I don't know what Chesterton thought of capitalism, or wealth, or success, but that piece doesn't condemn any of them, as I understood it.
That piece is about bad writing, and vapid self-help books.
Chesterton appears, in this essay, to be fully in favour of getting ahead in the world (though he does take time to suggest that Mr Vanderbilt might not be a deity, so we may conclude that he thinks that getting ahead in the world is not the only valuable thing).
Notice the bits about "if you want to be succeed at whist, great; either learn to be good at whist, or learn to cheat".
Chesterton was a fan of distributism, a "third way" economic system that is neither capitalism (which favors Big Business) nor socialism (which favors Big Government).
That piece is about bad writing, and vapid self-help books.
Chesterton appears, in this essay, to be fully in favour of getting ahead in the world (though he does take time to suggest that Mr Vanderbilt might not be a deity, so we may conclude that he thinks that getting ahead in the world is not the only valuable thing).
Notice the bits about "if you want to be succeed at whist, great; either learn to be good at whist, or learn to cheat".