Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 237, 13 August 1913 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, 1913

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A Disgusting Spectacle A disgusting spectacle, that one being staged at Albany. As an eleventh hour climax in this political romance in real life, which today ended in the impeachment of Governor Sulzer, his wife confessed that she, not her husband, used campaign fund monies to speculate in the Wall street stock market. When the governor was asked to confirm this rumor he referred the reporters to his friend, Senator Palmer, who, the press dispatches state, "remained silent." Acting on the theory that silence gives confirmation in such cases a Sulzer follower vainly endeavored to delay action on the impeachment resolution until the new development in this nauseating incident had been thoroughly investigated. It may or it may not be true that Mrs. Sulzer did speculate with the monies in her husband's campaign fund. However, the governor would have appeared in a better light had he emphatically denied the report, even if he had had tr perjure himself in so doing. The other figures in this disgraceful Albany spectacle, the united enemies of the governor, appeared to as poor advantage as Sulzer. Overlooking the fact that Sulzer was placed in the gubernatorial chair as a creature of the most corrupt political organization in the world, Tammany; that he promptly bit the hand that aided him so as to make a grand stand play ; that he is petty and vain, and that he is a professional office holder, it cannot be denied that he has made an effort to uphold the rights of the people of New York State, even though his course of action has been influenced, to a great degree, by selfish interests. ' However, what good Sulzer has done is a matter of indifference to the Murphy machine. The gang merely regards Sulzer as a traitor to the organization, hence must be punished if machine discipline is to be maintained. The voters of New York state also play a sorry part in this sordid political episode. It was their ballots that placed a Tammany man at the head of the state government, and it was their lax attention to their civic duties which has permitted Tammany to tie up the greatest state in the union with its network of corruption, inefficiency and treachery.

Why Hold a Primary ? Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, in formally announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination for mayor, stated that he thought the holding of a primary election unnecessary. The doctor is right. Why the expensive mockery of forming a ticket by such a method with only one candidate for mayor, one for clerk and a few councilmanic vacancies going begging? The couple of hundred Republican voters in Richmond can get together in any public hall without congesting it, and, without waste of time select the two heads of the ticket. By resorting to the draft rule the several vacancies on the ticket for which no candidates have yet announced themselves could be filled in an expeditious manner. Republicans are also more familiar with the workings of the convention system than they are with direct primaries, therefore there would be less danger of bungling in the making of their ticket.

SOCIAL CERTAINTIES

"CHARACTER AND PROSPERITY." By H. L. Haywood. IP THERE is anything certain in the relationship of men it is that character must always play a vital part in all their dealings. In these days when we are more than ever seeing the interdependency of all

our interests and factors this becomes increasingly clear. As a very great reformer once said, we must first enter into the divine kingdom of righteousness before we can expect to be able to satisfy our need of material things. In this day when "morals" and "righteousness" seems everywhere pooh-hooed it will be well for us to remind ourselves of the vital way in which material power and wealth hang at last on character.

For one thing we everywhere observe what a major part credit has come to play in our modern commercial and industrial world. We sometimes say that society runs on the cash basis but it would be truer to say a credit basis. The wealthiest and most powerful are the most Inveterate borrowers. Destroy credit today and you will render ninety per cent of the mills and factories inoperative tomorrow. He is indeed a rare merchant or manufacturer who does not now and then find himself obliged to borrow at the bank in order to meet his payroll or his accounts. With this In mind we are prepared to catch at once the significance for our present case of the well known utterance of Mr. Morgan before the Pujo commission to the effect that he would rather lend a million to a man with character but no security, than to a man with plenty of Becurity and no character. The shrewd financier had long ago learned tht the absence of dependableuess in man

cannot be compensated for or protected against by amount -f scheming or complicated Ipgal safeguards. A friend told me recently of a case which came under Sum observation In Washington; he said that of two men one had no property to speak of at all and yet was able to borrow what he asked for at almost any bank while tho second hud quantities of wealth and no credit whatever. This is pimply an Illustration of the relationship hot ween character and economics. Let business men roano to be men of their words, let them become vacillating and shifting, deceitful and crafty and they will soon find the entire fnbric of their commerce and industry tumbling about their heads. True, the ethics of the business world are narrow and fragmentary', dictated often by solf-interest and shaped by prejudice, but they are ethics just the same and without that amount of character busi

ness would soon crumble into pieces.

