DR. HORTON ON MONEY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4442, 19 July 1922, Page 4

DR. HORTON ON MONEY.

“We think money is so simple a thing. It is not. It is the token or symbol of our brother man’s toil. We can hold it if we deserve, and wc only deserve it by doing in return for it something tor the benefit of our fellow-men and for the good o,f the community to which we belong. The gambder, therefore, takes his place with the most dangerous class of society, the idle people who consume the money which they have never deserved, who use the labour and intelligence of their fellow-men fpi their own purposes and give nothing back. The gambler, rich, or poor, belongs to that class; he is always pocketing money that is not really his he is always getting wealth which belongs to someone else,” said Dr. Horton recently. “Money is not mere metal, or notes, or bank credit; it is human brains, human feeling, human nobility, human wisdom. The money we hold, and which represents all this, must be earned. We may not take it from our fellow-men unless we can give back to our fellow-men some equivalent. If we can give no equivalent, if we a#©" disabled, if we are unqualified to take our part in .the life of the world, we may, of; course, receive rightf-illj- the charity which is forthcoming ; but we may not take pioney from someone else on the pretext that chance has determined that it shad come io us. We have to understand that to get money that we have not. earned by some service of love tb our fellow-men, by contributing to the total well-being which is the true wealth of society, is dishonest”