Litchfield enquirer., 1868-06-25
Let us here make an approximate calcu.

in each year. There are some eight mill
 ions of men between the ages of fifteen
 and ninety in the United States. Let us
 suppose that hree-quarters, or six mill
 ions, use tobacco, to the extent of but $20
 per year each. The result is $s100, GOO, 900. Of
 thls forty per cent. say, is profit. It fol
 lows, then, that $4O,OO0,O0O of profit is to
 be the portion of somebody. Now, the
 Lorrillard have taken good care to
 get their share of this; in the
 first place, by producing Q good article,
 second, by selling as low as the rest, and
 third, by advertising it thoroughly. The
 last plan, now pretty we'll known, reaches
 perfection. By placing hundred dollar
 bill every week in some one of the thous.
 ands of papers of Century" they put up
 1t follows that not only is mans love of to.
 bacco ministered to, but his love of adven.
 ture and his greed for hundred dollar bills
 are ardently stimulated.
 Just how many new millions have
 been thus added to the great estate we I have no means of knowing, and Mr. Lorillard's recent departure forbids to in-
 quire.
 MT. Wolfe not only inherited a good for tune but his business doubled it, and his marriage to Lorillard tripled it. Mir. Hendricks also inherited wealth and by assiduity and care he has vastly added to 1t. Copper did the work for him. It is an article of perpetual use and wear, but is not produced in vast quantities The house of Hendricks has for years been at the head of the business, and has control led the market It has thus made pretty sure thing.
 MT. Roosevelt inherited four hundred thousand dollars many years ago, when the possessor of one hundred thousand dollars was very rich man. He attended to his business and ate the bread of .carefulness nevertheless. He grew richer and richer and richer. and having money to invest he seized upon good property in the city of New York. He always saw after the interest account, never let it run against him, and his purchases were always made with this in view. How much is luck how much prescience in this world, who can say? His purchase, some forty years ago, of the Broadway front between Thir- teenth and fourteenth streets, for some $25- 900, results now in a million. The won derful value of this interest account is we'll enough, Illustrated by a slight anecdote told of the once millionaire Stephen Whit ney. In thoughtless moment he was about to give a penny to a began. but arrested his hand in time saying: tI am disposed to do so, don't care for the penny, but I should loose the interest for for ever, and I really cant afford that"
 We come, at last, to the two men on the list who inherited nothing, but who have become millionaires, through their own right hands. One of these is Yankee pure and simple. the other is Scotch Irish
 ne e PEd Ed NasW Wb4Ep n8eE ha Hll dle rieh were possibilities greater than in New England. He learned the business of 8 merchant and worked in it indefatigably, in days when 1t was more possible for poor man to grow rich than it is now. By and by he got his own machine started, and grist came to his mill, which he ground to his own profit. Dry goods are of more universal use than even tobacco, and there fore present opportunities for great for tunes.
 But the most remarkable machine of modern times is the one which has been constructed and is now controlled by Mr. Stewart. This vast, complex and complete structure has been raised, combined. made, in the short space of a lifetime; all since the. year 1923, when this young Scotch-Irish adventurer landed on our shores to seek that unlimited success which nowhere else could haye been so speedy and so marked. In forty years he has organized this Ma chine las term it,) which enables him to gather and concentrate the manufactures of the known world, and to distribute them again to the ten million women of Ameri- ca, to an amount in dollars of seventy mil lions year. Forforty years he has been at work, with patience and care and fore thought, to accomplish this result He has never rested, he has never slept He has foregone all that many men value, all pleasures and ambitions Friendships and hatreds, societies and philanthropies, the- ories and philosophies, have been contem- ned and made quite subordinate to this main and only purpose of his life. He has done what he set himself to do and has done it so we'll that he has secured success and amassed millions. There is no hocus pocus about it. This wonderful success is entirely due to the fact that he has done his business little better than any body else, and has done it longer. He has bought cheaper and sold cheaper than his neighbors, and so the world is at his feet. And because of this his Machine has ena- bled him to draw out of the earnings of the producer and consumer vast annual in come, which has grown by accretion to a fortune of perhaps $50, 900, ,OOO-almost three-quarters of million a year for his whole working life. Now, MT. Stewart is childless; he cannot in this country, found dukedom or dynasty; what possible purpose can he propose to himself to stim- ulate him to the work, which he still works at with all the determination of youth? At the age of sixty-fve most men are ready, or fancy they are, to take their ease, and begin to e'yoy, to put the laboring oar in to other and younger hands. Not so this man. He is as careful and pains taking as ever; he works early and late; he gets his work done by others at the smallest possi- ble price. His Machine means business, not philanthropy. He does not propose to make the lives of his employees more ea- sy, or more luxurious. or more happy-that is their affair. His is to perfect his Ma chine and make 1t the most thorough in the world; and, as far as one can see, he will die doing it. If he has ambition who can tell what is inside a man?-it may be to show what a vast and complete thing can be organized and worked by the per slstent and well-directed energies of one man living one life. ls.
 If this be his ambition, he seems likely to reach it.
 If the estimate of one man s yearly pro- duction ($800 to $1. .0O0) be correct, and if Mir. Stewart sells goods to the amount of $7O, 900, 900 year, it follows that he ham, dies the productions of seventy or eighty N0rry @Iox