Character plays an essential part in determining ma

terial wealth by creating an orderly and stqjfle society. Order cannot be maintained in a community by force. Had

we a policeman for every citizen we should then need an

army of police to guard them, and so on, ad infinitum.

Penalties held out before the populace may check disor

der up to a certain point and put a restraint on anarchistic and criminal tendencies, but they can never create order. That depends on character. Where the stability that

comes from character is lacking in a people it is impossi

ble to create social stability by force or any other means.

And what is property worth in a disorderly community?

Where social stability and safety is lacking material wealth depreciates in value at once. What good is it to

purchase automobiles or bicycles in a neighborhood where they would soon be stolen? Why build a fine residence

if there is danger that arson fiends will burn it down? Diamonds and silver plate are worth more in Richmond

than they would be in the Bowery. And have we not often observed that property depreciates in value when a

saloon builds next door or a gambling joint opens up?

There is no question in the world but that the charac

ter of the citizens in any given neighborhood do much to fix a standard of material value in their vicinity. To quote Emerson, "A dollar is worth more in a university than in a penitentiary." The character of the citizenship of a nation does much to set the price of real estate.

It is character which makes the market for most of our

wares. Our wants increase in proportion to our renne-

ment. Animals get along very well with a hole in tne ground and a bite to eat, but man, as he rises in the scale of development, finds himself in ever increasing need of the means and instruments for the satisfaction of his new

ly created desires. What would Handel's "Messiah" mean to a rake? What would Wesley Howard's violin mean to

a roue' as he reels home from the brothel? Where is the blear-eyed drunkard that cares the snap of his finger for all the paintings in Richmond? A pint of beer means more to him than all our art. The value of a thing to us

depends on our character. If we are unfit we cannot make

use of it though it be given us. How much is the most profitable and perfectly organized business worth to the

vacillating and dissipated young scion who falls heir to it.

It slips from his fingers like sand. Wealth means noth

ing and has no value where there is not ability to use

and appreciate. All our contraptions of civilization make

no appeal to a savage. A missionary imported a dozen

red plows into the east coast of Africa expecting that the natives would learn agriculture but he was surprised on his return a year later to discover they had erected them

on platforms and were worshiping them as gods. The

vandals who sacked Rome were indifferent to-the art of the papal palace in which they stabled their horses; those masterpieces had no value to them and never could have.

Mr. Beecher, in a famous address, showed to the Eng

lish that our Southern negroes could not purchase their

woven fabrics except in very small quantities and in the cheapest grades because they were not yet developed to the point where they felt the need of more or better.

All this is but to say that character and personal de

velopment do much toward creating the market which the

manufacturer satisfies. Let character go to pieces and those markets fall and that business is lost. Not until

the individual has been refined to the point of appreciation is the merchant's commodity worth anything. Every

factory and store is suspended at last from the human soul and rises or falls with it. And our ethics, our

character, our religion, have as much to do with the price

of stocks as any other factor.

Gilbert Chesterton asserts that what a man believes in

religion, what are his opinions about the universe are not unimportant speculations as is sometimes asseverated,

