Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-05-28
SUNDAY. MAY 2s, 1905.
HUMAN NATURE VS.. HUMAN Ma
49, IURE.


liz recent issue of the esteemed
New York Commercial we ncte the fol
lowing:
THAT was clear note Of hopeful
ness and optimism which rung our
4 Sunday last from the pulpit of the Rev.
erend Hoctor Minot ]. Savage. In
these days Of nsscrtiye socialism and
4 Of the communist. who is ever willing
TO pool your big pound with his pallry
shilling II was n distinctivcly and re-
K freshing and reassuring note. too. TO
4 the biblical question DO not the rich
cypress you the answer of Doctor
Savage was In effect an emphatic
mol 1t Is human nature to monopolizc
5lif II can, he said. How many mon
are there here In the city of New
York he asked, who. II they had the
4 control of the iron or coal industry or
5 any other. would voluntarily share It.
\ with any one else?' think most Of us
: would keep the privilege until we got
\ ont Of 1t rs much as would satisfy our
W
simply shows that II Is human nature
iSN No railing at wealth there! Nc con
( denlnatiGn of The man who. through his
8 own genius or through the virtue or
! the valor or the thrift of somebody
2 else, has piled up his millions! No
@spnrning of tainted money! To be
Itch within Doctor Snvagc's comrrc.
B hnllSion, is neither crime nor n sin
nor fault. Henry George. he dcclnr.
He,l. is largely. If not chiefly. responsi.
4 bic for the popular misconceptions that
The rich are growing richer and the
%spoor poorer There never was n
time he concluded. when tho com.
mon man or woman was so well off as
&in America today Truer words wore
S never spoken. Shallow pessimists for
get that the press Of the day keeps
"a dozen or so millionaires conspicu-
i ously--anl often oifensivcly-in the
public eye, While the myriads of work
ers who are building up moderate for
h tunes in quiet and conteGlmcnt never
h get into type The poor are really
getting rich every day-thanks to u
free country and benefcent laws. ana
III spite Of the cartoonist"
Much Of the resentment and prcjn
dice held against wealth In The ab.
stract is urJustifable. hut when DR..
Savage and the New York Commercial
lay II down as general principle that
I human nature is the controlling infu.
cnca in mundane affairs they must
pursue the analysis to it's logical con
clusiOI and. since selflshness is the
cornerstone of human nature. they
Sshould refrain from critlcisirg the ton
E denGie. of the man on the outside.
asetllirg to ;dvance his fortunes. un.
I less they are willing to apply the same
logic to the man OH the inside. who
already has more than his pro rata
Stare of the gcnd things of the world.
Z. While IL may he true that there
never was lime when the common
1 man or woman was so well off as in
America today" the fact remains taht
Z ilfH VINO are as worthy OF credence as
5lsr. Savage and who have devoted their
lives to exhaustive study of the sub
i1rc;. inform lis that 3,0n0,0O0 school
children go 10 their studies hungry
every morning. The rapid accumula.
a1ion Of great fortunes may no. be re-
5spnisibie for that condition. hut it is a
5self-eyitent proposition that where one
man piles up his millions 1t must he
at the expense of some one, and since
81 Inc 2doG cat dog principle seldom IS
applied IN the operations of practical
a}prcmotcrs, the people who "pay the
freight" are naturally the great masses
who feel the Influence OF every slight
Sraipi, in prices
4. There should be no condemnation OF