The evening world., 1911-12-26
WHEAT KING SAYS
AMERICAN MOTHER
IS GREATEST GIFT
Patten Declares He Is Glad His
Daughter Married a Good,
True Yankee.
NO 100000 PEARLS.
Checkbook Don't Make a Nan
and EXtravagances Breed
Anarchists, He Says.
NO $500, 900 PEARLS.

CHICAGO. Dec. es.-Jsmes A. Patten,
known all over the world as the most
reckless and successful gambler in
wheat-the only man who ever cornered
the wheat market and got away with
it"-has revealed himself In "a new char
acter in an outburst inspired by the mar
rage OF his daughter Agnes Yesterday
to Lawrence Wilson Wilder. lie has
hitherto displayed = grim Indifference
to public opinion.
Tho wedding itself VA az simple as IL
could be made. The great marble palace
OF Mr.. Pstten. In Evanston. wa. Its set
ting. There were few guests. Mr.. Pat
tens old friend. the Rev. Dr. J. O.. n.
Mcclure. President OF Mccormick The
illogical Seminary. performed the ccre-
mony. Not to make the ceremony
ornate. but a. q symbol OF another old
friendship. DIR. Mcclure was assisted bv
Bishop William N. Mcdowell, OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church. After a
Christmas party OF which they were the
centre. Mr.. and Mrs. Wide. went 10 the
Blackstone Hotel. They will leave to-
day for an old fashioned honeymoon I'm
Bermuda.
The greatest thing the United
States Of America has done for civil
~ization is the development OF the
American mother" laid James A.
Patten. But the next greatest thing
L. to be an American father. When a
clean. beautiful. healthy minded girl,
such as / gave to = clean, healthy
" - II
day. calls "A man father then that
man has something beyond all dollars,
beyond all sordid ambition. To be
such a father Is beyond being an earl.
a duke or an emperor.
what 10 there In the nobility Of Flu.
rope which should attract the right sor,
OF an American girl? The title OF a
lord ds OF no more use In your family
or mine than our great-srandfather's
cast-on necktie. The finest title I'm the
world Is that OF q good citizen OF the
United states. The man who play,
square, works with . conscience and Il
good to women has something beyond
any artificial classification. Mr.. Burk,
and his big red pcersge could not pub.
lish anything about you nearly as good
as that.
THE American mother Is the creates,
educator In the world. She trains no,
only the mind and the manners. but the
heart. The American father Is the best
provider In the world. lie provides the
means by which the mother Is enabled
to do her best for the children. l know
many people have learned to think OF
me as a dollar machine. 1t Is true thai
my success has come In that way. But
the things which NEAR most to me are
the same things which seem best to the
fellow who is shoveling wheat In the
elevators down In the Hammond yards.
The JOY OF living and being a good
American Is not written in checkbooks.
W rave brought up our daughter
to nave respect for tho man who works
hard, to know the spendthrift and the
fussy. fancy idler a. the poor fool that
he Is, and to beware OF the man whose
first thought OF marrying a woman
rises from the knowledge that she Is
likely to inherit a big fortune.
There IL no reason why "A poor man
should not marry a rich girl dom
mean that. The money ought not ~
make any difference at all. IL Mr.. VIII
der did not have . cent ] would like
him Just as well. ! am pleased though
that he has the means 10 upport her AZ
she has lived. simply, comfortably and
without worry.
lie will not give her any $4,000 pearl
necklaces. ! am glad of It.. Men who
do tina make Anarchists OF poor fell
lows who have to nold back their hands
from stealing because of the agony that
is in their hea rts when they know their
wives and babies are suffering for
food"