The daily sentinel., 1906-07-10
THE INDOLENT RICH.


The everlasting truths of the
Scriptures come closer to us with the
growth of years and experience. = In
vague way we have read in the
Good Book that a camel's passage
through the eye of a needle is com
paratively easy as compared to the
rich mans passage to heaven.
Why should the rich mans celes-
tial journey be attended with more
difficulties than other mortals, we
thought. We have come to under
stand as we see colossal fortunes
reared for brainless, besotted youth
to demolish. Wealth came to them
without a turn of their hands and
natural. unspeakable and unheard-of
ways to dissipate it.
There is no reward without effort
The man who by fair methods lay
the foundations of a moderate for
tune is entitled to its enjoyment. He
has gained all that money can bring
more surely than though he had
strivor for stupenduous wealth. Ey
the law of entailment the person OF
moderate means may know that when
lie zones 10 depart from earth he is
leaving no dangerous weapon in The
hands of his children. He educates
in life which is enough. 1t is thnn
for the offspring to do their part.
But vast wealth wrung from the
travail and suffering of those from
whom it was wrested and with cores
ponding happiness to the possessor,
passes on to his descendants with
the curse of Satan stamped on every
dollar. From vain display the broad
road of destruction leads on to de-
bauchery and when natural methods
of vice pail on to the bestial practic-
es for which the Lord swept with pur-
flying fire the evil cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah.
The indolent rich are the res
ponsible for the wrath that descend
ed from heaven. The indolent rich,
riding rough-shod over the plain peo-
pie heedlessly sprung n mine which
eliminated in the French revolution,
in which the tables were fearfully
turned. Every nation has a sad his
tory to relate in which idle pluto
Gratis or aristocrats play their dis
graceful parts.
The idle rich of America have be-
come a fostering sore. The vast ac-
cumulations of wealth, which right
fully and logically should be dis
tributed amongst the people. is in
herited by degenerates of the Harry
Thaw type. With great wealth at
their command, they search the high
places and the low places for Lucul-
Ian pleasures, scattering sorrow.
shame, suffering, debauched woman
hood. beastility along their degrad-
ed career until at last they pollute
the grave that hides them and
whence Gabriel will never summon
them If the doctrine of lost souls be
true. What standing in court, in
decency in this ridiculous "unwritten
law" has such creature as Harry
Thaw? The protection of his wife's
honor from such a source comes as a
farce. 1t seems a triple case of
roue, rake and prostitute with no hon
or in evidence anywhere All were
chasers after forbidden pleasures,
with this Thaw perhaps the lowest
beast in the lot.
He should receive HIS deserts, des- /
pite the $40,000.000 behind him to
oribe judges. jurors and turn public
sentiment and despite the bad char
icter of his victim 1t might be
good time to decorate a scaffold with
one of those excrescences known as
he idle rich, merely as an object les
son to others of the same kind that
Ihe law Is not supposed to be a res
pector of persons.
Then the false system which fos- l
ters the unworthy breed should be I
Nature produces poisons, |
but it also provides means to counter
act them, There is law somewhere
IN the universe which If sought and 1
applied will make the indolent rich |
and the American peo-
pie should search for 1t.