Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-08

ETHE ROSARY OF a RAMBLER.

= THE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER. !
There are some people in this world
who are hard to please. They inveigh
against the man who by Industry and
close application to business has arnass-
A ed q fortune; they denounce him as the
oppressor OF his fellow man; they ac-
Icuse him OF spending the fortune which
A he has wrested from others for his own
selfish enjoyment. One who did not
think for himself would, indeed, often
4 be led to believe that the rich man il al
ways a tyrant and rascal. His trad
|Sucers seem bound to make him such and
4 then keep him such. The controversy
which has just been decided. and decid-
4 ed SO wisely, concerning the endowment
which Rockefeller wished to make to
4 WELLESLEY, has shown forth this spirit
4 so plainly that 1t was certainly worthy
OF mention. When lit became known
i that the great millionaire desired to add
to the great sums which he has already
! expended for educational purposes a lib
4 eral donation to the famous women's
college, an uprOar arose turnout the
4 length and breadth of the land. Not
4 populistic Nebras ska and Kansas alone
3licried out against such an act, but from
4 east and west, north and south pro-
tests We're heard. Advice to the mem
i ibers of the board was followed by dire
predictionsia and threats, but they proved
4 their wisdom, and instead of insulting
1.-THE generosity of a friend by refusing
his gift. they accepted With thanks
and Wellesley is just that much better
4 equipped. Where the consistency lies in
d refusing money which is offered for a
good work, because the giNers is very
\ wealthy, 1t is difficult for those who are
mot ranters against the existing circum-
i stances, to see. Whether he money was
4 honestly or dishonesty made has little
Ito do Within question, but tho 1t might
4 be that the method of procuring it could
be objected to, the case remains almost
4 the same. 1t is not always possible to
4 make PREPARATION to the one who has
4 been wronged, and If the capitalist feels
that he must do some good TO right his
a wrong. what better thing can he do than
i provide for the education of others?
q When he desires to do so. wherein has
4 the ranter a just cause for complaint
a 1t Isl to be feared that some of these re-
& formers are of the kind who are always
"agin the government whatever the
4 ss6s
"A sensation which has aroused not
4 our city alone but also a town not far
II from us on the west. has called forth
many criticisms as to the deceit Of man.
4 The circumstances would seem to war
rant all that has been said; the only
IdifIiculty is that not enough has been
said on side of the question which has
been neglected. Much sympathy has
been expressed for the young ladies who
Fl accepted attentions from men whom
they supposed to be young bachelors,
lonly to find in the end that they We're
married and that their own names were
likely to be mixed upSin Il case of di-
81 Norce and scandal. Now in this ca sa5the
young ladies' may be all that they
ishould be, for no one can doubt that
there's such a thing 4asinnoGence which
A has been abused, but there are many
leases where but little If any sympathy
can be felt for the girls8in the case. III
8 is not thatthe girls are vicious nor even
s wild, but hey are go careless that it can
81 be construed as nothing else than crim-
inal. There are girls and girls who
4 would s,corn corrective undue attention
ii from either married men or men who
& are not what they should be in morals
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