The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-18
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airy labor yields no fruis
TT NQuEsTiONABLY we must bow
u before economic facts. and .recog-
hize The difficulties of living: from day
I" day Il becomes more imperative to
combine Wen ones forces in order 10
succeed IN feeding. clothing. housing.
and bringing up a family. He who does
rot rightly take account of these crying
necessities. who makes no calculation,
no provision for the future is but a
Visionary or an incompetent. and runs
the rick Of sooner or later asking aims
from those at whose parsimony he has
sneered. And yet, what would become
o. us if these cares absorbed us en-
tirely? If. mere accountants. we should
/ wish to measure our effort by the
/ money it brings. Go nothing that does
/ rot end i'm a receipt, and consider as
! things worthless or pains lost whatever
! cannot be drawn up in figures on the
! I'ages of a ledger Did our mothers
/ lock for pay in loving us and caring
for us? What would become of fiilial
piety If we asked ii for loving and car
( ing for our aged parents?
What does il cost YOU to speak the
truth? Misunderstanding, sometimes
sUherings and prosecutions. To defend
| often death. To do good? Annoyance
iGgratitude. even resentment Self-sac-
ritice enters into all the essential ac-
tons of humanity. / defy the closest
'alculators to maintain their position
in the world without ever appealing to
aIght but their calculations. True.
I those who know how TO make their
pile are rated as men of ability. But
look q little closer. How much of it
do they owe to the unselfshiness of the
s-mplehearted? Would they have sue
CTeded had they met only shrewd men
OF their own sort, having for device:
NO money, no service?" Let us be out
spoken: il is due to certain people who
Go not count too vigorously, that the
world gets on. The most beautiful
acts OF service and the hardest tasks
have generally little remuneration or
zone. Fortunately there are always
men ready for unselish deeds; and even
/ for those paid only in suffering,
though they cost gold, peace, and even
ne The part these men MAY is often
painful and discouraging. Who of us
mas not heard recitals of experiences
wherein the narrator regretted some
last kindness he had done some trOu-
bic he had taken, to have nothing but
NeXatlon in return? These condolences
generally end thus: 1T was folly to
do the thing" Sometimes it is right
so to Judge for il is always a mistake
10 cast pearls before swine: but how
many lives there are whose sole acts
Of real beauty are these very ones of
which the doors repent because of
mems ingratitude! Our wish for hui
lnanity is that the number of these
foolish deeds may go on increasing.
a ND now 1 arrive at the credo of
IA the mercenary spirit. 1t is char
acterized by brevity For the mercen-
aIy man, the law and the prophets are
contained in this one axiom With
money you can get anything From a
surface view of our social life. nothing
seems more evident The sinews of
var. king moneyi"-If one gathered
up all the sayings about the glory and
lower of gold. he could make a lItany
longer than that which is chanted in
honor of the Virgin. You must be
without penny, il only for a day
Or two. and try to live in this world of
Ours. to have any idea of the needs
OF him whose purse is empty. I invite
those who love contrasts and unforeseen
situations, to attempt TO live without
money three days, and far from their
friends and aCouaintances-in short.
tar from the society in which they are
/ somebody They will gain more expe-
rience I'm forty-eight hours than in a
year otherwise. Also for some people,
they have this experience thrust upon
them. and when verita BILE ruin descends
around their heads, it is useless to re-
I rain in their own count = among the
companions OF their youth. their former
! colleagues, even those Indebted to
them. People affect 10 know theme no
longer. With what bitterness do they
comment on the creed of money:-Wfth
gold one may have what he will: with
cut il, Impossible To have anything,
they become pariahs. lepers. whom
everyone shuns. Flies swarm round
I tsdavers, men round gold. Take away
| Inc gold. nobody is there. Oh. il has
caused tears to flow. this creed OF
gain. bitter tears, tears of blood, even
Fl ON those very eyes which once
adored the golden calf.
And with it all, this creed Is false.
quite false. | shall not advance to
the attack with hackneyed tales of the
rich man astray in d desert, who can
not get even drop Of water for his
gold: or the decrepit millionaire who
would give half he has to buy from a
stalwart fellow without a cent. his
twenty years and his lusty health. No
rIore shall / attempt 10 prove that one
cannot buy happiness So many peo-
, le who have money and so many more
who have not would smile at this truth
as the hardest ridden of saws. But 1
shall appeal to the common experience
CT each Of you, to make you put your
hrger on the clumsy lie hidden beneath
an axiom that all the world goes about
II beating.
Fin your purse TO the best of your
means. and let US set out for one of the
water places of which there are so
many. mean some little town former
~ unknown and full Of simple folk re-
spectful and hospitable among whom
II was good to be- and cost little. Fame
with her hundred trumpets has an
rcunced them to the world. and shown
item how they can profit from their
situation. their climate their person.
ality. You start out, OH the faith of
tame Rumor lattering yourself that
with your money you are going TO find
2 quiet place to rest. and. far from the
world Of civilization and convention.
weave bit OF poetry into the warp of
your days.
The beginning is good Natures set
ting and some patriarchal costumes
slow TO disappear. delight you. But
as time passes. the impression is
spoiled. The reverse side of things be-
Sins to show. This which YOU thought
was as true antique as family heir
looms. is nsught but trickery to mys-
tify the credUlous. Everything is
labeled. all is for sale. from the earth
10 the Inhabitants. These primitives
have become the most consummate OF
sharpers. Given your money, they have
resolved the problem of getting II with
the least expense 10 themselves.
y all sides are nets and trans