The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-11
To Whom GOd--!

III WHOH OOu
Those t. whom it has pleased God to inrust the management of
the great business interestso Of this country."-schwab.
Jack senhouse is the nam of a man in a book. To be accurate he is
the hero of three novels by Maurice Hewlett. senhouse is the sol of a
wealthy man. Instead of doing the perfectly obvious thing he writes
poems, embales philosophy. paints pictures. soldiers frying pans. and
makes the world happier and better to live in by planting flowers and
trees all over England. He does what he likes, is supremely happy and
certainly a useful either to the world.
To talk to such a man about Steel Common and to tel him that it had
fallen off twenty-five points would make a ,tue impression as a bee
singing boiler plate. The al could have looked down upon a king.
The point To- the Rest of Us is o in the act that Mr.: John Sen
house liked poetry, plants and paint. He might have been young CLAWS
in the Land Department. Brandeis, the attorney for all America, or Pin
chot, a college pofessor O a thinker. Education. physical vEinty-and
mental-foce, these were the properties of Mr., John senhouse.
A generation is being born of high ideals, of mental and physical
force who do not believe in the Almighty Dollar.
Men who cannot be bought-nor sold.
Such men do not know peer-except in others.
And such men there ar by the thousands.
There is the type of mind which believe n that legend of the Gold
en- Cali. 1t is ut of date.
Business is business"
To such a a Hartman and Rockefeller loom large.
To him stock watering is as sacred IS family ties.
His idea Of public service utilities whether a lighting company or a
railroad is succinctly the phrase of Vanderbilt.
1.-THE public be damned"
And he will talk to o of the survival of the fttest and the fate Of
those who "snvel with Of the successful man."
Very well gentlemen. the day is rapidly coming and will arrive C
cording to schedule when there shall be a demonstration of the survival
of the nttest
The state of society which exists today will not survive because it
is not fit. Something better will take-is taking-ts place.
When men cannot live comfortably in happiness and ra children to
be better men and women than they are themselves. history chronicles
either unprecepdble ut steady improvement or a upheaval which
shakes foundations.
When those to whom it has pleased God to intrust to thu manage
ment O the great business interests o. this country" become sc ignorant
and foolish a to forget the rights ant privileges of their fenowmen-or
to give up peaceaby the share of material comfort demanded by a de-
vdopng Notwithstanding happens.
And the result has always been in accordance with the survival of
the nttest-the many who have become filter than the few.
We no longer wear serfcolars O or necks-though u ancestors
did. And W e are not apt to wear them invisible though they nay be pat
termed.
The idea Of the Divine Right OF Kings has zone into limbo and a few
relics remain to satisfy a morbid sightseeing taste of scenic spectacles
which still fingers
And the Almighty Dollar which too it's place is going co..
It is inevitable.
With a new breed which cannot be bought or sold we have a strong
er thing than money.
II money a not buy men-then money is nowerless for harm.
Overord-and sef?
Well. Maurice Hewlett has written of the nw type.
His Mr. Jack Senhouse is, you say. merely a maj in a book.
Sure!
But new ideals ire current.
New ideas are abroad in the land.
And day after tomorrow, what?
To whom Cod!