Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — MONEY’S NOT EVERYTHING. [ARTICLE]

MONEY’S NOT EVERYTHING.

Goodland Herald: After all, there are other things valuable besides money. So far as some people are concerned they would be just as well off with an income of S6OO per year as $6,000, for their economical ideas make them hoard their money for the mere'satisfaction of having the dollars, never apparently realizing the fact that money itself, unless used to purchase the comforts and even some of the luxuries of life, is as valueless as the rocks in the streets. It isn’t the money that makes a sensible person better off; it is the things that money will enable him to possess. You can philosophize on life, and what constitutes true happiness, all you please, yet the cold fact remains that the man certain of three meals a day, with good health and no crepe on his doors, has solved the problem. He will enjoy life as well, live as long and probably die happier if he worked for his living than if he had a healthy bank deposit to draw interest bn or be wiped out by his agent in trust. Some of you “rich men” who lost a few of your dollars should learn to think upon the proposition of what makes life worth the living. Go home and kiss your wives and children and learn, before years of bitter experience teaches it to you, the lessou that money is not essential to happiness or greatness.