Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-07-12


marry a man like you and be happy
but | couldn't And the more cared
for such man. the more unhappy
should be. You see, my unhappiness,
in turn. would tend to make him IN
happy. should make mistake, and
he would make an equal mistake.
though his would not be so hard on
business
"Business!" Daylight gasped
Whats wrong with my business? |
play fair and square, There's moth
ing underhand about it. which can t
be said of most businesses. whether of
the big corporations or of the cheat
ing. lying, little corner-grocerymen
play the straight rules of the game.
and | don't have to lie or cheat or
break my word
Don't you see" he went on. the
whole game is a gamble Everybody
CANDLES In one way or another. The
farmer CANDLES against the weather
and tbs market on his crops. So does
| the United States Steel Corporation.
| The business of lots Of men is straight
| robbery of the poor people. But I've
| never made that my business. You
know that. I've always gone after the
robbers"
81 missed my point" she admitted.
Wait minute"
| And for space they rode In ST.
ence
Il see it more clearly than | can
state 1t. but it's something like this.
There is legitimate work. and there's
| work that-well. that isn't legitimate,
The farmer works the soil and pro-
duces grain. He's making something
that is good for humanity He actual
y. In a way. creates something. the
grain that will fill the mouths of the
hungry"
And then the railroads and market
riggers and the rest proceed to rob
him of that same grain" Daylight
broke in
There amt much difference be-
tween playing halfway robber aye
the railroad hauling that farmers
wheat to market. and playing all rob-
Der and robbing the robbers like 40
And. besides. halfway robbery is too
slow a game for me to sit in. You
don't win quick enough for me-"
But what do you want to win for3"
Dede demanded You have millions
and millions already; why can't you
do good with all your money!"
Daylight laughed
Doing good with your money!
Amt it funny. to go around with brass
knuck1es and big club breaking
folks heads and taking their money
| away from them until I've got a 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 Icing good
with money amounts to Every once
| in a while some robber turns SOFT
! hearted and takes to driving an am
| buance. That's what Carnegie did
| He smashed heads in pitched battles
| at Homestead. regular wholesale head
| breaker he was. held up the suckers
| for a few hundred million. and now
he goes around dribbling it back to
them Funny? ! leave it to you
He rolled cigarette and watched
her half curiously, half amusedly. His
replies and harsh congratulations 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
woman is, men have such a way about
them-well. what they say sounds
most convincing, and yet the woman
is still certain they are wrong. But
there is one thing. the creative lov:
and it's higher JOY than mere gam
bling. Haven't you ever made things
yourself-a log cabin up in the Yu-
| kon. or a canoe. or raft. or something!
And don't you remember how salts
fed you were. how good you felt,
while you were doing it and after you
had it done?"
While she spoke his memory was
busy with the associations she recall
ed He saw the deserted fiat on the
river bank by the Klondike. and he
saw the log cabins and warehouses
spring up. and all the log structures
he had built, and his sawmills work
ing night and day on three shifts.
why. dog-gone it. Miss Mason.
you're right-in a way. I've built
hundreds of houses up there. and |
remember | was proud and glad to
see them go up. I'm proud now. when
remember them And there was
Ophir-the most God-forsaken moose
pasture of a creek you ever laid eyes
on l made that into the big Ophir.
| Why. I ran the water in there from
the Rinkabilly, eighty miles away.
| They all said l couldn't. but | did 1t.
and did it by myself. The dam and
the fume cost me four million. But
you should have seen that Ophir-pow
err plants. electric lights. and hun
dreds of men on the payroll. working
night and day. | guess | do get an
lnkiing of what you mean by making