The Washington herald., 1911-01-08
Daylight extending sweeping gesture

ingly. And you've got me on that point But there
lot 20 be said on my side just the same. Now you
listen to I'm going to talk under three heads.
Number one-We live short time the best Of US. and
we're long time dead. Life is big gambling game.
Some born lucky and born un,Icky.
Everybody sits in at the table and everybody tries
To rob rybUdy else. Most of them get robbed.
They're born suckers. A fellow like comes along
and sizes up the proposition I've got choices.
| can herd with the suckers or can herd with the
robbers. AS sucker win nothing. Even the cruSts
of bread are snatched out of my mouth by the rob-
bers. work hard all my days and die working. And
| amt never had tiutter. I've had nothing bu,
work. work. work. They talk about the dignity of
labor. tell you there amt dignity in that sort of
labor. My other choice to herd with the robbers.
And herd with them. l play that choice wide open
to win | get the automobiles and the porterhouse
steaks and the soft beds
Number two:-There amt much difference be-
tween playing halfway rohber like the railroad haul
ing that farmers wheat TO market and playing all
rObber and rObbing the robbers, like do And, be-
sides ha1way robbery Is too slow game Tor me TO
sit in. You don't win quick enough for me-"
But what do you want to win for: Dede de-
manded You have millions and millions already.
You can't ride in more than automobile time,
sleep in more than one bed at a time"
Number three answers that he said, "and here 1t
is:-Men and things made that they have differ
ent likes. rabbit likes vegetarian diet A lynx
likes meat. Ducks swim Chickens scart Of water
lects butterflies. This man in for paintings, that
man goes i'll for yachts, and some other fellow for
hunting big game. One man thinks horse racing is
1t, with big and another man finds the biggest
satisfaction in actresses They can't help these likes
They have them, and what they going do about
it? Now, like gambling. l like to play the game
want to play it big and play it quick. I'm just made
that way. And play it,"
But why can't you do good with all your money!
Daylight laughed.
Doing good with :'our money! It's like slappng
God in the face, much as to tell Him that He
don't know how His world, and that you'll be
much obliged if He'll stand Of the way and give
you a chance. Thinking about God doesn't keep me
sitting up nights I've got another way Of looking
at it. Isn't it funny to go around with brass
knuckles and a big club breaking folks heads and
pile and then, repenting of my ways, going around
and bandaging UP the heads the other robbers are
breaking? leave it to you. That's what doing good
with money amounts to. Every once in 4 while some
robber turns soft hearted and takes 20 driving an
ambulance. That's what GlenwOOd did. He smashed
heads in pitched battles-regular wholesale head
breaker he was, held up the suckers for few hun
dred million-and now he goes around dribbling it
back to them. Funny? l leave it to YOU"
He rolled a cigarette and watched her half curious
~, half amusedly. His replies and harsh generaliza
tons Of a harsh school were disconcerting and she
came back to her earlier position.
Il can't argue with you, and you know that. No
matter how right a woman is men have such a way
about them-well, what they say sounds most
vincing and yet the woman Is still certain they
wrong. But there is one thing-the creative JOY
Call 1t gambling il you WILL but just the same it
seems to me more satisfying to create something
make something than just to roll dice out Of dice box
all day long Why, sometimes for exercise, or when
I've got to pay SIS for, COAL curry Nab and give
her coat clean and shining and satiny feel salts
faction in what I've done. So it must be with the
man who builds house or plants tree. He can
look at it, he made 1t: it's his handiwork. Even II
away from him. sn 1t Is there, and still did he make
1t. You can't rob him Of that. Mr. Harnish, with
all your millions It's the creative JOY. ana it's q
higher Joy than mere gambling Haven't you ever