The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-07-03
THE idle RICH

This Spring in his annual report President Hadey OF Yale uses
Iocbe language The idle rich college he
says Just as they community So the idle poor An
IDLE person is who habituay declines work Since the
rich and the taken together include pretty nearly everybody
is ar inference from DR. Hadey remark that his opinion any
person who does work It has long been accepted
true that idle brain the devils workshop if the of the
BRAN has not much property but little startling learn that
the thing when rich The possession Of
wealth commonly supposed to render immune to many
eV winch assal the souls OF the INDECENT Thus, to
man help when he pauperze him. but bequeath rich
three million dollars when he already has than he
needs does not harm HIM IN the least glass OF beer swallowed
saloon has deeteriouS effect upon the morals of working
man. but it does the spiritual perfection OF rich
al to SIT through the night banquet and sW champagne
the Oregonian
If idle people the community why do reward
their dness with nnfcent saares The bank clerk who hand
les money daily tolng his drudgey early
and late twenty thirty dollars week perhaps while
the who the bank and does nothing but draw his div
dend and spend them Europe Newport counts his returns
by the thousand per week Te who works rewarded for
his work sometimes richly sometimes nggard but the man who
does nothing but property which he hires others sure
not only of an income but OF honor and glory as we'll the idle
rich Dr. Hadey says why contrve way to
put their ideness? There theory that they
1t often pointed out that they keep money IN
circulation and furnish employment to the industrious by spending
their nearned incomes but evidently Dr. Hade has through
this shallow aacy lie knows that the superapuldace Wnlch he
has been obtained by deprvng producers of the just
their toll Merely be kept work OF no advantage
The advantage comes from the product OF ms work.
and he Systematically that prodga who squanders
it he has no be grateful he could have had all that
belonged need have worked hard long he
MIGHT have had for recreation sefmprovenen fraction
Of that time which the rich der spends in his orgies DR. Hade
is right The of the rich only but is
more baeful than the idleness of the poor
The idle poor be made work If they have vable
means support the vagrancy laws will send them to the roce
But the law stands cannot reach the idle c though ne
oese is ncomparaby worse The poor who does not work
simply staves or gets jail The rich ide debauhes himself
and his parasites He the product OF dozens or hundreds
industrious toers and returns to society nothing whatever except
bad example The wealth which poured into the stonac and
nread ont on the of the idle rich utterly lost to the
world Mind we talking about those who do nothing but
Dend An industrious of wealth his living well as II
ne we're poor great deal better He often gives
fair return for all he consumes if the millionaire idle he IS
mere evastator He is like flood which and
never produces does give employment to wordnen but It
exactly of employment which an earthquake gives
Tare i more than one this country who wastes as
mich wealth every year great conAagraton destroyes Truly
President Hadey put mildly when he said such men were curse