The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-04-24
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Chancellor Day, !, Syracuse
University RidICuIes all CON-
planners Addresses q
Large Audience.
DAUGHTERS OF RICH ARE SOLO

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Chancellor Day, of Syracus,
university, addressed a full hous,
last Sunday at the mems meet
ing of the Harlem branch of tn,
New York, Y. NJ. c. A Mr.. Day
said he liked opposition and in.
tended TO be just as big as he
could be.
He secuted the idea that the
country was in a state bordering
on commercial and industrial
stagnation. He contended this
is a good world, after all, and
altogether well worth living in
Wouldn't you rather live here
than in heaven@ asked the chan
cellor. Il would, but I'd like to
go to heaven when can't be here
In fact, Think I'd be rather dis
counted in heaven till got ad-
justed. You can get anything
you want here; you can live un-
der forty old governments meet
all nations of the world, eat all
the fruits of the world and get
any kind OF climate you choose.
Is the best place TO live, but |
think when a man can't stay
here any longer he ought to steer
for heaven.
i hope you young men and
old men, too all have work If
you haven't, you will soon. This
nation is too big TO be ruined,
too bic too stop long The bus
mess of the country isn't going
TO stagnate or wither. 1t is go
ing or. There's too much
wealth in the interior, too much
property OH tne surface. too
much harvest on broad acres. too
many factories, too much money
that's got to be invested TO be
safe. for US to halt long.
We've had a little scare, it S
true, but nothing more. And it
dosen't take long to recover from
a scare. If it was a disc Sc in
stead of freight, it would be
different. But the country is
sound. The country is always
full of opportunity. I've had
opportunities all over the country
myself. And there always will
be opportunities everywhere.
You've heard that sublime,
stupid nonsense about half a doz-
en- men putting the world in
their pockets and not letting any
body else get any Why, you
may be one of those half dozen
some day. Those men aren't
going to live forever. If they
had Methusaleh's prospects for
life it might be a serious matter.
Men get rich and they get fat
and get dy spepSia and die, Tie
Lord takes care of that.
Most of them are fools before
they die and leave their millions
TO their sons and daughters in
stead of Syracuse univers ity.
And most of the sons are fools,
too. They spend money for
autos, and yachts, and great
establishments, and by and by
you will get it back.
The daughters distribute
wealth. too They give some of
it to those counts and no-accounts
the papers are full of. Most of
it goes abroad. but it comes back Z
again Many of the daugh- $
tiers of the rich sell themselves
and give a bonus. We have a
here in this country for
rich girls, just such a market as
they have in Constantinople. To
this market goes all the ragged, +
tattered royalty that nobody |
has any use for abroad. 1t is a T
spectacle for men and angels. 7
You can't be personal about such
things, but you know what III
mean, and you can put it down
that most of those sales aren't
turning out well. And that's a T
good thing. b
Yes the material outlook is
encouraging. And we don't
blame the prosperous, because .
we all want to be prosperous :
ourselves Let us all be with
out the dangerous antagonism
to wealth the flows out of the :.
of malignity and ignor- \
ance, out of Union square and
other places,
"Doyou think there's any dam
ger of anybody being too big? \
Not bit of it. OF course. there :,
are.thievesin all classes of society. !,
thieves both big and little. But '
there aren't as many today as 90
there were yesterday, and they :.
will be still fewer tomorrow. y
They are fast disappearing. 1t
s the gospel of Christ, not legis-
alton, that's doing away with
them ~