The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-07-07

who would not lecture at price because as senator
all his time belonged to Massachusetts," 1t will remem
Der Charles Spurgeon who invited to come to Amer
lea for fifty lectures at Thousand EACH but said in
answer "No, will do better; will stay in London
and try to save fifty souls" 1t will remember Emerson.
wbo steadfasty declined increase his income beyond
twelve hundred dollars because he wanted time to
think
And not only in time past, but in the living present.
there brave strong who making history and
building honor upon better base than money. Who is
the most dgnifed figure in the American senate today
Not Clark of Montana, with his piling millions nor
Stewart of Nevada but George Frisbe Hoar serene and
noble ideast of Massachusetts, who lives in cottage at
Worcester three thousand dollars year. and does not
even keep carriage What noisy nabob has such genu
inc distinction old Joe Wheeler patrician of Alabama
hero of two republics and gentleman of honor living on
his pension and loyal to his ideals?
And there is william d. Howells whose standards
noby and unselfhy maintained have won him fame and
later fortune And ST. Gaudens the sculptor working
with faith unspoied by money carving calmly for the
approval Of the coming centuries And Eihu Vedder in
plain lodgings in Rome, laughing the American
money that would tempt him from his beloved art to
garsh and profitable advertisement. And Thomas Ed-
son. who would be ranked for the millions which
he spends earessy and unsparngy for other inventions
and discoveries for the advancement of the race And
President Eliot Of Harvard and President Harper of
Chicago, and Butler of Columbia each with superb adj
minstratiye talents that might win millions in the mart
living moderate incomes the great end of service
and achievement in the lives of the republics youth
And there is DR.. Rainsford, the New York clergyman
who might have been not only captain but general of
industry holding without wealth personal power over
the most distinguished in the world with Pierpont
Morgan and Mayor Mcclellan passing the plate in his
church, andlivng the splendid ideals which he eoqueny
breaches
And Mansfield and Irving, be it said to their infinite
credit might have been vastly rich today if they had
not herocy poured their earnings upon the alter of
higher art and better stage. Who can doubt that
Theodore Roosevelt, if he had bowed himself to gain.
might have amassed enormous wealth? Yet he has so
stubborny followed another and nober ideal of success
that his private fortune today less than eight thous
and dollars And William Trayers Jerome, whose daily
opportunities have been continuous invitation to be
rich but who has bayey chosen to be clean and brave
and honest reformer at the expense ol fortune
Let no think that these lines deprecate money
the independence and liberty which come from easy
means.
But let no youth of these striving times imagine that
money alone brings permanent honor or enduring happ
ness.
If the modern arstocracy of wealth refuses social re-
cOgnition to the really great unless the great be also
rich, be there nober a.stocracy of brain and
character without blazonry which despises the foolish
standards Of the poorly rich
There is mighty cloud of witnesses that the nobler
idealism is not dead in this republic Of the freeJobn
Temple Graves in Atlantic News