Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 January 1887 — Page 4

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TERKE HAUTE, JAN. 8, 1887.

WHAT WE GET FOR OUR TAXES. No magazine has come into so much prominence in so short a time as the Forum, recently started for the discussion of practical questions of current interest. Each monthly number contains several well-considered papers by prominent men of the country.

The .January number has an essay by Mr. Henry C. Lea on the subject at the head of this article. Mr. Lea shows that if the people get too little for the taxes they pay it is the people's own fault. The fashions of political reformers has been to lay every deficiency at the door of tho "bosses" who run the party machinery and to try to improve matters by scolding and berating them. Mr. Lea admits all that is to be said against the bosses. Thev do set up conventions and secure the nomination of their candidates for oflice. Hut who is to blame for it but the apathetic citizens that refuse to attend the primaries and defeat the ringsters? Tho bosses are few as compared with the people and it is ever in the power of the latter to crush them if they choose to do so. The bosses do what the mass of citizens will not do to gain or to hold power they organize and work with shrewdness and energy for tho prizes they want^ When citizens show half as much interest and energy they will defeat tho bosses ten times out of ten.

This is not new but it is true. Jt has been said many times but it lias not been heeded, at loast to the extent it should be. If the people are not willing to take the trouble to be thoro own bosses, they may just as well stop their childish scolding of those who are ambitious and energetic enough to make bosses of themselves. In a free govern men the race is open to all and there will always be plenty on the track. They will be of the kind who look out for number one if the people do

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say who shall run.

HO IV MEN srifX'EEl).

A prominent merchant of Boston, whose name is known widely throughout the businoss world, gave this New Year's advice, at the request of a newspaper of that city: "Complain not that your work is hard, but he thankful there is work for you to do. Have a percentage of your earnings, and in time you will be a capitalist. Perhaps in an humble way, but still more free than you otherwise would bo, and with a fair pros­

of success awaiting you." He also counseled young people not to marry until they could support a comfortable home.

The men who have won success in business or professional life, and who hud no capital to begin with, have as a rule worked on the line here indicated. Bv saving a part of his income any young man will be able to got something ahead and it will not be such a slow process oithor. Then if he will make proiltuble and safe, but especially safe, investments from time to time, he will presently tind himself in tne possession of a handsome little competency. Pationce, grit and energy will win the day every time, witli habits of temperance

and

industry. The trouble with too many young men nowadays is that thev want to make "a pile of money" at one stroke. That is pure luck and pure chance. Now and then it happens to a man but it never happens to those who make a business of that kind of thing.

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It is said that some of the leading society people of Now York are remaining in their country residences over winter. This is anew thing with them and is one of the indications for out-of-

door

sports. Along with this is an increase of out-door skating on the real ice of ponds, lakes and rivers, an old sport that everyone loved in thoir youth, and one of the best and most exhilirating forms of physical exercise.

Tobogannlng hns also come over from lanada and slides are springing up in many places and clubs organixed for the sport. This form of sport requires cold weather and cannot flourish south of a certain latitude.

Hut the taste for recreation in the open air is a most com mohdable one and it is the more so because women are not excluded from its enjoyment and benefits.

Our

people of the cities need oxygenizing. They cannot be too much out of door* either iu winter or summer. The

furnace-heated

air of houses needs to be

exchanged fur that of the open sky.

Kvumvri.v Ilcnrv George is not the cold-blooded and selfish individual he bus been represented by those who arc oppos*ed to his views and to lal»or lutita tion of any hind. .Some time ago he was left a legacy bv an admirer of his writ* ings. The bequest cam# from a man wh«»se widow is pandyxed and when Mr. Oeorge learned this fad he refused to receive the inconsiderate gift of her husband. Like any other honest minded man, Mr. »eorgt not care to be enriched from such a source.

THK Boston Home Journal, one of the brightest and most welcome exchangee upon our list comes to us this week in a more compact and convenient shape, and certainly more attractive. It looks prosperous and deserve* U.

