The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-08-02


iron into steel working men received
from $1.5O to 50 n day. When this in
ventor discovered how to change iron
! into steel he lifted the wages to SO and
81 Il day. The 10000 wOrkmen work
cd the same number OF hours and yet
suddenly Bc&Semer blessed them with
: SlO.0OO II day increased wage. Nine
out Of ten of the prosperous manufac
! turcrs of the world represent this gift.
Take man like Lord BraSscy of Eng
land. lie began as Il poor boy, sur
vcyor. engineer and contractor. He
| built railways in England, Canada,
| Australia. Africa, India and Russia.
I He handled at one time $4,000 men.
During his busiest epoch OO,OOO,OOO
I were involved i'm his contracts He
bridgcd rivers and chasmS, tunnclcd
mountains opened up new lands. When
subcontractor who had bored the
! ground for long tunnel had missed
J by chance II vein of rocks and BraSScy
discovered that the man was digging
i'm rock instead of earth he declined to
allow the contractor to 30 into bank
ruptcy. He was Il gentleman OF the
| old school. not only i'm his Christian
life. but in his courtly manners, in the
way he bore himself as Il father toward
his workmcn, and was kind of Shcp
nerd for tempted boys. This country
is rich in the possession OF many sim
liar men. BY their gift of organiZa-
ton they save millions OF hours of la
Dor. Making fortune for themselves
they Increase the good fortune OF the
multitudes who work for them. Agita-
tors may seek to kindle the flame of
class hatred, but they cannot alter our
Obligations to the great leaders who are
The springs of social progress and of
wealth production.
Miilionai-es Who Have Evoked Hatred.
Bnt tho occasional millionaire by his
mahgn methods has evoked class
hatred. Here arc the men who have
wrecked great properties by manipu-
latiop ana jugglcd gold into their own
pockets. Here are tho men who are
The directors of great railway com
Dhny, each one OF whom took an OD-
iion on little street railway ut low
price, ana the other directors bought
it from him ut Il high price until each
director had received his own quota of
millions. Soon the great property was
half ruined, ana thousands of middle
aged people. widows and teachers, who
had invested their all in the building
Of that railroad. found the savings Of n
lifetime had been halvcd and trans
fcrrcd to the pockets of multimillion-
airc directors. In n moral universe,
here or yondcr, every hcartache and
every shortened life for the multitudes
Of poor who have suffered must be
paid for in like coin by these evil
trustees. And here are the parasitic
milionalrcS, whose fathers owned
, farms and held to their city property
until the people built their stores and
I factories right up to the edge Of the
unimprovcd farm. Still held by a
few who have never done n stroke of
work, they are like the middle age
baronS. who hy the accident of birth
fell heir to II castle Oh the crag over
looking the narrow pass and could
force each passcrby to give up n part
OF his possessions. All these are as
truly paupcrs patrician, living on the
lahorS of the people, as tramps are
paupcrs plebcian, living I'm Il county
7 poorhouSe.
State Can Do Little, Individual Much.
'onfesSinS the peril of congcStcd
wealth, II remains To affirm that the
best way to scatter vast fortunes is
for young men with ambition and en-
crgy To climb and win that wealth and
then difIuSe it by service. Confront
ing the abuses, some propose mani
fold rcmcdics-communiSm scientific
RS,, IN.
ownership of railways. mines, rivers
single taN-and with some of these
methods in part We have sympathy
l'ut no one of these methods nor all
of them put together will correct the
evils without self help. In Oklahoma
ali of these methods have been nut i'm
operation. There are Il thousand In
uIanS there in one tribe. They enjoy
government control Each Suuaw ami
papuoSc has SJO.OOO. The state con
trolls the property and pays : per cent
interest. There are no taNcS, no DOW
"rty, no worry. Food enough and raj
mcnt enough. The Indian does not
even have I" worry about his coal or
oil under the land; the state does ev-
Crythng. But the result Is an Indian.
Il Squaw and papoOsc. On the other
hand he il remembered, ten talent men
receive their talents from God in order
. mat they may serve the one ia lent and
. two talent people. and their reward in
IN" d"in" comes not from gold, bur
from the love of the poor and the veal,
who have been lifted NJ to higher
levels through their faithful service.