The Red Cloud chief., 1912-02-15

life I'm general. your business. There
arc women In the world who could
marry a man like you and be happy
but couldn't And the more ! cared
for such a man. the more unhappy !
should be You see, my unhappiness.
in turn. would tend to make him I'M
happy. 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 ard square There's moth
ing undcrhand about II. which cant
be said of most businesses. whether of
the big corporations or of the cheat
ing. lying, little corncrgrocerymen. ]
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 tn, market on his crops. So does
thc 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"
And for "A space they rode In 81.
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-wcll. 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 way, creates something. the
grain that will fiji the mouths of the
hungry"
And then the railroads and market.
risgers 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.
hcr and robbing the robbers like do.
And. besides. halfway robbery Is too
slow 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 It funny. to 20 around with brass
knuckles 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 II to you. That's what doing 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 sucker.
for few hundred million. and nov
he goes around dribbling II back Il
, them. Funny? leave 1t to YOU"
| He rolled a cigarette and watche,
, her half curiOusly. half amusedly. HI
replies and harsh generalizations OF
harsh school were disconcerting. an,
, she came back to her earlier position
5 Il can't argue with you, and yo
D know that. No matter how right
-. woman Is, men have such way abou
| them-well. what they say sound
t most convincing, and yet the woma
Q Is still certain they are wrong Bu
- there Is one thing. the creative Joy
I and it's a higher Joy than mere gan
0 bling. Haven't you ever made thing
0 yourself-a log cabin up In the Y,
u kon, or n canoe. or raft. or something
d And don't you remember how sati
J. fed you were, how good you fei
z while you were doing It and after yo
had 1t done?"
= While she spoke his memory wa
o busy with the associations she recall
ed. He saw the deserted fiat on tn
a river bank by the Klondike. and b
Q saw the log cabins and warehouse
t spring up, and all the log structur,
" he had built, and his sawmills wor
! Ing night and day on three shifts.
r why. dog,gone It. Miss Maso
o you're right--in a way. I've bui
!, hundreds Of houses up there, and
e remember l was proud and glad
see them go up. I'm proud now. wht
y ! remember them. And there W;
s Ophir-the most God.forsaken moos
S pasture of a creek you ever laid ey
e on. made that into the big Oph
& Why. ! ran the water In there fro
n the Rinkabilly. eighty miles ava
d They all said ! couldn't. but | did
and ! did 1t by myself. The dam al
i the fume cost me four million B
you should have seen that Ophir-po
er plants, electric lights. and hu
u dreds OF men on the payroll. workil
: night and day. guess | do get
e mixing OF what you mean BY makil