The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-06

IN our SCuOO1o esAAeN
every union for a righteous cause
and most of all in the ideals and
aspirations of the noble soul who
will not suffer human society to
degenerate into mere british
struggle of life and the sur
vival of the fittest."
.Of all that walk the world today, hold
That man the lowest OF the pagan breed
Whose body is soulless house of greed,
Whose heart is but a hardened mould,
Who worships but an idol wrought of
gold
An idol fashioned out OF human need
Who concentrates his life to this one
creed,
Get riches though mems very blood
be sold,,''
The starving poor-what recks he Of
their woes?
And what to him the bitter cry of pain
Of ali that bleed beneath oppression's
rod?
No lily speaks to him. no climbing rose;
He harkens only to the voice of gain
And grips in clammy palms his yellow
Cod"
In a recent article, Gov. Mickey,
of Nebraska, says: ''There are
many moral issues confronting
the American people today, but
in my opinion the greatest of
these is greed Of gold. This is
really the fountain head of most,
if not all of the great moral is
sues, and the cause for their ex-
istence can usually be traced to
the great desire for personal ag-
grandizement or accumulation OF
wealth.
:.The desire to make money is
not in itself an issue, for we have
Scriptural admonltion to be dill
gent and not slothful in business,
but it becomes a moral issue
when the desire is prompted by
an evil motive, or the means en-
ployed to acquire it are question
able or unlawful.
1.-The fact that a vast number
of our people are filed with an
ABNORMAL greed for riches and
have an all-consuming desire to
make money regardless of prin.
ciple, is evidence enough that
this question is decidedly a NOR
al one. Wealth is being hoard
ed up, not for the good that it
can do humanity, but for the
power that it represents-power
to be used for selfish ends, for
political preferment, and Oft
times for purposes inimical to
good government.
;sIt is greed for gold that makes
the president of a bank risk his
depositors' savings on the Board
of Trade; it is greed for gold
that causes the loaning of large
amounts of trust funds upon
worthless securities; and it is
greed for gold that prompts the
officers Of an insurance company
to use their reserve funds for
personal gain.
To appropriate and paraphrase
the words of another.
Nations and States and coun-
tries are made by men and not
by written constitutions or pa.
per ballots, or, if you please. by
the wealth which they have piled
up. We are not free be-
cause we have a constitution
or the ballot, or becaus e
we have accumulated large
wealth. We are free because
our fathers, who crossed seas
and subdued and cleared the will
derness and defied kings and po-
tentates were freemen. 1t was
in their veins, their very blood
pulsated with it. It was the
training and tutelage of gener-
alton on generation beyond the
waters; theevolution of centuries
of struggle and sacrifice.
This has sometimes been call
ed the young mans age. It is
an age for the man or woman
who can do things and do them
well. The price demanded is
that you must excel in your par
ticular line and the question of
age will not be raised.
Pierpont Morgan is seventy,
and it is said that he achieved
his greatest financial victories
after he was so. Senator Pettus,
of Alabama, is eighty-fve; Sen
ator Morgan, of Alabama is
eighty-two; Allison, Of Iowa, is
seventy-seven; Proctor, of Yer
mont, is seventy-fve: Frye, of
Name, ,seventy-four; Cullen. of IL
linois, is seventy-seven. So you
see these leaders Of the senate
and of finance are young and
vigorous and strong at ages be-
yond the allotted years Of men.
This is the golden age of the
world when men and women
count who can do things. It is
strenuous and commercial to a
degree, but you fetch the price
you are worth today: tomorrow
and every day you can make
good. Your every act will be
brought under ''the fierce light
that beats upon a throne" and
you will be judged by your own
merits.
No country and no age has
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