The Irish standard., 1905-08-12
Says That There Is No Man So Poor in
Cempanionship as He Who Is
Burdened With Riches.
Money Craze Considered Lesser Evil Than
the Increase in Divorce, With
Accompanying Wrongs.

these men are a pleasing counterfeit
to those OF the other type. They make
1t possible for us to retain our optim-
ism, no matter how grave conditions
may appear, for men of this sort make
us realize that the sturdy virtues will
survive and form always a barrier
against the continued spread of cor.
ruption and dishonesty These men
have in mind stand for all that the
church represent, not only in their
home lives, but in their business lives.
Their generosity is unbounded, but
there is nothing of ostentation in their
giving
"Modesty is the greatest character
istic of these men, and they never
permit their left hands to know what
their right hands are doing The in
tluence Of these men is far greater
than the public can ever realize. Moth
ing of publicity attaches to their good
deeds, and because of this their acts
cannot be measured to their full sig
nificance in communities where crime
and corruption always receives a
wider advertisement than virtue"
Of money madness, the money evil,
and the lives of American million
aires, Cardinal Gibbons said:
1.-The great trouble maker to this
country is money.
"The great offset to that evil is the
American inclination to spend it rap
idly"
"You consider, then, that American
extravaganza is something of bless
ing?"
81 do, indeed. Americans are not
misers, thank God Otherwise we
would be in most desperate condi.
tion.
when great fortunes are made
they are almost as rapidly expended,
and the constant circulation of money,
the keeping going OF these great ac-
cumulations Of wealth, is one of the
hopeful signs of the future.
"We are strictly and commercially
a business nation. England was never
more So"
"You do not believe, then, in the
Scriptural statement that love Of
money is the root of all evil?"
"In the United States it is not the
love of money. 1t is money itself that
is the root of evil
"The fact Of possessing money and
having the opportunity to expend it
brings with it untold inclinations to-
ward vice and immoral and unlawful
extravaganza. ....
People are apt to cry Crime!
Crime! Crime! They would be nearer
the truth if they cried out against
money. 1t is the magic key that opens
the gates to all that is against the
welfare Of the community"
"Do you believe there is such
thing as tainted money!"
'Indeed 1 do. There is no doubt
whatever that there are large accumu-
lations of money in this country that
are very much tainted.
However, I have never had an op-
portunity yet of personally declining
whether money was tainted or not.
No money has ever been offered me
that even had the shadow of suspicion
connected with it in that respect;
but that money has been obtained in
way which a churchman could not
sanction in this country is matter OF
common knowledge"
do you think the accumulation of
great fortunes has been an incentive
to divorce?"
Undoubtedly the accumulation Of
great wealth has been an Incentive of
all kinds of wrong doing, divorce
among the rest"
do you think rich man can be
happy man."
'It would be very hard task. The
possession of wealth is an isolation"
Andrew Carnegie once told me
that the only really happy days Of his
nfe were when he was earning money