The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-03-07

are women in the world who could
marry a man like you and be happy.
but I 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 un-
| happy l 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
What's 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 er-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 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 minute"
And for a space they rode in 81
lence
Il see it more clearly than | can
state it, 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 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 ali rob
Der 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 go around with brass
knucklcs 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 handaeing up the heads
! the other robbers are breaking?
| leave it 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
! 'Cl a iN AAA4hi GU lIIil4Oi4 anu ubN
he goes around drihbling it back to
them Funny? | leave it to you"
He rolled cigarette ard watched
her half curiouyly, half amusedly His
replies and harsh CONGRATULATIONS of
| harsh school were disconcerting. and
she came back to her earlier position
Il can't argue with you. and you
/ know that 10 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 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
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.
cd He saw the deserted fiat on the
river bank by the Klondike, and be
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 so up. I'm proud now. when
| remember them Ald there was
Ophir-the most God-f0rsaken moose,
pasture of a 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 It.
and | did it by myself The dam and
the flume cost me four million But
you should have seen that Ophlr-pow-
err plants, electric lights. and hun
dreds of men on the payroll, working
night and day. | guess do get an
inkling of what you mean by making