The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-06-24

my wants, DuC dlI SOlliS AuA ChCA
There they may not know me so well
nor be as generous as you"
Thereupon a collection was taken
up for him, and he made rapid pro-
gress in his canvass. 1t even looked
as though simplicity was going to win,
until one day his rival was seen rid
ing into town on the top of load of
manure.
This he exclaimed, Hove; love
the smell of it. 1 love to see it. 1t
is the food of the earth. It supplies
life to us all. Without it where
would you and 1, my dear consititu-
ents, be?''
My French paper, my authority for
these anecdotes, tells me that this
last candidate won, that his simplicity
was of a more positive and taking
kind.
This is the money age. "In all thy
getting, get money" l saw notice
in the papers of bank whose officers
dismissed any employe who married
on salary less than a thousand dol
lars a year. They feared to trust him
if he gave himself to the, perils of
marriage. In the days of simplicity
a salary of one thousand dollars was
above the average of salaries, and the
happiest years of a mans life were
those of self-sacrifice crowned by the
love that is all of heaven and most of
God.
1t is said that Americans worship
dollars. American dollars are wOr-
shipped everywhere, and far more
abroad than at home. They make an
open path for the newest of the new,
right into the very heart of the high
est realms of English aristocracy,
and to the feet of the very throne it
self. They buy the possessors of the
most sacred titles all over Europe
when one of our rich girls takes a
fancy to be called a duchess or a
princess.
In literature, who ever had the
pleasure of entering into the sacred
and blessed precincts of darling Bo-
hemia can ever forget it? There was
the simplicity of intellect,
the equality of man and man, the con-
cert of mind with mind. 1t, too, has
passed away, and now the scribes and
pharisees of the press and the pen
think only of salary and accumula-
ting fortunes. The simplicity of the
DAYS when few had a dollar, and no
one cared whether he had it or not,
have passed on. Can anybody say
this is altogether bad? Can we have
any better test than the power to ac-
any better government
than the wise self-interest of wealth? |
What do you propose to substitute
individual manhood? But when that |
manhood can be purchased at two |
dollars a mantle regulation price |
what respect does it deserve?
Personally do not like the change, |
[ prefer the old-fashiOned way; but | |
am not weak and childlike enough to
suppose that the world is going to
pause on account of my prejudices or
going to stop gettingrich because you
and 1, my hearers, don't know how,
Or being extravagent because we
nave not the means. In combina-
ions of capital, in private life and
public methods, is is the day of ex-
)ansiOn.
So in artj a picture will bring $780,
100 because the painter has an I'M
,qualed reputation-Only too often
worked up for him by his picture
lealer. In the days of SIMPLIFY 800
vas liberal sum to pay for portrait
~ the best artist; today he demands
10000. Whether the portrait is any
Detter than its predecessors l must
cave to thoseho pay ,, > , say
But all this is as far from simplicity
IS modern tailor made gown is from
he lovely calico costumes which we
lsed to admire on our beautiful
In nothing was the universal bro
herhOOd of man so conspicuous as in
he circus. There every boy was the
ocial equal of every other boy. Boy
oOd is the democracy of the world,
nd in the arena of the school and
he playground there is no social dis
inction. There the leader is chosen
or his merits. When the BOYS
on the bare wooden benches f.
nd ate the universal peanut, after
hey had paid their twenty-five cents
omission, they roared their admira-
ion for the antics of one motley
OlOred clown, admired the OneEqueen
f the ring in gauze skirts and dirty
lights as she wobbled on the back of
live rocking horse and leaped with
esitation through paper hoops. They
erhaps climbed to a seat on the
road back of gentle elephant and