Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-04-11
JAIL BIRD HAS FLOWN DAY ATTACKS THE RICH
In Y. M. C. A. Address Calls Them
Mere Fat Fools.
KILLED OFF WITH DYSPEPSIA
With Sons Sapheads and Daughters
Marrying Tattered Royalty,
Wealth Will Distribute.

New York, April 6.--The defender
and apologist heretofore to wealth
at least of the Rockefeller class
Chancellor James r. Day, of Syracuse
university. yesterday said some OF the
worst things ever uttered in contempt
for Americas arstocracy of dollars.
Speaking to meeting Of the Harlem
branch of the Young Mems Christian
association. the chancellor declared
the rich as a class were fat fools
whose power. otherwise for harm, ls
nullified by the Lord, who permits
them to die Of dyspepsia and dis
sipates their perilously large for
tunes through spendthrlft sons and
title-hungry daughters. He was speak
ing on the assurance of industrial
prosperity returning to this country
soon. and his remarks were argu.
mentative OF a declaration that the
fear OF half dozen men poking the
country into their pocket was non
sense He said
Il hope you young men, and old
men. too, all have work IL you have
not you will have soon. This nation
is 100 big to be ruined, too big 10
stop long The business of the coun-
try isn't going TO stagnate or wither.
1t is going on There is too much
wealth in the interior, too much
prosperity on the surface, too much
harvest on its broad acres, too many
factories and too much money that's
got to be invested to be safe for us to
halt very long. We've had a little
scare, but nothing more. And 1t
doesn't take long to recover from a
scare. If it was disease instead Of
fright, it would be different. But
the country is sound.
you've heard that sublime, stupid
nonsense about half dozen men put
| ting the world in their pockets and
not letting anybody else get any. Why
you may be one of those half dozen
| some day. These men aren't going to
live forever, II they had Methusaleh's
| prospects OF life 1t might be Sc
rious matter. Men get rich and then
| get fat, and get dyspepsia and die.
/ The Lord takes care of that Most
of them are fools before they die and
leave their millions to their sons and
daughters instead OF to Syracuse uni
+, versity. And most of the sons are
fools too They spend the money for
autos and yachts and great establish
ments. and by and by you all get 1t
/ back. - ~ ~
"The daughters distribute wealth.
too. They give some of 1t to those
counts and no-accounts the papers are
/, full of, Most of 1t goes abroad, but
1t comes back again. Many OF the
/ daughters OF the rich sell themselves
and give bonus. We have market
here in this country for rich girls
| just as much a market as they have
In Constantinopie. To this market
i goes all the ragged, tattered royalty
that nobody has any use for abroad.
1t is a. spectacle for men and angels.
You can't be personal about such
things. but you know what I mean.
and you can put it down that most Of
these sales aren't turning out very
we'll And that's good thing
Yes; the material outlook IS very
encouraging And we won't blame
the prosperous. because We all want
to be prosperous ourselves. Let US
all be without that dangerous antag-
onism TO wealth, that flows out OF
sources OF malignity and ignorance
out on Union Square and other