Arizona republican., 1901-01-17

I1ord Charles Beresford, never an alarn.ist, but always the courtly gen.
 tleman. anu not so long THH RACE ago che fearless fighting FOR sailor, has contributed RICHES. to thn North American
 Review an article in which he has painted with a strong hand the menace to society contained in society's growing worship of wealth. To one acquaim. d with this sturdy BrftOn's character. it s., ms Scarccly natural to See him fighting battles from d library, with paper and pen for weapons. Ills happier sphere Is tn quarterdeck-lt $ not difficult to re- member his fiat of running the little Condor under the Egyptian batt5 rl;s a. Alela 1dr.a-and his words would sound more welghty i' beloved through . speaking trumpet. Lord Charles, nev- erthelcss. wields a trerchant pzn, and his essay on a topic of world wide in terest commands attention.
 He is pesslmistlc from the outset in viewing Lhe effect exercised in some di- rections by the feverish worship of clares. "the corruption of money has wrought fearful havoc in the ranks of society. In the Unhed states there are omlnous mutterlngs of ths coming storm. The plut,crat is gaining power each day on both sides of the At lantic 'B, auty ts the slave of gold and Intellect lead by B,auty. un- knowingly dances to the strings whi7h are pulled by Plutocracy." To which he adds by way of climax:
 This is the danger which menaces the Anglo-Saxon race. The sea which threatens to ovurwhelT 1t is not the angry waters of the Latin races, or of the envious rivals. but the cankeldng worm in it's own heart, the sioth, the indolence. the luxurious immortality, the loss of manliness. chivalry, moral courage, and flarl.ssness which that worm breeds rllhls danger, which overthrow Babylon, Carthage, Athens. Rome, and many other mighty nations and races in the past now threatens the race to which we belong; but to 1t WE oppose what they never possessed on anything like the same principles or to the same extent as wc-the power of democracy. The voice of the peo- pie is the voice of Cod says an old Latin proverb, and in the main 1t Is true"
 We agree In the main with Lord Charles as tC the growing idolatry of money. which we think Is common with all races, and not peculiar to the Anglo-saxcn. but we do not share his ptssimism with regard to its peril to ourselves. "A little luxury is sweet and lovely thing. There is g.ory in q good horse and limitless ecstasy in curvetting yacb but. as a rule, the persons who enjoy most of life's lux urles are the most unhappy. simply be- cause lHCtS%dHJ CpnNdCl WltH luhuTy has robbed 1t of Its charm for them. Satiety is the bitLerest of curses, and great wealth. foolishly spent Invariably breeds 1t. Nor is the niggard 1lch man-.hs who denits himself and his family reasonable luxurles for fear any of his preci-us riches may get away from him-ary happier. The wealth he has gtriven SD hard (and perhaps chcated) tD attain brings him no com folT, because of his perpetual and frantic striving for more.
 In itself the race for wealth is not such a bad thing. because 1t Is. after all, a pretty fair race, with many chances, even for the heavily hanll- capped Lots of our "plutocrats'-'to borrow his loTlshlp's term--brgan life as shoeblacks, or something meaner. md there are lots of little shoeblacks of the year of our Lord 1901 who are destined to become plutocrats. As to Beauty bt ing slave to gold-well, well, We are all of us slaves to Beauty, after fashion. 90 that it is only fair Beauty should suffer some sort of slavery i'm exchange. In what age. ancient or modern. did Beauty not love richts? She deserves them, too. Therefore. get riches and buy