The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-07-24
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET
For President:
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
'of ohlo.s
For Vice President:
JAMES S. SHERMAN
Of New York.
~EHERHARDL's CRIME.

When $EberhaTd killed his aunt q
vainly endeavored to STAY her daugh-
ter, the only thought in his mind was
toaobtain possession Of the money she
carried, without regard to the conse-
quences. The mar Is typical Of q
class, happily meagre as to numbers.
who place riches above all else. The
accumulation Of money to them
amounts to q disease, the existence
Of which actually hampers them in at
tanning the very object they seek.
There 10 q law Of compensation-not
man made or given by human thought
or controlled by intelligence of this
world, that seems to govern in all
things. And this is a wise provision,
for At governs in just such a case as
the one under discussion. The aver
age man seeks to increase his earn
ing power and claims simply the re-
ward Of his toll. Some men are more
ambitious than others, and their
wealth increases in exact proportion.
with the effort they put forth and
the intelligence with which they di-
rect their thought. If a man IL
bound up In selfshness he usually con-
fines himself to q very small world,
and his whole life bears witness to
the fact. Usually men who accumu-
late great wealth originate and de-
velop enterprises from which the pub
lie derives benefit in ~ way or IN
other. In n case 1t is the construc-
ton Of q railway, the laying Of a
great water system, the building Of
electric works for light and power, the
rearing Of blocks, the c%onquering Of
arid wastes, the weaving Of cloth or,
the fashioning Of wood. Every man.
who comes in contact with the enter
prise Is in some way or other bene-
fitted. The man who does something
that requires the cooperation Of 9TH
ers, ii the employment Of money,
coupled with energy, IS q benefit to
the human race.
There are some who are sordid, and,
lacking either the originality to ac-
complish what others have done,
through shortsightedness or jeal-
ousy, arrive at the conclusion that
the world owes them a living, forget
ting entirely the fact that the world.
owes no man, and that he himself is
constantly in debt for the life he en-
Joys.
The man who believes that the
world owes him a living Is a danger.
GUS character. He is INDUCING in the
most expensive luxury-self pity.
When he reaches that stage 1t is time
that his friends take him in charge.
Eberhard is doubtless just that sort
OF man.
He worked for his living, as other
men do, and possessed the same adj
vantages before the law and In the
eyes Of his fellow man as any other
living soul, for all men start life on
the same plane, and the sluggard pays
the penalty for his own laziness, while
the ambitious man is rewarded be.
yond measure. This is as 1t should
be, for the world denies to no man
the right to q living.
But Eberhard believed that the
world owed him q living, and he set
about. BY 4 peculiar method Of rea-
soning, to- take from others the horde
gathered BY = method directly the OPP
posite To the one he proposed to ap.
ply. Had he stopped to think for a
moment----and It would not have taken
more than. an instant's thought-he
would have realized the enormity Of
the task he raj about to undertake
and the terrible strain he was assum-
Ing, Followed to Its natural conclu-
sion. such e course. generally adopted,
would lean the destruction Of the
human q 8 Il he had q right to muir
der one person for money, the next
man had 9 perfect right to kill him
for the same gain. II all men be-
lieved alike, this world would be cha
otto, no man would owe allegiance to
another, and the hudgeon would be
Come the solvent for all troubles, real
Or imaginary. II
Eberhard did not think that far
did not apply the same reasonsto his
case that he did to another. He be.
lieved simply that the world owed him
living and he Get about to attain
4 by the foulest route he could select
that OF the coward-1or he shot .
woman, his aunt, in the back, and
tried 70 murder the girl he had prom-
ised 70 marry.
Doubtless by this time he has awak-
ened 70 the fact that the same energy
properly directed would have brought
him not only greater reward, but
reese q mind, the respect Of his
naaghbora and the satisfaction Of
knovingsthae he had wrongedlno man.
I'D 40 ~ taken the step that
=eaHnok D. retraced. The money he
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