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Of their time and country Is meager and
trivial to the last degree. They make
too much Of pleasure. The young men
as rule refrain from taking their
place Of leadership in politics. The
affairs OF their cities are left in the
hands Of underlings. Only occasional
" does the rich young man in America
sound a call TO his fellows OF noble
service. The fashionable set weary
themselves to create in the public mind
the impression that they are Of differ
ent clay when they are simply brilliant
parasites living on money accumulated
by other mems brains and depending
for safety on religion and morals in
herited from a pious ancestry or bor-
rowed from their less wealthy neigh
bors. The sons OF wealth ought TO
turn away from all vulgar display. So
clal functions costing vast sums OF
money within the sight Of the black
nightmare Of city slums are worse than
fOlly-they are a crime.
Power without due sense or outy is
as dangerous as dynamite in the hands
Of lunatic Money means power, and
power Of any kind involves solemn
moral obligations. The man who is
free from struggle on his own account
ought TO struggle for others. No more
deadly danger can confront a people
than increase Of wealth coupled with
relative decrease Of moral quality. It
is like taking from children their dolls
and tops and giving them Calling guns
and torpedoes for playthings. Where
the rich show earnestness and sobriety
of character and a genuine sense Of OBJ
legation to their fellows they become
fountains OF peace and progress. Where
they squander their money with wild
recklessness upon their whims and pas
sions they kindle the flame of envy,
distrust. fear and hate and disturb the
stability Of society. which depends up
on the mental good will OF all classes.
1T is time for the sons Of wealth in
America to be recalled TO their real
duty and their supreme opportunity.
They have sufficient examples In their
own ranks to show the way to this
higher life Let them lay aside their
costly instruments of pleasure and
hectic excitement and let them expert
ence the exultant joy Of service. In
stead of sapping by their example the
moral life Of the land let them begin
| 10 make some real contribution to the
spiritual resources Of their time and
country. Let them get their feet on the
| ground among folks. take up their po-
l litical duties. strike hands with the
men Of brain and brawn who are doing
things and so help TO keep the soul in
man from being crushed beneath the
ashes OF materialism. TIL then, and
not till then. shall he hushed that bode
full cry Of social hate which, Ike the
sobbing Of the winds across a win
ter sea, startles with its note OF dan
ger.
How is America TO fulnll her higl
destiny if those who ought to be hel
princely leaders behave Ike ground
HnCs? Mazzini cried to the young no
blemen Of Italy, Come and sufferP anC
their response added a new and sub
lime chapter to the story of human
progress. Hungary had her Kossuth
Germany her Bismarck, England he
Gladstone and her Shaftesbury. w
have had a Lincoln from among thu
peasants and Roosevelt Of gentl'
birth. but both by the sheer might o
their noble manhood have won 70
themselves a place Of imperishable low
in the hearts Of their countrymen
These and their like ought to be th
models after which our American son
Of wealth shall build their life"