The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-06-14
THE GREED FOR GOLD.


SINCE time immemorial the greed for gold has
been dominating factor in the affairs of nations as
we'll as men. While this unspeakable greed for the
yellow metal has attributed its measure toward
founding nations it has left in its train democrat
izaton, desolation discord lust and untold suffering
It was the pivot which turned the conquerors Of
the past into human hyenas who saturated the earth
with human blood. It impelled Pizarro to invade
Peru and to slaughter it's peaceable natives. It
the beacon light that lead Cortez and his freebooters
to Mexico and to devasate and drench those defense
less and supertitious Aztecs in their blood It
his greed for gold that steeled his sim besotted
heart and nerved his men to slaughter them by the
thousands. Gold and the persistent fabrication of
stories Of fabulous mines teeming with riches, was
the primary of nine tenths of the early exped-
tons to the shores of America. It was gold that
fired the hearts of these early adventures and en-
abled them to face the then terrors of an ocean
VOYAGE the hordes of wild savages and slow death by
starvation.
1t is this insufferabe greed for gold that is caus
ing men today to deliberately build here on earth
colossal hell that is consuming character truth and
honesty. It is gold that is prompting the promoters
of trusts to band together, like SO many vultures
over totterng, deathstricken animal on the DESERT
to better enable them to fill their fat Golfers with ex-
pediency and dispatch 1t is it's glittering rays and
enchanting ring that enables them to defy and die
tate to the courts-that enables them to so deity
blind the eyes of justice and so unwngy cause the
latter to furnish the crushing masses with
a giant juggernaut that has no parallel in ancient
history the obscure inches of mythology. It is
surfeit of gold that enables the dishonorabe and
corrupt millionaire to approach the legislative repre-
sentatives of the people and bunco them out of
mahogany, plush seat in the United States
Senate.
In the pursuit of vast riches men have crushed
truth, friendship and all the nobler aspirations of
the SOUL They are obsolete machine that neither
heeds the warning creak of conscience or the dismal
cry of distress. AS this greed becomes developed
and assumes hydra headed like attitude the more
brutal and ntoerable it's possessor will act toward
those who are situated and compelled to act as
cyphers in the upbuiding of his seven figures that
will represent Millions
Today this greed for gold or it's equivalent, is
strongly intrenched around the thrones of civilized
nations. It was-and always has been-the motive
force that has caused England to send all it's cruel
instruments of warfare to the peaceable abodes of
the Beers in South Africa. Notwithstanding the
fact that these excursions advertised extensively
as promoters of civilization they are, when shorn of
hypocrisy and the phraseoogy of deception, nothing
less than outright robbery Of territory In Cuba we
also find who are posing before the world
as attempting to engraft higher civilization unto
the shattered remnants of the Pearl of the Antilles
who possess such unsatsfying greed for gold that
they willing to jeopardize their honor, duty to
the Cubans and besmirch their country while even
the eyes of the whole world are centered upon our
benevolent intentions toward that isle.
This desire to great wealth is rapidly
showing it's evil effects, both upon the national
we'll social horizon In the laboring world are
already witnessing miniature conflicts that only
harbingers of greater upheavals. Do they attempt
to ward off the impending danger that is becoming
SO threatening? No. To them the masses are
nothing Posterity bag of bones; but gold is all in
all and must be had regardless of the cost