he advantages of special training and
the opportunities that wealth gives may become especially
qualified for public life; such opportunities and training
are necessary to complete qualifications, but often they are
not equal to them. That which may be had without effort is
not often highly prized.

But all young men of ability, whether favored by fortunes or
not, owe it both to themselves and to the nation to give
attention to public affairs, to keep themselves in touch
with things, to be in constant preparation for public life
if the opportunity or necessity comes to them.

Everybody knows there is a large number of such young men in
the great business and industrial centers who give no
attention, or very little, to public affairs. The
manufacturing, the commercial or financial operations, the
contracting or transportation enterprises which they take up
give them so much better financial returns than public life
would yield that they lose sight altogether of the
government, upon whose proper conduct their success in their
various callings and enterprises depends--upon which, in
fact, the very chance to enter these callings and carry on
those enterprises rests, and whose demoralization would wipe
out everybody's chances in life.

Now, we can't prevent the evolution of such conditions in
this or any other civilized country. But these people, thus
completely absorbed in their callings and enterprises, whose
standpoint of self-interest now prevents them from giving
attention to public affairs, will surely be forced more and
more to broaden their culture--thorough knowledge of public
affairs is as necessary to truly broad culture as any other
sort of knowledge--as well as their patriotism.

Must Give More Than Money.

I don't say that these people should give, give, give--it
won't do for them to try to meet the situation merely by
being charitable with their money. Giving only gratifies
the giver. As a general rule, it pauperizes the people who
receive. The multimillionaire of to-day must give more than
his money. He must give some of his time, his attention, and
his thought to other and more important things than personal
money-getting.

The human animal accomplishes only as he works under the
pressure of necessity. The extensive development of the