The Nome nugget., 1902-02-08
TWO KINDS or WEALTH.

IVV NatOO VI VAdI1us
 "A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world" says a Mohammedan proverb. While that may be the Mohammelan standard it is not the one which is generally accepted in these days As mat ter of fact the people of today are worshipers of Mamnlon. mans worth is too often measured by his bank account, or his postion social or political And it has come to pass in order to secure either 0: the latter requires than a little wealth. mon eyed "arisocracy in the United States is aping the manners and customs of the titled arstocracy" of European countries The good that most of our mil lionares do if they desired would make them billionares from the standpoint of the Mohammedan proverb. But wealth brings lnxury, and luxury pro- duces idleness and begets vice, and anl women have therown code of morals, made by themselves for themselves exclusively. Their immediate forbears may have been canal boatmen pork packers, both honorable callings wthal, but the wealth accumu- lated by thrifty parents grandparents is used simply means of obtaining personal qualification and in the ndulging of the pleasures of llfe'
 There are few Moseses among the breed of modern miIlionares Moses, we told "chose rather to endure afflicton with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for season." Fancy the millionaire of today enduring affiicion with Gods people, providing that he could find them!
 There aru men of wealth in the world who use their wealth for the good that they do. But they are not many. The modern man of wealth uses it to attain still greater riches; to reach his own ambitions; to crush another who stands in his way, surely not to lift him up This struggle to attain wealth, no matter by what means, is blight upon our civilization. Yet the blight will continue to spread; nothing can will stay its progress until the final cataclysm comes.
 It is written "that the meek shall inherit the earth;' nevertheless it is fast being appropriated by the rich and the very rich. for nowadays there are
 three distinct casses-the rich the very rich and the poor As to the poor one man is poorer than another hy comparison only. We not pessimistic, yet it is the privilege of all to read the signs of the times, and If one man chooses to take a ressinisc view that too, is his privilege. Let the optimist gather all the comfort that he from his horoscope Are the laws that made for enacted with sin le- ness of purpose that enables see that the man who has unlimited wealth at his command is hene- ited no more than the man with the hoe? The leg slaton of modern times ears the imprint of wealth upon it in marked degree. In the part quarter of
 century class legislation has incleas.d d. and is in- creasng. That it ought to be diminished is parent to most, but there is little hope that it will e for wealth rules the world and it will continue to do so until the final wreck of matter and the crash of worlds come. We may point to the laws on our statute books and say they are just and equitable Some are no doubt, but the best laws enacted nee the Christian era began are not equal to those in
 force, centuries before its dawn in what we wise ones call pagan Egypt.
 No, not all of the people by any manner of means; when we pass away wisdom will not die with us. As there have been people who went before us who knew more than we, there will be found people who live after us. This nation is vrile be cause it is young; when it little more fat and gross it will like Jeshurun of old begin to kick, for ill fares the land to hastenng ills prey, where wealth aceumulates and men decay"
 It is said that the evil that men do lives after them; the good is often inferred with their bones But not so is their wealth; that is left behind too often to aid in perpetuating the evil.
 Nevertheless, the Mahommedan proverb s true. True wealth is measured by the good that it does. All other wealth is mere dross. Yet men have died to obtain it, and worms have eaten them. The true philosopher will tel! you that it is not worth the struggle; yet the average man will say the phlos- opher is but a fool.
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