NOT since the revelations made by editor Stead in the Pall Mall Gazette has anything come to light of such damning infamy as has been shown to exist in some of the mining and logging camps of Michigan and Wisconsin. By the vilest pretenses yonng girls are induced to go to these places all unsuspicious of the horrible fate which awaits them. There isa mania just now among girls to go on the stage and it is usually represented that Ihey are to join some traveling 'company at a stated salary. Once in the wilderness, hundreds of miles from home and friends, the victims find themselves in the power of infamous wretches who have procured them for lewd purposes. Hopeless as the case seems to be,some of the girls try to make their escape but they are hunted down with dogs very much as tho fugitive slaves used to be. The strangest and most startling part of it all is that the Governors of those States know the facts but have so far been unable to punish the miscreants. The camps, it appears, are on or near the border line between the two States and when the officers of one State undertake their capture they escape over the line, ft would seem, however, that by acting in concert, the criminals might easily be bag ged. A man of Gov. Rusk's resolute spirit will surely originate some method of getting these miscreants into the clutches of the law, even if he has to march the militia into the region.

MH, GEORGE contributes another of his articles on the condition of labor in Pennsylvania to the current North American Review. It appears that iron miners in Lehigh, Northampton and Berks receive 70 cents a day, and engineers from 80 to K) cents. In other counties the rate is from 7.") cents to $1 for miners, and higher proportionate wages for engineers. The men who toil for such wretchedly low wages do not get steady work, and are frequently idle. The highest number of days worked in the year by men who get 70 cents is 2", and in one case the number of days was 190.

These figures do not prove that Mr. George's land theory is the correct solution of the labor question. Neither do thej* show anything cither for or against protection. But they do prove most eloquontly that labor is miserably underpaid in tho sections named. Men cannot live decently and support families upon such wages. Something is wrong somewhere. Partly it is doubtless that the employers get too much and partly that competion has been suffered to drivo prices too low. It would be better for all of us to pay a trille more for our coal and iron than have men work for loss than living wages. It is quite possible to have tilings too cheap.

THE new year comes in with another horrible railroad collision. Near Tiffin, ohio, on Tuesday morning, the fast express from Now York to Chicago, on the Baltimore tfc Ohio, running at its utmost speed, dashed into a freight running in tho opposite direction. As usual the accident happened on a curve which prevented the freight from being seen until quite close. The coaches were telescoped ahd piled on oach other and fire broke out as usual to add its horrors to the situation. Nineteen dead bodies were recovered from the wreck and many others were injured. None of those in the sleepers were harmed.

SECRETARY LAMAR, the distinguished philosopher and political politician, who presides over the Interior Department, has finally consummated his romantic marriage with Mrs. Holt, the Georgia widow. It seoms that the pair wore lovers in their youth but that something came between them and each chose another companion. Now, many years later, both being widowed, the old attachment was renewod. Mr. Lamar's whole life has been romantic and this marriage is in keeping with the rest of it.

THK talk of General Logan having been killed by the doctors is probably all moonshine. It comes to the surface whenever any prominent men dies. Itappears that Logan refused to take a lot of his medicine and had it thrown away. If this is true the doctors might well retort that his refusal to take the medicine prescribed was the cause of his death. But doubtless neither was the case. The General's time to die had come and he seemed to realize the fact several days before the end.

WITROCK, the express car robber, stipulated with the detectives that tho $1,700 mortgage on his mother's house should be lifted before the boodle was given up and this was done. Wit-rock had borrowed this money to go into business with and said that his motive in committing the roblery was to get money to pay off the mortgage. He seems to have been loyal to his mother and this at least was to his credit.

IT is evident that Mrs. Logan, so far from coming to poverty, will be a rich woman. It is said by the publishers that the General's book will yet pay her *30.000 to $50,000, she will have a pension of £i,000 a year, the fund being'raised for her will be large and the General left considerable property of his own. She is likely to have more rather than less than $100,000.

IT is all well enough to celebrate the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign but the poor ought not to be pressed to pay the bill. The solicitation of funds, that is now going on does not look to be very good taste from this side of these*. The Queen is aleady very wealthy and if a present is to be made to her let those who are able foot the bill.

A nseoN DINO boodlers ran now skate acitxui the St. Lawrence into Canada.,

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THE convicted boodle aldermen in New York complain that the courts there are "geared to con vict." They would be poor courts if they were not geared to convict such fellows as the bribe-taking aldermen. What the country needs is more courts geared that way.

SOMEBODY was clearly guilty of gross negligence in the terrible railroad wreck near Republic, Ohio, and the Baltimore & Ohio will have a big bill of damages to pay. But this is poor cousolatien to the friends and relatives of the killed and mangled passengers.

WITTROCK, Haight, and Weaver, "the express robbers, pleaded guilty Tuesday at St. Louis, and were sentenced, Wittrock and Haight to seven years in each, and Weaver to five years in the penitentiary,'

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MR. BEECHEKS LETTER.

