The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-11-16
MONEY


Der, Porter Emerson Browne makes
the following more truthful than
poetical remarks about money:
It is as trite as it is true, and as
true as it is trite, to say that money
is a strange thing. People that
haven't it, want it. People that have
it, don't know what to do with it.
People that haven't any, think how
happy they'd be If they had some.
And people that have lot think how
happy they were when they didn't
have any. People that haven't any,
want a little. People that have lit
tie, want little more. People that
have a little more, want lot. And
people that have a lot, want it all.
The lack Of money makes people
unhappy, Disconnected, miserable. The
possession of money makes people un-
happy, disconnected, miserable. That
is. for the most. A certain smaller
class there is that money makes fool
Iish, vain, lazy, dissipated, criminal or
degenerate, according to natural in
stincts and the unfettered develop
ment thereof.
Money buys many things. Occas-
ionally it buys something good; like
bread lines, and scientific research,
institutional endowments, works of
art and ham and eggs. But for the
most part it buys rum and women and
votes, dissipation and vice and corrup-
ton, automobiles for people who
ought to be walking, beauty. doctors
to work on raw material that is hope
less from the beginning, sycophants
and liars and toadies, liveried foot
men for bourgeois parvenus, beautiful
pearls OF art to hang in the million
dollar sites Of human swine; it buys
on the one hand fi1my gowns, flaming
jewels, opera boxes, lace night robes
ten thousand dollar limousines, tally.
10 coaches, orchids, vintage wine an6
silk pajamas for the children of tht
rich. And for the children Of thu
poor the right to work fourteen hours
a day in mill, and have hookworms.
| A man starts out in life to mak'
money his slave, and ends by becom
| ing the slave of his money. And whel
finally money slaves him to wrecke,
and wracking death, he leaves it /,
children who are commonly fools 0
4
Money poisons individuals, villages
towns, cities, states and nations. |
puts million men at the beck of one
It is a drag upon the wheels of pro
gress. It makes men little and ava1
icious and self-centered. 1t make
women vain and silly and useless.
makes men criminals. It makes won
len prostitutes. To get it, men wi
sell their souls, and women will Sc
: their bodies. For money a few me
viii gut the treasury of railroa
; Thereby removing from the ancier
: occupation of train-robbing the dan
ger and romance, and making ths
profitable operation operation as SAT,
3 " certain as breaking open vol
: baby's bank and because the ties Al
! rotten, and the money with which
. buy more stolen, a thousand bodi.
= lay mangled, burned and bleedin
y slain by these men as surely as tn
|. they had stuck knives in the no
q dead threats. How docs it feel,
n wonder, to have a million dollars
10 your pocket, and blood upon yol
Hands? wonder.
Money makes possible the passir
s of bad laws and the breaking of goo
e It makes Monte Carlo and Suici'
le Hall. 1t makes worry and work, al
L lcrime and crookedness, and rum al
l. rottenness, and disease and deaf
it And furthermore, as some latter-d:
It sage has said, it doesn't care q no
1t who owns it.
IS Barring these little facts that
% have mentioned, however, mon,
v seems to be mighty coed thing.