Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-03-29

| lie III BeueTdi, yOui uuoihc5S. AhSiS
are women in the world who could
marry a man like you and be happy.
but I couldn't And the more I cared
for such man. the more unhappy
| should be. You see. my unhappiness
In turn, would tend to make him un-
happy. I should make a 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.
Whats 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 corner-grocerymen. l
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. 'the
whole game is 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"
81 missed my point" she admitted.
wait a minute"
lence
Il see 1t 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
| ly. in a way. creates something. the
grain that will fll 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-
ber and robbing the robbers like | do.
And besides. halfway robbery is too
slow game for me to sit In You
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 it funny. to go around with brass
knuckles and big club breaking
folks heads and taking their money
away from them until I've got a pi'e.
and then. repenting OF my ways. going
around and bandaging up the heads
the other robbers are breaking?
leave II to you That's what ping good
with money amounts to Every once
In a 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 few hundred million. and now
he goes around dribbling 1t hack 10
them Funny? leave 1t to you
lie rolled a 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
~ 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 jov:
and it's a 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
fled you were. how good you felt.
while you were doing 1t and after you
had 1t 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
he had built, and his sawmills work
ing night and day on three shifts.
why. dog gone 1t. Miss Mason
you're right-in a way I've built
hundreds of houses up there, and |
remember l 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 creek you ever laid eyes
on. made that into the big ophir
Why, / ran the water in there from
the Rinkabilly. eighty miles away.
They all said couldn't, but did 1t.
I and l did it by myself. The dam and
| the flume cost me four million. But
you should have seen that ophir-pow-
er plants. electric lights. and hun.
dreds of men on the payroll. working
night and day. l guess | do get an
| inkling OF what you mean by making