They love those who sympathize with money. They live, work,
vote, talk, marry and cheat their friends for money.
If they fail--as most of them do--they die unhappy. If they
succeed, money cheats THEM, and for all their devotion gives
them nothing.
"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul?"
The man wastes his soul who devotes its forces only to
accumulating wealth.
THE HUMAN WEEDS IN PRISON
How shall we approach a prison to see it fairly and to study it
intelligently?
Let us imagine ourselves visitors from a world outside of this.
Far off in infinite space there is a small whirling planet--our
earth.
Little creatures move about this planet, chained to it by the
force of gravity. But they MOVE as they choose, and they call
themselves FREE.
There are millions of free square miles, and hundreds of millions
of free human beings.
But there just below us is the prison at Auburn. There the human
beings are not free. There suffer those who for any reason have
violated the established rules of the little globe that supports
them.
They have not even the freedom of the little patch of soil fenced
in for them. They cannot walk, speak, sit down, lie down, or
stand up as they please.
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