Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-18
Who's the Better Man
at Election Time?
A Dude a Midas, Doctor and Lawyer Disagree as to
whether the HoiPooi Are the Best Qualified Voters

This country is full of brainy men,
and lots of them have the money-get-
ting instinct, and get rich by it. But
if they had all the brains in the
world without the get-rich instinct,
they would all be working on salary!s
"Bull!" exclaimed the manufactur-
err, contemptuously. Then he added,
"Do you mean to say Doc, that all
these great industries-all these
giant buildings are not the result OF
brains ?"
"Of course they are" returned the
doctor-"other fellows brains. You
haven't got any more brains than a
troglodyte, Midas, but you own three
skyscrapers. You just saw tall
building on the opposite corner, and
you said, 4 want a bigger one than
that You were like baby in the
advertisement who wouldn't be happy
till he got it. What did you do? You
haven't got the brains to design a
dog You just went to a man
of brains, and hired him to do what
you couldn't do, and knew you
couldn't do.
"Take a thousand men of brains,
and put them in a town by themsel-
yes, and they'd starve to death. Then
let in fellow like you, Midas, and in
week you'd have all the wise men
working for you, at fifty dollars a
week. In five years you'd be living
in baroned castle with ten automo-
biles and a private railroad-car while
the men of brains would be living in
bungalows and paying for Ford on
the installment plan.
There were rich men before we doc
tors knew the difference between
brains and marrow. If you dug up
the most brainless tribe of savages
on earth, you'd find that the visible
supply of stone arowheads, and bone
fish-scalers was controlled by some
get-rich-quick shark"
II didn't know you despised the
rich, Doc" gibed the manufacturer. IL
bet you don't despise our money!"
"Of course | don't despise your
money" replied the doctor; 81 live
on it. / bought lot yesterday with
the money got by operating on your
appendix. / don't despise the rich.
| like 'em. After rich people get ac-
customed to their money, they are
the pleasanter for it. Rich people
are usually clean. Their voices be-
come softer, and their intonation
pleasing They acquire graces of
person and manner. They often build
good houses and furnish them in a
manner that soothes the senses. They
employ able cooks, and buy pictures
which they allow doctors and lawyers
to look at without expecting a rebate
on their fees. They travel, and be-
come educated. They develop intel
ligence. Brains do not always make
money, but money is very likely to
make brains. That is the reason why
the rich are often brainy, as our legal
friend has so justly observed"
"Then what are you grouching
about?" asked the dude.
81 grouched because you refused to
admit that a poor man might possess
mind equal to n rich one. Our
friend from Alabama earns only six
dollars a week, but he earns more
than one dollar a day, because he is
often idle. In Detroit he might earn
fifteen dollars week, but if he gave
fifteen dollars TO a campaign fund,
you would consider him equally a fool,
and unable TO make wise selection
between the presidential candidates. I"