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The Blessings of Poverty

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 20.

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The Blessings of Poverty

PRESIDENT TAFT is a strong supporter of the idea that the young man who works his way through college is better equipped than the one who has an abundance of money. In a speech delivered in St. Paul recently, he said:—
University men go out into the world without any money, as a rule, and those who have not money usually serve the public best. If there is anything that is a burden, if there is anything that is an obstacle, if there is anything that it is difficult for a young man to overcome, it is an income that will enable him to live without work. You look about, after you have been out of college twenty-five years, and pick out, if you can, a single man that has made a real success and had a great deal to live on when he left college. If you find him, he is entitled to a great deal more credit than you are if you have had to hustle in order to get enough to eat, for he has had to overcome more obstacles and more difficulties than you.