The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-09-01
HE Happiness we Purchase
by Making Money.

There i n widespread belief that wealth in
sures case: ease. health. happiness But wealth
what We now call wealth-is rarely accumu-
lated By industry, by daily labor. One man
With brain and hands. may earn 3, 50, IS, $40
Per day; rarely more than that. But 1t Is Tos-
sible with the brains of one man - make q thou
sand hands work. 50 that the man Of brains may
get q good share Of tie profits Of thci- industry.
When this can be done, great wealth may be &C
cumUlated BIZ one man. The time was Hnen
81. 900 L year Wa a handsome. an ample income;
but now we read ove. the lists, and ind so goo.
$50, eco. Sl0O. 600 and larger sums quite com
mon. Men forget that these are tie great prizes,
and 50 no one l. Satisfied with the old ample in
come Of $1,000. Yet the vast majority OF ner-
chants, lawyers. doctors, professors, manuiac-
turers, do not secure even that amount
NO, the great incomes are not made by indus
Try, but by speculation; not 10y producing with
hands and brains. but by buying and selling
buying cheap and selling dear; and one other
curious and widespread belief exists in the minds
Of young men. and especially OF those who have
not tried it, viz: That what one man has done,
he too can do. 50 he PUSHES - a great city to
do it. We do not say he cannot do it, nor do we
say it Is wrong for hun 10 try. What we desire
to say l. this, that Of the hundred who try. nine
ty-uine fail. We desire 70 say further, that the
one who succeeds in making his hundred thou
sand = year. does not insure himself ease, or
health, or happiness. Ii has been said Sy one OF
the mOney-makers Zone vino had succeeded In get
ting a nuuQTcl thousand = year ana TWO Strokes
OF paralysIs.) that IL takes q wonderfully smart
man to Keep half a. million of money. 1t GER
tainly does. for every other smart man is bent
upon getting il away from him, and they are a
thousand to his one. Ease, therefore, is out of
the question.
Health is not possible with an anxious mind,
and we affirm that it is not possible 10 speculate
with serenity. Ii IL heavenly, ~ecstatic, when all
goes up; deyiii>h, dyspeptic, when all goes down.
And the Speculation well knows il goe. down az
often rs it goes up. Ii has not been our fortune
ever TO know q sIeculator who was happy when
losing money.
But does the money-maker always secure hap
pineSs. even when most successful? We assume
that he must and will live in the city of New
York; be is spoiled for innocent pleasures, for
green fields and pastures fair. In the city he
must work, must speculate as the rest co, or he
is without companions and dies of ennui. There
fore. he has an office in a loft in South street, or
in n cellar in Wall street there he must spend
his days. IL is dark, gloomy, not i heavenly
mansion one would think, and the rent is high.
The wealthy man IL sometimes g 'ught after and
party houses are open TO him, where he may
spend his nights till his knees ache, talking to
stupid man, Or-lOvely woman. lie Is certain
to devour in one winter a vast quantity of mid
night supper is certain to wake with heavy
head and heavy heart. No such man eats q
happy breakfast. Then he must get to his Office
How? He cannot ride u it in his own nice
crimson-lined coupe, for his horse will slip and
lame himself, his carriage will be crushed by
greedy omnibus>es. His sole resource is the
street-car. At this he makes a plunge, grasps
the iron railing with his tender palms. lie may
hold on there, perhaps, or possibly he may crowd
himself to the inside. III. may get a seat which
is not likely. but if he does. it is next to Mistre s
Maginnis and a market basket. Probably e
owns no stock in the line, therefore, he growls t
the penny extortion. at the scrouging accommO-
dation, This certainly is not una!loyed happi-
ness. What next? \ man, even 4 wealthy one,
must have sustenance, and To get it down town
he resorts to the feeding places which enterpris-
ing citizens have opened to minister to his happi-
ness. In these delectable retreats he is sure T.
find dirty table-cloths. coarse walters. indiierently
prepared food, at high prices. 1t is difficult
to find a d~ecently-kept restaurant down town (;
some say impossible.
To get home to his p~alatial mansion, he must
repeat the torments of the morning, intensified
If this be happiness, wealthy men are welcome
to it.-N. Y. Times.