Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-03-29


though I know about 1t, too. and
cant say that like it But it IL your
life In general. your business. There
are women In the world who could
marry q man like you and be happy,
but couldn't And the more l cared
for such a man, the more unhappy
should be. You rec. my unhappiness,
In turn, would tend to make him un-
happy. I should make mistake, and
he would make an equal mistake.
though his would not be so hard on
him because he would still have his
business"
"Business!" Daylight gasped.
What's wrong with my business? |
play fair and square. There's moth
ing underhand about 1t, which can't
be said Of most businesses, whether of
the big corporations or of the cheat
Ing. lying, little cornergrocerymen. |
play the straight rules of the game.
| and l don't have to lie or cheat or
break my word"
Don't you see," he went on, 1.-The
whole game is q gamble. Everybody
CANDLES in one way or another. The
farmer CANDLES against the weather
and the 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"
Il missed my point" she admitted.
wait a minute"
And for space they rode in 81.
lence.
Il see 1t more clearly than l can
state 1t, but it's something like thts.
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
ly, 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 like
the railroad hauling that farmers
wheat to market. and playing all rob-
Der and robbing the robbers like do.
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 for?"
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 1t funny, to go around with brass
knuckles and big club breaking
folks heads and taking their money
away from them until I've got pile.
and then. repenting of my ways. going
around and bandaging up the heads
the other robbers are breaking? 1
leave 1t to you. That's what doing good
with money amounts to. Every once
in q while some robber turns soft
hearted and takes to driving an am
| bulance. 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 1t back to
them. Funny? I leave 1t to you"
He rolled cigarette and watched
her half curiously. half amusedly. HIS
replies and harsh generalizations Of a
harsh school were disconcerting. and
she came back to her earlier position
81 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 convincing. and yet the woman
Is still certain they are wrong. But
there Is one thing, the creative Joy:
and it's higher Joy than mere gam
bling. Haven't you ever made things
yourself-a log cabin up in the W.
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 nat 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 way. I've built
hundreds of houses up there. and |
remember l was proud and glad to
see them 60 up. I'm proud now. when
| remember them. And there was
Ophir-the most God-forsaken moose
pasture of q 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 I couldn't. but | did 1t,
and did 1t by myself. The dam and
the hume cost me four million But
you should have seen that Ophtr-pow.
er plants. electric lights. and hum
dreds Of men on the payroll. working
night and day. l guess do get an
mixing Of what you mean BY making