People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Money With a Sting. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Money With a Sting.

.There is money that must sting its possessor with piercing pain, supposing that he has the slightest feeling of humanity in his heart. Not to speak off the cruel robbery of men to gratify the heartless greed of the human heart, the little oppressions, which the love of money prompts, are often of, a horrible character. Last week a prominent Chicago business house, because its collector did not turn in his collections at the close of the day, which is the rule of the house, arrested the young man at the! bedside of his dying wife and dragged him off to the station house. He had been prevented ;from making his returns—which he had in his pocket—on account of the duty he owed to his sick wife. Robbing a grave is very respectable business compared to tearing a man away from the •death bed of his wife, in order! to collect S2OO, that being the amount involved. It showed an absolute deparvity of the heart that prompted it, an inhumanity of which devils would be ashamed. When men, like ghouls in a church yard, seeking for treasures on the fingers of the dead, can grppe in the shadows of death and among grieving, broken hearts, ruthlessly invading the greatest sanctities of life, for S2OO, we may ■ well be appalled and wonder if there is anything at all in civilization. All the gold that was ever dug from the mountains and all the gems that ever laughed in the sunlight, would not tempt a man with the feeling of honorable manhood, to do a thing like that. •Yet, humiliating as the confession is, this sort of inhuman greed is a distinguishing feature of our times. The world ■with all its beauty, all its pro-

gress, and all of .its noble humanity, is, in spots blighted, as if by scorching flame or desert heat, by the inordinate love of gain. The man who is free from such a weakness, though he may be penniless, is richer than the millionaire who would grab for S2OO by the bedside of the dying.—Farmers' 1 Voice.

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