The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-12-14
A TRIBE OF THEM.
The nulSsrry sellers OF sOsloty-.A True
Picture,


The nulbsrry sellers OF sOsisty-.A True
Picture.
OF the tribe OF Sellers, says the Tri-
6tlne, thete are many families, but the
two great divisions are, perhaps, the
honest and the dishonest. The honest
Mulberry keeps himself, as well as
every one around him, In perpetual
poverty. He Ia always on the point OF
making fortune too ltgo for the use
nf one man, colonel though he be, and
he announces his intention Of sharing
it with you; as d preliminary step be
induces you to indorse his note or to
lend him the little store you had laid
up against a rainy day, and shoots 1t
into the hopper OF his enterprise. You
are ruined, and his eye still beams upon
you with disinterested affection and
unabated hope. He believes every
word he says. His sincerity Is COCK
tensive with his imagination, and the
more gigantic his castles In the air the
more profound his conviction that he
is the owner Of them all in fee.simple.
The honest Mulberry ssent into oil, and
was ruined went into stocks, and was
ruined again; went into real estate,
and came out poorer than before; went
into railroad bonds, and emerged u
bankrupt, though no ono could see
what there was left TO 60 to smash.
And every time he comes up smiling,
with the light OF q new corner" or
"strike" sparkling in his eye. He Is
d genuine ATicawber lowered on Ameri.
can soil, but greater than Micawber,
for he Is invincible. He is too Ameri.
can for despair; he steps up promptly
to each new round with fate-and gets
thro Rn every time.
The dishonest Mulberry Is less
pleasing fellow. He makes precari.
Gus and disreputable living by the OK.
penditure Of ingenuity and industry
which honestly excited would make
him a millionaire-if his nat1o was
anything but Sellers. His schemes are
no less stupendous than those Of the
more scIupulous Mulberry, but they
are all aimed at the appropriation Of
somebody else's money or thoughts or
labor. he is o civilized robber, and is
invariably captured. He plots q rail-
road swindle, and tho reporters pry II
out with their pencils he worms him.
self into the confidence oil defrauded
bondholders, and Is speedily dis.
charged; he publishes a poem, and
next day sees the original and his
plagiarism printed in parallel columns
he secretly infringes upon patent, and
is at once served with papers in suit
for damages; he commits O forgery,
and Is detected by the first cashier he
approaches. The curse OF ill.luck
withers every speech and action Of his
life, and yet he goes on to the end Of
his days the same undaunted, rascally
Mulberry Sellers.
At Washington, Mulberry Sellers is
ubiquitous and influential. He has
held q score OF seats in every Congress
within the memory Of man, while in the
lobby he is always in o majority. Mul-
berry, the lobbyist, lives a gilded, hol-
low sort OF life, dining sumptuously
during the session and starving during
the recess. His bill fails Of passage
for want OF three minutes time on the
morning OF the fourth Of March, and
Is knocked on the head by the blow Of
the Speaker's mallet which declares the
Congress ended; or his project is re.
ierred to committee whose chairman,
he finds to his disgust, is yirtuous. He
inaugurdtes Pacific railroads and lays
the foundations for vast fortunes on
which others build. He takes a hand
at President-making, and his candidate
suffers o paralytic stroke the week be.
fore the convention. Mulberry, the
Member, fails TO get the appropriation
his constituents wanted, aud those
kindly souls burn him in efiigy, and in
innate their purpose Of running him
out OF the country II he should ever
return to 1t.
Manya man is a Mulberry Sellers
who would be astoundedif you dubbed
him 10. Superficial men who never
learn or do or say anything thoroughly
immethodical men who lack the system
and fidelity that make success; incon'
slant men who abandon one purpose al
soon as their quick brains conceive an
other, and accomplish none Of them
foolish fellows who think that real sue
cess is thing TO be stolen or bought
or snatched out Of the hand Of fate
these are representative Americans and
representative Of much that Is raw and
worthless IN our civilization. The
moral OF Mulberry Sellers. Ia good,
whatever his morals may be.