The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23

.5sA#z purse most filed will pick his friends among
THE to do; will poems. songs
and books will paint pictures where most wealth
cumulaes, and will even choose to worship in the richer
than in the church Like irresistible the
coin of the realm will draw power beauty talent luxury
and genius to it's side.
The priority of money all social forces is
of those social ceraintes that give the law to reform
To leave that basic scheme is to leave
Hamlet out of the play Any notion that social system
can be erected of the distractions like brother
hood" love" is chimerical The basis of society
everywhere is the basis Every has his price
Horrors! you will say this is cynicsm and base ma
teralism; this is suppose that honor and virtue
cerity and integrity have influence and that no
where respond the call of the IDEAL Out upon such
a and unspiritual conception O humanity.
Not so swift, my friend, not swift This has as
little to do with materiaism" with the Mahatmas
of the Hmaayan mountains and for cynicism, that is
the refuge of towards Once Jewish bachelor, side
switched by his belief in the speedy end of the world
spoke of money filthy ucre, the of all evil
Thoreau said with bitterness, that curses all it
touches These two of joint with the world
and nursed crouch and lost the think thereby
And such is the origin of the superstition that
to say that money is the economic imperative par
celence spells materiasm. Folks only say that who
have not gone to the trouble look matter
What is money? Is it the slip of paper
hold in hand (sometmes)? Is it the disc of metal
marked dollar? Were it should little for it
OF what use is the slip Of paper to me? l neither
write it read it. the
gold silver? Shall make knives and forks of it? No.
steel serves better. Shall it into jewery? I care
nothing for rings trinkets, and my wife will wear
earrings Shall make it into nails and screws? poor
substitute and not at all servceabe fact there is
nothing could do with it. Then why do I struggle
gain it, and nurse it carefully gained? For the
simple that this paper metal is money,
but merely the symbol of it. Money is simply a of
purchasing power.
Money is the Of fulfilling urgent de-
sires. 1t is potential and anything. 1t
is what wants, that for which he has the
most desire. To one it may mean bed a meal; to
another holiday; third, a book picture; to a
fourth, an opera evening at love making to
other journey, picnic Sunday, it may a
bottle of medicine sermon by DR.. Gunsaulus in the
Chicago Auditorium. THE world is his has money
to it. To be rich is to have ticket admission
to the master works and chief each
me dollar and every up point will stand ready
to needs This is its significance that it
is form Of power The substance which symbozes it
matters little simply because stamped on metal
must not lead into the delusion that is therefor
material If could somehow coin a of speech
into dollar it would serve just well gold silver
The dollar spend has for spiritual significance
1t is much of this mysterious life coined
into an exchangeable commodity: represents many
hours at the machine burrows powed bitches
dug hours put into study dreams dreamed
men fallen from existence, piece of the vision
The subject of economy mixes itself with morals,
said Emerson, and truly. kept fastened
to joyless task by the his
does not in commit peculiar
physical dogma which call 'materalism' does a
stick there? Why does he stay when every hour is
torture, benumbing monotony which dulls every
in him? His material needs, replies some one his eco
nomc pressure. But what is that pressure? need
of food in his belly and clothes his back? BY no
means. In third the time he could easily satisfy
his own material needs. The has family at home
wife to look out for, children feed school, and
rent to and bills there secret. And
why doesn't he desert his wife children living
and wind, and knew motive egotism he would
do in trce but he is made other and stays
He stays because he LOVES his wife and children be-
cause he chershes the fellowship of the home and be-
cause he has of DUTY those to whom he is
indebted. And what love and duty finer
The economic imperative is. after moral i'm
perative; is the spiritual and principles they
have gotten themselves incarnated in human stuff.
searching analysis will dissolve all the elements
out of the motive 1t is found last simply
the most powerful of ideals gather up fuse
into itself single unit all those and infu
ences which elsewhere exist singly detachment
social the "idealst:" the real
conflict is between a stronger and weaker dealism
between less and of spiritual and imaginative
and influence, between the whole and its parts.