142 SAVING TIME. 



alliance. Evil influence of desire to gain something 

 for nothing. 



Only the very strong can resist weakening power 

 of unearned rewards. But one fortune to earnest 

 man : that is opportunity. Opportunity comes to him 

 who deserves it. Growing belief that day of hard 

 work has past. That government should provide each 

 man reserve force, won in the past by thrift and 

 energy. Day of relaxation not arrived. " Time never 

 comes when it will do to kick off duty life a worn-out 

 shoe." 



Burden of oppression. Burden of whisky, tobacco, 

 dirt, and idleness. Farmers around patent-medicine 

 venders. Swarms of idle men around every fool- 

 killer's nests. Bird-lime of habitual idleness on their 

 feet. They will never get away. Burden of taxes 

 slight compared with burden of shiftlessness. Waste 

 of machines to save time when time is wasted after- 

 wards and machine left to rust. Waste of bad roads ; 

 waste of loitering. " Poor folks have poor ways." 



Those who add nothing to economic value best sup- 

 ported in asylums at public cost. Why not a great 

 state hospital for all men with valueless time ? Ap- 

 propriate salons for the idle " four hundred " ; for the 

 rest a great court-yard covered with sawdust, with 

 dry-goods boxes where they may sit the whole year, 

 talking politics to music of hand-organ, and watching 

 trains go by. Rest of world could take world's work, 

 with higher taxes, but with gain of open streets, clean 

 houses, closed saloons, silent demagogues, pastures free 

 from weeds and thistles. 



