Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 405, 8 March 1892 — THE HASTE TO BE RICH [ARTICLE]

THE HASTE TO BE RICH

It will be a good day for us all when we learn to have implicit confidence in the warnings of God's Word. Long ago it was written that they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and <illegible> The many cases of embezzlement and robbery not being brought to light, prove this. But besides these notable cases it is evident that the entire condition of the business would have been revolutionized, or thrown into confusion, by this same lust for sudden wealth. Men become weary of the ordinary ways of getting a living by actual production; they rush to the cities, where speculation or high <illegible> hold out their tempting baits. They plunge, venture, and struggle, generally sinking lower, involving the interests of others, so that when failure comes it affects a wide circle. Other businesses suffer; other men are thrown out of employment; desperation drives multitudes of such men to extreme measures of dishonesty or suicide. Many live to suffer with their unfortunte dependents. The whole tendency of modern commercial life is only evil continually. The influence of mining ventures, of land booms, of oil wells, of stock gambling, of horse racing, of dishonest gains of a thou<illegible>

sands sorts-all these are unsettling the minds of young men and driving the older ones mad. They cannot bide the farm while so many are delving in great piles of gold. The consequence is that agriculture is neglected, natural resources are undeveloped, while the cities become congested with swarms of men unemployed, dissatisfied suffering.