The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-17
GREED ron MONEY.

Wonderful are the dishonest pratices
of the country growing out of greed for
money. When an ending comes to
republican government it will come
from this cause and from the love of
ungodly power.
In the interest of society and of
stable government let each of us ask
ourselves these questions Am I or
am not undoubtedly fond of money !!
Have or have / not an undue love
of great wealth. Do / or do / not
place the acquisition of money above
the requirement of healthy knowl-
edge and the love of high morality ?
Undoubtedly we as people are be-
cominga money-1oving, grasping peo-
pie. given to the extremes of undue
pleasure and overwork. Undoubtedly
our greed for money is demoraliz-
ing us and endangering the stability
of the government. For with wealth
tue, with that wrongful eHort IN many
directions.
When one finds himself possessed
of much money that is the time for
him to put watch upon himself,
particularly if that money comes to
him suddenly and without effort of
his own. He need not wait indeed
for great wealth. AS he prospers and
grows gradually better off pecuniarily
his love for money will grow also, al
though the increase of his possessions
may still be moderate. His increase,
however small, makes him of more
importance in the community. Itgrat-
ifes pride. Say what we may the man
of wealth, as a rule, is the man who
commands the attention of others.
And say what we may there is no one
having become the possessor OF money
but what feels himself to be of more
consequence as an individual than
when minus that generally considered
indispensable article. The mere pos
session of money-the fact alone that
we are not altogether poor in dollars
and cents, but can count our dollars
by the many thousands. or the many
hundreds even, causes US great self
satisfaction. We feel ourselves to be
different individuals than formerly.
We are of more importance in our
own eyes-our personality is greater.
Because we are the possessors of
money we feel ourselves to be OF
different clay than when but lit
tie was our portion. Weare the same
individuals exactly as we were before
we acquired increased possessions, but
the knowledge that now we have
money and greater possessions makes
US feel bigger in every way. Before,
we were nobody. 1t is the dollar and
the cent that has wrought the change
in us. We feel big because of our lit
tie money.
We are no better than we were,
not as good perhaps. We know no
more-possibly less. We have done
no more good in the world-it may
be more harm. But we feel bigger.
We are the possessors of money. We
have the glittering dollars. With
these dollars we can buy luxury and
power. We may not have money
enough to buy much luxury or power
but we feel bigger. 1t is the knowl-
edge that we have the money, the
solid cash, or its equivalent, and that
others know it, that causes us to feel
so. 1t is not that we feel conscious
of any change in us for the better.
It is not that we feel that we have
done more for humanity-that by
any word or act of ours the world has
been bettered or made happier. 1t is
only the consciousness that we are the
possessors of the dollars. AS these
dollars roll in that is the time for
watchfulness and prayer. Human
nature is very weak. The biggest
man is not the man having the most
money. The biggest man is he who
has the biggest heart and the deepest
nature, the greatest love for God and
Gods humanity -Qe,itaS, in Wew-
tom (Pa.) Enterprise.