but in reality the most vital and important thing about

that man. A guest who has lost confidence in the integ

rity and righteousness of the world is as liable as not to steal your spoons. Our simplest activities are usually regulated by the very broadest convictions concerning the whole things. When one loses his confidence in life, when the universe becomes an eyeless socket and the heavens a ghastly, meaningless glare, when life falls to ashes in one's hands and the glory and beauty of existence is gone, the springs of interest in life are dried up and one falls into listlessness and "leaden-eyed" despair. In such a condition desire withers away and things cease to attract or interest; and that means that the merchant has no longer a market for his wares because people cease to desire them. That this is no mere piece of idle theorizing is shown by those communities in India where the profound pessimism of Buddhism has eaten its way into human minds and snapped up the will to live. The devotee sinks back into atrophy, having completely relinquished all desire, and subsists from day to day on a handful of rice. Trade, commerce and all the healthful and beautiful activities of life are at a standstill. It would be easy to canvass the whole ground of vital religious convictions and show how they dove-tail into and support our practical activities but one or two will suffice. Where men come to lose faith in the liberty and reality of the individual soul the nerve of life is cut. The Mohammedan is so firm a fatalist he makes not an effort to develop his business. To quote Stanwood Cobb, "The Turkish merchant does not force his goods upon you, nor race out in the street after prospective customers like the Jew and Armenian. Those whom it is his destiny to get will come of their own accord. This apparent indifference to trade is amazing to the hustling American traveler. The absence of ambition in the average Turk is partly an outcome of this same fatalism. He is content with whatever Allah sends.. He has few desires which a large income would satisfy." Iet men come to have a profound contempt and hatred for the world and for the present life and they will take no interest in its affairs. The Medieval communities which retired from society because of their despising it dried up the markets and stopped the wheels of industry insofar as their influence went. When one ceases to have interest in life his need of the goods of life is not felt and it is the goods of life which the merchant seeks to supply. And in interest in life and a belief in its significance and beauty spring at last from a religious root. Most of all nothing could paralyze the world of business more completely than for the masses of us to lose our faith in immortality. A writer on the Wall Street

Journal asserted that it could be demonstrated that stocks rise and fall with the hope of a continued life in the be

yond. Let a man descend into the dust and become as the animals, a bubble of life blown for a brief space and soon to go out forever, and the 'glory and wonder, the joy and the interest in life will vanish and he will fall lifeless into his gloominess and car. nothing for the world's goods. Mr. Rose, one of our best authorities on business and the principles of its management and success has the fol-

Heart to Heart Talks

SUN YAT SEN SEES PLOT FOR MONARCHY

IS THE YOUNG MAN SAFE? Posalbly lu nil tbo Bible, wlta Its wealth of tender and touching tales, there l.i not to be found a more appealing picture than that of King David waiting at the gate for tidings of bis son Abwalom. There had been a great battle. David, loving bin wayward, rebellious son Absalom well, had nevertheless been compelled to send soldiers to put down his rebellion. He had charged them Btrongly, "Deal gently, for my sake, with the young man, even with Absalom." But his command bad been disobeyed. Absalom, caught by the hair of his head in an oak, as others are caught every day by their sins, was dead, slain In disregard of the king's commands. To the king came running a messenger with tidings of the battle. David asked no word of victory, of exultation. "Is the young man Absalem safe?" be said. now often do parents sit at the gate of the city waiting for news of the battle! In them ia no thought of the outcome of the warfare, no desire for victory, save as it brings back safe to them their children. They ask of life only this question: "Is my boy or girl safe?" ' In time life takes from all of ns what we prize best As we grew older we leave behind our youth, our health, our length of days. Worst of all, it takes our children. We cannot withhold them from the world. It calls on us to surrender them to It so they may take up their share of its burdens, may wage, their portion of its warfare. As they grow older they are stirred with the same desire to mingle in the strife which moved us In our younger days. We do well If we send them forth guarded by the buckler of virtue and truth and armed with the weapons of knowledge and skill and self restraint. But go forth they must Then we sit at the gate of the city awaiting their return. Sometimes they come back laden with the spoils of victory; sometimes they limp back torn and bleeding with the wounds of unequal strife. Not every one may fight the world with assurance of success. But It Is their safety for which we are concerned, not their success. We do not ask: "Have you won prizes In the war?" We say, as did King David of old: "Is the young man safe?" May it not be with us as It was with the king: 'And the king was much moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept, and as be went thus he said: O my bob Absalom, my son. my son Absalom! Would God I had died fo? thee, O Absalom, my son. my son I"

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DR. SUN YAT SEN. TOKYO, Aug. 13. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the ex-provisional President of the Chinese Republic, who fled from China says that Yuan Shi Kai is striving to establish a new Chinese monarchy. Yuan has openly revolted against the constitution and has opposed the Parliament, according to Dr. Sun. Yuan is now a military dictator and enforces his law through the army which he controls.

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South Tenth Street Residentsj Indignant Over Dis- i turhances. I

I 3LASOXIC CALENDAR a, Wednesday, August IS. 113, Webb lodge No. 24. F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work In Master Mason degree. Commencing at 7 o'clock. Light refreshments.

"A Bachelor's Romance" was used for several seasons by Tim Murphy, and is one of the best plays ever rituu by Mr. I-uell.

