Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-09

consciousness not only OF having done
the worlds work with skill and energy
far greater than the average, but of
having performed, with equal ability.
the highest duty successful man can
discharge to his neighbors and the less
Fortunate, who have helped to make his
success possible.
Reflection upon the work of such men
as compared To the millionaire who is
spendthrift in his personal habits or
who is nothing more than common
miser teaches that the men who are
digging pitfalls for property rights are
not so much the socialists, single tax
ers and their ilk as the men who are
accommodating immense fortunes from
entirely selfish motives. The great
financiers and money getters, VINO are
using every means to the end that their
already stupendous holdings may be-
come greater, are the real enemies to
the present system OF competitive ana
individual effort.
Such conceptions of rich man $
duty as are lived out by Mr.. Carnegie
and our Iowa Gene are to be COM
mended These men are paying back
10 Caesar the things thai were Caesars.
They are paving a debt 20 that public
which upheld a system sufficiently wide
- tics 40 ma
inegie 10 exercise his fEl powers OF
money getting. Mr.. Carnegie represents
a class of capitalists who have built up
/ immense wealth more as an incident in
the exercise of their energies than as
| the sole objective toward which their
life work had been directed. The am
ibition TO accomplish Things, to give
! free rein TO the wonderful creative tall
ents with which they were endowed,
was what drove them on in their great
undertakings. With them the game was
lp,ayed for the love of winning and the
ducats that came to them We're merely
| the counters by which their success
was measured, not the incentive nor the
sole object of the playing. When once
| won and the evening hours of life have
grown late they proceed to re-distrib-
ute among all the players, according to
their own ideas of accomplishing the
greatest public good. that useless
wealth which came TO them as the
measure of their success in winning at
the game of commercial enterprise.
| Any system that permits the distri-
| button of the worlds wealth to favor
individuals with such unequal shares
can not avoid exciting public criticism
1 and it is true that society stands, to-
day, faltering and wavering in doubt
before the merits of trust cooperation
on the one side and free-for-all COM
| petition on the other. Thus it is that
every failure, on the part of the sue
cessful individual to meet and perform
the full duty that goes with his sue
cess, is but another pftfall in the path
OF progress for that system of individu-
alism which gave to him the opportu-
nifty to win great stakes and protected
! him in the full and absolute ownership
1 of the stakes when won To such g
man there is no argument worthy OF
consideration in opposition to this sys.
! TEN. He sees with full vision the work
he has done, he recalls the heroic strug.
gle it has cost to win and he knows
that he would never have made the ef-
4 ised him full possession of all he coult
gain. He then reasons that with al
such pacemakers as himself out of The
race the progress of civilization would
become very slow indeed. But having
been given ali the glories and prizes o
the success he has won there arises thu
moral obligation to be generous. to ID
rect exceptional talents and exceptiona
power toward the doing OF good to thei
fellow men. Failure to do this raise
the question, What has society gained
by giving this man so great purse?
society has received the greatest of al
allies to which his argument can point
One More Unfortunate.
Cor, the Delayed Chauffeur)
CBostou Advertiser.]