Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-08
TWO ADDRESSES
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damage to US, for he damages us
chiefly by arousing our envy or by rem
dering us sour ana Disseminated. In
his actual business relations he Is mucn
more apt to benefit than lain the rest
of us; and though it is elninently right
to take whatever steps are necessary
IN order to prevent the cXceptlonal
members of his class from doing harm,
it is wicked folly to let ourselves be
drawn into any attack upon the man or
wealth merely as such. Moreover
such an attack is in itself IN exception
ally crooked and ugly tribute TO wealth.
and therefore the proof OF an eXcep-
tionally ugly and crooked state OF nina
in the man making the attack.
Venomous envy of wealth is simply an
other form of the spirit. which is one
of its manifestations takes the shape
Of cringing servility toward wealth,
and in another the shape OF brutal AFRO
gance on the part of cert&,n men OF
mind. whether it be hatred, servlllty, or
arrogance. is in reality closely akin to
from Enthusiastically twisted and exag-
rerated idea of the Importance Of
wealth as compared to other things.
The clamor Of the Ie:EaSoeue against
wealth, the snobbery ri the social
columns of the newspapers which deal
with the doings of the wealthy. and the
misconduct of those men OF wealth who
act with brutal disregard .C the rights
of others. seem specifically 10 nave no
fundamental relation, yet in reality
they spring from shortcomings winch
are fundamentally the same; and one
of these shortcomings is tic failure to
have proper ideals.
This failure must he romedled IN
| large part by the actions OF you ana
| YOUR fellow-teachers, your fellow
| educators throughout this land by
your lives, no less than by your teach
| irgs. YOU show that while you regard
wealth as a good thing, you regard
other things as still better. 1t is apso-
| lutely necessary TO earn certain
amount of money; 1t is mans hrst
| duty to those dependent upon him to
earn enough for thei" support put
after certain point E2s been reached
| n7oney-making can never stand on the
| same plana with oth,.r end nobler
forms Of effort The roll Of American
worthless numbers men like Washington
| ana LlIltOIIl, an 'i'''t 20
! Hawthorne and Poe. Ful-on and Morse
| 4; Csr3cns nd MaJMo7ni"s; IT num-
l. .,f..,f.-o nd II ,.'-' = 81 OF let
-..-. .rt.sts. sculp:ors, men OF science
| inventors. explorers, ro&dflaker5
bridge builders, philanthropists, mora!
leaders III great reforms; 1t NUMBERS
men who have deserted well III any one
of countless fields of activity; but OF
rich men it numbers only those VINO
have used their riches fright. VINO nave
treated wealth not as an enc, but as
means. who have shown good conduct
in acquiring it and not merely lavish
generosity in disposing Of it.
| Thrice fortunate are you to whom y
is given to lead lives Of "esolute en-
deavor for the achievement OF loft'
ideals. and, Furthermore. to instlll, Doll
by YOUR lives and by your tcachin35
these ideals into the minds OF mos
who in the next generation Nil. as the
men and women Of that generation
determine the position which TINS Ia
Ition will hold in the history OF man
kind.