The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-01-12
MONEY MAD.

Every foreigner who visits America tells
ls that we are money maj. Even almond
Eyed Lii Hung says we live too strenuous
lives, that we are killing ourselves in the
mad rush for money.
In Boston a business man walks to his
pfice at the rate of six miles per hour. The
New York business mar goes at the rate OF
live miles per hour. The Washingtonian
goes at four miles per hour. The South
erner steps it a three mile clip. The
Cuban saunters along at two miles per
hour. The Mexican makes it at about one
mile per hour, and the General American
aioesn't go to an Office at all.
Climate has much to do with the siren
nous life. The negro is the only man i'll
This country who is taking life easy. There
s a reason for this. The negro came from
b topical country A country where there
Sspo difference between December and
bully. Why should he bank potatoes there
when the yam grows all the yearthrough:
Why should he store up corn there when
The succulent juicy roasting ear grows
J welve months in the year? Here it takes
year to make an ear, there one can raise
three crops of corn in twelve months,
Why should he pile up. money there to
buy what he already possesses?
For him the banana fruits the whole
year through, for him the cOcOanut buds
blooms and fruits for three hundred and
Bixty-fve consecutive days, for him the
kalavasa works always. Winter biting
fginter, never comes to him of the tropics,
Everything is always lazy, glorious and
kreen for him.
From such a land came the negro. The
hegro banks his potatoes, tbs true, now
ind then. Now and then he cribs his
born. Now and then he looks out for win
er, but oftener he is as he was in his jun
kle-happy, glorious care free, looking
Tor the flap jack tree and the molasses
kpring.
The white man of the United State came
rom a country where the man :who failed
B bank HIS yams and store his corn was
: binched. For thousands of years he did
his until now it is a part Of him to bank
ams and store corn. He is not satisfied
bnless he is banking something all the
me, unless he is storing something for a
hiny day.
1.-THE Good Book speaks Of the examples
/ the ant, and the spider. Man might
barn from the bee, 1t is told of Il man
Fho moved to Florida that on seeing the
rofusion of flowers he conceived the idea
enriching himself on honey. He i'm
5rted bees from the north for this pur-
|se. With true Yankee instincts the bees
ent to work and promptly filled the
lis with honey and prepared for the
bminp Of winter. Winter did not come
b the bees are yet idly waiting while
> cells are empty Of honey. There is no
b to lay up the sweets and the bees nave
covered the fact.
The difference between the man and the
@ lis satisfied when he gets what he
eds, while man does not know what his
leeds are and is at work all the time for
lar he will not get what he needs.
So we splitter and squirt and scramble
hd skurry for the gold.
1t is a bad disease, this gold lust. 1t is
bntagious and infectious and Epidemic
ID virulent. 1t kills. 1t criples. 1t
6ralyzes.
We are all and severally touched" by
he gold-lurst bug. He has us going yet
ven in the throes we remember that this
not the ideal life and between mad
shes we whisper to our inner concious-
less in the words of the Sweet singer of
(ral," "Oh that I had the wings of a dove
lat 1 might fly away and be at rest"