Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-03
of mankind? what shall your judg.

of mankind? What shall your judg-
4 ment be?
There is growing tendency among
| those who have succeeded in piling UP
| large fortunes to consider themselves
less as owners and more as custodians
| Of their money. Most Of our wealthy
men are looking about them for a
beneficent outlet for a portion Of their
| wealth Even among the very rich
Mr. Rockefeller has thus won to him
some friends who are anxious to be-
lieve in him Mr. Carnegie has found
supporters aud gained respect from the
public thru his evident desire % rem
der service where service is needed.
When men have more than they need
and more than they can ever use Tor
! themselves and their families, tfeir re-
| fusal to help worthy cause is gener-
ally attributable to greed. The duty to
the family having been done, what ex-
cuse can men find for looking UNI
moved on conditions that they might
reheveo 1t is not charity to give IN
these cases so much as it is plain duty
Charity in its most beautiful form
takes the shape Of self sacrifice. me
duty of even the well-to-do man in the
small city is as clear as that of the
Jic NM talks. /
talks about him. 1t says that the man
who lives for himself alone is UNI
worthy. 1t will say this all thru his
life and proclaim it above his grave
louder than any lying monument can
rehearse fictitious claims to resmem-
brance.
Back to the simple life is one OF
the loud calls of the day. In effect II
is merely the discovery that mans
legitimate needs are soon satisfied ana
that any effort to eat more than
enough or to satiate other desires UNI
dermines the man. 1t means that pc
yond the simple needs of life there is
nothing else for a. man to do with his
money but to devote it to some good
public purpose. Men go thru life work.
ing and accommodating and failing TO
learn this lesson. They die with sense
of disappointment and failure in them
selves and carry away less of the es-
TEEN of their fellows than the fellow
who worked with only mediocre sue
cess but strained himself in his efforts
to be a good citizen.
Other men Of wealth justify their
hoardings on the ground that large
amounts are needed to set the SONS up
in business and the sons gaze upon the
pile ask themselves what is the use of
working, and are ruined. Tweie Tar
better that they have credit only and
have to earn and pay back every cent
Of their capital with interest.
The facts are no man can get his
moneys worth out of life if he fails to
spend his surplus in the service of
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others less fortunate than himself. If
he boards, nature takes good care that
he carries none of it away with him
when he dies. If he lavishes it upon
himself nature becomes disguised with
him and hurries him off the earth be-
fore his time. In either case old age
is horror to him. He grows old,
grabbed, disgruntled, dissatisfied ana
disappointed at his own failure. It Is
only the wise and generous custodian
of wealth who grows old gracefully
and enjoys life unto the last. Money
talks to its possessor when others are
beginning to forget about him and it is
then that moneys conversation should
make it a pleasant companion.