White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-25
MONEY IS THE
ROOT OF EVIL
STUDENT OF HUMAN NATURE
TRACES MANY OF LIES TRAG-
EDIES DIRECTLY TO LOVE OF
POWER AND RICHES.

For an adult male, living in a city
in this country, not to be thinking of
money, he must be SO poor that he
can only think of food and drink
he must be so used to his poverty
that money seems too far away to
think about or he must be DRUM,
says a writer in the st. Louis Mirror.
Perhaps when a healthy man
awakes in the morning there is a
short period of drowsiYess between
the time when he opens his eyes, and
when he thinks of money. There is
perhaps a fleeing sense of well-being
he can cling to until he is handed
the morning paper, but after that, If
he thinks at all, he is thinking of
money. The daily paper Is merely
a repetition of tragedies small and
large-all having to do with money.
So-called sex tragedies and comedies
are all economic affairs when pursu-
ed to their real source. The wife
who takes a lover does so because
she wants more money, or the things
money buys, than one man can give
her, or because she wants love, and
how, under present conditions, can
a man make love to his wife and
get the money too? How can the
man who spends his days in fierce
competition for existence and his
nights in planning the next days
battle, satisfy the Soul of a woman
and how can he compete with the
lover who is the wife's only escape
from sordidness? For the average
woman does not go deep enough into
things to realize that the husband is
not as fascinating as the lover, for
the reason that he loves her-and
on account of that love, makes of
| himself a money getting machine
that she may have a home and
Injuries. And when the husband
loses his wife's love and realizes 1t,
there is but one thing for him to do;
get more money, so he can have
another woman and win.
All the prattle about the evils of
divorce, of drink, the destruction of
the home, race suicide, is merely
dealing with superficial results in
stead of basic causes.
Is the world always to be a place
where women must sell themselves
lawfully or unlawfully in order to
exist?
If the world is always to be as it
is now. then race suicide is a virtue
for the many.
If the world is always to be as it
is now. then there was never any
purpose in its being at all.
But it isn't. No one but a hope
less pessimist could think so. A few
years since a man had to explain why
he was poor-now it's the rich who
are asked to explain. That's progress.
Out of all the discussions about votes
for woman, sex and drink problems.
trust and tariff must come an
awakening of intelligence and con-
science. And some day men will no
longer want power over other men.
for they will see that the desire for
power makes of life as a whole a
worse than futile thing; an idiotic
struggle from birth to death-cater-
pillars climbing over each others
w%rithing bodies, and destroying each
other in the process. When one re-
CARDS the spectacle one doesn't know
whether to weep or laugh.
Progress lies in the direction of
less and less law, and less privilege
less of punishment and more of en-
eouragement, less of avariee which
means less of poverty, and when
poverty is no more, o the fear of
it, then and only then will we have
real mon and woman