PLAIN TALK ON THE MODERN

STRUGGLE FOR WEALTH.

MONEY NOT NECESSARY TO HAPPINESS— THE ROOT OF ALMOST EVERY EVIL— THE AVARICIOT'S MAN AND HIS GREED

FOR WEALTH—MONEY NECK&SARY TO THE WELFARE OF COMMUNITIES, P.T*T HURTFI'L TO INDIVIDUALS. Correspondence of Saturday Evening Mafl.

BROOKLYN, Jan. 6,1887.

There never was a time in the history of the world when men needed to take to heart the solemn monitions of the Scripture in regard to the securing of riches more than to-day. So wild have men become, and so tierce in their pursuit of riches, that even the commonest observer begins to be alarmed, and men are talking among themselves of the outrageous extravagance of the times. It is a matter of conversation in the household and on the street. Men begin at first to make a little they find how easy it is they enlarge their ambition, and the conception dawns upon them, "Why am not I one of those who are appointed to be millionaires?" In the beginning of life a few thousands would have satisfied their ambitions. Now, hundreds of thousands seem to them but a morsel. They grow more and more intense. Temptations begin to fall upon them. They begin to be teinptr ed to make a fortune quickly. A man who is in haste to be rich does not retiect that he shall inevitably fall into harm and destruction. You can no more make money suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's stature without harui. There is not a gardener who does not know that a plant may grow faster than it can make wood that the cellular tissue may grow faster than the ligneous consolidation^ and that then it cannot hold itself up. And many men grow faster in riches than they can consolidate. This alone is a reason why men should not make money faster than they know how to organize it, and adapt themselves to it.

Men who are tempted to make money suddenly are almost invariably obliged to traverse the canons of morality. It is almost impossible that they should keep themselves to moderation. The fatal fire begins to burn within them. Avarice in its earliest stages is not hideous, thoufgi at the bottom it is the same serpent thing that it is at last. In the beginning it is an artist, and the man begins to think "I will redeem my parents. Oh! I will repurchase the old homestead. Ah! will I not make my village to bud and blossom as a rose? I will set my brothers and sisters on high. What will I not do?" How many things do men paint in the sky which clouds cover and winds blow away, and which fade out with the morning that painted them? I have noticed that men, when they begin to make money suddenly and largely, carry with them the instincts and generosities of their youth but whore do vou find a man who begins to make nionev fast, who begins to puil it in in heaps, who begins to think of large interests from day to day, who shaves and learns to look upon men simply to see what they will bear when put under his knife and under his screw, who begins to live with money and to gloat his eyes with money—where do you find such a man that does not begin to have narrower feelings, and baser feelings, and sordid feelings, and avaricious feelings?. Avarice grinds a man like emery.

Such men begin to be tempted to believe that success atones for faults, and in that they only lean to the prevalent doctrine of the market. For lie who contravenes morality and fails is a criminal, while he who contravenes morality and succeeds is dexterous. A man that fails in wrong-doing is a fool. What! Stole and was found out? What! cheated and lost? What! sold himself and did not get the price? These things are despicable among men. And you see the spirit that is coiled up at the bottom. The serpent maxim is this: That success atones for all faults. A man is exonerated, so that he goes clear so that he carries off his pile. "To be sure," men say, "there was something wrong in it. I suppose but we ought not to look very strictly at a man in the hoat and strife of temptation." But suppose he had not carried it off, would yon not have looked at in a different light? If a man gives his word and forfeits it and goes under, you say, "It is a righteous judgment on a liar." If a man gives his word and breaks it and carries off $oOQ.OOO in the operation, what do men say? They do not say anything!

When one goes into a nest of "honorable men" that mean to fleece the whole ignorant, innocent outside pnblic—into a nest of ten unconvicted rogues, that mean to cany stocks where all the community shall be squeezed and bled—they are bound to keep faith with each other. But one of them steps out and sells untimely, and cheats all the others, and gets clear. And what do men say of

him? They say: "He is smart." He sells, meaning to cheat the others, and comes to harm himself. What do men now say? They say: "He is fit only for the gibbet." He sells and is the only one that escapes, and all the rest come to harm, and he is thought to be a "brilliant fellow." "To be sure he broke faith," men say "honor is due among thieves, but he had no honor even among thieves and yet, had he not that which was better? Did he not save himself, and did he not save his pile?"

