Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1909-11-19
"MORE CHARACTER AND LESS MONEY"

"MORE CHARACTER AND LESS MONEY"
The people are steadily becoming
more and more awake to the fact that
they have been given to an over
appreciation Of the man who creates
big fortune, as compared with the
man who develops a great character.
Almost every day brings it's story of
some tinancer, before pedestaled as
probably an embodiment of all the
virtues-since we are yet taught the
old copybook lesson, that success is
the reward of virtue" who has
turned out to be either thief or a
companion of thieves. Il conspirator
against the government, or, what is
worse, conspiratoT against tina.
purity in family relations which is
the Indispensable foundation on Il
sound social fabric, comments the st.
Paul Pioneer Press.
One day it is Hayemeyer, King Of
the sugar world, proven to have been
the chief and paymaster of a band of
loOters employed for year in stealing
from the revenues. Then it is an
Astor. pilloried as contributing
from family before looked AS an
example OF wealth combined Will! do
meStlc Vlrtue-a nasty number to the
amending drama of Divorce. Then.
from one side of the continent comes
the story Of Predatory Wealth again
Fastening its manacles upon Sal,
Francisco: while from the other side
that story is matched by the account
OF a conspiracy between a group of
rich Philadelphia manufacturers ans,
corrupt political organizations; by
which, III consideration of tariff fav-
Ors, the manufacturers combine to so
direct the vote OF their employees that
gang o. convicted boOulers is re-
tanned i'm control of the city govern
ment. Then we hear of pair of
'railroad kings SO influencing
government employe that water
power site worth 3O.OOO,OOO is sur
rendered to said kings" with not a
WHINE Va N''' IN w ttC SONtI IL
ment. Then there are the familiar
stories of Walsh and Morse, wreck
ing banks Ny their schemes of plum
der; of the New York insurance mag
mates, taking to themselves vast for
tunes derived from the misuse OF
trust funds: of millionaire land grab
bers employing hundreds OF men to
perJure themselves to establish! bogus
"claims:' of PitJsburg, with it's
group q! p'utocTats even smuttier in
their morals than is tie air above or
the scenery around their city.
Yet it is the 81 Ell of money!" of
whose class there aIe cOnspicuous en-
amples, whom the American people
have heretofore allOwed-,p to the
coming OF ROOsevelt-to control in
the main part the policies of their
government. national stateand NUM-
cipal, andto dictate the standards by
which the various "levels" of society
shall be adjusted.
Roosevelt taught us how much
tluence, was high character above
wealth. In his own splendid person.
ality he furnished an example of such
character and OF the leadership which
it takes to itself as Of divine right.
Around himself he gathered Il group
of men OF kindred pndowments and
aspirations. The names Of Hitch
cock and Hay, OF Pinchot and Newell,
OF Garfield and Heney, because
watchworls in the new era of the en-
altation of character as the chief
requisite for leadership.
All over the nation. today. is seen
the fruit of the kooseveltian crusade
for the redemption of our American
Holy Land from the intidel rule of
the plutOcracy. "More character
and less money!" is the demand from
all these who yet stand for the old
ideals of America democracy. Char
acter can lift the poorest man, as it
lifted Lincoln, to leadership. Every
man who today ''sets his face toward
the sun and resolves that, however
small may be his pacuniary successes.
he will at least live nobly in the
sight of God and man, has Il better
chance today than ever before of re-
ceiving reorganization from his fell