, 1906-05-31
BAD FOR RACE
STRUGGLE NECESSARY TO BE-
VELoP CHARACTER.
Heroes ard Builders Of Civilization
Are Those Who Have Been Com
PEELED to Fight Adverse circum-
stances.

family achieved widespread variegat-
ed notoriety which was in a way in
ternational. Sons n daughters of
an honest, Woodworking man, who
had become immensely wealthy by
one of those wonderful strokes of for
tune for which America is famous.
had tried to spend their fathers
money too hurriedly. Escapade after
c%scapade. startling incident succeeded
by others more startling, divorce
courts and all sorts of unpleasant and
~disgraceful experiences, marked their
careers, until finally the American
public. which is very longsuffering,
actually seemed to become tired of
the name of the family, says the Phila.
delphia Ledger.
The father had been a common la
borer in n of those great Industries
which have now developed into nor
nous combinations. or trusts, doing
business at the rate of hundreds of
millions annually. He had been faith
full in performing his duties, alert,
indefatigable, progressive, strong and
forceful, and had been promoted step
by step, until his profits as a partner
were princely. His wife, who he mar
ried when she was a mill girl in the
factory town, was a woman of strong
sense and character and the two were
sturdy, admirable specimens of the
Kind of iron fiber which improves
under stress of circumstances, emerg-
ing from trials triumphant and good.
The expectation SEEM to have been
that their sons and daughters, COM
ing from so healthy a stock, would
possess somewhat the character and
| fiber of their parents, and In addition
a broader culture from their education
and advantages of contact with good
society" which their parents had
lacked.
These cniidrcn were, however, the
most w%retched failures in the world
and their misfortune, which was more
Iamentable a thousand-fold thar pov-
erty, was Il to the fact that they
were so pampered from their early
youth that they never had the slight.
est chance to develop that strength
of character which must be founded
on struggle and effort of some kind.
The best education in the world"
Eslu WtIutll IullllpS, is tUdl got ny
struggling to make a living" There
are myriads in the world for whom
the struggle under adverse circum-
stances is too hard. 1t is can't to say
that riches are in themselves an evil
when all are seeking to lay by the
money which affords the means OF
education, of safety in old age, of
comfort and culture; and 1t is a smirk-
ing i~nsincerity to say to man who Is
fighting against want that poverty
IS good in itself. But there is no doubt
that a life of ease for the whole hui
man ace would at the present time
ruin it irretrievably. James Marti.
neau says finely:
"A world without a contingency or
an agony could have had no hero and
no SAINT"
The countries which have bred he
roes and builders of civilization and
humanity are those which have beer
compelled to struggle and battle
against hard conditions. Great Brit
aims contributions to civilization have
consisted not in her cotton goods or
her commerce or her general progress
in industry, but in the men who dis
played the manly resolution o only
TO carry on industries and to push out
into new worlds for trade. but to
wrest from kings and feudal lords the
human rights of liberty and self-gov-
eminent. Holland fought tyrants and
~Contended with the overpowering sea
for centuries. n Holland and her
sturdy citizens remain solid and cap.
able. Scotia's greatness is due to her
men who have battled with the bleak
and barren moors and the inhospit.
able climate; the Irish character and
bodily vigor were not formed in beds
oil ease. and in our own country the
contributions to this nations growth
by New England were made by the
stern n resolute men and women
who's characters were formed amid
dire distress and the hardest kind of
hard conditions of all sorts for genera
lions. The other side of the picture
may be seen in some of those Central
American states where a bountiful ma
ture supplies h needs of the inhabi-
tants with scarcely an effort on their
part. They toll not, neither do they
spin; they give themselves no trouble
about anything in the world, but pass
the days in an idle and slothful con-
tent. and are as the flies of last sum-
mer in their" impression on the worlds
HAPPINESS and progress.