Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-08
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insignificant influence over us. It is generally our own fault if he does
 damage to us. for he damages us chiefly b. arousing our envy or by rendering us sour and discontent In his actual business relations he is muen more apt to benefit than harm
 the rest of us; and though it is emi nently right to take Whatever steps are necessary in order to prevent the exceptional members of his class from doing harm, it is wicked folly to let ourselves be drawn into any attack
 upon the man of wealth merely as
 such. Moreover. such an attack is in itself an exceptionally crooked and ugly tribute to wealth, and therefore
 the proof of an exceptionally ugly and crooked state of mind in the man making the attack Venomous envy of wealth is simply another form Of lhe spirit. which in one of its manifes- tatiOns takes the shape of cringing 2 seryility toward wealth. and in an other the shape Of brutal arrogance on the part of certain men of wealth Each one of these states of mind, whether it be hatred. seryility, or ar rOgance, is in reality closely akin to the other two: for each of them springs from a fantastically twisted and exaggerated idea of the import 3nco of wealth as compared to other things The clamOr Of the demagogue against wealth, the snobbery of 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 of the rights of others, seem superfcially to have no funda- mental relation; yet in reality they spring from shOrtcOmings which are fundamentally the same: and one of these shortcomings is the failure to have proper ideals.
 This failure must be Temedied in large part by the actions of you and your fellow-teachers. your fellow-edu- cators throughout this land. By your lives. no less than by your teachings, you show that while you regard wealth as a good thing. you regard other things as still better It is ab- solutely necessary to earn a certain amount of money; it is a mG1's first duty to those dependent upon him to earn enough for their support; bat after a certain point has been reached money making can never stand on the same plane with other and nobler forms of effort The roll of American worthies numbers men like Washing ton and Lincoln. Grant and Farragut, Hawthorne and Poe. Fulton and Morse. St. Gaudens and MacMopnies; it numbers statesmen and soldiers, men of letters, artists, sculptors, men of science. inventors, explorers. road makers, bridge buildefs. philanthro- pists. moral leaders in great reforms; 1t numbers men who have deserved well in any one Of countless fields If activity; but of rich men it num- bers those who have used their rich es alright, who have treated wealth not as an end. but as a means, who have shown good conduct in acquir- ing it sFd not merely lavish gener- osity in disposing of 1t.
 Thrice fortunate are you to whom it is given to lead lives of resolute for the achievement of lof- ty ideals. and. furthermore, to ingtill, both by your lives and by your teach ings, these ideals into the minds of those who in the next generation will, as the men and women of that gen eratioD, determine the position which this nation will hold in the history of