The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-19

| of youth and manhood into the apital
! for advancing years, should be denied
no one. The only restriction which the
state should put on that capital,
| should be that it may not be used to
Cypress the society that allowed the
accumulation of capital. There must
always be the man with ten talents,
and the man with one talent. And
the business of the state should be to
SO adjust the relations between then
that the man with the ten talents shall
not deal unfairly with the man with
one But to wipe out the distinctions
between the two by making each a
man of five talents--that is folly, and
the right sort of education should keep
men from such folly. There should
be peace on earth, and there must be
good will among men. But men must
grow spiritually before that order may
be stablished; law may not establish
it. The socialist has the cart before
the horse. We must grow in fairness
to one another, must grow in kindness
to one another, must grow to respect
one another's rights the rich to re-
spect the rights of the poor, and equal
ly the poor to respect the rights of the
rich-before the spirit of the Golden
Rule may be put upon the statute
books. For laws are only the express
sion of popular belief. At this mo-
ment perhaps our laws are little be-
hind our spiritual advancement. The
movement all over the world to curb
the power OF greed, 1nOlcatoS that the
people are crysta1lizing their creed in
to law But that law must leave the
individual elbow room. That law
must control commerce, not abolish
it. That law must mark. to a degree,
the dead line between thrift and greed
but must not hamper thrift.
The Problem of the Talents.
That law will make the man with
ten talents respect the rights of the
man with one, and with five, and the
rights of many of his neighbors with
ten. But it will not rob any man of
any real talent. This new movement
in world politics, in Russia, in all of
Europe, in America, looking toward
more equitable adjustment between the
rewards of labor, and the profits of
capital will not help the idle man one
bit, nor take one honest penny from
the richest man on earth. But it will
fetter greed, and make a days work
worth more to the worker in every ma
essential that education teach you
thrift; for SO long as thrift is honest,
nothing will come to harm it.
And if this education has taught
a man to honor his God, to love his
neighbor, and to rely on himself, in do
ing so he will find how poor and weak
a crea ture he is. For he will fail so
many times; and failing will learn char
ity, the sweetest essence of all the phil
osophy of this life. And charity will
make him cheerful, and hopeful and
keep him brave in the midst of alarms
The educated man who has in his soul
this serenity of culture cannot be ov-
ercome with any earthly calamity. AL
ways he knows that he is sinew of
the everlasting arms, that some pur-
pose is behind his trouble. some good
must come out of his evil, some real
advance must be planned in the SEEM
ing retreat. Always, even amid the
wreckage and debris of defeat and
shame and humiliation, he may lift his
voice and say from a heart filed with
the calm of a great faith:
1.-The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures. He leadeth me beside
the still waters; he restoreth my soul.
He guideth me in the paths of right
eousness for his names sake. Surely
goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life, and 1 will
dwell in the house of the Lord forever"