Men are tempted as soon as they get into this terrific fire of avarice to regard morality as of little avail compared with money making. They are dazzled. However "honest men are at the start, however generously they begin, they are tempted very soon toward extravagant expectations. Nay, they are puffed up, they become conceited. They are the subjects of over-swollen hope. They become presumptuous.

Oh! what a change it is! What mother would know her boy come back again? What pastor would know the young man that once he took by the hand, whom he comforted in tho shadow of conviction and whose joy he remembers, sweeter than the birds of a summer morning? All promise was with him, and all hope and premonitions of honor and substantial usefulness. He has gone out into life a little way and already the harpies are upon him. Tell me not that there is no carrion where I see the sky full of carrion crows, waiting and flying and cawing to each other, and circling around some centre. Though I see nothing I know what is there. And when I see young men surrounded by certain harpies, when I see certain influences circling round and round them, though I may not know one single definite fact, I do know that the ravens know where corruption is. "They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare."

It is a mournful thing to see men perish and yet sometimes there is a certain grim pleasure in it. One cannot boar to see God's everlasting laws of equity set at defiance, and no punishment follow. And when trausgressors are picked off in the presence of the world, and they are shaken, and their bones rattle before men, there is a sort of awful pleasure in it. And yet, of all the things that perish on the earth, not the perishing of temples, not the destruction of pictures, not the fracture of costly marbles, not the ruin by earthquakes of cities or of villages, is half so sad and so melancholy as the destruction of the young that are going down in our midst from day to day. Children of prayer! Oh! what mothers rocked their cradles oh! what tears have baptized the young faces! Oh! what hopes, like roses in the spring, have circled them round about, and wreathed them! How beauteous were their aspirations! How fair tbeir budding! How nolle the promise! How mischievous the snare! How utter the destruction! How melancholy the reminiscence! And yet these things are taking place right before us. And am I to blame because I would fain lift up a voice of warning, of denunciation, of doom?

It is not said that all evil springs froth this love of money, but at one time and another this may become the cause of all evil. Tt has corrupted, in its time, every faculty and every relation in which a man stands connected with his fellows. It has divided families, it has parted friendships, it has corrupted purity. The love of money often is stronger than the love of kindred. See children utterly rent asunder and quarreling over a will! See how natural affection is extinguished! I have seen a terrifically strong etching from a German hand, of deer that lay dying, not quite dead, about which the eagles were gathered, one hovering above him, another perched on the right, and another a little further off, and all sure of their prey, but waiting until the last gasp. How often does the old man linger unconsciously long! and how- do the children wait and wonder that he does not die! "Father is remarkably tough," says one. "The old man will never give out," says another. Who is this "old man?" It is their own father, that reared them in their younger days and taught them the way of life. But he holds in his hands, too tightly for them, the purse-strings and they are sitting about, like so many vultures, waiting for their victim to die, that they may pick his bones. Oh! the love of money—how it extinguishes natural affections! What crimes or vices were ever known that it has not led men to! What is there of selfishness, or pride, or vanity, or deceit what is there of wickedness, what is there of meanness, what is there of treachery that money has not been accessory to? Today almost every crime that has put a man in Sing Sing has had money at the bottom of it. Almost every crime that fills our jails has money at the bottom of

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is a great power and a great

blessing when it is held in a truly manly tray, I should come short of my duty. I should misrepresent my opinion and I think pursue a course that is not moral if I left any reader to suppose that I am makinga general denunciation of wealth. So far froui it, I regard it as impossible to establish communities and advance them in civilization without wealth. I believe the individual men can prosper without wealth, but communities can-

are indispensable to communi­

ties, though communities are not blessed in the proportion in which money is heaped np in a few hands but in the proportion in which money is diffused throngh all the average of families. Twenty millions of dollars in a village doss not make that village rich if it is all owned by two men but if that amonnt la spread evenly all over the village then it is different. Money in the hands of

one or two men is like a dung-heap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass it does no good', but if it was only spread evenly on the land, how everything would grow! Money is like snow. If it is blown into drifts it blocks up the highway aad nobody can travel, but if it lies evenly distributed over all the ground it facilitates every man's travel. Wealth is good if diffused, but not if hoarded.

