talking
about would remain on a Western farm
day after they got enough money to re-
turn to the city
1T is the nature of men to like COM
panlonship. They naturally gravtatr
from the country to the city. a boys
ambition is to earn enough money to
| fake hin, tn, hn ..ifv fh.,t In
u successful merchant or win in some
other business.
II remember we sent poor family to
Il lovely place in the country. and | was
great y interested in their welfare.
thought they would be charmed with
their surroundings than delighted
| with the change from all overcrowded
worrying city to the sweetness of the
country. Within Il few weeks l learned
| they were making every effort to get
| back to the place they had left in town.
| They said they couldn't stand the dull
ness and monotony of the country.
Il tried once to get my coachman i'll
terested in Il little place l had in Con
necticut. 1t was a pretty little home,
delight the soul. Would he stay there?
cut the lawn. When it comes to doing
| any real hard work. such as farming
! cutting grass making crops, blowing
reaplns and harvesting, these city men
will not follow it Il day if they can find
any means of escape. 1t is the life and
gayety of the city that men crave, and
! the country has attractions for but few
| Of them.
''Fron the time these people Debs
| wants to take out West leave their
shops for the plains they will be spending
money without means of getting more.
| And what will be their condition when
! they get out there on the far away, lone
~ FARMS with everything new and
| strange and not Il thing that they can do
| in the way of agriculture. because they
| have never been trained in that callng?"
'14"ok at the condition of the thou
sands of poor farmers already in the
| West-their land mortgaged and debts to
| be met, with no way of getting ready
| money. How are these mechanics which
Debs has in his imagination going to
succeed out there, where others, now
| failing, are trying to get back Fast?
"Ihe chief cause of all the discomfort is
Il lack of proper instruction. Mr.. Sage
hndS recreation and pleasure in his work.
| He is always employed. He has no time
| for idlcness and complaints. Industry is
the sure cure for discomfort and ima gin
AIRY WRONGS
'There is nothing 50 fatal to il mans
"
he knows the most for something he
knows least about
IF a man follows calling most natu-
raj to him and best suited to his capaci-
ties and is industrious he will succeed.
Mr.. Hewitt once told me that Peter
Cooper never dreamed of making Il for
tune when he began life. He had only
tuition for young men and women where
they could get free Il good education
IL this end he worked. He wasted no
time He was never idle. and so al
must without his knowing it prosperity
calne, t.rowning the success of his Of
forts III founding. his institution.
New York is great field for men to
have lrilything in them are ambitious to
get toi thu. city where they can have room
and opportunity for great achievements
1t is MUCH better to remain here and fight
it out than to 90 West and fail and die
dissatisfied. The greatest of our men
have tolnc from the country
"Jay Gould is one of them He was a
much greater man than was generally
supposed. He was a good man. but shy
of letting the world know what was
nearest to his heart. He was a boy in
the country, working hard when others
were idle. He made the most of what
he had: He made success of things
U,eil"oHeu anu aoilHuoleu Dy OtnerS.
Even the mOusetrap of which so much
has been said. came from his grandfather,
and the boy made the most of it, Mr..
Gould always lamrntrd his lack of ctu-
cation. and now i'll these days the resoIu-
ton of his life is bearing fruit in the
university endowed by his noble daugh-
ter. She is carrying out her fathers
ideas and his wishes.
while young men like Debs were dis
contented and neglecting the opportuni-
saved aud studied. 30 mau was more
industrious, and yet he did it all with one
lung: Years ago an attack of pneu-
respiration. Had he been blessed with ii
pair of good. sound lungs he would have
been alive today and achieved the great
ness which was in his mind. 1t WAS
that one lung that drove him to the city.
His ultimate ambition was to establish
Il great institution for the educa ton Of the
young.
"These men who go OH strikes and
complain of what they already possess
and spend their nights in discourasng
others who are content. have little SYM
pathy for. Let. Debs go to work aid
help men make the most of what is near
est at hand, and it will be better all
around. There are more advantages in
the East than where there are fewer cp-
portunities and more limited resources.
Industry; thoughtfuIness and persever-
ance will win anywhere. Debs' scheme
of planting big colonies of men unprc-
pared for strange and lonely life il the
West. far from friends and the scenes cf
their best years. seems racticable and
wild: do not believe it will succeed on
the lines he has laid own in his letter to
the public. / would say to Debs. Go to
work and win success yourself before
you attempt to lead others into unknown
enterprises. New York Journal
Civilization in France, n. d. 1917.
Marshall D'Ancrc was assassinatcd in
the streets of Vitry, April ~, 1917 That
was just go years ago. The people of
France have always been looked upon as
fairly well civilized at that time. Yet
this is what these civilized Frenchmen
did. They dug up the corpse of D'Ancsc,
dragged it through the streets to the
Pont Neuf, where they hung it up by Tic
feet. Then it was dragged through the
streets again to the Place de Grove
D'Ancre, or what was left of him. was
dismembered and chopped to pieces, the
crowds fighting for morscs of the COX.
communicated Jew. as they called hin.