The San Francisco call., 1913-09-30
Those That Spend Are an Inter-
esting, Necessary. but Not
a Happy Class.
Millions OF Men Working. Struggling Make of Their
Sors Idle Masters OF the Money Their Sircs Accumulate
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Copyright, 1918 Interbntona.

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Two forces are at work world-he forces of GATH
ERING which build and the forces of SCATTERING which
down
On the edge an African small lion cub waits for
rs mother home with dead antelope
you might that cub, ion going out to
aunt following tnidy behind the mother ioness
Again you would him huge beast with heavy name,
hunting on and able pull down animal
except the elephant and rhinoceros.
Still later you would see him. his days OF GATHERING
ended, stretched o the ground dead
evening would be there complete and in the
ing there would be nothing but white bones
The ackals that whned and awned around him living would
his hide and flesh Some heavy jawed hyena would drive
them away and eat his fill
Flies would lay their the dead ants and
different insects would their share
that dead lion in the evening would see
skeleton in the morninghe that gathered now
SCATTERED
Do you find an analogy modern business man
and the lion?
You may see in this country waiting
business and HIS START. He is the cub.
you may him later tidly hunting behind others for
the business mans prey. MONEY
Later you him. full Aedged hunting and getting mil
his
And still later you see his picture IN the newspapers read
His days of gathering ended and the days of scattering
begin boy sitting beside the gamblers
Rsy MS left hand and the gambling machine the right
The scattering day. The bones of the big
fortune not picked bare over night But the work is just as
the clubroo where the young sits
is under thorn bush where the dead lion lies
lackas hyenas the the flies and the ants
hine pick the bones of the old lion.
hyenas acka of the human hasten pick
of dead millionaire and divide the fortune
sented and owned by the little creature who was to live
happily" as the result of his fathers hard work
DO you realize what fortunate thing four
legged hyenas pick dead on and that the
legged hyenashe gamblers the money lenders the snde of
ali knds-pick the financial bones of the dead mionaire7
uninhabable all the dead lions ele
gaes remained piled the desert sands and
ali the dead bisons piled mountain high western
prairies.
Nature fortunately destroys that which has
purpose dead And the world keeps resh
beautiful clean and full of energyfree of rotten decay
is lucky that the accumulated fortunes piled by useful
energy left pile and cucumber the earth
while, it find mammoth frozen in the
flesh hair hoofs and us just as he was thousand centuries
ago. you find unded body skillfuly deying decay In
Egypt But that is exception.
Occasionally, you find big fortune preserved used as
payting less vicious of incompe
teIt idlers but THAT also exception.
AS rule the big body of fortune disappears completely
the body of the dead lion
That is extremely good thing for this world.
Three generations from shirt sleeves shirt sleeves the old
saying.
rich fall luckily their effort make work unnecessary for
their descendants
If it were possible for the prosperous carry plans
forefaers had passed laws against entail and
foolish vanity weakness of the idle rich did make the
quick scattering invariab rule
diton America would be unpleasant they would be in
Africa the dead bodies of all the animals lying around
instead of being and scattered.
We should have this for spendthrift
weaknesa great idle selfndugent nonproductiv arrogant
and vicious class living upon the workers.
Whereas, have, only thin scum of idle wealth
floating the top of the social soup pot
And this is SKINNED off and by panics and
gambling and folly. And it amounts to little
Thinking about this should realize the wisdom OF nature
which and dssoves its original elements the body
animal making the flesh into living
should admire, also that wisdom which will per-
accumulated capital remain dead useless but condemns
process of distribution dsntegation that
productive work.