Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-03-24
MONEY.

Money makes not only the mare 60, but
keeps everything else going. 1t is the Archi-
indian lever that is to turn the world over.
Time is money, and money is everything
now a. days. Stations and honors are diff
cult of attainment. sometimes, and the reward
of ragged merit often never given but ere
are few human stations so high that have not
a silver pavement leading to them. Gold is
the Open Sesame to guarded honors-the SOP
that quiets Cereberus, however faithful he
may be supposed to be. Money is ubiquitous,
omnipotent, and, if not omniscient, is the KEY.
at least, that unlocks the storehouse o. re-
vealed wisdom, and the explorer Of natures
hidden arcana. Everything may be turned
into money, and too many things, alas, are.
Money goes into the pocket Of one as bread
goes down the throat of another. Air. water,
light, right. truth, justice. religion, honor
all cost cash, and many there are who, when
other stock in trade fails, coin their souls
into cash and barter them to purses for
pieces of silver-beauty at so much dmpie,
love and affection for what they will bring.
Were all the Judasses in the world to take
sudden notion to 60 and hang themselves,
ropes enough could hardly be found to stretch
them up. All the Shylocks are not dead vet.
either-men who are bound to make three per
cent a month, though they must needs wiring
it out of the bleeding heart of want.
We said money makes everything go. II
lubricates the worlds machinery and quick
ems its speed; 1t stands behind locomotives
and drives human beings through darkness
and death to their doom. 1t rattles the tele-
graph wires across continent, with the bur-
den of the latest prices Of -Four, or the It'd
ings of the last battle. ltkeeps steamers run
ming, express men TRAVELLING, writers writing,
speakers spouting, editors thinking, and
preachers preaching. 1t makes the Yank &c
pedd,er at the corner scream himself hoarse
with panegyrics on patent knife sharpener,
or in praises Of the latest invented humbug.
1t builds mansions, palatial edifces, railroads
and cities tunnels mountains, spans rivers,
| re IRIS bridges, and discovers the Northwest
Passage. 1t makes men work, sweat, study,
buy and sell, trade, lie, cheat, swindle, steal,
rob, murder.
Though of loose habits, generally. it rot
unfrequently gets tight. It was uncomfor.-
ably tight in St. Louis last week, and is toll
erably tight now. Too much Of it makes
men tsstuck ups" too little makes them s.hard
up" Just enough makes them dissatisfied
and want more. just enough, we may as
quantity, something like the root of sura
lever approachable, and never to be ap-
preached. Money gilds the rottenness of vice
with baleful efulgence, too often mistaken
for the brightness Of virtue, Furnishes medi-
ocrity till the counterfeit lustre is accepted
as the blaze Of talent, strangles the voice of
justice, cloaks the hideous deformity Of crime,
and builds monuments to virtues that do not
lie entombed under them. 1t sends bibles and
bayonsts to the heather, scatters knowledge
over the world, keeps the kettle boiling, and
10 universally conceded to be the sssnews of
war;" Verify, money is great institution,
hard to get, sometimes, and harder to do
! w,thout.-(St. Louis News.