Residents of South Tenth street are! being disturbed by the nocturnal revery of a crowd of "toughs" who have i acquired the habit of going to thj? South Tenth street park eery night and indulging in songs and dances and other social activities which generally cul-; minaie in a free-for-all fight. It is said by the residents that these an-1 noylng persons come to the park about midnight after they have ben ordered

from Main street. The police have been summoned on different occasions but were unable to apprehend the disturbers of the peace. "I think Richmond needs more policemen to enforce order in the city during the night." said one residfnt. The force is ridiculously small, and and if we didn't call a policeman from headquarters to stop these annoyances it might be a long time before the man on our beat got around to our neighborhood."

In Wyoming. -In Wyoming." a western play without a shot will be the offering of th Francis Sayles Players at the Murray next week with the usual matinees. "In Wyoming," was one of the most successful plays that Mr. Satlf used during his New Castle. Pa . 'engage mor.t and the play will be given a very elaborate production.

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At the Murray. Week of Aug. It "Hello Bill.

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Appropriate. "What do you think would be a nice present to give a lawyer friend?" "Why not a new suit?" Baltimore American.

The important thing In life Is to have a great aim and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it-Goethe.

Two Ways of Telling a Story, On of Which Pointed a Moral. Two men entered a train at a small station out west and took seats facing an elderly gentleman. They fell to tell ing hunting stories with great anima tion and many, many oath. Noticing that the old gentleman was an interested listener, one of the men spoke to him and asked whether he, too, was not a hunter, with a story or two worth hearing. The told gentleman thought be could tell one, and this is what he said: "One day I thought I would go hunting, so I took my tin pan tinder box gun and went up into tin pan tinder box woods on the side of a tin pan tinder box mountain, and I waited a tin pan tinder box long time; and then I saw a tin pan tinder box fine buck coming toward me, so I put my tin pan tinder box gun to my shoulder and fired. And that tin pan tinder box buck fell right In its tin pan tinder box tracks, and it was the finest tin pan tinder box buck I ever killed." After a pause he. said, "now do you like my story?""Oh, the story is all right, but I don't see what all that tin pan tinder box' has to do with it" "Well," replied the old gentleman, "that is just my way of swearing." "I don't see much sense in swearing that v,-ay," said the other, with manifest disgust. To which the old gentleman responded, "There is as much sense In my way of swearing as there is in yours, young man." Youth's Companion.

Palace. Two of the best of laugh-producing Keystones help make up a very pleasing program at the Palace today. "A Game of Pool' and 'The Latest in Life Saving" are the kind of comedies that show the Keystone players at their best. Full of snappy situations, the comedies are one continuous laugh. The program is completed by an American subject "Sister Lucia," an Italian love drama, and the "Girl of the Cabaret," featuring Peggy Snow. Mutual observers given to ladies. Thursday, "The House of Bondage,' a three-reel Kay-Bee drama.

Hello Bill. "It was sure funny." "I never enjoyed a play so much before." "It was certainly good." 'Fine." These are some of the expressions that the writer heard as the audience left the Murray theatre last night, after seeing

! "Hello Bill."

Two large audiences greeted the company yesterday and every one went away well pleased, and no doubt the house will be well filled the balance of the week. At the matinee tomorrow a picture of Mr. Sayles will be given to every one.

To Be Produced Soon. "Beverly" and "The Battle" are two of the early offerings of the Sayles players at the Murray and elaborate productions will be made of both plays.

A Bachelor's Romance. Mr. Sayles received contracts yesterday for Sol Smith Russel's great play, "A Bachelor's Romance," which he will use following "In Wyoming."

lowing to say, something we can all accept if we have agreed with above: "The human factor Is the most important factor in the business world. Character is really the fundamental upon which the degree of success of any man dependsman depends. Character has generally been

considered as an ethical study rather than as a business 6tudy, but with the rapid development of , business and its psychological significance the true importance of character, in the industrial, commercial, and professional world is becoming understood." j

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a guide who boasted that he had escorted General Sheridan over the scene of Napoleon's defeat. "What did General Sheridan say?" asked the American. "Oh, nothing." "He must have said something." "Well, he only said, "It was a good place for a fight.' "

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