The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-02-06

ACAtS anu Il WCluti hOW 1Ou udiS
ask me. oh, I'll admit to you I've
been ambitious, and always will be.
But do you know, some time I'd like
to talk with your friend-with Ann
~Sullivani"
Then you'd begin to get at life.
You'd be getting down to premises,
then. that aren't wrong-with Ann
Sullivan and her sort"
"Oh. well, / reckon you'd only find a
little sincerity and honesty, and, well
-maybe-love, that's all. Just the
things didn't get myself. Have your
"Why didn't your" She ignored his
brutal query.
Because I'm a theorist. Because
I'm a visionary and a fool, I reckon.
Because ! like to see fair play even
In a dog fight, and the people of this
country aren't getting fair play. Be
cause I'm the sort of fool that Mr..
Rawn isn't. There's the difference!
Are you happy. Mrs. Rawn?" again
he demanded suddenly, since she still
was silent. TELL me the truth. I
think you know I'm not going to talk
I'm going away somewhere-anyhow
for the summer. l suppose, maybe,
this Is the last time I'll ever see you
in all my life"
She felt the candor OF his speech
and replied in like kind, smiling slow
ly. mo S my lying" she said. "You
know I'm not happy. And, yes, I
know you'll not talk. Who is happy?
We all just get on just the best we
can. | take my Joy In making other
women envy me. Isn't hat about
all women want? Isn't that the height
and limit of their ambition? Isn't
that success, so far as a woman Is
concern? Don't they cling to It, all
of them-till they get old? I suppose
so, but | know 1t isn't happiness. Yes.
I'll admit to you I do miss something"
His eyes rested upon her, searching.
U~nconsciously she looked down at
her wrists. The red mark of his fin
gers still fingered there. "Tll have
to ask Ann Sullivan some time" she
laughed.
"One thing" answered Halsey.
Shed tell you that she isn't trying to
get the envy of her neighbors. | don't
believe she'd be happy in that"
ooh, but she's fresh over-she's not
American yet, don't you see? Che
hasn't had a chance-you can't tell
what she would do II she we're rich"
There are two ways of looking at
It," said Halsey musingly, his anger
passing. now leaving him meditative.
relaxed. They were talking now as
though there were not two others, I'M
happy, waiting on the gallery near
by. "I1l tell you something. IL you'll
let me talk about myself, Mrs. Rawn."
Go on: I'm glad"
II don't suppose you care for things
that interest me. You called me a
Socialist. I'll admit that | studied a
lot about that, attended their meet
ings, all that sort of thing. Maybe that
made me think. II seems to me that
money is rolling up too fast in this
country nowhere all mad about
money. It's like the big apple with
no taste to 1t. | had it offered me to
choose between those two, and took
the little apple that to me seemed
sweeter.
Now, I We perfected that invention.
It'll make somebody rich any time |
say the word-any time | like that big
apple and not the little one-any
time l like that success which comes
from outside and not from inside. But
I've figured that that doesn't meau
happiness. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't
know. Somehow l believe that Abra-
ham Lincoln, or John Ruskin, or Jim
Sullivan, or Tim, or Ann, or Sir Isaac
Newton-any thinking person-any
philosopher-would come In with me
about this. | broke up the machines"
'Why-where It meant ruin?"
Because they'd tighten up the grip
OF a few men on the neck of the peo-
Pile! ! don't know whether you call
that being a Socialist Or not, and
don't care. Change is coming. It's
not the fault of the poor that it's com
ing. It's the fault of the rich. | broke
them up-because things can't go on
this way, money rolling up all the time
for a few. and life getting harder all
the time for so many. God didn't
make the rivers and the mountains
and forests for that purpose-to give
them to q few. We've got to make
changes, and big ones, in this govern
ment, or we're gone. I'm no Socialist
at all. I don't want what some one
else has WON'T he's won 1t fair. But
the wrong is in u government-the
very one Of all on earth that meant
fair play. We don't get it-now. Some
day we must. / don't see what differ
ence II makes what name you give the
new form Of government. There must
be change, that's all; or else we're
gone! 4
We'll, now, what they wanted me to
do was to give that all to a few. I
couldn't do it! My God! Mrs. Rawn,
faced 1t and I tried, and | couldn't
10 1t! Maybe I was wrong. Anyhow,
here I stand"
do you know" she said at length,
"these are things that never
zane to my mind in all my life? /
never in all my life thought of any Of