Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-08-14

was caSued by misunderstanding
orders or neglect to obey them on the
part of the crew of the freight train.
coin, and if we keep what we attempt
to get for tan opinion of the public
that we are better than we are-we
are chargeable with theft. s,
Are we not attempting every day to
cover up our deficiencies with a patch
of pretense rather than by hard work
endeavoring to eliminate them?
Neither men nor women can persist
and continue in an attempt to mislead
the public without misleading them
selves, and the moment they acquire
the power to dull their sensibilities, to
stifle their consciences by presuming,
assuming, and finally believing that
they are what they are not, they have
practically accomplished their own
self-destruction by passing counter
feits upon themselves.
The pretender becomes a borrower
and the borrower becomes a thief.
Danger No. 2-The Easy Dollar.
Wealth, to most people, is something
that is sought for largely because
other people seem to enjoy and prize
it, not because Of a conviction of in
dividual need of it. 1t is the adoption
of another's standard or criterion of
happiness. It is the attempt to put on
another mans coat because it seems
to look well on the other man. 1
know of lawyers, great legal minds,
who would be happy if they were
merely practicing law, but their clients
have money so they want money. They
have caught the disease and they are
not happy. They devote their lives to
acquiring riches; they sacrifice every
other aim and purpose in life; they
become and are rich; but that it not
what they want to be, or what they are
fitted to be.
And what is the disease they have
caught? It is the malady of making
money easily. Mark the word
"easily.'
We have heard for years that the
American people worship the dollar.
I tell you they are led astray by the
"easy dollar" by the apparent ease
with which great wealth is often &C
cumulated.
It is the desire for unearned wealth
which sidetracks educated men and
women from their real careers.
believe that not twenty per cent of
the young men and young women in
this audience are meant to be rich.
They are meant to be great physicians
perhaps, or great lawyers, or great
preachers, or great teachers, or great
painters; but when they go out into
the world probably eighty per cent
will be tempted to seek wealth, to
join in the chase for the easily &C
quired dollar.
If could persuade those of you who
are meant to be teachers, or preachers,
or writer's, or lawyers, or musicians,
or painters to teach, to preach, to
write, to pleai and to paint unswerved
by the tremendous influence of the
great majority, should have done a
sufficient service for this day.
But that is not my thought. What I
want to tell you you must do if you
are to save yourselves and this coun-
try is to avoid the pursuit of un-
earned wealth, the accumulation of
easy money. That is graft The man
who gets dollar unfairly, without
earning it, does himself an injury and
the world wrong. Such a man is an
abstractor. He is not producer. He
seeks to support himself by the sweat
Of another mans brow. He first does
himseslf an injury. because he disables
himself. He loses the ability to
create, to produce, to earn. He be
comes a CRATER. And he does the
world wrong because the man who
gets his neighbor's money without
earning it. without giving his neighbor
full return, Is not only a robber; he
makes the world q graft.
Danger No. scraft.
Graft is the advanced stage OF the
craze for unearned money. Primarily
Continued from Pare ID