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MONEY MONGOL INVASIONS

MONEYED MEN. The moneyed classes, especially

those of large fortune, whose ideal tends to the mere

money, are not fitted for any predominant guidance in a

really great nation. I do not dislike but I certainly have

no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the

typical big moneyed man of my country. I do not regard

them as furnishing sound opinion as regards either

foreign or domestic policies. (To Frederick Scott

Oliver, August 9, 1906.) Mem. Ed. XXIV, 28; Bishop

if through any fault of his own he has failed to keep

those dependent upon him in reasonable comfort. It is

his duty not to despise money. It is his duty to regard

money, up to the point where his wife and children and

any other people dependent upon him have food,

clothing, shelter, decent surroundings, the chance for

the children to get a decent education, the chance for

the children to train themselves to do their life-work

aright, a chance for wife and children to get reasonable

relaxation. (At Pacific Theological Seminary, Spring

1911.) Mem. Ed. XV, 578; Nat. Ed. XIII, 617.

____________. The very fact that I grant in the fullest

degree the need of having enough money, which means

the need of sufficient material achievement to enable

you and those dependent upon you to lead your lives

healthily and under decent conditions . . . entitles me to

have you accept what I say at its face value when I add

that this represents only the beginning, and that after

you have reached this point your worth as a unit in the

commonwealth, your worth to others and your worth to

yourself, depends infinitely less upon having additional

money than it depends upon your possessing certain

other things, things of the soul and the spirit. . . . After

the man and the woman have reached the point where

they have a home in which the elemental needs are met

and where in addition they have accumulated the

comparatively small amount of money necessary to

meet the primal needs of the spirit and of the intellect—

after this point is reached it is my deliberate judgment

that money, instead of being the prime factor, is one of

the minor factors, both in usefulness and in happiness.

(At Pacific Theological Seminary, Spring 1911.) Mem.

Ed. XV, 580; Nat. Ed. XIII, 619-620.

____________. I feel very strongly that one great

lesson to be taught here in America is that while the

first duty of every man is to earn enough for his wife

and children, that when once this has been

accomplished no man should treat money as the

primary consideration. He is very foolish unless he

makes it the first consideration, up to the point of

supporting his family; but normally, thereafter it should

come secondary. (To John St. Loe Strachey, November

28, 1908.) Mem. Ed. XXIV, 147; Bishop II, 126.

II, 24.

MONEYED MEN — ROOSEVELT'S

INDEPENDENCE OF. Unfortunately, the strength of

my public position before the country is also its

weakness. I am genuinely independent of the big

monied men in all matters where I think the interests of

the public are concerned, and probably I am the first

President of recent times of whom this could be

truthfully said. I think it right and desirable that this

should be true of the President. But where I do not grant

any favors to these big monied men which I do not

think the country requires that they should have, it is

out of the question for me to expect them to grant

favors to me in return. I treat them precisely as I treat

other citizens; that is, I consider their interests so far as

my duty requires and so far as I think the needs of the

country warrant. In return, they will support me, in so

far as they are actuated purely by public spirit, simply

accordingly as they think I am or am not doing well;

and so far as they are actuated soley by their private

interests they will support me only on points where they

think it is to their interest to do so. (To H. C. Lodge,

September 27, 1902.) Lodge Letters I, 534.

MONEYED MEN. See also BUSINESS, BIG;

CAPITALISTS; CORPORATIONS; MILLIONAIRES; WALL

STREET .

MONGOL INVASIONS. It is extraordinary to see

how ignorant even the best scholars of America and

England are of the tremendous importance in world

history of the nation-shattering Mongol invasions. A

noted Englishman of letters not many years ago wrote a

charming essay on the thirteenth century—an essay

showing his wide learning, his grasp of historical

events, and the length of time that he had devoted to the

study of the century. Yet the essayist not only never

mentioned but was evidently ignorant of the most

stupendous fact of the century—-the rise of Genghis

Khan and the spread of the Mongol power from the

Yellow Sea to the Adriatic and the Persian

MONEY. See also FORTUNES; MATERIALIST ;

SUCCESS; WEALTH.

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