Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — GOLD’S SIREN LURE FOR MEN [ARTICLE]

GOLD’S SIREN LURE FOR MEN

Hardship and Death Dared by Thousands That They May Gain Riches Quiokly. It was in 1898 that the rush of gold seekers to the Klondike reached its flood. The ninety-eighters probably never will know the fame of the fortyniners, but they have a place in the long history of the gold hunters, the men of all nations, ancient, medieval and modern. The book has a hundred chapters telling of failure and of death to every one lightened with the story of success. H. M. Cadell recently visited the Klondike, and there made a study of presentjjonditions. He describes them and adds an interesting account of the early day rush to the Northwest territory. The Smithsonian institution has put Mi*. Cadell’s report into print. It is an interesting document Some of the happenings in the Klondike were duplicates of like happenings in California and Australia during the first years of the surface washing in those fields. These duplications, show that human nature is unchanging. Men went to the Klondike daring hardship and death that they might get rich quicks Some of the gold seekers were quickly successful. A large percentage of the successful ones almost literally threw their money away. Easy come, easy go. This sort of thing has marked gold miring in all ages! The Klondike is not what it was, but human nature stays the same. The discovery of gold at the North pole would start a northern migration that would take no account of the insuperable obstacles of distance and cold. The lure is irresistible. —Chicago Post.