[Gutenberg 27857] • The Dominant Dollar

Will (William Otis) Lillibridge (1878-1909) was the author of Ben Blair: The Story of a Plainsman (1905), Where the Trail Divides (1907) and The Dissolving Circle (1908). ""You degrade every consideration in life, emotional and other, to a dollar-and-cents basis. Sentiment, ambition, common judgment of right and wrong, all gravitate to the same level. You have a single standard of measurement that you apply to all alike, which alike condemns or justifies. Summer and Winter, morning, noon, and night-it's the same. Your little yardstick is always in evidence, measuring, measuring-You, confound you, drive me to distraction with your eternal 'does it pay. ""