Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-04-30

his in vi.r. Hsw much 10 LUCK. how
,r...;.nce in this world, who can :
80, IN. purchase, some forty years ago,
~ -. broadway front, between Thirteenth
oad Fourteenth streets, fer some So, 900,
r.s,lta now in . million.
va come at last to the two men on the
lis. who inherited nothing. lut who have .
become millionairss through their own
RICH, hands One Of these isa Yankee,
pure and simple. the other 10 Scotch Irish.
Mr.. Lord was born poor he will die
rich. He came to New York because In
New York were possibilities greater than
in New Engan lie learned the business
Of merchant, End worked in il indefatigs-
bly,, in days whom IL was more possible for
poor man 10 grow rich than it 10 now.
BY and by he got his own machine started
and grist came to his mill, which he ground
70 HE own profit. Dry gosds are Of mere
universal use than svso tobacco, and there.
fore present opportunities for great for
tunse.
But the most rsmssiab!e oashins Of mo-
dern tImse 10 the ose which has bssn cea-
strueted and 10 nov controlled ~ MI.
Stewart. This vast. compiler. and sem-
plsts structure has been raised. combined,
made, in the short space Of lifetime Ill
aimee the year 1928, when this yosng Scotch
Irish adventursr landed on cur eheses to |
seek that Enlisted success which nowhere |
else esuid have been 80 speedy and %
marked. In forty years he has organized
this machine (as term it), which enables
him to gather and concentrate thssmanufae-
lures CT the known world, and to distribute
them sgain TO the ten million women in
America, to an amount in dollars Of seven
" millions year. For forty years he has
been at work, with patience and care and
forsthought, to accomplish this result. He
has never rested, he has never slept. He
has loregOne all that men value, ali pleas
ures and ambition. Frissdships and ha-
trsds. societies and philanthropiss, thso
ries aud philosophiss, have been condemn
ed and made quite subordinate to this main
and only purpose Of his life. lie 1has done
what he Get himself to do, and has done il
40 well that be has secured success and
amassed millions. There 10 No hocus- poeus
about il. This wonderful success 10 entire
~ due to the fact that he has done
his bushes Q little better than any
body else, and has done it longer.
lie has bought cheaper and cold cheaper
thsa bic ssighbors. and - ths world 10 at
his fest. And because Of this, his machine
has enabled him 70 draw out Of the earn
ings Of the producer and consumes . vast
annual income, which hes grown BY accrs-
ten TO fortune Of perhaps $50, 600, 000--
almost three quarters Of . million . year
} for bis Whsls working lie. Nov, Mr.. Stew
art 10 childlsss he espnet, in this country.
found duksdom o. dynasty what pos
siUle purpose can b propsoe 70 himself 70
stimulate him to the work which he still
} works q With oil the determination Of
youth! AZ the age Of sixty Ave most men
, ere ready, or fancy they are, 70 take their
ease, to bssis to enjoy. TO put the laborino
oar into other and younger hands. Net %
this man. He 10 ~ careful and pains-takisG
, - ever; he works early and late; he gsta
his work done BY others ct the smallest
, possible price His machine means busl
: ness, not philanthropy. He doss not pro
{ pose 10 make the lives Of HE employ q
' more easy, or mQ.p luxurious Or more hap
7 py-that 10 the air. His 10 to perfect
: his mashias and ks il the most thorough
u in the world and d far - enc caa see, b.
will die doing il. II he has 40 ambition :
Z and who can tell what 10 inside 4 man Pit
;, may be to show what . vast and complete
/, thing can be organized and worked by the
r persistent and we'll directed energies Of ona
I man living one life.
. 1fthis be his ambition he seems likely tc
. reach it.
. If the estimate Of one nan's yearly pro
), duction (1sOO TO 81 ,00O) be correct. and il
0 Mr.. Stewart sells goods to the amount Of
. sc, OoO, 900 . year, it follows that he han
+ dies the productions Of some seventy Oh
J. eighty thousand men. Nov. if he extract,
y but one delar each from their earnings fol
the use Of his machine, il amounts to tn,
It vsrv pretty figure Of $500 per annum
i if from each ten dollars, then il II
q 100000, and 50 on. He has reportet
}. an income, in emo year, Of some q, ooO, 900
O DEs MoINEs. Iowa. April %.
:. At the Soldiers and Sailors Conventio,
y for this county, on Saturday, General j. A
y Williamson was elected Chairman. Tn
y Committee on Resolutions reported the fol
y lowing;
l. Resolcsd. That the Soldiers and sailors o
u Polk county, Iowa. in mass Convention q
8 semblsd, adopted the following resolutions
~ First, That vs. firmly believe that Gene,
!. oil u. 8. Grant ought to he nominated an
= elected the next President Of the Unite
States.
." Second. That We believe in the wsdor
: and integrity of the great Republicans pal
; ty-that it has saved tho country in tn
past, aud is destined TO save it in the fu,
" ure.
. Third, That We believe in tho Congress q
; the United States and indorse its action :
: eminently wise and patriotic
Fourth. That tho delegates from thi
!, county are heareby directed to urge an,
carry forward the spirit and intent of thes
|, resolutions in the State Convention callst
for the 9th of May next.
The delegates elected to the State Con
!. vention are General J. A. Williamson, Ma
flor VIM. Raglan, Captain II. II. Grifiiths
Captain +. NJ. Smith, and Captain N. G