When men live in communities in which wealth is diffused it becomes more and more possible for individual men to be poor—that is, not to have riches—and yet to have the substantial elements of honor and enjoyment. A man may be honored and yet not be rich. Young men need not become very rich in order to be honored men. In the long run the reason why men who are rich are honored is that their riches stand for integrity, for skill, for moral excellence, for social excellence. Wealth is the exponent of these qualities in them. You may have some other exponent. You may show yourself to possess these qualities in some other way than by your wealth and may be honored. I have known the most influential men in communities, and they were the men who were without money. Not the richest men are the most influential men to-day in NewYork or in the United States. A man may be happy, and yet not be rich. I think that as the world goes there is more happiness without wealth than with it. I do not believe there is ever a time which a rich man looks back to with more satisfaction than to the periods of struggle through which he has passed. I do not believe any man was ever happier than when, having married early (and early marriages are usually virtuous marriages) and married for love, he and his companion went down into life together, and every day was a day of engineering to fit their means to their necessities, in their single slenderly furnished room, where they conferred together how to put scrap with scrap and eke out pittance with pittance, and everything was calculated by pennies. How often, in later life, when people become rich, do the husband and wife look at each other and say, "After all, my dear, we shall never be happier than when wc first started out together." Thank God, a man does not need to be very rich to be very happy, only so that he has a treasure in himself. A loving heart, a genuine sympathy, a pure unadulterated taste, a life that is not scorched by dissipation or wasted by untimely hours, a good sound body and a clear conscience—these things ought to make a man happy. Where a man is without offense before God and men it ought not to be possible for the world to make him unhappy. But I cannot dwell on that.

To all those who through these written words I may reach, I would say in ending: If God calls you to away of making wealth, make it but remember, do not love money. If God calls you to make wealth, do not make haste to be

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rich be willing to wait. If God calls you into the way of wealth, do not undertake to make yourself rich by gambling, whether it be lawful gambling, customary gambling or other kinds of gambling. Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks is all one thing—it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it. Do not try to get rich quickly. There is no need of it. It is full of peril and disaster here, and it is damnation hereafter. HENRY WARD BKE^JHKK.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SA YING.

Life: The wages of sin show a small increase every year. The Judge: The hen stops laying as soon as eggs get dear.

Washington Critic: Politics ain't patriotism by along shot. Life: Woman first invented sin, and she is responsible for most of the improvements since.

Albany Argus: Foot reading is the latest kink. Verily, these are times that try men's soles!

Oakland Tribune: When a man abandons a party in order on improve it he generally succeeds.

Boston Post: If Christmas came every day in the year wo could soon get rid of our treasury surplus.

Boston Post: Jay Gould has bought a pew in a Presbyterian church. We will warrant that he got a corner one.

Somerville Journal: Women will alwaj's be a puzzle, but the man who will give her up isn't worthy of tho name.

New Haven Nows: The man who thinks that the world owes him a living as a general rule never collects the bill.

Erie Herald: "There is always room at the top." This is especiall}' so in a beer glass after the froth has been blown off.

Burlington Freo Press: There is a man in Burlington so bow-legged that when the children are playing cars tliov uso him for a tunnel.

THE (iOOl) TIMES FAR AHEAD. Philadelphia Star. "I ain't," ho said "one of those fellows who wish ho never were born, but I do wish my birth had been postponed a few j'oars, sajr about a hundred. Wo poor chaps of this age don't know what life is. Look at that (pointing to the digging up of the street). I)o you suppose thatr the people of a hundred years hence wilL have such nonsense as that? No sir. All the streets will be arcadod, and all repairs to pipes, etc., will be made without interfering with traffic. Imagine a street surface car then. All underground pneumatic tubes for people as well as packages. As snow falls it wilt melt away, and there will bo no snow blockades. If we want rain we will be able to get it. We will go to Europe In. two days. Wo will telegraph without wires. The heat for our houses will, come, as now does our light, from a common centre. Oh, dear. It makes me mad to think of what good easy, comfortable times they are going to have in this world not very long after you and T* are out of it. s*

6 Days of Next Week,.

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Cj 4. 7 Commencing Monday Morning, January, 10th.

Bitter Medicine we are Compelled to Take!

FOR ANY NEWMARKET

CLOAK

In Our Store that we sold for $15., $18., $20 •mi *tan8i»

-or $22.00.

Although this has been the most active and prosperous season we ever passed through, we find we have a few hundred more Cloaks than we want So we decided to take an immediate loss rather than carry them over. The Entire Lot of Cloaks will be brought down stairs, so as to make it convenient for every lady. There you can take your choice for $9.87- *-J| We Must Have Money.

Jobbers and Retailers.

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