The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02

to ask Ann Sullivan some time" she
laughed
One thing" answered Halsey-
s"She'd tell you that she isn't trying to
get the envy OF her neighbors. l don't
believe she'd be happy in that"
oh. but she's fresh over-she's not
American yet. don't you see? She
| hasn't had a chance-you can't tell
what she would do IL she were 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, un-
/ happy. waiting on the gallery near
| by. "rll tell you something. II you II
! let me talk about myself. Mrs. Rawn-"
Go on; I'm glad"
Il don't suppose you care for things
that interest me. You called me
Socialist. I'll admit that l studied
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 It. | had 1t offered me 10
choose between those two. and took
the little apple that to me seemed
sweeter
Now. We perfected that invention
Itll make somebody rich any time
say the word-any time like that big
apple and not the little one-any
time | like that success which comes
from outside and not from inside But
I've figured that that doesn't mean
happiness Maybe I'm wrong. | don't
know. Somehow | 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 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 10 coming. It's
not the fault OF the poor that it's com
ing It's the fault OF the rich. l broke
them up-because things can't 90 on
this way, money rolling up all the time
for few, and life getting harder all
the time for SO many. God dldnt
make the rivers and the mountains
and forests for that purpose-to give
them to few. We've got to make
changes. and big ones. in this govern
ment. or we're gone. I'm no SOCIALIST
at all. | don't want what some one
else has won-if he's won 1t fair. But
the wrong is in our 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 diner
ence 1t makes what name you give the
new form of government. There must
be change. that's all; or else were
gone
We'll, now. what they wanted me to
do was to give that all to few.
couldn't do it, My God, Mrs. Rawn,
| faced II and tried, and couldn't
do it. Maybe l was wrong. Anyhow,
I here | stand" a.,S s5
DO YOU know" she said at length,
slowly. these are things that never
came to my mind in all my life? ]
never in all my life thought OF any OF
these things. / only wanted"
You wanted to win. You wanted
what most American women do
money-station- be envied: !:
| that's what you played for Well.
you've won' Look at all this about
YOU. don't suppose there's a woman
/ in this town more admired by men or
more envied by women than you.
! 49, nd I bon
-. thought | had. But now. tonight.
1 I'm not so sure!
You couldn't give it up" he sneer-
ed. any more than Grace could. and
she couldn't any more than leopard
could change its spots. 1t goes too
deep. You couldn't expect anything
different.
Il told you | was a student. Mrs
Rawn," he went on after a time. 81
haven't got much mind. But some
how. while | don't suppose religion can
change business very much. think oi
the twelve disciples and their Master
irving to lift the load of OF human be
ings. trying to lift the people OF the
world up above the day Of tooth and
claw. | don't reckon they can do 1t
But you see, each fellow has to choose
for himself I've mad this put before
me could have thrown in witt
Rawn-I can do SO yet. right here
now, as you know. | can hold him
up, as he would hold me up. or any
one else-I can take his money
fifty thousand, a million-I don't thinh
he's really got as much money as mos
] nj Hos in daht deem
That's all right SO long as your credi'
is good He has had all sorts o.
credit-and 1t depended on me-or