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

literature In his prayers and sermons.
sometimes God calls a man from his
birth to toll upon the ore that he made
ready I'm the hills or through corn that
grows on the hillsides, and then man
communes with God through material
things. The poor HOttentot wears his
rags. lives I'm tent and slowly his soul
starves to death. Daniel Webster sits
I'm his library, world building states,
man, because property gave him leisure
for the college and the law school gave
him leisure for the legislative hall and
the supreme court chamber gave him
leisure to plead the cause of liberty
and the Union. The south sea island
er dwcllS ut the edge OF starvation
Now, give him larger harvest through
industry and his child can go to school.
give him Il little more property and ho
can build little house; more propertv
and he can buy carpets, tables, chairs
ana pictures; more property still and
his daughters can enjoy knowledge.
Each increase of property Increases the
opportunity for his children-climbinp
on rounds of work to full manhood
and womanhood. The bees hive their
sweets against the winter and ciyiIi
Zation is II treasure house of honeved
sweets through beauty, truth and tools
that safeguard man against physical
want and free his soul until he he
comes not Il savage nor n peasant, but
citizen of the wide lying universe.
1t IS wealth, therefore, and propcrty
that support the school. the home the
college. the gallery, reform, religion
ana the soul itself.
Who Owns the Property?
Our age Is under strange dclusion
as 10 the ownership Of property. 1t is
said that = per cent of the people con-
tr"l 30 per cont of the wealth, while
30 per cent of the people control > per
cent OF the wealth. Doubtless today
the whole tendency Of laws is toward
tho diffusion Of property and the good
things of Ike. but the new laws need
time to C"lDplci" tlCir bcnciiccnt work.
When SNOW i Piled up in Il drift It
stops ia" train. Therefore man invCnts
Snowpluw that SCattcrs the snow
and soon fC"IiliZrS the poor man : field.
When wealth is piled up in II billion
airc driit il is unfriCndly To invention.
trade. commerce. and therefore the
people must find legislators wise
enough to invent u tax inheritance
pl"w that vii! scatter the yellow drift
in order to fcrtiliZc all fields. Never
thclcsS it Is a dcIuSiun to suppose that
the control of a billion dollar railway
is thn I.;l
dollar railway. \ man controls n mil
lion sheep. but hc OWNS only the NUT
tom chop that he can perfectly digest.
one man ruling the. StockyardS con
tr"lS with his hundred million compa-
ny hundreds of thousands of steers,
but he owns only the bCCfStc oak that he
can trnnSmUtc into blood and muscle
In his study Of architecture RuSkin de-
ScribcS the archbishop lying in his cop
per coffin under the steel bars i'm the
Cathedral Of Milan. BY some chance
the cmbalmig fluid preserved that
body for centuries. Looking through
the glass today. the traveller bch"lds
tn" hug" amethyst on the Shrivclcd fin
Ger, the "ru"icr set with SapphircS. ru-
bios and 'mcraldS lying upon the hand
ana ihc rich mitcr browning the thin
hair. The wise man asks this qucs-
iion, Docs that shrivclcd body own
the gold and gems"
Did tho Miner Own His Gold2
Did the California miner, when the
ship was sinking. own the leather
bags stuffed with gold that he tied
about his waist when he Sprnny into