The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-25

makes foolish. vain. lazy. dissipated, criminal or degenerate. according to natural instincts and the untettered development thereof.
 Money buys many things. Occa- sionalIy it buys something good; like bread lines. and scientific re search. institutional endowments. works of art and ham and eggs. But for the most part 1t buys rum and women and votes, dissipation and vice and corruption. automobiles for people who ought to be walk ing. beauty doctors 10 work on raw material that is hopeless from the beginning. sycophants and liars and toadie-. lveried footmen for bour geois parvenus. beautiful pearls of art to hang in the milliondollar sites of human swine; it buys on the one hand filmy gowns. flaming jewels. opera boxes, lace night-robes, ten-thousand-dolla hmousines. tallyho coaches. orchids, vintage wine and ilk pajamas for the children of the rich. And for the children of the poor the right to work fourteen hours a day in a mill, and have hook worms.
 A man starts out in life to make money his slave. and ends by be coming the lave of his money. And when finally money slaves him to a wrecked and wracking death, he leaves it to children who are com monly fools or wastrels, and usually both.
 Money poi individuals, villages, towns, cities, states and nations. It puts million men at the beck of one It is a drag upon the wheels i of progress. IL makes men little and avaricious and self-centered. It rAakes women vain and silly and usele S. 1 It makes men criminals. It makes ! women prostitutes. To get it, men 1 will sell their souls, and women will ! sell their bodies. For money few men will gut the treasury of rail road (thereby removing from the ancient occupation of train robbing 1 the danger and romance. and mak- ing that profitable operation as safe Iy certain as breaking open your 1 baby bank) and because the ties are rotten and the money with which to buy more stolen, a thousand l bodies lay mangled, burned and bleeding, slain by these men as surely as though they had stuck knives in the now dead throats.
 Money makes possible the passing ! of bad laws and the breaking of good. It makes Monte Carlo and l Suicide Hall. It makes worry and work, and crime and crookedness, ] and rum and rottenness, and di- ! sease and death And furthermore, as some latter day sage has said, it doesn't care a hoot who owns it. Barring these little fact1, however. money seems to be mighty good thing. And the strangest thing of all about it is the way people so universally confuse the word money" with the word success" It is a l fact as sad as it it certain that in almost every instance. the public mind even regards the two words as synonymous. But the truth of l the matter is that the two words are diametrically antthetical. Money is not success at all; nor l. success money.
 You are walking down the street with friend. You see slithering down the boulevard a large automo- 1 bile. It looks like a cross between Napoleons coach and child's hearse. In it reposes a man wear ing a silk hat, a cigar, a tummy, and an air of vat boredom of, with, by and for the world Of course, he wears other things, too, such as diamonds and silk underwear
 Your friend turns to you. Indi- eating the beautomobiled plutocrat, he says
 There goes the most successful man l know. He cleaned up two hundred and eighty thousand dollar last year."
 Your friend fails to mention that during this period of financial cleans ing said successful mans wife had eloped with a lyric tenor smothered
 n garlic with just a dusting of Par
 nesan cheese; that his daughter ran off with a Swedi- h chauffeur because after mingling in high society for seven years any regular male human being looked good to her. that his 1 .Op after cnoD6inp caVap waelyc in