The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-13

Of seheming complicated legal safeguards
A friend told recently a which under
his observation in Washington; he said that of
one had no property to speak of at all and yet able to
borrow what he asked for at almost any bank while
the second had quantities of wealth and credit what
ever. This is simply illustration Of the relationship
between character and economies
TO be their words them become vaclat
ing and shifting, decetul and crafty and they will
find the entire fabric their and industry
umbling about their heads True the ethics of the bust
world fragmenary dictated often by
sefnerest and shaped by prejudice but they ethics
just the and without that of character bust
ness would crumble into pieces.
Character plays essential part in determining
tera wealth by creating orderly and stable society
Order be maintained community by force. Had
we policeman every citizen should then need
army of police to guard them, and ad infnitum
Penalties held ont bafora the nopuace NAV check disor
der certain point and restraint anarchis-
tic and criminal tendencies but they can never create Or
der That depends character Where the stability that
from character is lacking in people is impossi
BILE stability other
what property worth disorderly community?
Where social stability and safety is lacking material
wealth deprecates in value at What good is it to
purchase automobiles bicycles in neighborhood where
they would be stolen? Why build fine residence
if there is danger that fiends will burn it down?
Diamonds and silver plate worth more in Richmond
than they would be in the Bowery. And have we not
often observed that property depreciaes in value when
saloon builds door gambling joint up?
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of the citizens in given neghborhood do much to
fix material value in their vicinity. To
quote Emerson "A dollar is worth in university
than penitentar The character of the citizenship
of nation does much to set the price of real estate.
character which makes the market for most of our
wares. in proportion to refine
Animals along very well with hole in the
ground and eat man, in the scale
development finds himself in increasing need of
instruments for the satisfaction of his
y created desires What would Handels Messiah mean
to rake? What would Wesley Towards violin mean to
reels home the brothel? Where is the
blear-eyed his finger
all the paintings in Richmond? pint of beer means
to him than all art The value of thing to us
depends character. If unfit cannot make
of it though it be given How much is the most
profitable perfectly organized business worth the
vaciating and disspaed scion who falls heir to it.
1t slips his fingers like sand. Wealth means moth
ing and has value where there is not ability to
and appreciate All our contraptons of civilization make
no appeal to a savage missionary imported dozen
into the of Africa expecting that the
natives would learn agriculture but he surprised
his later discover they had erected them
on platforms worshiping them gods. The
vandals who sacked Indifferent the art Of
the palace in which they stabbed their horses those
masterpieces had value them and could have
Mr.. Beecher, in famous address, showed to the Eng
sh that our Southern negroes could not purchase their
fabrics except in very small quantities and in the
cheapest grades because they not yet developed to
the point they felt the need better.
All this is but to that character and personal de-
veopment do much toward creating the market which the
satisfies Let character to pieces and
those fall and that business is lost Not until
individual has been refined to the point of appreca
ton the merchants commodity worth anything Every
factory is suspended at last from the human
soul and falls with it And ethics, our
character religion have much do with the
of stocks other factor.
Gilbert Chesterton asserts that what believes in
religion what his opinions about the universe not
unimportant speculations is sometimes asseverated,
but reality important thing about
guest who has lost confidence in the nteg-
rity and righteousness of the world is liable to
your spoons Our simplest activities usually
regulated by the very broadcast convictions concerning
whole things When loses his confidence in life,
universe becomes eyeless socket
CHASTITY, meaningless glare, when life falls to ashes
hands and the glory and beauty of existence is
gone the springs of interest in life dried falls
into listessness and "leadeneyed despair In such
don desire wthers away and things
and that that the merchant has
a market for his because people to desire
them.
That this is no mere piece of idle theorzing is shown
by those communities in India where the profound pessm
ism of Buddhism has eaten its into human minds and
snapped the will to live The devoee sinks back
atrophy. having completely reinquished all DESIRE and
subsists day day handful of rice Trade
and all the heahful and beautiful activities of life
are at standstRl
would be easy the whole ground vital
religious convictions show how they
practical activities but will
flee.
Where lose faith in the liberty and real
ity of the individual soul the of life is The Mo-
hammedan is firm fatalst he makes effort
to develop his business To quote Stanwood Cobb THE
Turkish merchant his goods upon you,
prospective
Jew and Armenian. Those whom it is his destiny get
will Of their accord. This apparent indifference
to trade is amazing to the hustng American traveller
The absence ambition in the average partly
outcome of this fatalism He is content with what
Allah sends. He has few desires which a large
come would satisfy" Let a profound
nd hatred fort md he sent