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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